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Unit 5 Period 2 Grammar
【学习目标】
Learning Objectives
1 To know the usage of past perfect tense
2 To use past perfect tense correctly
【学习过程】
Learning activities
目标一: To know the usage of past perfect tense
Activity 1: Look at the sentences from the reading passage and answer the questions.
a Darwin suspected that the finches had evolved from a common ancestor,...
b Many people refused to believe that living things, including humans, had evolved from lower forms of life.
1 In sentence (a), which action happened first, “suspected”
or “evolved from a common ancestor”?
2 In sentence (b), which action happened first, “refused to believe” or “evolved from lower forms of life”?
3 What does the structure had done indicate?
Answers:
Now look for more sentences with the past perfect tense in the reading passage, and summarise its uses in your own words.
Activity 2: Read the following groups of sentences and summarise the usage of past perfect tense.
Group 1:
a.Before we got to the train station, the train had already left.
b.Before I could say “thank you”, he had run away.
Summary:表示在过去的某一时间或某一动作之前完成的动作或存在的状态,即“_______________”。
Answer:
Group 2:
a.By the end of last term, we had learnt 2, 000 English words.
b.They had lived there for ten years by then.
Summary: 表示从过去某一时间开始,一直延续到_______________的动作,常用的时间状语有by then,by the end of,by the time
Answer:
Group 3:
a.I had intended to meet him at the airport,but I had an important meeting to attend.
b.I had hoped to take a holiday this year but I was not able to get away.
Summary:
表示_______________等的动词,如hope,want,expect,think,mean,suppose,intend,plan 等后接从句时,一般用过去完成时表示本打算实现而未实现的愿望和计划。
Answer:
Group 4:
a.Hardly had I left when it began to rain.
b.No sooner had he sat down than the telephone rang.
Summary:
在句型hardly...when 和 no sooner...than 中,主句用_______________,从句用一般过去时,表示“一......就......”
Answer:
目标二: To use past perfect tense correctly
Activity 1: Complete the paragraphs with the information from the given sentences. The senten