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课件网) Unit 1 The mass media Grammar and usage Step 1 Warming up Read part A on page 6 and complete the True or False exercise. 1) He regularly visited the library and studied English and Law--by then he had learnt very little French. ( ) 2) By the age of 25, he had become a teacher. ( ) 3) He used the same business strategy he employed at the St Louis Post-Dispatch and sales of the newspaper mounted up until it was the bestselling newspaper in the country. ( ) F F F English publisher had employed Step 1 Warming up 1) When and where was Joseph Pulitzer born Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847, in Hungary. 2) When did Joseph Pulitzer found the newspaper the St Louis Post-Dispatch In 1878. 3) In 1892, what did he offer Columbia University money to start He offered Columbia University money to start a school of journalism. 4) When were the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded Six years after Joseph Pulitzer’s death. Step 2 Exploring and working out the rules 1. He regularly visited the library and studied English and Law--by then he had learnt very little English. 2. By the age of 25, he had become a publisher. 3. He used the same business strategy he had employed at the St Louis Post-Dispatch and sales of the newspaper mounted up until it was the bestselling newspaper in the country. Finish the table in part A. Step 2 Exploring and working out the rules We often use the past perfect tense to talk about something that happened (1) _____ (before/after) a past action or state. The verb form of the past perfect tense is “(2)_____(have/had done)”. Working out the rules before had done Practice Fill in the blanks with proper and correct forms of the verbs. 1. He _____ (try) his best although he failed again. 2. By the time, Tom _____(found) his own business. 3. The train _____(leave) before I got to the station. 4. I _____ (learn) English for seven years when I graduated from high school. 5. Julie _____ (finish) cleaning the house by the end of last weekend. 6. Rowling began to write a review after she _____ (watch) the movie. 7. She said she _____ (see) the headmaster already. 8. No sooner _____ we _____ (go) out than it rained. had tried had founded had left had learnt/learned had finished had watched had seen had gone Step 3 Applying the rules B1 Circle the mistakes and correct them in the blanks below. 1) Pulitzer knew that he had learnt very little English, so he had started to work hard at the language. _____ 2) Pulitzer was very hard-working. Quite often, when he arrived home at midnight, he was working for over 10 hours. _____ 3) For the time he was 25, Pulitzer had become a journalist and publisher. _____ 4) Many of the best reporters have worked for his paper before its failure in 1931. _____ had started 去掉 had was working 改成 had worked For 改成 By have worked 改成 had worked Step 3 Applying the rules B2 Below is a passage about the Pulitzer plete it with the correct forms of ... ...
