Unit 3. People''''s background

WELCOME TO OUR LESSON


I/ WARM UP

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Divide the whole class into 4 groups
-group A
-group B
-group C
-group D


Table completion
Verb infinitive

Past form

Past participle

take
met
left
broke
come
gone

got
been
do
saw


Table completion
Verb infinitive

Past form

Past participle

take

took

taken

meet

met

meet

leave

left

left

break

broke

broken

come

came

come

go

went

gone

get

got

gotten

be

Was/were

been

do

did

done

see

saw

seen


UNIT 3: PEOPLE'S BACKGROUND
LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS


II/ PRONUNCIATION

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/e/
e.g. : men

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/æ/

e.g. :man


* Listen and repeat

men

man

said

sad

met

mat

bed

bad

pen

pan

send

sand

* Practise these sentences

1.

The fat man has a red pen

2.

This handbag will be sent to Helen

3.

Sam said apples were very expensive then

4.

There’re ten pans on the shelf

5.

Ben sat on a bench with a yellow cat

6.

Ann never gets bad marks in French


III/ GRAMMAR
1. The past perfect

1906

After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she (take) up the position which her husband (obtain) at
the Sorbonne.

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1906

now

After the tragic death of Pierre Curie in 1906, she took up the position which her husband had obtained at
the Sorbonne.


When I came home yesterday, everybody already (go) out

Past perfect

past

When I came home yesterday, everybody had already gone out

now


Form: (+) S + had +PII + O
(-) S + had not +PII + O
(?) Had + S +PII +O ?

Yes ,S + had
No, S + had not
 Use: The past perfect tense can be used to discribe:
 An action before a point of time in the past
 An action that had happened before another past action


Exercise 1:
1- had broken
2- had done
3- had met
4- had not (hadn’t) turned off
5- had ever seen
6- had been
7- had left
8- had moved
9- had not (hadn’t) seen
10- had broken in


2. The past perfect or past simple

S + had + PII

S + V(simple past)

The girl (do) the homework
Her father (get) home
The girl (do) the homework

Past perfect

Her father (get) home

past

After
=> ………………………………
The
The
girl
The
girl
had
girl
had
done
had
done
the
done
thethe
girl
homework
the
homework
had
homework
done the homework,
by the

before
when
time

now
……………………
her
her
her
father
father
her
father
father
got
got
got
home.
home.
got
home.
home.

Trang’s house - Yesterday


Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets in the
past simple or past perfect
1.

2.

3.

4.

We just (finish) dinner when they (come).

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He seldom (travel) by bicycle before he (go) to Vietnam.

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Ann (go) to get the carpet for the room but someone already (take) it.

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You (manage) to see the Director, or he (go) out by the time you (get) there?

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5.

He just (get) home when you (phone). He (be) in New York.

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1. had just finished
………….. came

2. had seldom travelled
……….... went


3. went ………………
had already taken


4. Did you manage
…….. had he gone
……. got


5. had just got
……..…. phoned.
………had been


George’s parrot

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Exercise 3: There are five mistakes in the use of tenses in the following story. Find and
correct them.
While George was reading in bed, two thieves

into his kitchen. Whenhad
they
had entered the
climbed
climbed

house, they went to the dinning room. It was very dark, so they

on a torch. Suddenly they

heard a voice behind them.
“What’s up? What’s up?” a voice
they could.
George

had
turned
turned
. The thieves dropped the torch and ran away as quickly as
had
called
calledout
out

a noise and came downstairs quickly. He turned on the light but he couldn’t see

anybody. The thieves
had
heard
heard
Henry, was still there.
already
went.
had
already
gone.
“What’s
up?”
he called.
“Nothing, Henry,” George said and smiled. “Go back to sleep.”

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But George’s parrot,


Homework: Exercise 1: Choose the best answer

1. After he ….. his homework, he went to the cinema.
A. did
C. had did

B. had done
D. had do

2. She ……. me for what I had done for her.
A. had thank
C. had thanked

B. thank
D. thanked

3. By 8 o’clock last night, the police ......…. three of the four bank attackers .
A. did catch
C. caught

B. had caught
D. had catch


Exercise 2: Choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets
It (1. was/had been) a beautiful morning. It (2.rained/had rained) in the night so the ground (3.was/had
been) wet and it (4.smelt/had smelt) wonderful. None of the Taylor (5.were/had been) awake. They
(6.went/had gone) to bed very late the night before. Their friend from Australia (7.arrived/had arrived)
unexpectedly that evening and they (8.sat up/had sat up) talking most of the night. Although it
(9.was/had been) 8 o’clock in the morning, they (10.were/had been) in bed for only two hours.


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