1. What's wrong with the car?
Unit 3
What's wrong with the car?
(The three period)
制作：杭州开元商贸职校 杨晓波

2. Create a conversation about a repair. Practical grammar
Can you describe a problem with a machine?
Can you report a problem and schedule a repair?
Can you leave your machine for a repair?
Create a conversation
about a repair.

3. Practical grammar
Let’s review.
This door won’t open.
Can you fix ? it
These windshield wipers aren’t
working. Can you fix ?
them

4. Practical grammar
A. Review. Complete each sentence with it or them.
The windshield wipers aren’t working. Please
check ______.
2. The window won’t open. Can she replace
______?
3. I can’t change these tires. Will you please
change ______ for me?
4. The headlights won’t go on. Is he going to fix
them it
them
them

5. Practical grammar
Let’s learn.
We can’t fix your car today.
Please _________ tomorrow.
drop off it
drop it off
drop it off
The windshield wipers aren’t working.
I can’t ____________.
turn on
turn them on it
them

6. Practical grammar
B. Put the underlined words in order.
2. My car needs new tires. it / Can / off / drop / I / later / ?
3. I have to turn on the headlights. button / on / turns / them / Which / ?
Can I drop it off later?
Which button turns them on?

7. Practical grammar
4. I’d like to pick up my car today. up / can / I
/ pick / it / What time / ?
5. I need gas. Please / it / fill / up / .
What time can I pick it up?
Please fill it up.

8. Practical grammar
Let’s think.
The car made a funny sound.
10:00
11:00
12:00
一般过去时
Now
made a sound
The car was making a funny sound.
10:00
11:00
12:00
过去进行时
was making a sound
Now

9. Practical grammar
Let’s learn.
过去进行时
The car was making a funny sound.
They were driving to work.
was / were + v. ing
否定句：They weren’t driving to work.
一般疑问句：Were they driving to work?
Yes, they were. / No, they weren’t.
特殊疑问句: Who was driving to work?
They were.

10. Practical grammar
C. Complete the paragraph with the past continuous.
An Hong’s SUV ______________ (make) a funny
sound, and she wanted a mechanic to check her
car. But Ma Ying ______________ (change) the oil
in a customer’s used car. Tong Yufei _____________
(replace) the headlights. Jiang Fan ______________
(fix) the engine, and Dong Na ______________
(remove) the old tires. Even Tim Zhang, the
manager, was busy. He ______________ (talk)
on the phone.
was making
was changing
was replacing
was fixing
was removing
was talking

11. Practical grammar Let’s think. I was when she . 10:00 11:00 12:00
come go buy ask stop drop fall take …
10:00
11:00
12:00
called 瞬间
play eat do drink clean read sing …
Now
was eating
延续性

12. Practical grammar
D. Choose the past continuous or the simple past.
Yesterday I read / was reading the car ads in the
newspaper when my sister called / was calling. She
asked / was asking me what I did / was doing, and
I told / was telling her. So after work, she went / was
going with me to a used car lot. The manager of the
lot showed / was showing us a nice car, and I
bought / was buying it!

13. What were you doing at 10:00 this morning?
Practical grammar
Do it yourself!
What were you doing at 10:00 this morning?
A. Pair work
I was eating breakfast.
yesterday
this morning
last Sunday …
7:00
10:00
4:00 …

14. Practical grammar
B. Discussion. Tell the class what your partner
was doing.
Example:
Dong Fan was having a math class at 8:00 this
Monday. He was having lunch at 11:30. He was
playing football at 3:00. And at 7:00 in the evening
he was doing his homework. What was he doing
at 10:00? He was sleeping.

15. Practical grammar
Homework
List as many two-word verbs as you can.
Make sentences with “when”, using the past
continuous and the simple past tense.