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Unit2 I think life is better today
Look at the photo and answer the following questions.
1. Is the woman young or old
2. What is she holding in her hands
3. Does she look happy or sad
4. What is she doing
She is old.
Old photos.
She looks happy.
She is talking to someone about the photos.
family
big family
How do you think she feels Think about what she will talk about:
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education
health
work
a woman worker
a housewife
can’t get healthy food sometimes
received low education or no education
n.教育，学业
Read to the passage and fill in the blanks.
1.My father was a _________, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the ______ cold or in the ______ heat.
2.Families have got _______ than they were in the past.
Today most people only have ____ child.
3. My mum was a ______ girl. She didn’t go out to work. My daughter goes to ________ even after getting married.
4. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t ________ it, and what’s more, because I was a ______.
My daughter is really _______. She has a good __________.
postman
winter
summer
smaller
one
farm
work
afford
girl
lucky
education
n.邮递员
n.寒冷；冷空气
Read the passage again and complete the notes and add more points of your own.
Life in the past Life now
1. Family bigger; five children smaller; one child
2. Food
3. Work
4.Education
simpler, meat only
once or twice a year
more food and
better food
hard and difficult
work, long hours
interesting jobs
for boys and girls
expensive, often
only for boys
good schools
for everyone
Life in the past Life now
5. Transport
6. Entertainment
on foot or by
bike
much easier,
buses, cars
and planes
no television
television,
computers, etc.
Read the part “What was your life like in the past ” and answer the following questions.
1. What did Mrs Li’s parents do
2. Was Mrs Li’s father’s work hard How do you know that
3. Why Mrs Li’s parents didn’t send her to school
Mrs Li’s father was a postman and her mother was a housewife.
Yes, it was. Her father often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.
Because her family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because she was a girl.
Read the part – “How has life changed ”and finish the following exercises.
Mrs Li’s opinion
the change of the role of women
transport and travel today
the appearance of TV
life today
It’s a good thing. Her daughter has a good education and she can go to work every day even after getting married.
It’s easy for people to go everywhere, but there’s too much traffic.
It helps her to watch so many good programmes, but some of the shows are too noisy.
Life is better today. They eat better and live longer.
[观察1] My family lived in a tiny house.
我们一家住在一所很小的房子里。
[探究] tiny作形容词，意为“微小的；极小的”。
[拓展] tiny， little与small
tiny “微小的；极小的”，强调特别小，指无法与其他事物相比较的异乎寻常的小。
little “小的，小巧的”，带有感彩，表示喜欢、可怜或讨厌；常与形容词nice， pretty， poor或silly搭配。
small “小的，不大的”，多指面积、体积等。
活学活用
用tiny， little或small填空
（1）It's a nice _______ cat. I love it very much.
（2）Cells are so _______ that you cannot see without a
microscope.
（3）The room is too _______ for three people to live in.
little
tiny
small
[观察2] There were no electric lights, only candles.
没有电灯，只有蜡烛。
[探究] light为可数名词，意为“电灯”。如：
A red traffic light means “Stop”. 红色的交通灯表示停下。
[拓展]
light的不同含义：
活学活用
写出下列画线单词的词性及汉语意思
（1）She could just see by the light of the candle.
__________ ___________
（2）Suddenly all the lights went out.
__________ ___________
（3）It gets light at about 5 o'clock.
__________ ___________
名词 光亮
名词 电灯
形容词 明亮的
[观察3] He often worked twelve hours a day in the summer heat. 在夏季的高温下，他经常一天工作12个小时。
[探究] heat 是不可数名词，常用短语为in the heat，表示“在高温下”。
[拓展] heat还可作动词，意为“加热；（使）变热；（使）变暖”。如：
Grain heats in a pile.粮食堆在一起会发热的。（不及物动词）
Please heat me some milk. 请给我热一些牛奶。（及物动词）
[观察4] She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting married.
她受过良好的教育，她甚至婚后还去工作。
My parents have been married for twenty years.
我父母结婚二十年了。
[探究] （1）get married意为“结婚”，强调的是________动作，不能和表示一段时间的状语连用。
（2）be married表示_________，可以和表示一段时间的状语连用。
短暂性
状态
活学活用
用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空
①When I knew the news, Cindy and William
______ already_______________（marry）.
②When she was 22 years old, she got ________（marry）
to Joe.
had got/been married
married
[观察5] …but sometimes I feel lonely because she can't come to see me often.
……但是有时候我会感到孤单，因为她不能经常来看我。
The old man lives alone in an old house.
这位老人独自居住在一所旧房子里。
[辨析] lonely 与alone
定语
活学活用
When you feel helpless and _______, just remember
you are not_______ in the world because your friends
are around you.
A.alone； alone B.alone； lonely
C.lonely； alone D.lonely； lonely
C
[观察6] I wasn't sent to school because my family couldn't afford it. 我没有被送去上学，因为家里负担不起。
[探究] afford 作动词，意为“买得起；付得起”，常与can't， couldn't等连用。afford sth. 意为“买得起某物，付得起某物”；
______________意为“支付/负担得起做某事”。如：
Can we _______ a new car？ 我们买得起一辆新汽车吗？
We can't _______ to pay such a price. 我们付不起这样的价钱。
afford to do sth.
afford
afford
Complete the passage with the words and expressions in the box.
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candles, cold, generally speaking, postman, tiny, traffic
Mrs Li’s father was a (1) __________. He often worked outside for twelve hours a day in the summer heat or in the winter (2) ______. They lived in a (3) ______ house and used (4) ________ for light. Mrs. Li says that (5) __________________, life is better today. But not everything is satisfying. There are some things that she is not happy with, for example, the (6) ________.
postman
cold
tiny
candles
generally speaking
traffic
根据句意及所给汉语提示语写出所缺单词
1. In many countries, people have birthday cakes with ________ (蜡烛) on their birthdays.
2. Frank came here in order to get a good ________ (教育).
3. Some people are still working in the _______(高温) now.
Exercise
candles
education
heat
4. My grandfather bought a new ________ (用电的) fan yesterday.
5. Colour plays an important ________ (作用) in our life.
electric
role
Summary
five
once or twice
twelve
money/
chance
one
go to work
a good education
(take a) plane
GOOD JOB
