外研版英语九年级下册Module 3 Life now and then Unit 2 I think life is better today. 课件(共19张PPT)

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Unit 2
Life now and then
Module 3
I think life is better today.
Lead in
Discuss what you did in your childhood and list some of them.
Reading and vocabulary
Act.1 Look at the woman in the photo. How do you think she feels Think about what she will talk about：
·family　·work
·health ·education
Act.2 Read the passage and complete the following notes.
Life in the past
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Life now
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1 Family: bigger; five children
2 Food:
3 Work:
4 Education:
1 Family: smaller; one child
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simple, eat meat once or twice a year
Food: more meat
father goes to work and mother stays at home
Work: both men and women can go to work
boys can go to school and most girls have no chance to go to school
Education: both boys and girls can get good education
Now complete the notes and add more points of your own.
5 Transport: on foot; by bike
5 Transport: take the bus/ underground/ plane
6 Entertainment:
6 Entertainment: watch TV
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 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.
Act.3
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.
Act.4
Language points
1. My family lived in a tiny house.我的家人住在一所很小的房子里。
tiny作形容词，意为“微小的；极小的”。
All six of us packed into the tiny car. 我们6个人全部挤进那辆小型汽车里。
There is a tiny insect on the ground. 地上有一只小昆虫。
【辨析】tiny, little与small
Uranus is only a tiny spot in the sky.
天王星只是天空中的一个极微小的点。
It's a nice little dog.
它是一只可爱的小狗。
The room is too small for three persons to live in.
这个房间太小，三个人住不下。
2. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.
我爸爸是一名邮递员，不管冬天的严寒还是夏天的酷暑，他都常常一天在外工作12个小时。
（1）cold用作名词，意为“寒冷；冷空气”。
Don't stand in the cold. 不要在寒冷中站着。
【拓展】
① cold作名词时，还可表示“伤风；感冒”；catch a cold“患感冒”；get/have a cold
“感冒”。
I had a cold yesterday. 昨天我感冒了。
② cold还可作形容词，意为“寒冷的；冷淡的”。
I'm feeling cold. 我觉得很冷。
He's a cold person. 他是个冷淡的人。
（2）heat用作名词，意为“高温；热度”。
I can't walk in this heat. 我不能在这种酷热下走路。
The heat from the fire will soon dry your coat.
火的高温很快就会烘干你的外套。
【拓展】
heat还可作动词，意为“加热；变热”。
She heated up some soup. 她热了一些汤。
He heated some water. 他烧了一些水。
3. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job. 我家里有5个孩子，照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦。
（1）more than此处表示“比……更，比……更重要”,“more than+名词”还可以表示“不仅仅是”。
I think friendship is more than money. 我认为友谊比金钱更重要。
Mr Green is more than a teacher. He is a writer, too.
格林先生不仅仅是一名教师，也是一位作家。
【拓展】
①“more than+数词”意为“多于……，……以上；不止……”。
I have known him for more than ten years. 我认识他10年多了。
②“more than+形容词”意为“很，非常”。
I am more than glad to help you. 我非常乐意帮助你。
（2）full-time用作形容词，意为“专职的；全日制的”，反义词为part-time“兼职的”。
She is a full-time mother. 她是一位全职妈妈。
I found a part-time job. 我找了一份兼职工作。
（滨州中考改编）
每年有来自全世界的九百多万人来伦敦旅游。
Every year, ____ _____ nine million people all over the world come to visit London.
点拨：more than意为“多于……；不止……”。故填more than。
4. The role of women has changed too.妇女的角色也发生了变化。
role n. 作用；职责；角色
play a role in (doing)sth.在(做)某事方面起作用
It plays an important role in developing production.
它在发展生产中起着一份重要的作用。
翻译句子
在这项工作中她起了一份重要的作用。
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She played an important role in the work.　
5. I'm happy to see she's busy working every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can't come to see me often. 很高兴看到她每天忙着工作，但是有时候我觉得孤单，因为她不能经常来看我。
（1）be busy doing sth.是固定结构，意为“忙于做某事”。
I was busy answering my mother's question at that time.
那时，我在忙着回答妈妈的问题。
【拓展】
be busy with sth.忙于做某事，但with后跟名词或代词
The students are busy with their homework.
学生们正忙于做作业。
lonely 意为“孤单的；寂寞的”，强调主观感受
alone 意为“独自一人的”，强调客观情况
（2）lonely形容词，意为“孤单的；寂寞的；荒凉的”。
I feel very lonely without my dog. 我的狗不在旁边我就很寂寞。
The lonely student is starving for friendship.
那个寂寞的学生渴望友谊。
Living on a lonely island can be very lonely.
生活在荒凉的岛屿上会很孤独。
【辨析】lonely与alone
The old man lives alone in a lonely small mountain village, and he feels very lonely.
那老人独自一人生活在一个荒凉的小山村里，他感到和孤独。
Writing
Write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today.
·Choose two or three points from the notes in Activity 2 to
write about.
Families are smaller...
·Give examples or reasons to support those points.
Most people only have one child today.
·For each of the points you choose, write about an
advantage and/or a disadvantage. Use the words however,
but, although or used to where appropriate.
Families are smaller because most people only have one
child today. As a result, families have more money to spend
on their child. However, an only child may feel lonely ...
·Finish the passage with your conclusion.
Generally speaking, I think...
Present your passage to the class.
本节课主要学习了知识点tiny, cold, heat, more than, full-time, role, be busy doing, lonely的用法, 通过学习课文“现在和过去的生活”学会了使用形容词描述生活状况并做了相应的习题。
Homework
1.熟记本课时的词汇
2.完成本课时的课后作业