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Module 3 导学案
Unit 2 I think life is better today.
【学习目标】
1. 掌握本课短语: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. 掌握句型:
1) …looking after us was more than a full-time job.
2) Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
【情景导入】
Talk about the pictures using used to and now.
出示图片,组织学生根据图片用used to 和now描述图片,对比过去和现在生活中发生的变化。
设计意图:出示图片,组织学生描述图片,带领学生回顾对比过去和现在生活中发生的变化,引出新课内容。
【完成教材Reading and vocabulary的任务】
1.看图片,思考问题,作完成任务1。
2.听录音,阅读课文内容,完成相关练习。
3.结合课文内容,用所给单词,完成任务3。
4.用所给单词,完成任务4。
【完成教材Writing的任务】
自行查阅资料,写一篇关于现代生活的利与弊,完成任务4-5。
【语法提要】
1. My family lived in a tiny house.
我的家人住在一所很小的房子里。
tiny作形容词,意为“微小的;极小的”。
e.g. All six of us packed into the tiny car.
我们6个人全部挤进那辆小型汽车里。
e.g. There is a tiny insect on the ground.
地上有一只小昆虫。
2. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.
我爸爸是一名邮递员,不管冬天的严寒还是夏天的酷暑,他都常常一天在外工作12个小时。
(1)cold用作名词,意为“寒冷;冷空气”。
e.g. Don't stand in the cold. 不要在寒冷中站着。
【拓展】
① cold作名词时,还可表示“伤风;感冒”;catch a cold“患感冒”;get/have a cold “感冒”。
e.g. I had a cold yesterday. 昨天我感冒了。
② cold还可作形容词,意为“寒冷的;冷淡的”。
e.g. I'm feeling cold. 我觉得很冷。
e.g. He's a cold person. 他是个冷淡的人。
(2)heat用作名词,意为“高温;热度”。
e.g. I can't walk in this heat. 我不能在这种酷热下走路。
e.g. The heat from the fire will soon dry your coat.
火的高温很快就会烘干你的外套。
【拓展】
heat还可作动词,意为“加热;变热”。
e.g. She heated up some soup. 她热了一些汤。
e.g. He heated some water. 他烧了一些水。
3. There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
我家里有5个孩子,照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦。
(1)more than此处表示“比……更,比……更重要”,“more than+名词”还可以表示“不仅仅是”。
e.g. I think friendship is more than money.
我认为友谊比金钱更重要。
e.g. Mr Green is more than a teacher. He is a writer, too.
格林先生不仅仅是一名教师,也是一位作家。
【拓展】
①“more than+数词”意为“多于……,……以上;不止……”。
e.g. I have known him for more than ten years.
我认识他10年多了。
②“more than+形容词”意为“很,非常”。
e.g. I am more than glad to help you.
我非常乐意帮助你。
(2)full-time用作形容词,意为“专职的;全日制的”,反义词为part-time“兼职的”。
e.g. She is a full-time mother. 她是一位全职妈妈。
I found a part-time job. 我找了一份兼职工作。
4. The role of women has changed too.
妇女的角色也发生了变化。
role n. 作用;职责;角色
play a role in (doing)sth.在(做)某事方面起作用
e.g. It plays an important role in developing production.
它在发展生产中起着一份重要的作用。
5. I'm happy to see she's busy working every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can't come to see me often.
很高兴看到她每天忙着工作,但是有时候我觉得孤单,因为她不能经常来看我。
(1)be busy doing sth.是固定结构,意为“忙于做某事”。
e.g. I was busy answering my mother's question at that time.
那时,我在忙着回答妈妈的问题。
【拓展】
be busy with sth.忙于做某事,但with后跟名词或代词
e.g. The students are busy with their homework.
学生们正忙于做作业。
(2)lonely形容词,意为“孤单的;寂寞的;荒凉的”。
e.g. I feel very lonely without my dog.
我的狗不在旁边我就很寂寞。
e.g. The lonely student is starving for friendship.
那个寂寞的学生渴望友谊。
e.g. Living on a lonely island can be very lonely.
生活在荒凉的岛屿上会很孤独。
【辨析】lonely与alone
e.g. The old man lives alone in a lonely small mountain village, and he feels very lonely.
那老人独自一人生活在一个荒凉的小山村里,他感到和孤独。
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