Module 3 Life now and then一、学习目标:A. 单词和短语：wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf, tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, heat, full-time, role, education, transportB. 交际用语：1. Nearly finished.2. That’s true.3. I suppose…4. — Is life better today than in the past?— Yes, it is. I think it’s because… / No, it isn’t I think…5. Remember to speak up! She’s a bit deaf now.6. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.7. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.8. People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.9. But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.10. More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.11. We eat better and we live longer.二. 教学目标1. Function: T Making comparisons (2)2. Structure: Revision : adjectives and adverbs ( comparative and superlative forms )3. Skills: 1) Listening for specific information ; taking notes2) Expressing views and opinions3) Predicting ;reading for main ideas; summarizing main ideas in notes4) Writing a composition about the advantages and disadvantages of life today4. Around the world: Cars5. Task: Organizing a debate.三、重点及难点:Grammar: Revision : adjectives and adverbs ( comparative and superlative forms )四、教学设计:Unit 1 They sometimes work harder.ⅠTeaching modelListening and speakingⅡTeaching methodCommunicative and interactiveⅢ Teaching aims1. To understand conversations of comparing life in the past and now2. To understand comparative degree and superlative degree3. To learn how to make comparisonsⅣ Teaching Objectives1. Key vocabulary: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time,speak up, deaf,2. Key structures:Sentence structureⅤ Teaching aidsTape recorder, OHP , videoⅥTeaching StepsStep 1 Warming up1. 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 Activity2.1) 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 carefully3. Listen and answer the questions.5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers. Keys: Write about life in the past and life today.Is life today better than it was in the past?Betty asks if they can write about medicine and pollution.Daming asks if they can write about personal safety.Step 3 Listen and read.1. Ask the students to listen and read the conversation silently.2. Talk about the pictures.3. Everyday EnglishNearly finished.That’s true.I suppose…4. Now choose the correct answer.1. People live longer because ________.a) we know more about medicineb) they do not work as hard as they didc) they take more exercise2. There is less fear of getting ill ________.a) so people live longerb) because people know how to deal with the ordinary diseasesc) so people work harder than before3. People take less exercise because ________.a) they do not need tob) they drive cars insteadc) they do not have cars or bikes4. People work harder today and ________.a) they do not live as long as they didb) they do not usually have enough free timec) they live a healthier life5. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers.Keys: 1. a 2. b 3. b 4. bStep 4 Complete the questions.1. Ask the students to read through the words and expression in the box in Activity 4. deaf doubled fear spare used to wealth2. Complete the questions with the words or expression in the box.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. wealth5. Now work in pairs. Ask and answer.Step 5 Pronunciation and speaking.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 6 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 healthStep 7 Language points1. 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。
