Module 3 Life now and then
Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.
课 题
Module 3 Life now and then
课时
第一课时Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.
课型
New
教学目标
知识目标
1. 学习并掌握下列词汇:
wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf
2. 掌握以下句型:
(1)Do you think that life is better today than in the past?
(2)I suppose that’s because more people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
(3)Why don’t you go and ask Mrs Li, our neighbour?
(4)She’s seen how life has changed.
能力目标
能够运用形容词和副词对事物进行比较并得出自己的结论, 并且说明自己的理由, 学会通过对比的方法说服他人。
情感目标
了解过去与现在人们生活的变化和不同。
教学重点
1. Grasp wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf and so on.
2. Go over the use of adj. and adv.
教学难点
1. How to compare life now and then.
2. The use of adj. and adv.
课前预习
Preview the new words
教学方法
Situational approach; Listening and speaking approach;
Communicative approach
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Warm up
and lead in
1. Show the students the pictures.
2. Ask the students to work in pairs to talk about the photos. Say what life was like in the past and what life is like today.
1. Observe the pictures.
2. Work in pairs to talk about life in the past and life today.
利用图片两人一组对过去与现在的生活进行问答并比较。
Step 2
Learning
new words
Show the students new words in Unit 1.
The students read the words and then listen to them to correct their pronunciation.
通过让学生自学新单词, 然后听录音纠正发音。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 3
Listening
(Activity 2)
Make the students listen and answer the questions to finish Activity 2.
1. What is the history homework?
Writing about life in the past and life today.
2. What is the question they need to answer?
The question is “Is life today better than it was in the past?”
3. What does Betty ask?
Betty asks if they can write about medicine and pollution.
4. What does Daming ask?
Daming asks if they can write about personal safety.
listen to the tape and answer the questions to finish Activity 2.
在语境中呈现和导入目标语言。
Step 4
Listen and
read
Make the students read the four sentences and then listen to the tape and choose the correct answer.
1. People live longer today because
a .
a)they have better health care
b)they do not work as hard as they did
c)they take more exercise
2. There is more pollution so
b .
a)life may be healthy
b)people do not eat as well as before
c)people do not take as much exercise as before
3. People work harder today and
b .
a)they do not live as long as they did
b)they do not usually have enough free time
c)they live a healthier life
4. Betty will be more relaxed and less nervous about the exams if
a .
a)she works harder
b)she asks Mrs Li for help
c)she goes on the school trip
1. The students read the four sentences first.
2. Listen to the tape and read the dialogue and then choose the correct answer.
首先让学生理解这些问题, 然后带着问题去听对话、读对话, 选择正确答案, 培养学生的听力、阅读能力。
Step 5
Learn
Activity 4
Make the students read the dialogue again and understand these words in the box first and then finish Activity 4.
deaf doubled fear spare used to wealth
1. What kinds of things do you fear?
2. What do you do in your spare time?
3. What can someone not do if they are deaf?
4. If something is doubled, is it more or less?
5. Do you think people used to take more exercise than they do today?
6. Do you think people have more wealth today than they used to?
1. The students read the dialogue again and understand these words in the box first.
2. Try to finish Activity 4.
首先让学生们理解这些词, 然后填空, 进一步巩固形容词的用法。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 6
Important
sentences
Explain the difficulties.
Show the students these important sentences.
(1)Do you think that life is better today than in the past?
你认为现在的生活比过去更好吗?
(2)I suppose that’s because more people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
我猜那是因为更多的人有汽车, 他们更少步行或骑自行车。
(3)Why don’t you go and ask Mrs Li, our neighbour?
你为什么不去问问李太太, 我们的邻居?
(= Why not go and ask Mrs Li, our neighbour?)
(4)She’s seen how life has changed.
她见证了生活是如何变化的。
辨析: nearly/almost
nearly, almost虽然都可以表示“几乎”, 但是当要表示“接近”或“就要到了”时最好用nearly; 当想表达“不足”或“尚差一点儿”时最好用almost。
1. Listen to the teacher carefully and write down the difficulties.
2. Work in groups to understand the important points.
通过讲解让学生进一步巩固所学知识。
Step 7
Consolidation
Show the students these exercises.
根据汉语填空
1. 天太晚了。
It’s getting late.
2. 就要完成了!
Nearly finished!
3. 你认为今天的生活比过去更好吗?
Do you think life is better today than in the past?
4. 人们比过去活得长。
People live longer than they did in the past.
5. 懂得更多的医学
know more about medicine
6. 少一些得疾病的恐惧
less fear of getting ill
7. 人们和50年前一样工作努力吗?
Do people work as hard as they did fifty years ago?
1. The students finish these exercises by themselves.
2. Work in groups to correct their answers.
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
Step 8
Homework
Write down two great changes in life of your family.
板书设计
Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.
1. New words: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf
2. Structures:
(1)Do you think that life is better today than in the past?
(2)I suppose that’s because more people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
(3)Why don’t you go and ask Mrs Li, our neighbour?
(4)She’s seen how life has changed.
教学反思
在本节课的教学活动设计中, 能够创设丰富的语境, 设置循序渐进的学习任务, 充分发挥学生的主体作用, 引导学生合作学习、自主探究, 重视“预习—展示—练习—反馈”的学习过程。让学生在自主学习、小组学习中巩固形容词和副词的用法。
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
课 题
Module 3 Life now and then
课时
第二课时 Unit 2 I think life is better today.
课型
New
教学目标
知识目标
1. 学习并掌握下列词汇:
tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. 掌握以下句型:
①She has lived in Beijing all her life.
②There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
③She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting married.
④I’m happy to see she’s busy working every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.
⑤We eat better and we live longer.
能力目标
能够运用所学知识表达社会发生的变化。
情感目标
让学生通过现在与过去的对比, 了解社会发生的变化, 从而更加珍惜我们现在的生活。
教学重点
1. Grasp tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport and so on.
2. Go over the use of adj. and adv.
教学难点
1. How to describe the advantages and disadvantages of life today.
2. The use of adj. and adv.
课前预习
Preview the new words
教学方法
Situational approach; Listening and speaking approach;
Communicative approach
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Warm up
and lead in
1. Show the students the picture.
2. Ask the students to describe life today.
1. Observe the picture.
2. Work in pairs to describe life today.
利用日常生活中的实例, 让学生通过观察图片描述现在的生活, 练习口语。
Step 2
Learning
new words
Show the students new words in Unit 2.
The students read the words and then listen to them to correct their pronunciation.
通过让学生自学新单词, 然后听录音纠正发音。
Step 3
Finish
Activity 1
Make the students look at the woman in the photo. Ask how they think she feels. Think about what she will talk about:
·family
·health
·work
·education
Work in pairs to ask and answer to finish Activity 1.
通过小组讨论阐明自己的观点, 帮助理解Activity 2。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 4
Activity 2
Lead the students to listen to the tape.
Make the students read the passage and then complete the notes and add more points of their own.
Life in the past
1. Family: bigger; five children
2. Food: simple, eat meat once or twice a year
3. Work: hard and difficult work, long hours
4. Education: expensive, often only for boys
Life now
1. Family: smaller; one child
2. Food: more and better food
3. Work: interesting jobs for boys and girls
4. Education: good schools for everyone
1. Listen to the tape.
2. Read Activity 2 and finish the notes.
让学生们听、读这篇短文然后完成过去生活与现在生活在家庭成员、食物、工作和教育方面的比较。激励他们热爱、珍惜现在的生活。
Step 5
Activity 3
1. Let the students read the passage again.
2. Make the students observe these words and expression in the box.
candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic
Mrs Li’s father was a (1)postman. In the summer heat or in the winter (2)cold, he worked outside for twelve hours a day. They live in a (3)tiny house and used (4)candles for light. Mrs Li says that (5)generally speaking, life is better today. But not everything is satisfying. There are some things that she is not happy with, for example, the (6)traffic.
1. Read the passage again.
2. Observe these words and expression in the box.
首先让学生仔细观察方框中的单词, 然后读短文填空。有利于学生对课文的进一步理解。
Step 6
Important
phrases
Explain some difficulties.
Show the students these phrases.
1. all one’s life 某人一生
2. ask sb. about sth. 向某人询问某事
3. in the winter cold 在寒冷的冬季
4. in the summer heat 在炎热的夏季
5. a farm girl 一个农村女孩
6. go out to work 外出工作
7. what’s more 另外
8. have a good education 接受良好的教育
9. get married 结婚
10. be busy doing 忙于做……
11. go everywhere on foot 步行去各地
12. by bike 骑自行车
13. take the bus/a plane 乘公共汽车/飞机
14. of course 当然
15. enjoy watching television 喜欢看电视
16. Beijing Opera 京剧
1. Learn and remember these important phrases.
2. Check the phrases each other.
让学生记忆本单元出现的重点短语。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 7
Important
sentences
Show the students these important sentences.
1. What was your life like in the past?
过去, 你的生活是什么样子的?
2. Looking after us was more than a full-time job.
照看我们不仅仅是一项全职的工作。
3. It’s so difficult to cross the road.
过马路是如此的困难。
4. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
总而言之, 我认为如今的生活更好了。
Listen and remember these important sentences.
让学生听、记忆本单元出现的重点句子。
Step 8
Consolidation
Show the students some exercises.
1. Finish these exercises in class.
2. Work in groups to correct their answers.
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
Step 9
Homework
Let students make a dialogue about changes of their family.
Make a dialogue.
板书设计
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
1. New words: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. Structures:
①She has lived in Beijing all her life.
②There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
③She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting married.
④I’m happy to see she’s busy working every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.
⑤We eat better and we live longer.
教学反思
在本节课的教学活动设计中, 能够创设丰富的语境, 设置循序渐进的学习任务, 充分发挥学生的主体作用, 引导学生合作学习、自主探究, 重视“预习—展示—练习—反馈”的学习过程。让学生在自主学习、小组学习中巩固形容词、副词及其比较级的运用。
Unit 3 Language in use
课 题
Module 3 Life now and then
课时
第三课时Unit 3 Language in use
课型
Revision
教学目标
知识目标
1. 复习并掌握下列词汇:
wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf, tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold. . .
2. 掌握以下句型:
①People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
②But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
③More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
④We eat better and we live longer.
能力目标
能够运用比较级联合不同时态对过去与现在, 现在与未来的各个方面进行比较; 能够描述过去的生活。
情感目标
通过本模块的学习, 使学生了解过去与现在人们生活的变化和不同。让学生通过现在与过去的对比, 了解社会发生的变化, 从而更加珍惜现在的生活。
教学重点
1. Go over the words and expressions.
2. Go over the use of adj. , adv. and their Comparative Degree, Superlative Degree.
教学难点
1. How to talk about life now and then.
2. Describe the life in the past.
课前预习
Preview the words
教学方法
Situational approach; Listening and speaking approach;
Communicative approach
教学过程
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 1
Lead in
Show the students these words and make them summarize the rules:
long—longer—longest
healthy—healthier—healthiest
large—larger—largest
good—better—best
important—more important—most important
比较级和最高级的变化规则
词尾变化
原级
比较级
最高级
单音节词在词尾加-er(比较级)或-est(最高级)
tall
hard
taller
harder
tallest
hardest
以不发音的e结尾的词加-r或-st
large
wide
larger
wider
largest
widest
以重读闭音节结尾的词, 应双写辅音字母再加-er或-est
big
hot
bigger
hotter
biggest
hottest
以辅音字母加y结尾的词变y为i再加-er或-est
happy
dry
happier
drier
happiest
driest
多音节词和多数双音节词在其前面加more或most
difficult
popular
more
difficult
more
popular
most difficult
most popular
The students summarize the rules of Comparative Degree and Superlative Degree.
让学生们小组合作总结比较级和最高级的变化规则, 培养学生自主学习的意识。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
不规则变化
原级
比较级
最高级
better
best
worse
worst
more
most
little
less
least
far
old
Step 2
Grammar
Make the students go over the grammar.
形容词和副词的句法作用
1. 形容词
形容词一般放在名词之前作定语, 或放在系动词之后作表语, 或作宾语补足语。形容词作定语, 一般都是放在名词之前, 但若修饰不定代词 something, anything等则后置。
2. 副词
副词一般作状语, 修饰动词、形容词以及全句, 表示程度、方式等。
注: 副词作状语修饰动词, 一般是后置, 修饰形容词或副词要前置。
频度副词: 一般位于行为动词之前, 系动词或助动词之后。常见的有 always, often, sometimes, usually, seldom, never。
程度副词: 常置于形容词或副词之前。常见的有very, much, quite, pretty, so 等。
特殊用法
1. the +比较级, the + 比较级 越……越……
2. 比较级+比较级 越来越……
3. the+比较级 of. . . 两者中更……的
4. 比较级表最高级
He is taller than any other boy in his class.
China is larger than any country in Africa.
China is larger than any other country in Asia.
Summarize the use of Comparative Degree and Superlative Degree.
通过总结形容词和副词比较级和最高级的用法, 使学生掌握的更加牢固。
Step 3
Finish
Activity 1
1. Make the students read through the passage and encourage them to complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets.
2. Have them work in groups to check the answers.
3. Correct the answers.
1. Read the passage and complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets.
2. Work in groups to check the answers.
3. Correct the answers.
根据语境用所给词的适当形式完成短文, 培养学生在语境中做题的技巧。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 4
Activity 2
Make the students work in pairs. Look at the two pictures and talk about how the town has changed. Use the words in the box to help you.
big buildings busy house modern more shop street tall traffic tree
Sample answers:
1. There are more cars in the street today than there were 50 years ago.
2. The buildings are much taller, much more beautiful and much newer.
3. The streets are much wider.
4. The environment is much better.
5. I can see people are much busier than before.
6. The life is much better than before.
7. There are more shops than before.
1. First, the students observe the two pictures.
2. And then work in pairs to talk about how the town has changed.
首先让学生观察两幅图片。然后两人一组谈论城镇的变化。练习学生的表达能力。
Step 5
Activity 3
Make the students fill in the blanks with the words or expressions in the box.
heat more than seldom spare
speak up
1. We seldom have time to go on holiday.
2. We do not have much spare time because we have important exams this year.
3. Never go out in the heat of the day without a hat.
4. You have to speak up because the students in the back cannot hear you.
5. Mr Smith is more than a teacher. Most of his pupils think of him as their friend.
1. The students understand these words and phrases first.
2. And then choose the correct answers.
让学生们通过语境理解这些词, 有利于巩固这些词。
Step 6
Activity 4
Make the students read the email and find three examples of things that made life harder in the past than it is today.
Dear Christine,
You asked me for help about your school project—the lives of children in Victorian Britain. I was also interested. I searched online and found out the following.
In Victorian Britain, thousands of people came to the cities to work in the factories. Instead of the green, open countryside, people lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play.
The students read the email and find three examples of things that made life harder in the past than it is today.
让学生们阅读电子邮件, 并找出过去生活比今天生活更艰苦的三个例子。强化练习比较级。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 6
Activity 4
Families in those days were quite big. Often, there were four or five children in one family, and they all had to sleep in houses of just two rooms. Sometimes, a whole street had to share one outside toilet. Can you imagine that?
Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy. The pollution from factories filled the air. People put their rubbish outside in the streets. As a result, there were many illnesses.
And life was harder for children in those times. They didn’t always go to school, because they had to work instead. Many children started work in factories when they were only four or five years old. They worked twelve hours a day in dangerous jobs for very little money. Many were hurt in accidents with machines.
I hope this is helpful. Write to me if you need more information.
With love,
Gran
Step 7
Activity 5
Make the students read the email again. Find sentences that tells us:
1. There was not enough living space for people.
2. Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy.
3. Life was harder for children in those times.
Write examples.
1. People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play.
2. The pollution from factories filled the air. People put their rubbish outside in the streets. As a result, there were many illnesses.
3. They didn’t always go to school, because they had to work instead. Many children started work in factories when they were only four or five years old. They worked twelve hours a day in dangerous jobs for very little money. Many were hurt in accidents with machines.
1. The students understand the three sentences.
2. And then read the email again. Find the sentences that can tell the three aspects.
让学生带着目的去阅读短文, 有利于学生更有针对性地读短文。
Step 8
Consolidation
Show the students these exercises.
用所给词的适当形式填空
1. The more careful you are, the fewer (few) mistakes you may make.
2. Her husband was not as friendly (friend) to them as her parents.
3. Maths is one of the most important (important) subjects.
4. If you want to keep fit, you’d better eat more vegetables and less (little) meat.
5. The population of Tianjin is smaller (small) than that of Beijing.
1. The students finish these exercises by themselves.
2. Work in groups to correct their answers.
3. Explain the difficulties.
通过检测练习, 便于学生了解自己对本节课的词汇、句型、语法等的掌握情况。
续表
教学环节
教师活动
学生活动
备课札记
Step 9
Homework
Let students make a survey about their parents’ education and write down their opinions.
Make a survey and write down opinions.
板书设计
Unit 3 Language in use
1. New words: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf, tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold. . .
2. Structures:
①People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
②But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
③More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
④We eat better and we live longer.
教学反思
在本节课的教学活动设计中, 能够创设丰富的语境, 设置循序渐进的学习任务, 充分发挥学生的主体作用, 引导学生合作学习、自主探究, 重视“预习—展示—练习—反馈”的学习过程。让学生在自主学习、小组学习中巩固形容词、副词及比较级和最高级的用法, 并能运用比较级联合不同时态对过去与现在, 现在与未来的各个方面进行比较; 能够描述过去的生活。
