内容正文:
Module 3 Life now and then
Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.
设计说明
本单元从谈论反映生活变化的图片入手,引导学生对比过去与现在的生活的变化;然后通过听、读、回答问题、选择正确答案、翻译短语,进行多层次的听读训练,培养其阅读与交际的能力。指导学生英语句子中需要重读的部分,并学习会话中出现的重要的知识点,提升解题能力。最后通过做题,实际运用所学知识。
教学目标
通过本单元的教学,让学生达成以下目标:
1. 知识目标
(1) 掌握本单元新单词及短语:wealthy, wealth, fear, double, seldom, spare, spare time, used to, speak up
(2) 掌握本单元重点句子:
①But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
②Some people think life in the past was simpler and healthier than today.
③More wealth sometimes means less health.
2. 能力目标
(1) 能听懂关于过去与现在生活对比的对话;
(2) 能正确运用比较级和最高级描述生活的变化。
3. 情感目标
对比过去与现在的变化,了解过去,热爱并珍惜现在的生活。
重点难点
重点:听懂关于过去与现在生活对比的对话
难点:正确运用比较级和最高级描述生活的变化
教学准备
PPT课件;教材活动2、3、5的录音
授课时数
1课时
教学过程
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Ask and answer
Present some pictures to ask students questions about life now and then.
T: What is your house like?
S1: It is big and comfortable.
S2: It’s very beautiful.
T: What was your grandparents’ house like?
S: My grandmother said it was small. And it was old.
2. Discussion
Talk about the photo. Say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today.
Pudong New Area today Pudong in the 1980s
.
life of the early 1980s
Possible answers:
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.
Step 2 Listening and reading
1. Listen and answer the questions.
1 What is the history homework?
2 What is the question they need to answer?
3 What does Betty ask?
4 What does Daming ask?
Answers:
1 Write about life in the past and life today.
2 The question is “Is life today better than it was in the past?” .
3 Betty asks if they can write about medicine and pollution.
4 Daming asks if they can write about personal safety.
2. 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 o