牛津高中英语
(模块二 ·高一上学期)
Unit
3
Grammar and usage
Past perfect tense
板块：教学设计—课件
Unit 3
课件描述：
以观察—发现—讨论—归纳—运用
为主要教学模式，充分利用本单元语言
素材，通过多种图示和语法规则的呈现，
让学生比较全面系统地掌握过去完成时
的用法、一般过去时与过去完成时的用
法区别及现在完成时与过去完成时的用
法区别。
Lead-in
• What’s the topic of Unit 3?
• How many amazing people have
we read about in this unit? Who
are they?
• Can you tell me something about
Howard Carter?
Lead-in
• Not long after the tomb of King
Tutankhamen had been opened,
people in Carter’s team began to
fall ill and die strangely.
• What verb tenses are used in the
sentence?
Past Perfect Tense
• How can we form the past perfect?
had + verb-ed
•
Reread “The curse of the mummy”
and underline the sentences in
which the past perfect tense is used.
Past Perfect Tense
• …
• Not long after the tomb of King
Tutankhamen had been opened,
people in Carter’s team began to fall ill
and die strangely.
• Upon entering the tomb, Carter’s lucky
pet bird, which had led him to the
place, was eaten by a snake.
• …
The usage of the past perfect
Upon entering the tomb, Carter’s lucky pet
bird, which had led him to the place, was
eaten by a snake.
Past
Carter’s lucky pet bird had
led Carter to the site.
Present
Carter’s lucky pet bird was
eaten by a snake.
The usage of the past perfect
Past
The past perfect tense
shows us “过去的过去”
Present
Past
Summary: The past perfect tense is often used
with the simple past tense. If one action
happens before another in the past, the past
perfect tense is used.
The usage of the past perfect
“We emptied the tomb of everything
it contained,” said Carter.
Carter said that they had emptied the tomb
of everything it contained.
Past
They had emptied the tomb
of everything it contained.
Present
Carter said
Summary: The past perfect tense is often used in
reported speech.
The usage of the past perfect
I had done my homework this morning
before I went to the museum.
Past
I had done my homework
this morning.
Present
I went to the museum.
Summary: The use of the past perfect tense
simply indicates that an action comes before
another past action. It does not mean that the
past action happened a long time ago.
The usage of the past perfect
By the 1920s, he had become an explorer,
searching for the tombs of the Egyptian
kings.
Past
He had become an explorer.
Present
The 1920s
Summary: The past perfect tense is often used
with time expressions such as when, after, before,
as soon as, until, by, for and already.
Another amazing person
---Amelia Earhart
What happened to her ?
Read the notes about Amelia
Earhart on page 49.
Practice
Complete the story on page 49.
Amelia Earhart was born on 24th July 1897.
She had an exciting childhood. Before she moved
to Des Moines, she ⑴ _____already
_____
had
seen her
first airplane. She ⑵_______home
again, back to
moved
Chicago, six years later.
She worked as a nurse in the First World War
had
and became interested in flying. She⑶ ______
already _______
taken flying lessons before she bought
her first plane .
Then her interest in flying really began to grow.
In 1929, she organized an air race for women. A
had become
year earlier, she ⑷______________
the first
woman air passenger to fly across the Atlantic.
She married George Putnam in 1931. They
⑸_________
had met three years before when he
interviewed her in New York. In 1932, she
became the first woman to fly alone across the
Atlantic.
By 2nd June 1937, she ⑹____________
had begun
her round-the-world flight. The flight went well
in June. She reached New Guinea on the 29th.
She ⑺_____________
flying nearly a month
had started
earlier.
When base tried to contact Amelia at 9.30
p.m. 0n 2nd July 1937, she ⑻ _____
had already
gone missing.
________
The simple past tense or the past
perfect tense
When the Titanic was built, people thought it would
never sink. However, this passenger ship ⑴
surprised
__________(surprise)
everyone when it sank on its
first journey.
was built
The Titanic ⑵____________(build)
in Belfast, Ireland.
spent
Its makers ⑶_________(spend)
a great deal of money
was finished
building the ship. When it ⑷_______________(finish),
it was the largest and most comfortable ship ever
built.
The Titanic set sail on 10th April 1921. ‘I ⑸
_____________
(want) to set foot on the Titanic ever
had wanted
since it was built,’ said Molly Brown, a Titanic survivor.
‘I never thought it would sink.’
On 13th April, the Titanic was sailing at full speed
towards New York.
had received
The captain ⑹______________(receive)
warnings
about icebergs all day, but had paid little attention to the
warnings as they ⑺__________(arrive).
arrived
At 2.20 a.m., the Titanic sank into the sea. It ⑻
had hit
__________(hit)
an iceberg just over two hours before.
Of the 2,200 people on the ship, only 705 ⑼
___________(survive).
survived
Explorer Robert Ballard (10) _____________(search)
had searched
for the Titanic for more than 20 year before he found it.
‘When
new
technology
was
developed,
we
used
(11)________(use)
it to send cameras down into sea.
Finally, we found the ship.’ With his cameras, he was
able to find the hole along the side of the ship which
had caused
(12)______________(cause)
it to fill with water and sink.
Summary:
Whether the simple past tense or
the past perfect tense is used
depends on the sequence of the
events.
The present perfect or the past perfect?
Howard Carter is one of the most famous
explorers the world has ever known.
Past
Present
Future
Howard Carter
became famous.
Summary: The present perfect tense is used
when we are talking about a past event which
relates to the present time.
The present perfect or the past perfect?
Not long after the tomb of King Tutankhamen
had been opened, people in Carter’s team
began to fall ill and die strangely.
Past
The tomb of King
Tutankhamen had been
opened.
Present
People in Carter’s team
began to fall ill and die
strangely.
Summary: The Past Perfect tense is used when we
are discussing the past and want to talk about an
even earlier event.
The present perfect or the past perfect?
Howard Carter said, “I have stayed in Egypt for
more than 30 years, searching for the tombs of the
Egyptian kings.”
Howard Carter said that he had stayed in Egypt
for more than 30 years, searching for the tombs
of the Egyptian kings.
What are the differences between them?
Summary: When we change a sentence from the
direct speech into the indirect speech like this, the
tense will be changed from the present perfect to the
past perfect tense.
Another amazing person
---Cai Lun
What did he say?
And what did he do?
Read the sentences on page
51 and then complete the
article .
The inventor of paper
Cai Lun is a famous Chinese inventor, known for
inventing paper. Cai invented paper in AD 105, but ⑴
had failed many other times. Before his invention
_____________
worked, Cai ⑵___________
had tried using many different parts
of trees and plants, and old fishing nets to make paper!
After Cai invented paper, people all over Asia used it.
had heard of Cai
At that time in the West, no one ⑶___________
or paper. They did not learn how to make paper until
AD751. Westerners who ⑷_____________
several
had caught
Chinese paper makers during a war told people in the
West about Cai's invention. Once the paper makers ⑸
had shown people how to make paper, it was used all
___________
over the world.
Homework
1. Do Part C1 and C2 on page
104 in Workbook.
2. Preview the next part of this
unit: Task.