【正文】 there anything special in the paper today? 今天報(bào)紙上有什么特別的新聞嗎？ I didn’t find anything funny about it. 我覺得這事一點(diǎn)兒都不可笑。 Hopefully, we’ll meet again on Friday. 希望我們星期五再見面。 The more he talked, the more excited he grew. 他越說越激動(dòng)。常見的比 較級(jí)修飾語有 much, still, a lot, even, far 等。 unhappily 7. Steve isn’t as _______ as Kelly. He often makes mistakes in his writing. (2021麗水 ) A. careless B. tidy C. careful D. difficult 8. Mo Yan is one of _____ writers in the world. (2021 天津 ) A. famous B. more famous C. most famous D. the most famous 9. —She always does her homework ___ than her younger brother, doesn’t she? —I don’t think so. Sometimes she does but sometimes she does not. (2021 婁底 ) A. carefully B. more carefully C. most carefully 10. — It’s smoggy these days. That’s terrible! — Yes, I hope to plant trees, ______ air pollution. (2021 昆明 ) A. The more。句中 more than表示“不只是，多于”。 Step 7 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. Unit 3 Language in use Ⅰ Teaching model Revision and application Ⅱ Teaching method Formal and interactive Ⅲ Teaching aims To summarize and consolidate parative degree and superlative degree, and finish the tasks. Ⅳ Teaching aids Recorder, OHP, handouts Ⅴ Teaching Steps 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 munication is changing (4) _________ (fast) of all. Today, with the Inter, people can municate (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. Use the words in the box to help you. big building busy house modern more shop street tall traffic tree 3. Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box. Ask the students to read the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3. heat more than seldom spare speak up 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.