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课件网) UNIT 2 Improving yourself Using language Past perfect passive Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Sentence (a) is from the reading passage. 1 Were the students in sentence (a) persuaded before the detox started, or afterwards a At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. b At the start of the detox, people had persuaded over 100 students to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. The students were persuaded before the detox started. Past perfect passive Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Sentence (a) is from the reading passage. 2 What is the difference between sentences (a) and (b) They differ in voice. The passive voice is used in sentence (a), while the active voice is used in sentence (b). a At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. b At the start of the detox, people had persuaded over 100 students to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. Past perfect passive Look at the sentences and answer the questions. Sentence (a) is from the reading passage. 3 Why does the author choose to use a passive form instead of an active form Maybe the author doesn’t know who had persuaded students to stop using social media, or it is unnecessary to say who the persuaders were. a At the start of the detox, over 100 students had been persuaded to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. b At the start of the detox, people had persuaded over 100 students to stop using social media, in ANY form, for seven days. Complete Jack’s blog post with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Before I turned over a new leaf, I had always been a very lazy student. I was careless about handing in my homework, and none of my assignment deadlines 1_____ (meet). Indeed, I would deliberately “lose” my homework in my incredibly messy room, so that I could put off 2_____ (do) it! My parents soon worked out this trick, though, and one day I came home to find that my room 3_____ (clean), and my homework 4_____ (put) right in the centre of a spotlessly clean desk! A present 5_____ (leave) on the desk, too (I think Mum did that): a book called The Art of Procrastination. The author, John Perry, said that procrastination was about 6_____ (avoid) the hardest and most important tasks. So, 7_____ (make) sure you do your homework, put it second or third on your to-do list, not at the top. Then put one or two really hard things you don’t want to do at the top of the list. You will procrastinate to avoid the hard stuff—by doing your homework! Posted by Jack at 13:34 had been met doing had been cleaned had been put had been left avoiding to make Work in pairs. Describe the pictures using the past perfect passive. 参考答案 Jack started the habit of cleaning his room last week. This is what his roo ... ...
