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Unit 3 Festivals and customs
Grammar and usage
Lead-in
Look at the pictures. What festival are these pictures about? What do people do on the day?
Christmas
People exchange gifts
People eat turkey together.
People decorate their houses.
Review
Review the knowledge about simple future tense.
1. My sister is getting married tomorrow, I knew it will be the opportunity of a lifetime.
2. They are going to support each other and live together happily.
3. The show is about to begin.
1. will do
2. be going to do
3. be doing
4. be to do
prediction
intention
arrangement
Review
Look at these sentences. What is the difference with simple future tense?
simple past tense
1. When Nadim invited me to his sister’s wedding, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime.
2. Then they took seven steps together by the fire, and with each step made a different promise about how they were going to support each other and
live together happily.
3. Luckily, I arrived just in time—the show was about to begin as I took my place in the merry crowd.
will be
be going to
be to do
future in the past
Exploring the rules
Below is a story about how Della prepared a gift for her husband Jim during the Christmas season.
A
Firstly read the whole paragraph and tell the main idea of this story.
Key information:
Time, people, event, reason and result.
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Exploring the rules
Below is a story about how Della prepared a gift for her husband Jim during the Christmas season. Find the sentences that use future in the past and fill in the box below. The first one has been done for you.
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ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all she had. Della counted
it three more times. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. If she was to buy a nice gift for her husband Jim, she would need more money. But how could she earn some? Della stood in front of the mirror in her apartment. She looked at her reflection, brushed her long, dark hair, and made up her mind: she was going to sell