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课件网) English in Mind 4 Second edition Unit 7 Peacemakers Lesson 2 02 Grammar &Vocabulary Read the examples, then circle the correct option to complete the rule. * Past perfect continuous Because they had been working so well together, they became really good friends. It turned out later that the two guys had been having similar problems for some time. RULE: We use the past perfect continuous to talk about continuous / single actions that began before / at the same time as a specific time in the past. 02 Grammar & Vocabulary Circle the correct verb forms. Last Friday evening, Zoe was on a train to London. She 1 was going / had been going home. She was hungry because she hadn’t eaten for several hours, and she was tired because she 2 had travelled / had been travelling for almost a day. Yet she was happy, too, because she 3 had received / had been receiving a letter from her parents. She was also happy because she 4 had looked / had been looking forward to going home ever since the day she left. When Alfred joined the Nobel family company, it had been developing explosives for many years. Underline another example of the past perfect continuous in the text in Exercise 1. 02 Grammar & Vocabulary 1 When my alarm clock went off, I _____ (sleep) for eleven hours. 2 Her face was red and she had a handkerchief in her hand, so I knew she _____ (cry). 3 I met an old friend of mine yesterday when I _____ (shop). had been sleeping had been crying was shopping Complete the sentences with the past continuous or past perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 4 When she finally got to see the doctor, she _____ (wait) for over an hour. 5 A car almost hit me when I _____ (cross) the road last Saturday. 6 I _____ (think) about the problem for hours, when suddenly the answer came into my head! 02 Grammar & Vocabulary had been waiting was crossing had been thinking Complete the sentences with the past continuous or past perfect continuous form of the verbs in brackets. 02 Grammar & Vocabulary Complete the sentences from the listening with find / resolve. 1 A study carried out among US teenagers shows that a growing percentage of them see fighting as the only acceptable way to _____ disagreements. 2 They have to agree that they will try to work together to _____ a peaceful solution. resolve find * Conflicts and solutions 02 Grammar & Vocabulary a not support one person more than another b have a disagreement and no longer be friendly c be unable to go any further d be friendly again after a disagreement e reduce demands or change opinions in order to agree f find a way to end a disagreement or fight g make things clearer / better h support one person against another 1 fall out 2 sort things out 3 get stuck 4 make up 5 resolving conflicts 6 make a compromise 7 take sides 8 taking sides Read this web page. Match expressions 1-8 with definitions a–h. Write 1–8 next to the definitions. 02 Grammar & Voc ... ...
