Stories from HistoryStories from History

Lesson 1 Period 2Lesson 1 Period 2

Language Focus and GrammarLanguage Focus and Grammar

寿县安丰高级中学 邱晶晶

Stories from HistoryStories from History

• Language Focus and Grammar

• Revision for words and expression:

• Encourage the students to work out the English explanations of some important words and useful expressions either from the context or refer to their dictionaries.

Revision of Warm-up & L1Revision of Warm-up & L1

1.knock at/on

2.knock sb./sth. over

3.at the speed of

4.come into view

5.There is no doubt that…

6.a ticket with a phone number written on it

• 敲门（窗）• 撞倒• 以…的速度• 出现在视野中• 毫无疑问

• 一张写着电话号码的票

Useful phrases in L1Useful phrases in L17. 一世纪末8. 阻挡，封闭9. 给……深刻印象10. 可怕的历史遗址11. 挖掘12. 时间胶囊13. 突然兴旺的城市14. 侧卧15. 继续生存

at the end of the first centuryat the end of the first century

block outblock out

leave a deep impression on sb.leave a deep impression on sb.

an awesome historical sitean awesome historical site

dig outdig out

time capsuletime capsule

booming cities booming cities

lie on one’s sidelie on one’s side

live onlive on

Useful phrases in L1Useful phrases in L1

16.volcanic eruption

17. a great loss

18. preserve a frozen moment

19. be caught in

20. feel sorrow and deep sympathy for

21. a monument to human history

22. split up

• 火山爆发• 巨大的损失• 保护一个封存的瞬间• 遭遇• 感到悲痛和深切的同情• 历史的纪念• 解散，分成小部分

Useful phrases in L1Useful phrases in L1

• 23. on the way to• 24. round-the-world trip• 25. get a pay rise• 26. the authentic objects• 27. the decorated walls• 28. the ancient architecture• 29. this particularly sad event• 30. be entirely different

23. 去…的路上24. 环球旅行25. 加薪26. 原物27. 装饰过的墙28. 古代建筑29. 特别悲伤的事件30. 完全不同

Fill in the blanksFill in the blanks

• A good idea ____________ to me.

• He ___________ to be at home when I dropped in.

• Great changes _________________ since 1978.

• The Civil War ___________ in 1789.

occurredoccurred

have taken placehave taken place

happenedhappened

broke outbroke out

Using the proper words and phrases given below.

occur , happen, take place, break out

Using the proper words and phrases given below.

occur , happen, take place, break out

Language FocusLanguage Focus

• 1. witness---to see and experience important events or changes ； one who can give a firsthand account of something seen, heard, or experienced

• e.g. She had witnessed the disaster before going to court.

• 上法庭前，她早已经目睹了这个灾难。• She is the only one witness to the terrible att

ack.

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• 警方正呼吁曾目睹这起事故的人提供信息。• Police are appealing for information from a

nyone who witnessed the accident.

• 最近这几年是钢铁工业垮掉的年代。• Recent years have witnessed the collapse

of the steel industry.

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Language FocusLanguage Focus• 2. occur---to happen; to come to mind

• e.g.

①Heavy rains occur during a summer monsoon.

夏季风季节常有大雨发生。② 到上星期五之前，这个想法就没在我脑海中

出现过。The idea had never occurred to me by last Fr

iday.

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• 3. block out---to stop light reaching a place; to stop yourself thinking about something or remembering

• e.g. There was a heavy curtain that had blocked out the sunlight.

• She tried to block the terrible memory of the earthquake out.

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• 4. awesome---extremely impressive

• e.g. They stood in awesome silence before the ancient ruins.

• 在古遗址前他们出奇安静地站立着。• They experienced the awesome sweep of

the scenery in Jiu Zhaigou last summer.

• 去年夏天他们在九寨沟体验了令人叹为观止的景色。

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Language FocusLanguage Focus• 5. feel sorrow and deep sympathy (for)…

为……感到悲痛和深切的同情• e.g. We felt great sorrow and deep sympath

y for his death at such a young age.

• 法官说尽管他对玛丽亚的处境深感同情，但没有别的选择，只能给她判刑。

• The judge said that he felt the deepest sympathy for Maria’s situations, but he had no option. He had to sentence her.

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GrammarGrammar

• Task 1: Using “Experience Approach or ‘PPP’ Approach” to review the Past Perfect.

• P=Presentation

• Read the sentences and find out which action happened before the other.

• 1) Pliny wrote about an extremely terrible volcanic eruption that he had witnessed as a young man.

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• 2) However, more than 1,600 years later, some scientists found the lost towns that had been buried under the ashes.

• 3) By last Friday when the due date came, they had already finished this academic research project.

• 4) The people, towns and villages that had disappeared under the ashes were entirely forgotten by the world.

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• Read the above sentences again and decide which tense is used to talk about:

• 1. an event in the past?

• 2. an event that happened earlier, before the other past event in the story?

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• Look at the following three pictures, which of the two sentences best describes each picture.

1.

a)The film began when they arrived at the cinema.

b)The film had begun when they arrived at the cinema.√

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• 2.

a)The students were leaving the class when the teacher came in.

b)The students had left the class when the teacher came in.

√

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• 3.

a)The police arrested the man who was breaking into a jewellery shop.

b)The police arrested the man who had broken into a jewellery shop.

√

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• P=Practice （ either translation or blank filling)• I had never talked so openly until I met Lily.• Peter bought me a necklace for my birthday,

because I had asked for the necklace.• We got married a year after we had fallen in love

with each other.• By the time I arrived home, the others had eaten

all the food.• Before I got to the movie theatre, the movie had

already begun.

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• P=Production

• 1. Practise the Past Perfect using the exercises 8 on P7and 5 on P53.

• 2. Create situations where the Past Perfect can be used, either in words or using pictures.

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Task 2Task 2 ：： Write ProjectWrite Project

• Students are required to collect information about historical stories from the Internet, libraries or any source they can and shorten the story to around 100 words.

• Note: While making the story shorter, students are supposed to pay close attention to 5Ws (who, where, when, what, why) in the story.

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