《I think life is better today》Life now and then PPT課件2
Work in pairs. Discuss what you did in your childhood and list some of them.
Do you want to know how your parents passed their childhood? Was it the same to yours?
Let’s enjoy a video to see what your parents did when they were young.
Objectives
1. To get information from the passage about life now and then
2. To learn some key words and useful expressions
3. To learn to write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today
Focus on
Words:
tiny electric light candle postman cold heat full-time role transport
Phrases:
what’s more so much/many generally speaking more than
Patterns:
… and looking after us was more than a full-time job.
Families have got smaller than they were in the past.
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Task 1
1.Look at he woman in the photo. How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about:
☺ family
big family
☺ work
a woman worker a housewife
☺ health
can’t get healthy food sometimes
☺ education
received low education or no education
2.Read the passage and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity 1.
Life in the past
1 Family: bigger; five children
2 Food: simple, eat meat once or twice a year
3 Work: father goes to work and mother stays at home
4 Education: boys can go to school and most girls have no chance to go to school
5 Transport: on foot; by bike
6 Entertainment: nearly no entertainment
Life now
1 Family: smaller; one child
2 Food: more meat
3 Work: both men and women can go to work
4 Education: both boys and girls can get good education
5 Transport: take the bus/ underground/ plane
6 Entertainment: watch TV
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Task 3
Read the part – What was your life like in the past? and answer the following questions.
1. What did Mrs Li’s parents do?
Mrs Li’s father was a postman and her mother was a housewife.
2. Was Mrs Li’s father’s work hard? How do you know that?
Yes, it was. Her father often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.
3. Why Mrs Li’s parents didn’t send her to school?
Because her family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because she was a girl.
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Language points
1. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.
…照料我們比做一份全職工作還要辛苦.
這句話的主語是動名詞短語looking after us。單個v-ing形式短語在句中作主語時，謂語動詞要用單數。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。例如：
He is more than a coach. He is a friend.
他不只是教練，更是朋友。
2. …what’s more, because I was a girl.
而且，我是個女孩。
what’s more表示遞進，“然而/還有…… ”的意思，獨立使用，既可以放句首，也可以放句中，what’s more后面加逗號。
你應該記住它，更重要的是，應該正確理解它。
You should remember it, and what’s more, you should get it right.
3. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.
總的說來，我認為今天的生活更好了。
generally speaking表示“一般而言，總的說來”。in general也可以表達同樣的意思。例如：
Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.
總的說來，我們這次旅行很愉快。
In general, women live longer than men.
總的說來，女性比男性更長壽。
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總結回顧
本課時主要短語和句型
1. more than
2. what’s more
3. generally speaking
4. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it.
5. Families have got smaller than they were in the past.
6. The only thing I don’t like, though, is that there’s so much more traffic.
Spelling Bee
Now 2 mins to test your spelling.
1. English-Chinese
full-time education electric tiny candle postman transport heat
2. Chinese-English
過馬路 一般而言，總的來說
不只是，多于
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Ⅰ. 用方框內所給單詞的恰當形式填空。
postman full-time cold education tiny
1. The President will include the idea in his _________ plan.
2. The goldfish swam round and round in their ________ bowls.
3. The duty of a _________ is to deliver letters and parcels(包裹).
4. James hopes to become a _________ musician soon.
5. Don’t stand outside in the __________.
Ⅱ. 根據提示翻譯句子。
1. 她學得很快，而且所學的全都記得。(what’s more)
2. 我對他很失望，因為他沒有一個工作做得超過三個月。(more than)
3. 我現在走路少了，坐公交車多了。
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Homework
請根據下表所列的內容要點以Changes in my hometown為題目, 用英語寫一篇短文。
過去
1. 生活貧困，房屋破舊；
2. 污染嚴重，垃圾遍地；
3. 交通不便，游客稀少。
現在
1. 住房寬敞、明亮, 許多人有私家車;
2. 山更綠, 水更清，天更藍；
3. 每年有成千上萬來自世界各地的游客。
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