内容正文:
Module 3 Life now and then
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
【教学目标】
1.To be able to get specific information from the passage.
2.To be able to write a passage about life today.
3.To be able to cherish the happy life of today.
【教学重难点】
重点:To get specific information from the passage.
难点:To write a passage about life today.
【教学方法】
任务型教学法、小组合作法。
【教学过程】
Step 1 Leading in
Free talk.
1.Is life now better than when you were a child?Why?
2.What's the greatest change compared with the life in the past?
Step 2 Pre-task
Guess
Look at the title and picture.Guess what Mrs Li
will talk about and how she feels.
Step 3 While-task
Activity 1 Skimming
Read the passage and answer the questions.
1.What kind of article is it?
2.What does Mrs Li think of life today?
3.What does Mrs Li say about life now and then?
Activity 2 Scanning
Now complete the notes and add more points of your own.
Life in the past
Family:bigger,five children
Food:
Work:
Education:
Transport:
Life now
Family:smaller;one child
Food:
Work:
Education:
Transport
Entertainment:
Activity 3 Thinking
1.How has the women's role changed?
2.Why has the women's role changed?
Activity 4 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.
Mrs.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 _____
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Activity 5 Retelling
life in the past
life now
family
bigger;five
smaller;one child
children
food
simple,meat only
more food and better food
once or twice a
year
work
hard and difficult
interesting jobs for boys and
work,long hours
girls
education
expensive,often
good school for everyone
only for boys
transport
on foot or by bike
much easier,buses,cars and
planes
entertainmen
no television
television etc.
Generally speaking,
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