Unit 2 Wish You Were Here

Grammar and usage (the second period)---教案

Teaching Aims:

Learn the grammar:

future in the past

Teaching Points:

How to use the future in the past.

Teaching Methods:

1 Inductive method

2 Comparative method

Teaching Aids:

1 a multimedia

2 a blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1 lead-in

Look at the screens, ask students what the tense is.

* Toby said that he would go and climb in the Himalayas soon.

* Toby was busy packing, because he was leaving that night.

* Toby phoned his friend and told him he was going to leave at 10.

* Toby was just about to dive into the sea when he saw a shark.

* Toby said goodbye to his friend, not knowing that they were never to meet again.

Step 2 presentation

We use future in the past or the past continuous tense to:

* Report a n action in the future from a time when it was still in the future

They set off at 9 a.m. and would reach the airport an hour later.

* Indicate a past intention

I was going to leave, but then it rained.

* Indicate a past arrangement

Colin called Jennifer to say that he was seeing her later that afternoon.