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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
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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 the verbs in the box below.
(1) had built (2) were awarded
(3) had won (4) has been allowed
(5) had intended
Answer the following questions:
Step 3 Applying the rules
1) Who had devoted a lot before The Pulitzer Prizes were established
Suggested answer: Joseph Pulitzer.
2) What categories have The Pulitzer Prizes also expanded to include
Suggested answer: Photography and music.
Step 4 Topic talking and sharing
Talk about Zou Taofen’s life story according to the timeline and share it with each other.
Example:
By the time he was 31, Zou Taofen had become the chief editor of Life Weekly.
Step 4 Topic talking and sharing
Let’s Share!
Step 4 Topic talking and sharing
Sample answer
Zou Taofen was born in 1895, in Fujian. He graduated from university at the age of twenty-six, in 1921. The next year, he became an editor. He had worked as an editor for four years before he became the chief editor of Life Weekly. In 1931, he started campaigning against the Japanese invasion. By the time he was forty, he had started a new journal called Life of the Masses. Zou had established himself as a famous journalist and publisher before he died in Shanghai in 1944.
Homework
1. Search the information online and write a life story of your favorite people.
2. Complete part C of the workbook on page 56.
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