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Unit 8 Life in the future
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Life in the past and present
Science and technology are developing very quickly. When your grandparents were young, their lives were different from yours today.
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A.Many things in daily life are different from those in your grandparents’ teenage days. In pairs, think of one thing. Use the topics below to help you.
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B.Choose one topic and make an outline. Follow the example.
in the past
in the present
For example:
in the past
in the present
Your grandparents' teenage days Now
went to physical shops stay at home and shop online
it took a long time to get to physical shops it saves a lot of time
a few kinds of goods more kinds of goods
The way people buy things
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C.Write an Internet post about the topic. Follow the example.
For example:
Your grandparents' teenage days
When my grandparents were young, they must go to physical shops to buy thing. It took a long time to get there. And there are very limited kind of goods.
Now
Today we can just stay at home and shop online. It save a lot of time.And there are more kinds of goods online.
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I. 写作指导
本单元中,我们以学习想象中的各种未来的生活方式为主线,掌握了“未来生活”的相关话题。那么,怎么用英语描写今夕生活的对比情况呢?写作过程中又需要用到哪些词汇和句型呢?
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【词汇归纳】
描述过去时间的相关词汇:
in the past, used to, yesterday, just now, last night, ten years ago, long long ago
描述现在的相关词汇:
now, at present, at the moment, today, nowadays
描述生活的相关词汇:
hard, terrible, usual, comfortable, boring, interesting, colorful, great changes, take place, convenient
【句型归纳】
1. 开头:引入写作的话题。
Great changes have taken place in ...
When our grandparents were young, their lives were different from ours today.
The way of ... has changed a lot because of the development of the technology.
2. 中间:描述今昔生活的不同之处。
When ... were young, they ...
While they were waiting for the reply, they might ...
Today, we ... We don’t use ...
... years ago ... But now...
3. 结尾:总结或展望未来。
With the development of science and technology, .