Module 3 Life now and then 教案

Module 3 Life now and then
Unit 1 They sometimes work harder. (period 1)
Targets for this period:
1. To understand conversations of comparing life in the past and now
2. To understand comparative degree and superlative degree
3. To learn how to make comparisons
Key points:
1. Key vocabulary: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf,
2. Key structures: Sentence structure
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Audio-lingual approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Show some pictures to talk.
1) Say what life was like in the early 1980s.
2) Say what life is like today.
2. Introduce new words and expressions.
Step 2 Listening practice.
1. Ask the students to read through the questions in Activity
2.
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?
2. Play the tape and ask the students to listen to the tape carefully
3. Listen and answer the questions.
4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.
Step 3 Listen and read.
1. Ask the students to listen and read the conversation silently.
2. Talk about the pictures.
3. Everyday English
Nearly finished.
That’s true.
I suppose…
4. Now choose the correct answer.
1. People live longer 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
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
4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers. Keys: 1. a 2. b 3. b 4. b
Step 4 Complete the questions.
1) What kinds of things do you _________?
2) What do you do in your _________ time?
3) What can someone not do if they are ________?
4) If something is _________, is it more or less?
5) Do you think people _________ take more exercise than they do today?
6) Do you think people have more ________ today than they used to?
3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers. Keys: 1. fear 2. spare 3. deaf 4. doubled
5. used to
6. wealth
5. Now work in pairs. Ask and answer.
Homework
1.Preview “ pronunciation and speaking“
2.Act out the dialogue in groups.
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection
Module 3 Life now and then
Unit 1 They sometimes work harder. (period 2)
Targets for this period:
1. To understand conversations of comparing life in the past and now
2. To understand comparative degree and superlative degree
3. To learn how to make comparisons
Key points:
1. Key vocabulary: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf,
2. Key structures: Sentence structure
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Audio-lingual approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Play the recording once without stopping.
2. Play the recording again and ask the whole class to repeat.
3. Read and predict which words the speaker is likely to stress.
Some people think life in the past was simpler and healthier than today. More wealth sometimes means less health. When the number of cars is doubled, the pollution is also doubled, or even worse.
4. Now listen and check.
5. Read the paragraph in Activity 5 aloud.
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Answer the question and give your reasons.
— Is life better today than in the past?
— Yes, it is. I think it’s because… / No, it isn’t I think…
2. Now say what is better or worse in:
education environment health
Step 3 Language points
1. Remember to speak up! She’s a bit deaf now.
记得说话大点儿声，她现在有点儿耳背了。

speak up表示“大点儿声说”。

例如：
e.g. Speak up, please. I can’t hear you. 请大声一点儿，我听不见你说话。

Step 4 Grammar
形容词与副词
Step 5 Exercises
1. He landed at the same place once again in the long jump. I don’t think
he can jump a little ________. (2014恩施)
A. far
B. farther
C. farthest
2. —What do you think of her teaching English? (2014咸宁)
— Great! No one teaches _____ in our school.
A. good
B. worse
C. better
D. best
3. Of the two sisters, Lucy is _____ one, and she is also the one who loves to be quiet.
(2014阜康)
A. a younger
B. a youngest
C. the younger
D. the youngest
4. C ould you please speak a little more ______? I can’t follow you. (2014通辽)
A. quietly
B. quickly
C. slowly
D. loudly
5. Air pollution has become _______ than ever before. We must do something to stop
it. (2014上海)
A. serious
B. more serious
C. most serious
D. the most serious
6. He works _________ and feels __________ every day. (2014玉林)
A. hard; happy
B. hardly; happily
C. hard; happily
D. hardly; unhappily
7. Steve isn’t as _______ as Kelly. He often makes mistakes in his writing. (2014丽
水)
A. careless
B. tidy
C. careful
D. difficult
8. Mo Yan is one of _____ writers in the world. (2014天津)
A. famous
B. more famous
C. most famous
D. the most famous
9. —She always d oes her homework ___ than her younger brother, doesn’t she?
—I don’t think so. Sometimes she does but sometimes she does not. (2014娄底)
A. carefully
B. more carefully
C. most carefully
10. —It’s smoggy these days. That’s terrible!
— Yes, I hope to plant trees.________ trees, ______ air pollution. (2014昆明)
A. The more; the fewer
B. the less; the more
C. The less; the fewer
D. The more; the less
Homework
Write a passage, what is better today and what is worse today.
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection
Unit 2 I think life is better today. (period 3)
Targets for this period:
1. To get information from the passage about life in the past
2. To learn more expressions and new vocabulary
Key points:
1. Key vocabulary: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. Keys structure: Sentence structure.
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Top-down approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Work in pairs.
1. Show some pictures to ask the students to talk.
(Key words: Life in the past, life now, family, work, health, educatio n)
Step 2 Presentation
1. Show the new words.
2. Read the words after the teacher.
Step 3 Look and say.
1. Look at the woman in the photo in Activity 1.
2. Ask and answer:
1) How do you think she feels?
2) Think about what she will talk about:
family work health education
Step 4 Reading
1. Play the recording and ask students to listen to the tape carefully and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity 1.
family work health education
Keys:
Families have got smaller than they were in the past. Today most people only have one child. There were five children in my family.
My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.
My mum wa s a farm girl. She didn’t go out to work. My daughter goes to work even after getting married.
I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because
I was a girl. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education.
2. Read the passage and then complete the notes and add more points of your own.
Life in the past Life now
Family: bigger; five children 1. Family: smaller; one child
Food: _________________ 2. ___________________________
Keys: simple, eat meat eat better
once or twice a year.
Work: _________________ 3. ___________________________
Keys: My mum didn’t go out to work. Looking after us was more than a full-time job.
My daughter goes to work even after getting married. And she is busy working every day.
Education: _______________ 4. ___________________________
Keys: I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more, because I was a girl.
My daughter has a good education.
3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.
Homework
1.Recite the words and phrases.
2. Finish the exercise on English Weekly
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection
Unit 2 I think life is better today. (period 4)
Targets for this period:
1. To get information from the passage about life in the past
2. To learn more expressions and new vocabulary
Key points:
1. Key vocabulary: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transport
2. Keys structure: Sentence structure.
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Top-down approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Dictation
Step2 Complete the passage.
1. Read the passage again.
3. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in the box.
Mrs Li’s father was a (1) __________. He often worked outside for twelve hours a day in the summer heat or in the winter (2) __________. They lived in a (3)
__________ house and used (4) __________ for light. Mrs Li says that (5)
__________, life is better today. But not everything is satisfying. There are some things that she is not happy with, for example, the (6) __________.
4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.
Keys: 1. postman 2. cold 3. tiny 4. candles 5. generally speaking 6. traffic
Step 3 Language points
1. …looking after us was more than a full-time job. ……照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦。

这句话的主语是动名词短语looking after us。

句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。

例如：
He is more than a coach. He is a friend. 他不只是教练，更是朋友。

full-time adj.专职的；全日制的
e.g. students in full-time education 全日制学生
Looking after a child is a full-time job. 照管小孩是一天忙到晚的活儿。

2. Generally speaking, I think life is better today. 总的说来，我认为今天的生活更好了。

generally speaking表示“一般而言，总的说来”。

in general也可以表达同样的意思。

例如：
Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip. 总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。

In general, women live longer than men. 总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。

Step 4 Exercise
1. Mo Yan is one of _____ writers in the world. (2014天津)
A. famous
B. more famous
C. most famous
D. the most famous
2. —She always does her homework ___ than her younger brother, doesn’t she?
—I don’t think so. Sometimes she does but so metimes she does not. (2014娄底)
A. carefully
B. more carefully
C. most carefully
Step 5 Homework
1 Write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today.
1) Choose two or three points from the notes in Activity 2 to write about.
Families and smaller…
2) Give examples or reasons to support those points.
Most people only have one child today.
3) For each of the points you choose, write about an advantage and /or a disadvantage. Use the words however, but, although or used to where appropriate.
Families are smaller because most people only have one child today. As a result, families have more money to spend on their child. However, an only child may feel lonely…
4) Finish the passage with your conclusion.
Generally speaking, I think…
2. Present your passage to the class.
Homework
2.Recite the words and phrases.
2. Finish the exercise on English Weekly
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection
Unit 3 Language in use (period 5)
Targets for this period:
Revision and application
Teaching aims
To summarize and consolidate comparative degree and superlative degree, and finish the tasks.
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Task-based approach ; interactive approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Revision
Show some pictures to say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today.
Step 2 Sentences presentation
1. Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class.
1) People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
2) But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
3) More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
4) We eat better and we live longer.
2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.
Step 3 Language practice
1. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words in brackets.
For many people, life is a lot (1) _________ (easy) today. Medicine and diet are improving, and people are getting (2) _________ (healthy) and living (3)
_________ (long). But communication is changing (4) _________ (fast) of all. Today, with the Internet, people can communicate (5) _________ (easily) than ever before with friends all over the world.
Not all the changes are (6) _________ (good) ones. More people drive cars instead of riding bikes, so they are not as (7) _________ (fit) as they were. Increasing traffic makes the roads (8) _________ (crowded) than ever, and it also makes pollution (9) _________ (bad). We must all work harder to reduce pollution.
2. Look at the two pictures and talk about how the town has changed.
3. Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box.
Ask the students to read through the sentences in Activity 3.
1) We _________ have time to go on holiday.
2) We do not have much _________ time because we have important exams this
year.
3) Never go out in the _________ of the day without a hat.
4) You have to __________ because the students in the back cannot hear you.
5) Mr Smith is __________ a teacher. Most of his punish think of him as their
friend.
Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box.
Ask the students to check with a partner.
Check the answers.
Step 4 Reading
1. Read the email and find three examples that show life was harder in the past than it is today.
2. Read the email again. Find sentences that tell us:
1) There was not enough living space for people.
2) Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy.
3) Life was harder for children in those times.
3. Write examples.
1) People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for
children to play.
2) _____________________________________________________________.
3) _______________________________________________________________. Ask the students to check with a partner.
Check the answers.
Homework
1. Review Module 3
2. Finish the exercise on English Weekly
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection
Unit 3 Language in use (period 6)
Targets for this period:
Revision and application
Teaching aims
To summarize and consolidate comparative degree and superlative degree, and finish the tasks.
Teaching aids：Tape recorder, blackboard, multi-media
Teaching method:Task-based approach ; interactive approach
Learning strategies: Cooperative learning
Teaching arrangements:
Step 1 Listening
2. Let Ss listen again, and w rite a passage comparing the lives of the speaker’s grandmother and mother in Activity 6.
Step 2 Around the world: Cars
1. Ask the students to look at the picture and discuss what they can see.
2. Read through the information with the whole class.
3. Fill in the blanks.
1) The modern car has changed life a _________ deal.
2) Using horses for travel was________, and of course walking was even
________.
3) Cars allow people to travel long distances________, in comfort and________.
4) It was almost ___________ to get rid for the manure of the horses.
5) The cars may cause_________, but the first cars actually made cities_________.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers:
6. Read the passage together.
Step 3 Module task:Organizing a debate.
1. Work in groups. Read the motion of the debate.
Health is more important than wealth.
2. Now decide who is for the motion and who is against it. You can use some of the following ideas:
For :
Without health, wealth means nothing.
You can enjoy life better if you are healthy.
Against:
It is hard to be healthy without wealth.
You can enjoy life better if you are wealthy.
3. Prepare your arguments. Give examples to support your ideas.
4. Hold the debate.
Those for the motion give their opinions.
Those against the motion give their opinion.
Take turns to say what you think about each other’s arguments.
5. Discuss and find out whether most people are for or against the motion.
Step 4 Exercises: 中考连接
1. —Which season do you like _______, winter or summer?
—Summer. (2014北京)
A. well
B. better
C. best
D. the best
2. Many students think it _______ to learn English by using news. (2014佛山)
A. interest
B. interesting
C. interested
3. It is said that Shanghai students have scored the ________ in an international test. (2014佛山)
A. high
B. higher
C. highest
4. — Mom, what do you think of our new house?
—It’s nice, and it’s _________ than the old one. (2014通辽)
A. big
B. bigger
C. biggest
D. the biggest
5. Lin Fang comes home _____ than before this term. She doesn’t have so many classes in the afternoon. (2014重庆)
A. early
B. earlier
C. late
D. later
6. “Have you read today’s newspaper?”
“Yes. It’s really boring. There’s ______in it.” (2014贵阳)
A. something new
B. nothing new
C. anything new
7. —How do you like the book you read yesterday? (2014丹东)
—Oh! It’s one of ______ books I’ve ever read.
A. interesting
B. more interesting
C. most interesting
D. the most interesting
Homework
Write a passage about the changes in your hometown, using the comparative and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs we have learnt.
Blackboard design
Teaching reflection。