2) Think about what she will talk about:
family work health education Step 4 Reading
1. Play the recording and ask students to listen to the tape carefully and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity 1. family work health education Keys: Families have got smaller than they were in the past. Today most people only have one child. There were five children in my family. 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. She didn’t go out to work. My daughter goes to work even after getting married.
I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because I was a girl. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education.
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
Food: _________________ ___________________________ Work: _________________ ___________________________ Education: _______________ ___________________________
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 Complete the passage. 1. Read the passage again.
2. Read through the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3.
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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 more than a coach. 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. 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。 Step 7 Homework
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.
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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… 2. Present your passage to the class.
Unit 3 Language in use
Ⅰ Teaching model Revision and application Ⅱ Teaching method Formal and interactive Ⅲ Teaching aims
To summarize and consolidate comparative degree and superlative degree, and finish the tasks. Ⅳ Teaching aids Recorder, OHP, handouts Ⅴ Teaching Steps Step 1 Revision
Show some pictures to say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today. Step 2 Sentences presentation
1. Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class. 1) People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past. 2) But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
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3) More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less. 4) We eat better and we live longer.
2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box. Step 3 Language practice
1. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets.
For many people, life is a lot (1) _________ (easy) today. Medicine and diet are improving, and people are getting (2) _________ (healthy) and living (3) _________ (long). But
communication is changing (4) _________ (fast) of all. Today, with the Internet, people can communicate (5) _________ (easily) than ever before with friends all over the world. Not all the changes are (6) _________ (good) ones. More people drive cars instead of riding bikes, so they are not as (7) _________ (fit) as they were. Increasing traffic makes the roads (8) _________ (crowded) than ever, and it also makes pollution (9) _________ (bad). We must all work harder to reduce pollution.
2. Look at the two pictures and talk about how the town has changed.
Use the words in the box to help you.
big building busy house modern more shop street tall traffic tree 3. Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box. Ask the students to read the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3.
heat more than seldom spare speak up Ask the students to read through the sentences in Activity 3. 1) We _________ have time to go on holiday.
2) We do not have much _________ time because we have important exams this year. 3) Never go out in the _________ of the day without a hat.
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4) You have to __________ because the students in the back cannot hear you. 5) Mr Smith is __________ a teacher. Most of his punish think of him as their friend. Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box. Ask the students to check with a partner. Check the answers. Step 4 Reading
1. Read the email and find three examples that show life was harder in the past than it is today. 2. Read the email again. Find sentences that tell 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. 3. Write examples.
1) People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play. 2) _____________________________________________________________. 3) _______________________________________________________________. Ask the students to check with a partner. Check the answers. Step 5 Listening
1. Listen and complete he table.
Age to start school Age to start work Age to get married Number of children Age to stop working
Grandmother
Mother
2. Let Ss listen again, and write a passage comparing the lives of the speaker’s grandmother and mother in Activity 6.
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新外研版英语九年级下册module3《lifenowandthen》模块优秀教案(重点资料).doc
