(
课件网) 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. 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. A 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 her hair. With the money she received for it, she would buy Jim a perfect gift. Tip: distinguish the difference between simple past and future in the past Exploring the rules Della had her hair cut off and sold it for twenty dollars. She spent the next two hours hunting for Jim’s gift. She found it at last: a simple but beautiful watch chain for his gold watch, which had been passed down to him from his grandfather. Della paid twenty-one dollars for the watch chain, and hurried home with the remaining eighty-seven cents. She looked at her reflection in the mirror carefully again. She felt nervous. Did she look like a little schoolboy without her beautiful long hair Would Jim still think she was pretty She was about to find out. We use future in the past to describe an action (1) _____ (in the future / in the past) from the perspective of some point (2) _____ (in the future / in the past). We form future in the past in statements ... ...
