英语北师大版必修6 Unit17 Lesson 1 Funny stories PPT.ppt

withdraw person who manages business for others board take back, draw back agent make or be slow or late passenger person being conveyed by bus or train etc delay get on or into a train, ship etc Read the first and last lines of the stories, look at the pictures and match the stories and the pictures with the headlines. A / 3 / Check your spelling B / 1 / Proverbial kid C / 2 / Forgotten identity Read the three stories answer the following questions: 1. Why does the woman write a cheque for $50? Because she doesn’t know how to spell 40. 2. What does the man mean when he says “Do you know who I am?” Maybe he is a VIP. 3. “Where there’s a Will there’s a Wayne” sounds like a famous proverb. Do you know what it is? What does it mean? Where there is a will, there is a way. Which of the stories do you like most? Why? Do you have your funny stories? Read the following sentences and see if they have something in common: 1. I was in the town centre, where I _______________ some shopping. 2. I ______________ __ about this for some time when one day I saw the boys’ mother in the street. 3. … when an angry man, who ____ ____________ in line for some time, … We use the Past Perfect Continuous to stress: 1. longer activities in the past that happened before other past events 2. the repeated actions that happened before a particular point in the past 3. an action that was still in progress and had not been completed at a particular time in the past Ex. 5 2. Because she had been working for hours without a --. 3. Because they had been playing football. 4. Because she hadn’t been coming to work in time. 5. Because she had been waiting for her boyfriend for -. 6. Because he had been talking on the pone for hours. 7. Because he had been