"I used to be afraid of the dark" PPT courseware 13

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"I used to be afraid of the dark" PPT courseware 13

Do you know the beautiful and outgoing girl?

Yeah. She’s the famous singer Candy Wang.

Can you guess what she was like in the past?

She used to be a shy girl.

Do you want to know her story?

She took up singing to deal with her shyness.

As she got better, she was not shy anymore and loved singing in front of crowds. Now she’s the Asian pop star.

Language points

1. Candy told me that she used to be really shy and took up singing to deal with her shyness. Candy told me that she used to be really shy and took up singing to deal with her shyness.

(1) take up here means "start to engage in"

► He dropped medicine and took up physics.

He gave up medicine and started studying physics.

Other uses of take up:

1) "Occupy" The table takes up too much room.

2) "Continue" We took up our journey the next day.

(2) deal with is equivalent to do with, which means "to deal with; deal with"

► How did you deal with the milk?

What do you do with that milk?

► He has learned to deal with all kinds of difficulties.

2. As she got better, she dared to sing in front of her class, and then for the whole school.

(l)dare is used here as a transitive verb, meaning "to dare; to dare". Often formed into the phrase dare to do sth. It means "dare to do something".

► He didn't dare to look at her in the eye.

He didn't dare to look at her.

►She dared to walk at night.

She dared to walk at night.

(2)in front of means "in front of".

►There is a little child in front of the house. There is a little child in front of the house.

Distinguish between in front of and in the front of

in front of: in front of..., emphasizing the front of the outside of an object.

in the front of: "in the front of...", emphasizing the front inside an object

3b Read the article again and complete the sentences about Candy.

1.She used to be shy, but now she’s not shy _______.

2. She didn’t use to be ______ in school, but now she gets lots of attention.

3.She used to ________ with friends, but it is almost impossible now.

4.She didn’t use to _________ how she appeared to others, but now she does.

Choose the appropriate word from the box to complete the sentence.

quiet, shy, funny, outgoing, friendly

1. My uncle is very _______. He often tells jokes.

2. His cousin is very _____. He is afraid to speak in public.

3. Please be _____ in the library.

4. Mike’s mother is very ________ to us.

We all get on well with her.

5. Bill’s sister is very ________. She’s good at singing and dancing.

Classic exercises

1.— Do you like playing computer games?

— No, but I _____.

A. used to B. didn’t

C. do D. don’t

[Points] used to can be used with various persons to express past habits. Choose A.

2. — Why don’t you take the bike, Henry?

— It’s too expensive. I can’t ____it.

A. sell B. keep

C. borrow D. afford

[Key Points] Afford is often used with can, could, be able to, meaning "affordable, affordable", and is often followed by a noun, pronoun or verb infinitive. Choose D.

3. Convert synonymous sentences, each empty word.

She seems to be worried now.

_______ seems that she ________ worried now.

[Points] sb seems to be / do... can be interchanged with the sentence pattern "It seems + that clause", and attention should be paid to the tense of the main clause and the subordinate clause to be consistent. Fill in It; is.

Homework

Do you ever find our school or our city has changed a lot?

Try to find some changes around you and make sentences with “used to”.

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