Reading(1)：The search for happiness多媒体教学设计及其点评

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Grammar and usage

Step 1: General introduction and explanation to past and future tense

Past tense I. The simple past tense: It is often used to talk about something that happened in the past and is now finished. e.g. She worked late into night yesterday. II. The past continuous tense: The tense is to talk about something that happened in the past and continued for some time. e.g. She knew that as a famous dancer she was making her parents proud in those years. III. The past perfect tense: 1. The past perfect tense is often used with the simple past tense. If one action happens before another in the past, the past perfect tense is used.

e.g. Upon entering the tomb, Carter’s lucky pet bird , which had led him to the place, was eaten by a snake. 2. The past perfect tense is sometimes used in reported speech e.g. “We emptied the tomb of everything it contained,” said Carter.

Carter said that they had emptied the tomb of everything it contained. 3. The use of the past perfect tense simply indicates that an action comes before another past action, used with time expressions such as when, after, before, as soon as, until, by, for and already e.g. I had done my homework this morning before I went to the museum.

Future tense I. The form and usage of the simple future tense：

1. will/shall do:表示将来发生的动作或出现的状态,shall仅与第一人称连用

2. be going to do:表示主语计划打算的行动或看来就要发生的事情

3. be doing:表示计划或安排好的动作（go, come, leave, begin 等动词）

4. be to do:表示客观上计划或安排好的动作

5. be about to do:表示即将发生的动作,一般不带时间副词或短语

6. do:表示与安排，计划或时刻表有关的动作；或用于if, when等状语从句中代替will do. II. The usage of the future continuous tense: 1. Talk about something that will be in progress at a certain time or over a period of time in the future. (讨论将来某个时间点或时间段正在进行的动作)

e.g. Toby will not be in London next Tuesday. He will be climbing in the Himalayas. Toby will be climbing in the Himalayas all next week. 1.

Express future without intention. When it is used in this way, we want to indicate that something will happen naturally. It doesn’t imply that the speaker has arranged the action.

（表示不包含说话者主观意愿的纯粹将来。使用这种方式，我们想表达某件事会很自然地发生，说话者并不参与安排或计划。）比较下列各句：

e.g. Tom won’t cut the grass.（Tom refuses to cut the grass.）Tom won’t be cutting the grass.

（The sentence is only a statement of fact, giving no information about Tom’s intention. Perhaps Tom is away, or ill, or will be doing some other job.）

3. Make polite enquiries about other people’s future plans.

(委婉地询问对方的未来计划，比用will do听起来更有礼貌。) e.g. What will you be doing tomorrow?

Will you be working all day? III. The usage of the future in the past is to talk about an event which was in the future at the time when it was discussed. Step 2: Practice(语法练习)：

I. 用所给动词的适当的过去时或将来时的形式填充。

1. Let's keep to the point or we ______ never_______ (reach) any decisions. 2. My mind wasn't on what he was saying, so I'm afraid I______ (miss) half of it. 3. I don’t think Jim saw me; he _____ just ______ (start) into space. 4. I ____ (ask) you not to move my dictionary——now I can't find it. 5. Sales of CDs have greatly increased since the early 1990s, when people ______ (begin) to enjoy the advantages of this new technology. 6. --George and Lucy got married last week. Did you go to their wedding?

--No, I ______

______

______(invite). Did they have a big wedding?

7. Shirley _____ (write) a book about China last year but I don’t know whether she has finished it.

8. John and I have been friends for eight years. We first got to know each other at a Christmas party. But we _____ ______(see) each other a couple of times before that. 9. His wife _____ ______ (hope) to catch the first train but she was too late. 10. I _____ ______ (catch) in the heavy rain on the way to the cinema. 11. I found the sentence _____ ______ (not read) smoothly. 12. What he had said at the meeting _____ (prove) true. 13. ---Did you see Tom at the party?

--- No. He _____ _____ (leave) by the time I arrived. 14. --- How time flies! It’s already 10 o’clock.

--- Oh, I _____ _____ (not realize) it at all. 15. --- I’m sorry that

I shouldn’t have been so rude to you.

--- You did_____ (lose) your temper but that’s OK.

II.用所给动词的适当的过去时或将来时的形式确翻译下列各句

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1. The thief tried to break away from the policeman who _____ _____(一直抓着) him but failed. 2. --What were you doing when Tony phoned you?

--I had just finished my work and ____

_____(正准备开始)to take a shower.

3. --You were out when I dropped in at your house.

--Oh, I_____ _____(在等候)for a friend from England at the airport.

4. --- Why haven’t you asked her to come here?

--- She ________(正在做工) an important experiment when I found her and she hasn’t finished it.

5. --- What were you up to when she dropped in?

--- I_____ _____(刚玩了一会儿)for a while and _____ _____ _____ _____(正打算看书) some reading. 6.Turn on the television or open a magazine and you ______often_____(会看到) advertisement showing happy families. 7. --- What place is it? --- Haven’t you seen that we are back where we _____(回到了原地)? 8. --- Tomorrow is my birthday. I’d like you and Jane to come.

--- I’m not sure if she _____ _____ (将)free.

9. The crazy fans ______ _____ ______(一直在等)patiently for two hours and they would wait till the movie star arrived.

10. You_______ _______(要求你ask) not to move the desk——now it is broken.

Keys I. 1. will never reach

2. missed

3. was; staring

4. asked

5. began

6. hadn't been invited

7. wrote

8. had seen

9. had hoped

10. was caught 11. didn’t read

12. proved

13. had left

14. didn’t realize

15. lose

II. 1. was holding

2. was starting

3. was waiting

4. was doing

5. had played; was going to do

6. will; see

7. were

8. will be

9. had been waiting

10. was asked