北师大版高二英语教学（选修6）Unit 17课件-备选课件Lesson 1.pptVIP

Read the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the picture with the headlines. A / 3 / Check your spelling B / 1 / Family harmony C / 2 / memory loss Read the three stories and then answer the following questions: 1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50? 2. Why does the girl decide to change her response when her father asks her the second question? 3. What does the man mean when he says “Do you know who I am?” Answers: 1. Because she doesn’t know how to spell 40. 2. Because she thought she could have been to Thailand with her mother. 3. The man means that he is a very important person. Which of the stories do you like most? Why? 4 Read the sentence below from anecdote C. One unfortunate counter agent was dealing with all the passengers when an angry man, who had been queuing for some time, pushed his way to the front. Does the underlined verb from describe : an event that happened before other events in the past ? a longer activity that was happening before the main event? More examples: 1. I was in the town centre then, where I had been doing some shopping. 2. I had been thinking about this for some time when one day I saw the boys’ mother in the street. long activities in the past that happened before other past events: She was rescued by a man who had been working in a nearby garage. b. the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the past We had only been driving for about fifteen minutes when Jill asked me to stop the car. c . An action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past. I had been waiting for the train for over an hour when they announced that it had been cancelled. Finish Ex. 5 2.She was very tired because she had been working for hours without a break. 3.Their clothes were muddy because they had been playing football. 4.She was fired because she hadn’t be