2．　 过去某时并行的动作

While I was working in the garden, my wife was cooking dinner

构成：过去进行时是由was/were +v.-ing构成的。与现在进行时类似，只是现在进行时中的am/is/are 变成了was/were.

过去进行时的用法：

1．　 表示过去某时正在进行的动作或情况

It was raining all night /all yesterday.

　 Lewis Carroll’s real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the first of 11 children of a clergyman. Born on Jan. 27, 1832, he soon became the family entertainer, with magic tricks, puppet shows, parodies, poems, word play puzzles and a family newspaper. He went to Rugby school and studied mathematics at Christchurch College, Oxford. After graduating, he remained at Christchurch as a lecturer in mathematics; however he was not a good teacher- perhaps because of his stammer-and was better known as a writer on maths and logic, writing more than 30 papers. He also held various administrative posts at the university.

He met the Liddell children (daughters of the Dean of Christchurch) in the late 1850s, and started by photographing them. Dodgson was something of a pioneer in the early days of photography.

It was a trip up the river from Oxford to Godstow with Lorina(13), Alice(10) and Edith (8) on 4^th July 1862 which laid the foundations of the first Alice story, although many of the elements were things he had already invented. The book was finally published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in 1868, with illustrations by John Tenniel, which have become as famous as the story itself. It was an instant success, and has remained a classic of children’s literature in English. His pen-name--Lewis Carroll--was a word-play from a Latinised inversion of his own first two names.

Unlike many writers, Dodgson made the sequel Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There equally interesting and amusing. It was published in 1871. His long nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark was published in 1876, and towards the end of his life the two long Sylvie and Bruno novels, but were neither as good nor as successful as the Alice books.

Dodgson died on 14^th January 1898.

2.　　　 make a self assessment of the module.

Teaching resources教学资源库

1.　　　 finish the rest activities in the workbook.

2. Key structures重点句式

Were/was doing

Ability goals能力目标

Enable students to write a short story about their past experience.

Teaching methods教学方法

Communicative approach. 　

Teaching aids教具准备

A computer and a projector.

Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式

Step I Lead-in

Encourage students to recall the start of the story, and then read the pictures in activity 8 and complete the passage.

Sample retelling story:

Alice was sitting with her sister by the river and saw a white rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. The rabbit was strange. It said something and took a watch out and looked at it. Then it went down a large hole. Alice went down after it.

T: Well, everyone. We have learned a lot about Alice’s adventure in wonderland. Can you tell me some characters in the story?

S: Yes.

T: Can you tell me the animals in the story?

S: A cat and a rabbit.

S: What is the rabbit look like?

S: It’s wearing clothes. It’s carrying a stick. It’s wearing a watch.

T: Who is the cat like? Who else is in the story? Now let’s look at the pictures in activity 8 and find out.

Step II Practice

Ask students to do activity 8 individually and then read the completed passage.

Then go on with activity 9. First ask them to do the match work and then retell the story in activity 8.

Sample retelling story:

When Alice was sitting near the river, she saw a strange rabbit going down a hole and followed it. Then she found a cat smiling in the garden. She then met the Mad Hatter and the March Hare. They were having a tea party. Finally she met a queen and a king.

Ask several students to make new sentences with the phrases in activity 9.

Samples sentences:

He looked into the room and found nobody was there.

I saw him run across the street.

She is always smiling at her students.

Don’t you think about other people?

Step III Around the world

Ask students to read the information in Around the world and make a brief introduction of the three authors. 　

Show the following.

Mark Twain was an American journalist and writer who led an adventurous life in 19^th century America, fighting in the civil war, working on the Mississippi steamboats and as a printer, and living in different places. His most famous books are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which are classic examples of American children’s literature. They tell the story of two boys growing up near the Mississippi, and their adventures with their friends.

Robert Louis Stevenson was Scot who trained as a lawyer, but became a famous novelist. He wrote a number of classic children’s stories, including Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, many of them set in Scotland. Treasure Island is a wonderful story of Jim Hawkins adventures with a group of dangerous pirates.

Daphne du Maurier was an English author, who wrote a great many plays, short stories and novels, as well as biography. Her most famous novels are Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and My Cousin Rachel. She often uses Cornwall in south-west England as the back drop to her romantic stories.　

Step IV Module task

Deal with activity 10-12.

Read through the instructions with the class. Ask them to choose to write about something which really happened to them, or invent something.

T: It’s time for you to write your story. Please write a short story about your past experience. You need to think about the following points: the time, the event, what you were doing at that time, what happened, what happened next and what happened finally. Make notes first and then join the sentences. You can follow the example in your book.

Sample version:

It was raining and I was waiting at the bus stop when a car stopped. The driver opened the door. It was Britney Spears! Then she said, “Would you like a lift?”

　“Yes, please,” I answered, and got into the car.

　“Where are you going?” she asked.

　 “I’m going home from school.” I said.

　 “Tell me where it is, and I’ll take you there,” she said. So I explained how to get there and she drove me.

　 She told me that she was having a day off as she had no concert that night. She said she enjoyed driving around new cities and seeing what people were doing.

When we got home, I invited her in for a coup of tea, and, to my surprise, she accepted.

　 My mother just stood there with her mouth open when we walked in.

We made some tea and took it to my room. I had a big Britney poster on my wall. Britney laughed when she saw it.

Step V Homework

Ask students to

1. Key vocabulary重点词汇

look into; run across; smile at; think about

2. read more about Alice’s adventure in wonderland. 　

Period 4 Language in use (II)

Language goals语言目标

1. finish the rest activities in the workbook.

7. I’m going to be a pilot when I grow up.

Step II Practice

Ask students to do activities 1-2, first individually and then check their answers with their partners. Draw their attention to the different forms of the past simple tense and past continuous tense.

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Ask students to do activity 3. Read the list of the time through first and then ask them to write down what they were doing at these times.

Ask several students to read their work.

Samples answers:

　Last Sunday, during the day, I was doing some washing. At about seven o’clock last night I was playing computer games. This morning, on my way to school, I was singing a song. This time last year, I was doing a part-time job in a restaurant. On Saturday, from about 12 noon to 2 pm I was cleaning my room.

Step III Games

Read through the example with the whole class and ensure that they understand what to do. Ask students to play the game in activity 4 in groups

Go on with activity 5.

T: Look at the pictures. We can see there was a robbery at 9 o’clock last night, and the police are looking for the criminal. Now work in groups of six. One member of your group is a policeman; ask and say what you were doing at 9 o’clock. If you cannot remember or don’t know what you were doing, you will be treated as a suspect.

Sample dialogue:

(P = Police)

P: Excuse me, may I ask you some questions? You know, there was a robbery last night. Well, what were you doing at eight last night, Sonly?

Sonly: I was having dinner then.

P: What were you doing at nine last night, liming?

Liming: I was watching a football match on TV with my family.

P: What about you, Lily?

Lily: I was writing a letter.

P: What were you doing, Sue?

Sue: I was sleeping at home.

Liz: I was on the bus with my sister.

P: Well, many thanks to you all. See you!

Further practice

If students are interested in the game, ask them to make a story and solve robbery.

After this, ask students to write down what each member of the group was doing.

Step IV Listening

Ask students to read through the questions in activity 7, and then listen to the tape and answer the questions.

Check the answers by asking some students to retell the story in the recording.

Step V Homework

Ask students to: