【正文】 heat n. 高溫；熱度 fulltime adj. 專(zhuān)職的；全日制的 education n. (個(gè)人的 )教育；學(xué)業(yè) transport n. 運(yùn)輸業(yè)；交通 role n. 作用；職責(zé)；角色 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 was 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 plete the notes and add more points of your own. Life in the past Life now Family: bigger。 2) 最高級(jí)的表達(dá)方式 (1) the+ 最高級(jí) + of/in… . Jim is the tallest of the three. 吉姆是三人中最高的。 2. 副詞的句法功能 副詞一般用作狀語(yǔ)，修飾動(dòng)詞、形容詞、副詞以及全句，表示程度、方式等。 taking notes 2) Expressing views and opinions 3) Predicting 。 There is nothing new in the store. 商店里沒(méi)有什么新東西。 同級(jí)比較一般采用 as...as… 句型，否定句可以用 not so / as… 表示。 the fewer B. the less。 In general, women live longer than men. 總的說(shuō)來(lái)，女性比男性更長(zhǎng)壽。 happily D. hardly。 (3) The+比較級(jí)， the+比較級(jí)，表示 “越 …… ，越 ……” . The more time you spend on it, the greater progress you will make. 你在這上面花的時(shí)間越多，你的進(jìn)步就會(huì)越大。 (賓語(yǔ)補(bǔ)足語(yǔ) ) 形容詞作定語(yǔ)一般都是放在名 詞之前，但是 如果修飾的是不定代詞 something, anything, nothing, somebody, anybody, nobody等，就要放在后面。 summarizing main ideas in notes 4) Writing a position about the advantages and disadvantages of life today 4. Around the world: Cars 5. Task: Organizing a debate. 三 、重點(diǎn)及難點(diǎn) : Grammar: Revision : adjectives and adverbs ( parative and superlative forms ) 四 、 教學(xué)設(shè)計(jì) : Unit 1 They sometimes work harder. Ⅰ Teaching model Listening and speaking Ⅱ Teaching method Communicative and interactive Ⅲ Teaching aims 1. To understand conversations of paring life in the past and now 2. To understand parative degree and superlative degree 3. To learn how to make parisons Ⅳ Teaching Objectives 1. Key vocabulary: wealthy, fear, used to, wealth, double, seldom, spare, spare time, speak up, deaf, 2. Key structures: Sentence structure Ⅴ Teaching aids Tape recorder, OHP , video Ⅵ Teaching Steps 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. 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 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) th