(共21张PPT)
Unit 3 Language in use
8. Read the play and act it out. (P62)
1.At the end of the short play, Alice said it was the stupidest
tea party in all her life. Why
2. Did she enjoy herself in the tea party Why or why not
No, she didn’t.
Because she didn’t get any tea and there was milk on the table
in front of her because the March Hare knocked the milk over.
3. How is the party in your eyes
How do you know
It’s crazy and strange. They didn’t clean
the things for the tea party and they kept
moving around the table to take another
seat.
Step 1: Think about these questions and answer them.
Step 2: Read again, understand the words in blue and learn to use them.
( The Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Mouse are having a tea party. Alice arrives and sits down. )
March Hare: It wasn’t very
polite of you to sit
down. We didn’t
ask you.
Alice: I didn’t know it
was your table.
Anyway, there are
cups of tea for
more than three
people.
Mad Hatter: That’s because it’s always tea time.
Alice: I don’t understand.
Mad Hatter: We don’t have time to wash the
things…
March Hare: So we just move around the table…
(Mouse sings a song.)
March Hare: Stop singing, Mouse!
(Mouse stops singing and falls asleep.)
Mad Hatter: He’s asleep.
Mouse: I wasn’t asleep! I heard every word
you were saying.
March Hare: Tell us a story!
Alice: Yes, please do!
Mad Hatter: And be quick. Or you’ll be asleep
again before it’s done.
Mouse: Once upon a time, there were three
little sisters, and they lived…
March Hare: Take some more tea.
Alice: I didn’t have any tea, so I can’t
have more.
Mad Hatter: You mean you can’t take less. It’s
very easy to take more than nothing.
Alice: Nobody asked you!
Mad Hatter: I want a clean cup. Let’s all move
one place.
( The Mad Hatter moves, and the Mouse follows him. The March Hare knocks the milk over when he is moving into the Mouse’s place. Alice takes the place of the March Hare. Alice is not happy because there is milk on the table in front of her. )
Alice: Well, really! This is the stupidest tea
party I’ve been to in all my life!
Mad Hatter: And be quick. Or you’ll be asleep
again before it’s done.
Mouse: Once upon a time, there were three
little sisters, and they lived…
March Hare: Take some more tea.
Alice: I didn’t have any tea, so I can’t
have more.
Mad Hatter: You mean you can’t take less. It’s
very easy to take more than nothing.
Alice: Nobody asked you!
Mad Hatter: I want a clean cup. Let’s all move
one place.
Step 3: Feel the language in the story.
Step 3: Feel the language in the story.
Doorknob: Sorry, you are too big.
Simply impassable.
Alice: You mean impossible
Doorknob: No, impassable. Nothing is impossible.
Step 4: Act out the play.
1. Suddenly, all the lights in my house were going off / went off. There was heavy rain outside.
1 Underline the correct words.
2. — Really I’m sorry, but I was teaching
/ taught a piano lesson at school.
3. — I was seeing / saw you and Tom in
the library just now.
— Oh, we showed / were showing
several visitors around the school.
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1. The dog is ____________ the cat in the garden.
running after
2. ______ is this machine ____
3. He ________________ and was very bored.
4. She is _____________ how to finish the story.
5. I wrote to him ____________, but he did not answer.
What for
had nothing to do
thinking about
once or twice
6
Alice was sitting with her sister by the
(1) _____ and her sister was reading a book. Her sister’s book had no pictures or (2) ____________ in it.
river
conversations
Then a white rabbit with (3) ________ eyes ran by. There was nothing (4) _________ about that. Then the rabbit took a watch out of its (5) _________ and looked at it. Alice followed the rabbit and fell down a (6) _____. Alice had a lot of adventures in Wonderland.
pink
strange
pocket
hole
Listen and complete the sentences.
Paragraph 1
One day, I was with my friends. We were having a ______ in a field and I saw something strange.
There was a ______ cat with a pink nose sitting in a tree.
It looked like it was eating the ______ in the tree.
picnic
white
leaves
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Paragraph 2
4. While I was looking at it, the cat got out of the tree, jumped down to the _______, and walked across the ____ and sat next to us.
5. The cat got up and _____ close to me.
6. I _____ to it and it smiled at me.
Paragraph 3
7. I found some biscuits in my ______ and gave them to the cat.
8. Soon, it was eating biscuits and _______ at us.
came
talked
pocket
smiling
ground
field
something interesting /strange/amazing … in your life.
your crazy/interesting/ unusual/ … dream
make up a story
tell a story like “Little Red Riding Hood ” with your
own words.
Writing:
Tips: 1. was /were doing
2. once upon a time /one day/…,
first, then, after that,
when, while, and, so …
Grammar
The Past Continuous Tense
(过去进行时态）
Bill and Tom .
A cat on the road.
Bob the window.
Ann something on the book.
Kate a book.
Sally and Tessa were good friends. They .
Dave coffee with his friend Diana.
Andy and Tony .
It was 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
were playing basketball
was sleeping
was cleaning
was writing
was reading
were talking
was drinking
were playing chess
the Past Continuous Tense:过去进行时
结构：
时间状语：
at this/ that time yesterday, at 9 pm. last night, from…to… yesterday morning, when I came in (when引导的一般过去时态的句子)等等
was / were + V+ing
Miss Lv was climbing the mountain last weekend.
Look at following sentence
negative sentence：
（否定句）
Miss Lv wasn't climbing....
general question：
（一般疑问句）
Was Miss Lv climbing…
answer:
Yes, she was.
No, she wasn’t.
Wh question：
（特殊疑问句）
What was Miss Lv doing …
Miss Lv climbed the mountain last weekend.
强调过去某一时刻或时段正在进行或 持续动作。
表示过去的时间里发生的动作，往往已经完成.
Write sentences about what you were doing.
At about seven o’clock last night, ________________________________.
This morning, on my way to school, ________________________________.
This time last year, ______________
________________________________.
4. Last Saturday, from about 1 pm to 4 pm, ____________________________.
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A: What were you doing ….
B: I was….Were you…
A: No, I was…
The adventure of Tom Sawyer
Treasure Island
The Emperor’s New Clothes
Little Red Riding Hood
The Monkey King
The Hare and the Tortoise
A
B
C
D
E
E
Share the sentences
Little Red Riding Hood went to visit her grandma because she was ill in bed.
Little Red Riding Hood arrived with flowers in her hand. The wolf ate Little Red Riding Hood.
The hunter saved them.
Little Red Riding Hood had dinner together.
