Module3 Life now and then
Unit2 I think life is better today.
课前朗读: tiny electric light candle postman cold heat full-time role education transport
一、学习目标:
知识与技能
1.To get information from the passage about life now and then
2.To learn some key words and useful expressions
3.To learn to write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today
过程与方法
小组合作，自主学习
积极与同学交流信息、探讨问题。
情感态度与价值观
通过学习，了解其他国家过去与现在人们生活变化的不同。
乐于参加运用英语的实践活动，善于同别人交流看法
二、学习重难点
To learn to write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today
三、学习过程
【复习检测】
小组竞赛:”比速度” 要求学生们根据屏幕上转瞬即逝的汉语说并拼读出单词，看看那个小组参与的同学多且准确率高。
【读前导入】（warm up）
1. The teacher say to the students :”Now your life is rich and easy, but my life is different when I was a little girl.” Then let them look at Beijing’s pictures. Say the difference of my life and yours . （展示图片，让学生讨论回答）
2. After the difference of my life and yours, let’s go on look at Mrs Li’s life. Please look at Mrs Li in the picture, How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about:（展示活动1中的图片）（学生讨论猜测）
【阅读训练】
Fast Reading（快速阅读）
1. Look through the passage and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity1.（快速阅读，填写表格）
Life in the past
Life now
Family
Food
Work
Education
Transport
Entertainment
Read Carefully （分层阅读，完成练习）
1. Read the second and third paragraph and answer the following questions.
1）Where did Mrs. Li’s family live?
2） What was her father?
3）How long did her father work a day?
4） Why didn’t she go to school?
2、paragraph 4: read and fill in: （读第四自然段填空）
Families have got ________than they were in the past. Today people only have one______! The role of women has _________, too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good __________, and she goes to work even after getting married. I’m happy to see she’s busy __________every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.
3、Read paragraph 5-7and say T or F:(如果是F，请说出why)
1. Transport and travel are easier today than in the past.（ ）
2. Now people go to everywhere on foot or by bike.（ ）
3. There’s less traffic on the road . ( )
4. Mrs Li likes watching Beijing Opera and old films. ( )
5. Life is better today than in the past. ( )
General Speaking (小组内总读课文，完成文章)
Read again , complete the passage with the words and expression in the box.
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 thing that she is not happy with, for example, the (6) ___________.
【Group Work 】（小组讨论李太太生活中的好处和坏处并说出，说的越多越好）
Work in pairs and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of life for Mrs Li。
【自主学习，精讲点拨】
Language Points
1. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.
…照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦.
这句话的主语是动名词短语looking after us。单个v-ing形式短语在句中作主语时，谓语动词要用单数。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。例如：
He is more than a coach. He is a friend.
他不只是教练，更是朋友
2. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
总的说来，我认为今天的生活更好了
generally speaking表示“一般而言，总的说来”。in general也可以表同样的意思。
Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.
总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。
In general, women live longer than men.
总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。
3. …and she goes to work even after getting married.
结婚后她也依然去工作。
get married（非延续性动词）意为“结婚”，表示短暂行为，不能与表示一段时间的状语连用。表示结婚多长时间，要用be married（延续性动词）。
布朗夫妇结婚已50年了。
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【Write】
1、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 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…/
2、Present your writing to the class.
【Homework】
请根据下表所列的内容要点以Changes in my hometown为题目, 用英语写一篇短文。
过去
1. 生活贫困，房屋破旧；
2. 污染严重，垃圾遍地；
3. 交通不便，游客稀少。
现在
1. 住房宽敞、明亮, 许多人有私家车;
2. 山更绿, 水更清，天更蓝；
3. 每年有成千上万来自世界各地的游客。
【情感升华】
Please remember:
Where there is a will , where there is a way.
Whatever we do , we never gives up .
Study hard , and we will have a bright future.
一、汉译英
1）总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。（generally speaking）
2）他不只是教练，更是朋友 （more than）
3）她嫁给Tom两年了。(marry)
4）请大点声，我听不见你说话。（speak up）
二、.阅读短文回答下面的题目
The Clean Your Plate Campaign was set up by nongovernmental organizations, which urged people to save food by not wasting anything on the dining table and finish all the food on the plate. The campaign, launched on weibo, was soon joined by millions of netizens across China in order to control food wastage.
A study show that the grain that people waste every year in China is about 50 million tons , enough to feed about 200 million people for one year.
Nearly 750 restaurants in Beijing have joined the Clean Your Plate campaign against wasting food by offering smaller dishes, half dishes and assorting dishes to reduce waste, and encourage customers to take leftovers home.
Now (1)______(share) the empty dishes after dinner is popular with many youngers, and they are proud of it.
(2) Our government is trying its best to put an end to food wastage, and is taking the lead to save food.
1.本文第一句“…which urged people to save food by not wasting anything on the dining tab…”中的“urged”意思是“ ”。
A. 监督 B. 奖励 C. 强迫 D. 力促
2.请用(1)“share”正确形式补全句子
3.请将(2)处划线句子译成汉语。
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4.根据短文内容回答问题: How do most restaurants reduce waste?
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5.请给短文拟个标题。
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课件29张PPT。
Unit 2 I think life is better today.Module 3
To get information from the passage
about life now and then
2.To learn some key words and useful expressions
3. To learn to write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life todayadj. 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tiny
electric
light
candle
postman
cold
heat
full-time
role
education
transportadj. 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Look at these pictures. Say what life was like in the past and what life is like today.roads --- narrowhouses --- small, crowded roads --- widebuildings --- tall, brightliving conditions --- hardliving conditions --- comfortablecommunications --- simple, slowin the pastat presentcommunications --- various, quick, easy1P20Look at Mrs Li in the photo. How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about:family
work
health
education
Task 12P20Look through the passage and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity 1.Task 2 family work health educationLife 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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4 simple, eat meat once or twice a yearFood: more meat father goes to work and mother stays at homeWork: both men and women can go to work boys can go to school and most girls have no chance to go to schoolEducation: both boys and girls can get good educationNow complete the notes and add more points of your own.5 Transport: on foot; by bike5 Transport: take the bus/ underground/ plane6 Entertainment: nearly no entertainment6 Entertainment: watch TVRead the second and third paragraph and answer the following questions. Where did Mrs. Li’s family live?
2. What was her father?
3. How long did her father work a day?
4. Why didn’t she go to school?
In a tiny house . He was a postman. 12 hours a day. Because her family was too poor. What’s more, she was a girl.paragraph 4: read and fill in:Families have got ________than they were in the past. Today people only have one______! The role of women has _________,too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good __________, and she goes to work even after getting married. I’m happy to see she’s busy __________every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.smallerchildchangededucationworkingRead paragraph 5-7and say T or F:1. Transport and travel are easier today than in the past.
2. Now people go to everywhere on foot or by bike.
3. There’s less traffic on the road .
4. Mrs Li likes watching Beijing Opera and old films.
5. Life is better today than in the past.TFFTT 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 trafficpostmancoldtinycandles generally speakingtrafficComplete the passage with the words and expression in the box.3P21Task 3Language points1. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.
…照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦.这句话的主语是动名词短语looking after us。单个v-ing形式短语在句中作主语时，谓语动词要用单数。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。2. …what’s more, because I was a girl.
而且，我是个女孩。what’s more表示递进，“然而/还有…… ”的意思，独立使用，既可以放句首，也可以放句中，what’s more后面加逗号。 你应该记住它，更重要的是，应该正确理解它。
You should remember it, and?what’s?more, you should get it right. 3. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
总的说来，我认为今天的生活更好了。 generally speaking表示“一般而言，总的说来”。in general也可以表达同样的意思。例如：Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.
总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。
In general, women live longer than men.
总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。4. …and she goes to work even after getting married.
结婚后她也依然去工作。get married意为“结婚”，表示短暂行为，不能与表示一段时间的状语连用。表示结婚多长时间，要用be married。布朗夫妇结婚已50年了。
__________________________________The Browns have been married for fifty years.本课时主要短语和句型1. more than
2. what’s more
3. generally speaking
4. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it.
5. Families have got smaller than they were in the past.
6. The only thing I don’t like, though, is that there’s so much more traffic.WritingWrite 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.4P21? 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 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.5P21Where there is a will , where there is a way.
Whatever we do , we never gives up .
Study hard , and we will have a bright future.请根据下表所列的内容要点以Changes in my hometown为题目, 用英语写一篇短文。Homework提示词: convenient 便利的
要求:
1. 短文须包括所有内容要点, 可适当发挥, 使短文连贯、通顺；
2. 80词左右，开头已给出, 不计入总词数。
Changes in my hometown
In the past, my hometown was very small. ____________________________________________________________________
