课件34张PPT。Unit 2 I think life is better today.Module 3 Life now and thenLook at these Beijing’s pictures. Say what life was like in the past and what life is like today.roads --- narrowhouses --- small, crowdedring roads --- widebuildings --- tall, brightliving conditions --- hardliving conditions --- comfortablecommunications --- simple, slowin the pastat presentcommunications --- various, quick, easyLook at the woman in the photo. How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about. family
health
work
educationFamily: bigger, five children
Food:
Work:
Education:Read and take notes on what Mrs. Li says about the points in Activity 1. Then complete the notes and more points of your own.Life in the pastsimple, meat only once or twice a yearhard and difficult work, long hoursexpensive, often only for boys1. Family: smaller; one child
Life now2. Food: more food and netter food
3. Work: interesting jobs for boys and girls
4. Education: good schools for everyone3. Complete the passage with the words and expression in the box. candles cold generally speaking
postman tiny traffic Mrs. Li’s father was a _______________. He often worked outside for twelve hours a day in the summer heat or in the winter ____________. They lived in a __________
house and used _________________ for light. postman cold tinycandlesMrs. Li says that _______________, life is better today. But not everything is satisfying. There are some things that she is not happy with, for example, the _________________.generally speaking traffic2. Read the passage and take notes
on what Mrs Li says about the points
in Activity 1.Life now and thenBy Betty King Mrs Li is over seventy years old. She has
lived in Beijing all her life. I asked her about
life today and in the past.=more than超过，多于她的一生all one’s life一生，终生（现在完成时）ask sb about sth询问某人有关…现在和过去的生活What was your life like in the past?
My family lived in a tiny house. There were no electric lights, only candles. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl before she 电灯一天12个小时严冬酷暑 met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She didn’t go out to work. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
I remember the family meals. The 外出工作doing sth做主语时，谓语动词用第三人称单数不仅仅more than+名词，不仅仅
more than+数词，超过，多于全职工作 food was simple. We could only eat meat once or twice a year. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because I was a girl.
How has life changed?
Families have got smaller than they were in the past. Today most people 一年一两次更重要的是，而且 only have one child! The role of women has changed too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting married. 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.
妇女的角色(to sb) （和某人）结婚be busy doing sth
忙着做某事感到寂寞，孤独 Transport and travel are easier today. 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.
Of course, we didn’t have television when I was a child. I really enjoy watching television today. There’re so many good programmes, like the Beijing Opera and old films. But
Some of the shows are too noisy for me.
Generally speaking, I think life is better today. We eat better and we live longer.一般说来Talk about the changes in your hometown. Then report it to the class.What was / were … like in the past?
What has happened to … nowadays?
What will … be like in the future?Write a passage about the advantages
and disadvantages of life today.Write a composition.First, consider it carefully.Next, draw up an outline.Then, write the composition.Finally, check over the composition.The Advantages and Disadvantages of Life TodaySample Although transport is easier than it used to be, we now have much more traffic, which means it is harder to cross the road. There are more kinds of food now than before, but many people eat too much and don’t take enough exercise. Education and work for girls are much better than they used to be. Generally speaking, I think life is better, but it is nosier and busier.请以“city life and country life”为题，根据以下提示写一篇不少于80词的英语短文。 提示：1.城市生活的优缺点； ????? 2.乡村生活的优缺点； ????? 3.自己的观点。 I have lived in this city for two years, but before that I lived with my family in a village about a hundred miles away from here. Life is very different in two places, but there are things that I like about each of them.
In the country it is quiet and beautiful because there are not many people. The air is clean, and there is beautiful scenery all around. The people who live in the country seem friendly and helpful to their neighbors. The cost of living is low there because food is usually cheap. I like living in the city, too. In the city there are interesting things to do all the time. People have a big choice of activities. There are latest?movies, and most of the theatres are good. Everything is convenient here, because in the city you usually live close to grocery stores and schools. Traffic is efficient, so it is easy to get from one place to another.
Every coin has two sides. You can decide where to live.
