Section A 第四课时 (4a -4c)

Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.

GrammarFocus

When I go to school, I realized that I had left my backpack at home.

By the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.

Before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.

I was about to go up to my office when I decided to get a coffee first.

As I was waiting in line with the other office workers, I heard a loud sound.

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1.Tim went into the bathroom.

Mary got up.

By the time Mary got up ， Tim had already gone into the bathroom.

4a4a

Make sentences using by the time or before.

2. The coffee became cold.

I put cream in the coffee.

Before the coffee become cold, I had put cream in the it.________________________________________________________________________________

3.The teacher collected

the math homework. I got to school.

________________________________________________________________________________By the time I got to school, the teacher had collected the math homework.

4.I completed the

work for my boss. The workday ended.

Before the workday ended, I had completed the work for my boss.________________________________________________________________________________

5.The movie started. I arrived at the cinema.

________________________________________________________________________________By the time I arrived, the movie had started.

6.My mother finished

making the apple pie.

I got home from my language course.

By the time I got home, my mother had finished making the apple pie.

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rush out forget arrive at

go into show up find out1.By the time I arrived at the party,

everyone else __________ already______.

2.When he put the noodles into a bowl, he

realized he _____________to add the green

beans.

had showed up

had forgotten

4b4b

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.

3.By the time my mother came back from the market, I ______already __________the door to go for my piano lesson.4.Before she got to the airport, she ________ _________about the earthquake.5.When she _____________the movie theatre, she remembered she had forgotten to feed her dog.6.Before she got a chance to say goodbye, he_____________the building.

had rushed out

had found out

had arrived at

had went into

4c4c

Write two true statements and one false statement about your day yesterday. Then ask your classmates to guess the false statement.

1.By the time I left for school in the morning,

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2.By the end of the school day, _____________

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3.By dinner time, I ____________________

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1. Life is Full of the Unexpected

unexpected 作形容词，意为“想不到的；料不到的；意外的”。如： Such beauty was unexpected in the midst of the cit

y. 市中心有这样的美景真是出乎意料。The announcement was not entirely unexpected . 这个通告并非完全出乎意料。She was put in a fluster by the unexpected guests. 不速之客的到来弄得她很慌张。

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2. We started in disbelief at the black smoke rising ab

ove the burning building.

(1) start作动词 “，意为 开始” ， started是过去式。如： John then unlocked the front door and I started

to follow him up the stairs...

约翰接着打开前门，我开始跟他上楼。It was 1956 when Susanna started the work on the gar

den... 苏珊娜是从 1956 年开始修建这个花园的。She started cleaning the kitchen.她开始打扫厨房。

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(2) disbelief 作名词，表示“不相信；怀疑”。如： He stared at me in disbelief .

他满腹疑惑地盯着我。The film version requires greater suspension of disb

elief than the book. 与原书比起来，电影版需要带给观众更多的悬念。 It left us reeling with disbelief.

它让我们感到心烦意乱，难以置信。

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(3) above 作介词，意为“（表示程度）超过；（表示等级）在…之上；（表示位置）在…正上方”。如： The glider was soaring above the valley. 那架滑翔机在山谷上空滑翔。The temperature has been above the average recently.

近来的气温一直比平均温度高。

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above 作副词，意为“在上面； 以上； 上述 ”。

如： We are fascinated by the stars twinkling above.

天空中闪烁的星星让我们陶醉着。

Seen from above, the fields looked like a geometrical

pattern. 从上面往下看，那些农田像是几何图案。

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3. show up 出席；露面

show up 为动词短语，意为“出席；露面”。

如： My brother said he would come. Why didn’t he

show up? 我哥哥说他会来的。为什么还没到？

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1. 飞机就要起飞了。 The plane ____ about ____ _____ _____.

2. 不用盯着他看。 Don't ______ ______ him.

3. 他直到 7 点钟才能到机场。 He didn't get to ______ ______ ______ 7:00

a.m.

is to take off

stare at

the airport until

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