(
课件网) Unit 3 Festivals and customs (Grammar and usage) ★Learning Objectives Master four structures of future in the past and use them in festival-related sentences and passages. Understand the love theme of The Gift of the Magi and compare Chinese and Western festival cultures. Tell apart different uses of four future-in-the-past structures by comparison. Summarize grammar rules and word collocations with mind maps independently. ★Key points and difficult points Learn four basic forms of future in the past. Master how to use future in the past in indirect speech. Choose proper future-in-the-past structures based on contexts. Apply the grammar flexibly in indirect speech and story writing. What plans did you make for the festival one week before Christmas Free talk Example: One week before Christmas, I planned to buy a Christmas tree and some colourful lights. I was going to prepare small gifts for my parents and I would make chocolate cookies at home. The Gift of the Magi, a classic short story by O. Henry, describes how poor lovers Della and Jim each sold their most valuable treasure to buy Christmas gifts for one another, praising selfless love above material goods. Below is a story about how Della prepared a gift for her husband Jim during the Christmas season. ONE DOLLAR AND EIGHTY-SEVEN CENTS. That was all she had. Della counted it three times. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas. If she was to buy a nice gift for her husband Jim, she would need more money. But how could she earn some Della stood in front of the mirror in her apartment. She looked at her reflection, brushed her long, brown hair, and made up her mind: she was going to sell her hair. With the money she received for it, she would buy Jim a perfect gift. Della had her hair cut off and sold it for twenty dollars. She spent the next two hours hunting for Jim’s gift. She found it at last: a simple but beautiful watch chain for his gold watch, which had been passed down to him from his grandfather. Della paid twenty-one dollars for the watch chain, and hurried home with the remaining eighty-seven cents. She looked at her reflection in the mirror carefully again. She felt nervous. Did she look like a little schoolboy without her beautiful long hair Would Jim still think she was pretty She was about to find out. What did Della plan to do to get a gift for Jim What gift did Della buy for Jim in the end She planned to sell her long brown hair to get money to buy a nice gift for Jim. She bought a simple but beautiful watch chain for Jim’s gold watch. Find the sentences that use future in the past and fill in the box below. The first one had been done for you. And the next day would be Christmas. If she was to buy a nice gift for her husband Jim, she would need more money. … she was going to sell her hair. … she would buy Jim a perfect gift. Would Jim still think she was pretty She was abou ... ...
