Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone的chapter two，The vanishing glass中提供了一個如何講好過去發生的故事範例。所以今天我們跟著J.K.Rowling來學習描述過去的經歷或者是發生在過去的一件事。如何描述過去的經歷？
一。 描述過去的經歷，有兩個時態是必備。 一是一般過去時，另一個是過去完成時。
過去時 ： 動詞用 過去式，表達過去發生的事。
從小學開始，守仁就在學習過去時。各種故事，繪本里面也都常常使用過去時，對於這個時
態，守仁是能夠很好的駕馭的。守仁主要是要注意不規則動詞的過去式書寫。
過去完成時： had+過去分詞，過去完成時和一般過去時常套在一起，表達“過去的過去”。
對於即將進入7年級的守仁來說，重點要注意的是這些過去分詞哪些是延續性動詞，哪些是瞬間性動詞，這樣在與時間搭配的時候，才能做到準確應用。
二。設定一個過去的時間背景
1.過去的時間詞彙或者短語：
once，last night，yesterday， last week，some years ago， in 1945， in the past， the other day， at that time， just now
2.用句子表達過去的時間：
It was a very sunny Saturday。
三. J.k.Rowling 阿姨的範例
1.這是一個插敘，在哈利和姨媽一家去動物園的路上，補充了幾個哈利周圍發生的一些怪事。
The problem
was
， strange things often
happened
around Harry and it
was
just no good telling the Dursleys he
didn’t make
them happen。
Once， Aunt Petunia， tired of （be tired of： 厭倦）Harry coming back from the barbers （理髮店）looking as though
he hadn’t been at all
，
had taken
a pair of kitchen scissors （a pair of 單數一致 ；廚房用剪刀）
and cut
his hair so short he
was
almost bald （禿的）except for his bangs（留海）， which she
left
“to hide that horrible scar。” Dudley
had laughed
himself silly at Harry， who
spent
a sleepless （無眠的）night imagining school the next day， where he
was already laughed
at （laugh at：嘲笑）for his baggy （寬大的，寬鬆的）clothes and taped （用膠帶纏住的）glasses。 Next morning， however，
he had gotten up to fi
nd his hair exactly as
it had been
before Aunt Petuni
a had sheared i
t off（剪掉）。 He
had been given
a week in his cupboard （櫥櫃）for this， even though he
had tried to ex
plain that he couldn’t explain how it
had grown b
ack so quickly。
Another time……
on the other hand……。
2.這是J.K.Rowling 阿姨描寫的波特和姨媽一家渡過的這個陽光燦爛的週末。
I
t
was
a very sunny Saturday and the zoo
was crowded with
（擠滿）families（舉家出行的遊客）。 The Dursleys
bought
Dudley and Piers large chocolate ice creams at the entrance and then， because the smiling lady in the van（冰淇淋車）
had asked
Harry what he
wanted
before they
could
hurry him away， they
bought h
im a cheap lemon ice pop。 It
wasn't
bad， either， Harry
thought
， licking it as they
watched
a gorilla scratching（抓，撓） its head who looked remarkably（顯著突出地） like Dudley， except that it
wasn't
blond。
Harry
had
the best morning
he‘d had i
n a long time。 He
was
careful to walk a little way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Piers， who were starting to get bored with the animals by lunchtime，
wouldn't
fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him。 They
ate
in the zoo restaurant， and when Dudley
had
a tantrum（發脾氣） because his knickerbocker glory （彩寶聖代）
didn't have
enough ice cream on top， Uncle Vernon bought him another one and Harry
was allowed
to finish the first。
Harry
felt,
afterward， that he
should have known i
t was all too good to last。
四。用一個句子來體驗時態的美妙。
Once， Aunt Petunia， tired of （be tired of： 厭倦）Harry coming back from the barbers （理髮店）looking as though
he hadn’t been at all
，
had taken
a pair of kitchen scissors （a pair of 單數一致 ；廚房用剪刀）
and cut
his hair……
分析：
1. once ，設定了一個過去的時間。
2.back from the barbers （理髮店）looking as though he hadn’t been at all, 從理髮店回來是一個過去的時間，在這個過去的過去，似乎頭髮壓根沒有剪。
3.我們用括號法，梳理例句的骨幹：
Once, Aunt Petunia,
（tired of Harry coming back from the barbers looking as though
he hadn’t been at all
，）
had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair......
在去動物園(過去)前的一個過去（時間）， 姨媽拿了一把廚房用的剪刀，剪了哈利的頭髮。
總結: 守仁跟著J.K.Rowling阿姨， 不但領悟到了哈利波特的各種魔法之精妙，還能“內行”地讀出英語學習的門道，真的是太棒了！