1、Unit 1 The mass mediaGrammar and usageThe patient had taken medicine before the doctor came.Alice understood the movie because she had read the book.Alice asked if I had read Harry Potter.He had already finished the work by last night.I had never seen such a beautiful town before I came here.The int
2、ernet had been invented before I was born.Step 1: Can you guess the topic today?The patient had taken medicine before the doctor came.Alice understood the movie because she had read the book.Alice asked if I had read Harry Potter.He had already finished the work by last night.I had never seen such a
3、 beautiful town before I came here.The internet had been invented before I was born.Step 1: Can you guess the topic today?Past perfect tenseStep 2: what is the definition of Past Perfect Tense?Past perfect tensenowpastpast perfect1. You went to Johns house, but he wasnt at home.(he/go/out) 2. You we
4、nt back to your hometown after several years.It became different. (it/change/a lot)3. Sam got to the party at 11 and Paul left the party at 10. They didnt meet each other. (Paul/leave)4. I was about to leave for the park when I received a call from my mom asking me to visit my aunt. (I/want/go/the p
5、ark)Exercise1: Read the situations and write sentences from the words in brackets.He had gone out.It had changed a lot.Paul had left.I had wanted to go to the park.The train had left by the time he arrived.Exercise2: Describe what happened with Past Perfect tenseMr. Bean had bought a large bucket of
6、 popcorn for himself before the movie started.Exercise2: Describe what happened with Past Perfect tenseHis car had been crushed before he realized.Exercise2: Describe what happened with Past Perfect tenseMr. Bean had eaten a lot of raw oysters before he found out that they went bad.Exercise2: Descri
7、be what happened with Past Perfect tenseOther usage of past perfect tense1. By the time I got home, my son _ (finish) his homework and was watching TV.2. Before I went on the trip, I _ (study) the map carefully and marked the places on it.3. Mike _ (want) to come to the lecture, but he changed his m
8、ind at the last minute.4. When I got out into the street, I realized I _ (leave) my key at home.5. Hardly _ (have) I got home when the rain poured down.6. It was the third time that she _ (make) the same mistake.Exercise: Fill the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in the brackets.1. He regu
9、larly visited the library and studied English and Law-by then he had learnt very little English. Finish the table in part A2. By the age of 25, he had become a publisher. 3. He used the same business strategy he had employed at the St Louis Post-DispatchStep 3 Exploring and working out the rules We
10、often use the past perfect tense to talk about something that happened (1) _ (before/after) a past action or state. The verb form of the past perfect tense is “(2)_(have/had done)”. Step 3 Exploring and working out the rules 1) Pulitzer knew that he had learnt very little English, so he had started
11、to work hard at the language._2) Pulitzer was very hard-working. Quite often, when he arrived home at midnight, he was working for over 10 hours._3) For the time he was 25, Pulitzer had become a journalist and publisher._4) Many of the best reporters have worked for his paper before its failure in 1931._Step 4 Applying the rules-B1 B2 Below is a passage about the Pulitzer Prizes. Complete it with the correct forms of the verbs in the box below. Step 4 Applying the rules-B2 Thank you.
