UNIT 3, AMERICAN HEADWAY 3

PAGE 19, READING

VOCABULARY
(V) be fired, be featured, post
(N) a blogger, a photographer, a photoblogger, finance, an amateur, quotes, a bestseller, lens
(Adj) be broke, amazing, quirky, widely, modest
(Phrase) before long, take photographs, along with, behind the lens

GRAMMAR: (1) Simple Past

(2) Past Continuous
(3) Simple Past Passive
(4) Past Perfect

Tense Form Time expressions

S + Vpt (Regular/Irregular). yesterday
S + didn’t V. last Monday
Simple Past S + used to V. last week
Did + S + use to V ...? last month
(過去簡單式)
Wh~ + did + S + V...? last year
Wh~ + did + S + use to ...? two days ago
this morning
just
in 1989
S + was/wasn’t Ving. At 2 o’clock yesterday
Past Continuous S + were/weren’t Ving. when ...
(過去進行式) Was/Were + S + Ving? While ...
Wh~ + was/were + S + Ving?
S + was/wasn’t Vpp.
S + were/weren’t Vpp.
Simple Past Passive
Wh~ + was/were + S + Vpp?
(過去簡單被動態)

S + had Vpp / hadn’t Vpp. By 2007

Past Perfect Had + S + Vpp ...? before / after
(過去完成式) Wh~ + had + S + Vpp...? By the time
S + had Vpp + before/by the time + S + Vpt.

* Non-action verbs are not usually used in the progressive.

(X) I was having a headache last night.
Unit 3, READING: BRANDON STANTON (P. 19)
(Paragraph 1) After he had worked there for three years, he was fired.
(Paragraph 2) While Stanton was living in Chicago, he took (used to take) photographs.
(Paragraph 2) After getting married, he turned his hobby into a job.
(Paragraph 3) He had only had six months of photography experience, yet he was moving across
the country to be a photographer.
(Paragraph 3) As people had predicted, Stanton had some hard times.
(Paragraph 3) When he arrived in New York, he was completely broke.

Simple Past vs. Past Continuous

It was raining when I woke up. (P. 20)
What were you doing when you lost your phone?
What did you do when you lost your phone?

When Bill arrived, we were having lunch. (P. 20) = We were having lunch when Bill arrived.
When ( = After) Bill arrived, we had lunch. (First Bill arrived; then we had lunch.)
When ( = By the time) Bill arrived, we’d (already) had lunch.
While I was watching TV, my sister was talking on the phone.
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** Grammar Reference 3.1-3.7, pp. 131-133

Reading (P. 20, CD1-19 & CD1-20) & Listening (p. 20, CD1-30)
(V) encounter, rob, investigate, tie
(N) criminal, crime scene, detective, tenant, cops, fingerprints, robber, robbery, court, judge,
jewelry, necklaces, laptop, jewelry
(Adj, Adv) careless, unsolved, fortunately,
(Phrase) run off

Dictation: (Listening, CD1-30)

1. When the tenant opened her door, a strange man ( stood / was standing ) in front of the
table.
2. [ While the woman was opening the door, the criminal ( robbed / was robbing ) her
apartment.) ]
3. When she saw him, he ( ran / was running ) out the door.
4. When the criminal robbed her apartment, he ( wore / was wearing ) jeans and a black shirt.
5. The tenant called the police when she ( saw / was seeing ) the man.
6. According to the woman, some things ( stole / were stolen / was stealing ). Some jewelry - a
ring and a few necklaces.
7. Fortunately, the thief ( ran off / was running off ) without the bag on the table in which there
was the tenant’s laptop and a painting.
8. Fortunately the criminal ran out the door without the bag that the woman ( put / had put ) on
 the table.

Listening, Page 24 (CD1-37)

Vocabulary
(Verb) manage, figure,
(Noun) geography,
(Phrase) hang out, go weak at the knees, have enough of ..., Fair enough!
turn upside down
(Grammar) Write down the sentences that contain the past perfect tense.
1. (Sarah) I couldn’t understand why I hadn’t looked at him before.
2. (Sarah) I’d never felt anything like it in my life.
3. (Tommy) I decided that I’d had enough of being in love.
4. (Tommy) I hadn’t told her that I was in love with her, so she didn’t know that it had ended
5. (James) I remember thinking at the time that I’d never felt anything like it.
6. (James) ... Life had never felt so amazing, so colorful.
7. (James) I felt that I hadn’t really lived until that moment, until I’d met her and fallen
in love.