Module 8 Story time
Unit 3 Language in use
Step 1 Language practice
根据句意,完成句子。
1. 最后,她推开了门。
_______, she _______ the door.
2. 她不喜欢那张中等大小的床和大床。
She _________ the middle bed or the big bed.
3. 她从树林里摘花了吗?
____________ any flowers in the forest
Step 2 Grammar
上个模块中,我们学习了 be 动词的过去式,那么行为动词的过去式是如何构成呢?
1. 行为动词的过去式的规则变化
变化规则 原 形 过去式
一般动词结尾加-ed walk, listen, look, finish walked, listened, looked, finished
以“不发音的字母e结尾”的动词后加-d live, notice, decide lived, noticed, decided
以“辅音字母+y结尾”的动词,y变为i,再加-ed hurry, marry hurried, married
以“元音字母+一个辅音字母结尾”的重读闭音节动词,先双写辅音字母,再加-ed stop, step stopped, stepped
2. 行为动词构成的一般过去时的句子的句式变化
肯定句 主语+动词过去式+其他.
否定句 主语+didn’t+动词原形+其他.
一般疑问句 Did+主语+动词原形+其他
肯定答语 Yes, 主语+did.
否定答语 No, 主语+didn’t.
e.g.
They went to Beijing last week.
They didn’t go to Beijing last week.
--Did they go to Beijing last week
--Yes, they did.
--No, they didn’t.
Practice
Ⅰ. 写出下列动词的过去式
1. start _______ 2. promise _______
3. need _______ 4. change _______
5. worry _______ 6. plan _______
7. study _______ 8. try _______
9. turn _______ 10. stop _______
Ⅱ. 句型转换
1. Alice works in a big company this year. (用last year改写句子)
Alice _______ in a big company last year.
2. Eddie used my phone yesterday. (改为否定句)
Eddie _______ _______ my phone yesterday.
3. They travelled all over the country last summer. (改为否定句)
They _______ _______ all over the country last summer.
4. We played basketball in school yesterday afternoon. (改为一般疑问句并补全肯定答语)
— _______ _______ _______ basketball in school yesterday afternoon
—Yes, _______ _______.
5. I celebrated my birthday last week. (改为一般疑问句并补全否定答语)
— _______ _______ _______ _______ birthday last week
—No, _______ _______.
Ⅲ. 看图写句子
1. (Elsa, last night) _______________________ _______________________.
2. (my brother, yesterday) _______________________ _______________________.
3. (my cousins, last Sunday) _______________________ _______________________.
4. (I, this morning) _______________________ _______________________.
Step 3 Practice
1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words from the box.
answer enter hurry jump like notice point return try walk
1) Baby Bear ______ at the girl in his bed.
2) She _______ the house.
3) Goldilocks _______ out of bed.
4) She _______ to the little house.
5) The Three Bears didn’t _____ the door because they were out in the forest.
6) The Three Bears didn’t __________ Goldilocks in bed at first.
7) Goldilocks didn’t _____ to that part of the forest again.
8) —Did she _____ the small chair first
—No, she didn’t. She tried the big chair first.
9) —Did she _____ the small bed
—Yes, she did.
2. Complete the passage of Activity 2 with the correct form of the words from the box.
answer ask be enter knock look notice pick walk want
Once upon a time there was a small boy called Tom. One day Tom (1) ______ to go for a walk in the dark forest. He (2) ______ for a short time and then he (3) ______ some flowers. Next, he (4) _______ a little house. He (5) ________ on the door but nobody (6) _________. He (7) _______ the house. There (8) ____ a big table, a big chair, a big bowl and a big bear. Then Tom (9) ______ at the bowl of food with big eyes. The bear (10) _____ Tom, “Are you hungry Try some of my food.” Tom tried the food. Then they were good friends.
Step 4 Pair work
Now work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
1. Did Tom want to go for a walk in the dark forest
2. Did he pick a lot of blue flowers
3. Did he notice a house
4. Did he knock on the door first
Step 5 Around the world
Fairy tales
All around the world parents tell their children fairy tales. The stories are exciting and children enjoy listening to them again and again. In the stories, animals often speak and sometimes people become animals. The stories usually begin with “Once upon a time …”
Complete the blanks.
The fairy tales are exciting and children enjoy ___________ them again and again. They usually begin with “_______________ ...” In these fairy tales you can find that animals often _______ and sometimes people become _______.
Step 6 Module task: Telling a story
1. Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and make sentences. Use the words given.
2. Put the sentences together to make a story. Remember to use words like “and”, “so”, “but”, “because”, “first”, “next”, “and then” and “finally”.
You can start like this:
Once upon a time there was a little girl called Nüwa. Her father was Emperor Yan and he loved…
Step 7 Free talk
Read your story to another pair and listen to theirs.
Step 8 Exercises
Ⅰ. 根据括号内的要求完成下列各题,每空一词(含缩略形式)。
1. He works at the police station. (用five years ago改写句子)
He ________ at the police station five years ago.
2. Maria waited at the post office. (改为否定句)
Maria ________ ________ at the post office.
3. Eric connected the mouse to the computer. (改为一般疑问句)
________ Eric ________ the mouse to the computer
4. We finished our homework just now. (改为一般疑问句,并补全肯定和否定答语)
—________ you ________ your homework just now
—Yes, ________ ________. / No, ________ ________.
5. Mrs White entered her office two minutes ago. (改为同义句)
Mrs White ________ ________ her office two minutes ago.
Ⅱ. 根据语境,用所给动词的肯定式、否定式或疑问式填空。
1. I ___________ Cathy half an hour ago, but nobody answered. (call)
2. The party wasn’t very good, so we ___________ very long. (stay)
3. Tom was happy because his father ___________ to buy him a new bike yesterday. (promise)
4. —___________ last Saturday
—No, it was a fine day. (rain)
5. The concert last night wasn’t interesting. We ___________ it. (enjoy)
Ⅲ. 根据短文内容,从方框中选择恰当的动词填空,使短文完整、通顺,有的需要变换形式,每词限用一次。
play, live, remember, be, study, listen, walk, watch
I was born in the 1960s. When I was a little boy, I (1)________ in a village near the sea. Life was very different. There was no TV. We (2)________ to the radio ( 广 播) every evening. My parents didn’t have a bike or a car, so I (3)________ to school — 5 km every day! There (4)________ no movie theatres near our village, so every Sunday I (5)________ with my friends on the beach and we (6)________ the beautiful sea. When I was 20, I (7)________ at a college (大学) in the city. I was in my village in 1990 for the last time. But I can still (8)________ my good old days.
Step 9 Homework
1. Review the use of past simple regular verbs.
2. Retell the story about Nüwa to your parents.