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Lesson 1 Modern Heroes 【Teaching aims】 To practise extensive reading in order to understand the main idea of each paragraph and guess the meaning of new words from the context. To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous To practise oral English 【Teaching difficulties】 To use time linkers, especially adverbs and conjunctions To revise the use of Past Simple and Past Continuous 【Language point】 ★一.Past Simple Tense 一般过去时表示: (1) 过去某特定时间的动作或状态。例如: I lived in the country when I was young. (2) 过去经常性、习惯性的动作或状态、特征等。例如: He often cried when he was a boy. 表示过去经常发生的动作,也可用used to do...和would do ...。例如: There used to be a tree here. (3) 在时间、条件、让步等状语从句中用一般过去时表示过去将来时。例如: They planned to go out if it was fine the next day. (4) 用于I didn’t know... 或I forgot... 表示事先不知道或不记得,但现在已知道或记得的事情。例如: I didn’t know you were here.Sorry, I forgot to bring my book. 使用一般过去时的句子通常有表示具体的过去时间状语,常见的过去时间状语有:ago, yesterday, last Sunday, just now, once, the other day, in the old days, in those years, once upon a time, earlier this month, then等。 ★二.Past Continuous Tense 过去进行时表示: (1) 过去某一时刻或某一阶段正在进行的动作。例如: We were talking about you this time yesterday. (2) 表示计划、安排好的将来动作(只限于come, go, leave, arrive, start, move, sail, fly, travel, stay等表位置转移的动词)。例如: I was told the train was starting soon. (3) 有时可用来描绘故事发生的背景。例如: The wind was blowing and it was raining hard. 常用的时间状语:this time, last month, all morning, the whole night, from 6 to 8 this morning, during the winter等。 ★三.过去进行时与一般过去时的比较: (1) 前者描述持续的动作,后者表示一个完成的动作。例如: I was reading a novel last night.(可能没看完) I read a novel last night.(已看完) (2) 前者强调动作延续时间较长,后者不作强调。 He was coughing the whole night. He coughed the whole night . (3) 前者与always, forever, constantly, continually 连用时,表示赞赏或厌恶等感情色彩,后者常只是叙述事实。 She was always working like that. (赞扬语气强) She always w