② 可以用一些表达过去意义的时间状语从句来表达。例如：

When his mother died,he was only five years old.他母亲死的时候他才五岁。 

Though he was in his early twenties,he cooked dinner himself. 虽然才二十出头,但得不自己养活自己。

③ 可以用一些表达"现在意义"的时间状语来表达,但它并不把这一"现在时间"包括在内。例如：

Did you see him today?今天你见过他么？He went to Japan this year.今年他去了日本。

④ 有时候句中没有时间状语,但实际上是过去发生的,应当用过去时。这是近几年的热点。例如：

　　　　I didn't know you were also invited to the party.我不知道你也被邀请参加晚会了。（现在已经知道了）

　　　　I didn't expect to meet you here.没想到在这儿碰见你。

 Step 4 Practice and Writing how to write an article about their childhood.

1. Ask the Ss to tell their deskmates about the first time they did one of the activities or talk about their first experiences.

2. Show the four topics, then let the students choose one of these to write a passage.

　　　□ My first family holiday □ The most unusual journey I've made

　　　□ My first train ride □ The best journey of my life

Give instructions:

*** Suggest the Ss to choose a topic, list the main content by asking the following questions, such as time, place, persons, what to do, process(attitudes and emotions), results. Then help the Ss to write the notes in sentence, and structure the paragraphs.

Notes: When and where did you go? How old were you? Who did you go with?

　　　　How did you travel there? What did you do and what did you see there?

　　　　What happened? Where did you stay? What did you enjoy most/least?

　　　　What happened in the end? Did you enjoy the trip or journey?

***1) The first-person compositions are stories about real events that happened to us in the past or imaginary stories written in the first person ("I/We"), as if we were the main character.

2) Past tenses ---Past simple for an action which started and ended in the past.

e.g. My colleges and I had a visit to the Great Ocean Road in Australia.

Past continuous for an action that was in progress at certain time in the past.

e.g. It was raining for about half an hour.

Past perfect for an action which happened before another action in the past.

e.g. The train had already left by the time we got to the station.

3) Linking words are used to show sequence (Firstly, First, First of all, to start with; Secondly, Next, then, Afterwards, After this/that; Finally, Last, Lastly, etc )

4) Write about our feelings by using effective words, such as splendid, enjoy