(共14张PPT)
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
Module 3
adj. 微小的;极小的
adj. 用电的;电动的
n. 电灯
n. 蜡烛
n. 邮递员
n. 寒冷;冷空气
n. 高温;热度
adj.专职的;全日制的
n. 作用;职责;角色
n. (个人的)教育;学业
n. 运输业;交通
Words review
tiny
electric
light
candle
postman
cold
heat
full-time
role
education
transport
Life today and in the past
In the past, many people used to live in ______houses.
tiny
He is a _________. He used to work in the winter ______and in the summer _____.
postman
cold
heat
Nowadays, nearly all the children in China can receive ________ .
education
Bicycle-sharing has become a new way of _______.
transport
Betty asked Mrs Li about her life today and in the past, and then wrote a passage. Read and finish the following tasks.
Task 1 精读课文(M3 U2),完成回答问题。
1. What did Mrs Li's father do
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2. How many children were there in Mrs Li's family
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3. How often did Mrs Li's family eat meat in the past
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A postman. He/Her/Mrs Li's father was a postman.
5/Five (children)./ There were 5/five children in her/Mrs Li's family.
Once or twice a year. / They/Her/Mrs Li's family ate meat once or twice a year in the past.
4. Why does Mrs Li sometimes feel lonely now
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5. What is the only thing that Mrs Li doesn't like
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Because her/Mrs Li's daughter can't come to see her often.
It/The only thing that she/Mrs Li doesn't like is that there is so much more traffic.
Read the passage and complete the notes and add more points of your own.
Task 2
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
2
3
4
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: nearly no entertainment
6 Entertainment: watch TV
_______________________________. When I was young, I went everywhere on foot or sometimes by bike. Now you can take the bus everywhere, and there’s also the underground. And you young people can take a plane to anywhere in the world. The only thing I don’t like, though, is that there’s so much more traffic. It’s so difficult to cross the road.
Transport and travel are easier
today
topic sentence
主题句
facts
Para 4 structure(结构)
feelings/
opinions
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 thing that she is not happy with, for example, the (6) ___________.
candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic
postman
cold
tiny
candles
generally speaking
traffic
Complete the passage with the words and expression in the box.
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Task 3