课件43张PPT。Module 3Module 3
Life now and thenUnit 2
I think life is better today. 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 todayFree talkKey words: life in the past, life now, family, work, health, educationWork in pairs. Discuss what you did in your childhood and list some of them.tiny adj. 微小的；极小的
electric adj. 用电的；电动的
n. 电灯
candle n. 蜡烛
postman n. 邮递员
cold n. 寒冷；冷空气
heat n. 高温；热度full-time adj. 专职的；全日制的
education n. (个人的)教育；学业
transport n. 运输业；交通
role n. 作用；职责；角色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.How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about:1? family
big family? education
? health
? work
a woman worker a housewifecan’t get healthy food sometimesreceived low education or no educationLife now and thenRead the passage and fill in the blanks.2My father was a _________, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the _______ cold or in the _________ heat. postmanwintersummerFamilies have got _______ than they were in the past.
Today most people only have ____ child. smalleroneMy mum was a ______ girl. She didn’t go out to work.
My daughter goes to ________ even after getting married. farmworkI 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 __________.affordgirlluckyeducationLife in the past Life now
1. Family: bigger; 1. Family: smaller;
five children one child
2. Food: 2. Food:Read the passage again and complete the notes and add more points of your own.simple, eat meat once or twice a year.more food and better food.Life in the past Life now
3. Work: 3. Work:
4. Education: 4. Education:hard and difficult work, long hoursinteresting jobs for boys and girlsexpensive, often only for boysgood schools for everyoneLife in the past Life now
5. Transport: 5. Transport:
6. Entertainment: 6. Entertainment:on foot or by bikemuch easier, buses, cars and planesno televisiontelevision, 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?Mrs Li’s father was a postman and her mother was a housewife.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?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.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.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) ______. postmancold 3They 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) ________. tinycandlesgenerally speakingtraffic candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic 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。
这句话的主语是动词-ing形式短语looking after us。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。
e.g. He is ________________. He is a friend.
他不只是教练，更是朋友。more than a coachfull-time adj. 专职的；全日制的
e.g. students in full-time education
全日制学生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也可以表达同样的意思。e.g.
Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.
In general, women live longer than men.
(翻译)
总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。
总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。 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…4Give 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, only a child may feel lonely…
Finish the passage with your conclusion.
Generally speaking, I think…Ⅰ.?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.candleseducationheat4. My grandfather bought a new ________ (用
电的) fan yesterday.
5. Colour plays an important ________ (作用)
in our life.?electricroleⅡ.?根据语境从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，
有的需要变换形式。?tiny, cold, light, full-time, transport, postman1. Mike turned on the two ________ and began
to do his homework.
2. My father is a ________. He works in the post
office.
3. Ann found a ________ job in a restaurant
after leaving school.lightspostmanfull-time4. The hole is so ________. The mouse can’t
enter the room through it.
5. Warm clothes can protect us against the
________ of winter.
6. Trucks are much used for ________ in our
life.?transporttinycoldtiny, cold, light, full-time, transport, postmanⅢ.?根据汉语意思完成英语句子，每空一词
(含缩略形式)。1.?总的说来，这场音乐会很精彩。
_______ ________, the concert was wonderful.
2.?她一生都住在中国。
She has lived in?China?_______ _______
_______.
3.?我父母是20年前结婚的。
My parents ________ ________ twenty years
ago.Generally speaking all her
lifegot married4.?他每月爬一两次山。
He climbs the mountain ________ ________
________ a month.
5.?你错了！更重要的是你明明知道你错了！
You are wrong, and ________ ________, you
know it. once or twicewhat’s moreⅣ.?根据括号内的要求完成下列各题，每空一
词(含缩略形式)。1. I think life is better today than before.??(改
为否定句)
I ________ ________ life ________ better
today than before.
2. Bill worked twelve hours a day in the
past.??? (改为一般疑问句)
________ Bill ________ twelve hours a day in
the past?don’t think is?Did work3. She was a very loving mother. (改为感叹句)
________ ________ loving mother she was!
4. Some of us often walk to work. (改为同义句)
Some of us often go to work _______ _______.
5. Lucy felt?lonely?at school. (对划线部分提问)
________ ________ Lucy ________ at school?What a?on footHow did feelFinish your passage in Activity 4. Module 3 Life now and then
一、学习目标:
A. 单词和短语：
wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf, tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
B. 交际用语：
1. Nearly finished.
2. That’s true.
3. I suppose…
4. — Is life better today than in the past?
— Yes, it is. I think it’s because… / No, it isn’t I think…
5. Remember to speak up! She’s a bit deaf now.
6. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.
7. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
8. People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
9. But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
10. More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
11. We eat better and we live longer.
二. 教学目标
1. Function: T Making comparisons (2)
2. Structure: Revision: adjectives and adverbs (comparative and superlative forms)
3. Skills: 1) Listening for specific information; taking notes
2) Expressing views and opinions
3) Predicting; reading for main ideas; summarizing main ideas in notes
4) Writing a composition about the advantages and disadvantages of life today
4. Around the world: Cars
5. Task: Organizing a debate.
三、重点及难点:
Grammar: Revision: adjectives and adverbs (comparative and superlative forms)
四、教学设计:
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
Ⅰ Teaching model
Reading and writing.
Ⅱ Teaching method
Top-down approach
Ⅲ Teaching aims
1. To get information from the passage about life in the past
2. To learn more expressions and new vocabulary
Ⅳ Teaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. Keys structure: Sentence structure.
Ⅴ Teaching aids
Tape recorder, handout
Ⅵ Teaching Steps
Step 1 Work in pairs.
Show some pictures to ask the students to talk.
(Key words: Life in the past, life now, family, work, health, education)
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show the new words.
tiny adj. 微小的；极小的
electric adj. 用电的；电动的
n. 电灯
candle n. 蜡烛
postman n. 邮递员
cold n. 寒冷；冷空气
heat n. 高温；热度
full-time adj. 专职的；全日制的
education n. (个人的)教育；学业
transport n. 运输业；交通
role n. 作用；职责；角色
2. Read the words after the teacher.
Step 3 Before-reading
1. Look at the woman in the photo in Activity 1.
2. Ask and answer:
1) How do you think she feels?
2) Think about what she will talk about:
family work health education
Step 4 While-reading
1. Read the passage and fill in the blanks.
Families have got _______ than they were in the past.
Today most people only have ____ child.
My father was a _________, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the _______ cold or in the _________ heat.
My mum was a ______ girl. She didn’t go out to work.
My daughter goes to ________ even after getting married.
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 __________.
2. Read the passage and then complete the notes and add more points of your own.
Life in the past Life now
Family: bigger; five children Family: smaller; one child
Family: ________________ __________________________
Food: _________________ ___________________________
Work: _________________ ___________________________
Education: _______________ ___________________________
Transport: _________________ ____________________________
Entertainment: ________________ ____________________________
3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.
Step 5 After-reading
1. Read the passage again.
2. Read through the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3.
candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic
3. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in the box.
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) __________.
4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.
Keys: 1. postman 2. cold 3. tiny 4. candles 5. generally speaking 6. traffic
Step 6 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。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。例如：
He is ______________. He is a friend. 他不只是教练，更是朋友。
full-time adj. 专职的；全日制的
e.g. students in full-time education 全日制学生
Looking after a child is a full-time job. 照管小孩是一天忙到晚的活儿。
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也可以表达同样的意思。例如：
Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.
In general, women live longer than men. (翻译)
总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。
总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。
Step 7 Writing
1 Write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today.
1) Choose two or three points from the notes in Activity 2 to write about.
Families and smaller…
2) Give examples or reasons to support those points.
Most people only have one child today.
3) 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…
4) Finish the passage with your conclusion.
Generally speaking, I think…
Step 8 Exercise
根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺短语，每空一词。
1. I went to the library many times ________ ________ ________ (在过去).
2. He is going to ________ ________ (处理) this problem another day.
3. The old man has been poor ________ ________ ________ (一生).
4. Li Hao visits the museum ________ ________ ________ (一两次) a year.
5. Mary will ________ ________ (结婚) next month.
Keys: 1. in the past??? 2. deal with??? 3. all his life??? 4. once or twice?? 5. get married
Step 9 Homework
Finish your passage in the part 4.
Unit 2
Ⅰ. 根据语境及所给汉语提示语写出所缺单词。
1. Miss Li found a(n) ________ (专职的) job after she came to the city.?
2. There are some ________ (蜡烛) on the table.?
3. Tom and Jack are ________ (邮递员), not policemen.
4. The teacher asked me to play a(n) ________ (角色) in this new play.?
5. To improve the situation, the government made the new ________ (交通) policy.
Ⅱ. 根据语境及所给首字母提示补全所缺单词。
1. It's too dark in the room. Please turn on the l________.
2. Can you feel the h________ of the sun on your back outside?
3. If you go to university, you will get a good e________.
4. The hole is so t________. The cat can't enter the room through it.
5. Don't stand out there in the c________. Come in and get warm.
Ⅲ. 根据括号内的要求完成下列各题，每空一词(含缩略形式)。
1. There were some factories in the town in the past.??????? ???(改为否定句)
There ________ ________ factories in the town in the past.
2. They enjoy playing sports at weekends. (改为一般疑问句)
________ they ________ playing sports at weekends?
3. She was a very kind mother. (改为感叹句)
________ ________ kind mother she was!
4. Mary took care of her sister at home this morning.??????? ?(改为同义句)
Mary ________ ________ her sister at home this morning.
5. The girl felt very lonely in this city. ?(对划线部分提问)
________ ________ the girl ________ in this city?
6. My uncle used to work ten hours a day. (对划线部分提问)
________ ________ ________ your uncle use to work a day?
Ⅳ. 根据括号内所给英文提示语将下列句子翻译成英语。
1. 他一辈子都住在这里。? (all one's life)
____________________________________________
2. 我一周看一两次电视。 (once or twice)
____________________________________________
3. 一般来说，年轻人喜欢流行音乐。 (generally speaking)
____________________________________________
4. 顺便问一下，你是什么时候结婚的？ (get married)
____________________________________________
答案
Unit 2
Ⅰ. 1. full-time? ?? 2. candles? ??? 3. postmen? ? 4. role? 5. transport?
Ⅱ. 1. light(s)? ???? 2. heat? ??????? 3. education ? 4. tiny? 5. cold??
Ⅲ. 1. weren't any 2. Do; enjoy? 3. What a?
4. looked after?5. How did; feel 6. How long did
Ⅳ. 1. He has lived here all his life.
2. I watch TV once or twice a week.
3. Generally speaking, young people like pop music.
4. By the way, when did you get married?
