unit 10 : activities lssson1

Had erased Had forgotten Hadn’t met Hadn’t been invented... The accident had erased twenty years of her memory had V past participleIn 1973 she had not met Her husband had not V past par

Name of some

diseases

Flu toothache

cold

headache

Tuesday , 14 th september 2010

Amnesia ( n ) Chứng quên

Microwave ( n) Lò vi sóng

Car cash (n) Vụ đâm xe ô tô

A word processor (n) Bộ xử lí văn bản

A compact disc (n) Đĩa compact

a Look at the headline and photographs and discuss

a what does amnesia mean?

b what is the connection between the photograph?

c what do you think happened to the people?

b Read the article and check

c Discuss these questions

a how has the world changed since 1973?

b what problems do you think Sarah’s amnesia caused for ?

- Sarah?

- Her family ?

a Complete these sentences from the text

• The accident Twenty

years of her memory

• She The twenty years in between

• In 1973 she Her husband

• Those things In

1973

Had erased Had forgotten

Hadn’t met Hadn’t been invented

The accident had erased twenty years of her memory had V past participle

In 1973 she had not met Her husband

had not V past participle

b Find the other sentences that use the same structure in the story:

For example :

• Two days earlier Sarah had been in car cash

• In those twenty years Sarah had got married

and she had got two children

• The world had also changed dramatically

• Had Britain really had a woman prime

minister?

• and where had all her favourite pop stars

gone?

3 The past perfect tense

•Form

(+) S + had + V past participle + O(-) S + hadn’t + V past participle + O(?) Had + S + V past participle + O ?

•Yes, S + had

•No, S + hadn’t (had not)

•Usage : past perfect tense describes events that happened before an event in the past tense

• For example : When i got up this morning ,

my father had already left

Look at this list and guess these things had or hadn’t happened to Sarah in 1973 :

Listen and check

Well, let’s see In 1973 , I’d finish school, but I hadn’t left home by then I’d seen the Beatle course_on the TV and in

concert, too And my hair was still lovely and fair It hadn’t

turned grey! I’d had a boyfriend, too We used to go dancing I’d started work by then – in a film liboratory I hadn’t heard of Margaret Thatcher, of course I was so surprised to hear about

a woman prime minister I hadn’t been aboard, either I hadn’t been anywhere ! I’d had a favourite pop group They were

called T.Rex I was so sad to hear that the lead singer had died

I hadn’t used a personal computer, of course They hadn’t been invented!

Had happened Hadn’t happened

•See the Beatles

•Finish school

•Start work

•Have a favourite pop group

•Have a boyfriend

•Hear of Margaret Thatcher

•Hair / turn grey

•Use a personal computer

•Be abroad

•Leave home

Compare the use of past tense

and past perfect tense

Note

Past tense Past perfect tense

Form : S + V past +O Form: S +had + V past

perfect + O

Complete these sentence (past or past perfect tense)

1 Sarah (not recognize) her husband, because in 1973 she (not meet) him.

2 Her hair (turn) grey and she (not like) that.

3 She (not know )how to use a microwave oven , because they (not be invented )in 1973.

4 She (cry) when she found out that her father (die)

5 Clothes (look) very strange, because fashions (change) a lot.

6 She (not know) that the Cold War (end)

7 TV program (become )more violent, so that she (not want ) to watch them.

Answers

1 Sarah ……… her husband, because in 1973

she……… him.

2 Her hair ……… grey and she ……… that.

3 She how to use a microwave oven , because they in 1973.

4 She when she found out that her father

5 Clothes very strange, because fashions

a lot.

6 She that the Cold War

7 TV program more violent, so that

she to watch them.

8 She sad, because the singer of

T.Rex in a car cash.

didn’t recognize hadn’t met

Didn’t know

Hadn’t been invented

Had become Didn’t want

felt Had been killed

Think of a point in your life when your life changed

For example:

• you became a teenager

• you were eighteen

• you start/ left school

• you got married

Before I was eighteen, I hadn’t

been to college, and I hadn’t lived

on my own I had always lived

-Learn all the vocab by heart -Do exercise in student’s book

- Prepare next lesson