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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
(Adj) be broke, amazing, quirky, widely, modest
(Phrase) before long, take photographs, along with

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.

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

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