3.I looked at that modern abstract painting colored in yellows and greens.
4.Yesterday I got the expected answer to my question on the Internet.
5.She is one of my friends devoted to my interests.
6.On the doorstep I found a lot of bottles marked in green ink.
7.We saw many cracked windows in that room.
Step 7 Look at the dialogue and find the use of the past participle.
—Look at the excited boy!Why is he so happy?
—He has got the first prize in the contest.
—No wonder he is excited!
可以用作表语的常见的过去分词有delighted,disappointed,upset,astonished,excited,frightened,experienced,interested,qualified,puzzled,exhausted,satisfied。
Step 8 Look and think.Do all the past participles serve as the predicative?
I'm interested in chess.
I was interested in what you told me.
The small village is surrounded by trees.
The small village was soon surrounded by enemy soldiers.
This shop is now closed.
This shop is closed at 6 pm everyday.
Step 9 Complete the sentences using the past participle as the predicative.
1.He got ______ about losing the money.
2.The painter looked so ______ after working for a whole day.
3.I was ______ with the film I saw last night.I had expected it to be better.
4.Everybody was ______to hear of the death of the famous film star.
5.Everybody is really ______ about the new Olympic stadiums.
6.His wound became ______ with a new virus.
Suggested answers:
1.blamed/upset 2.tired 3.disappointed 4.shocked/depressed 5.excited 6.infected
Step 10 Choose appropriate verbs to complete the following sentences,using the past participle.Explain the use of the past participles in each sentence.
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1.They were ______ to accept my idea.
2.I'll be ______ to know how they made the wonderful firework.
3.The mayor said that he was ______about the ______ rise of the water level in the river bed.
4.Recently ______ soldiers are helping to take the victims to safe areas from the flood.
5.Most of the newspaper seems to be ______ with pop stars.
6.He was ______ of going alone into the empty house.
Suggested answers:
1.prepared 2.interested 3.worried;continued 4.arrived 5.concerned 6.frightened
Step 11Play a game of making sentences with the past participles in the box.Get into groups of four.See which group makes the most correct sentences with a past participle used either as an attribute or predicative.(接龙游戏)
tired astonished interested frightened found excited shocked absorbed
exhausted burned suspected defeated cured analysed infected
Examples:
S1:A boy called Jackie went to the cinema one night.
S2:It was a horror film,but he was interested in it.
S3:Sometimes he felt excited.Sometimes he felt frightened.
S4:After the film,the tired boy came back home.
S1:Once home,the exhausted boy...
Collect all your sentences and link them to make a story.