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Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.
Module 3 Life now and then
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学 习 目 标
学习本单元新单词及短语: wealthy, fear, wealth, double, seldom, spare, used to, spare time, speak up ;
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对比过去与现在的变化,了解过去,热爱现在的生活。
谈论变化;
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课 堂 导 入
What is your house like?
It is big and comfortable.
Ask and answer.
It’s very beautiful.
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What was your grandparents’ house like?
My grandmother said it was small.
And it was old.
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Life now and then
Pudong New Area today
Pudong in the 1980s
Talk about the photo. Say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today.
Discussion
There weren’t so many cars as there are today.
There weren’t so many buildings as there are today.
There weren’t so many stores as there are today.
What is the history homework?
2. What is the question they need to answer?
Listen and answer the questions.
New tasks
Write about life in the past and life today.
The question is “Is life today better than it was in the past?” .
3. What does Betty ask?
4. What does Daming ask?
Betty asks if they can write about medicine and pollution.
Daming asks if they can write about personal safety.
Listen and read. Then choose the correct answer.
1. People live longer today because ______.
a)we know more about medicine
b)they do not work as hard as they did
c)they take more exercise
2. There is less fear of getting ill ______.
a)so people live longer
b)because people know how to deal with the ordinary diseases
c)so people work harder than before
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b
3. People take less exercise because ______.
a)they do not need to
b)they drive cars instead
c)they do not have cars or bikes
4. People work harder today and ______.
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
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Read the phrases in the conversation and put them into Chinese.
需要做某事
在过去
当然
生病
need to do sth.
in the past
of course
get ill
deal with
as…as…
used t