九年级下 module3 Unit 1 People are healthier today.教学课件

课件54张PPT。Unit 1 People are healthier today.Look at the following pictures, and say what life was like in the past and what life is like today.Life in the pastAnd what life is like today?Sample dialogue A: What was life like in the past? B: There weren’t so many cars as there are today. A: What is life like today? B: There are more buildings today.New wordsdebate 辩论 illness 病; 疾病 prevent 防止; 预防 medicine 医学 suppose 猜想; 假设 relaxed 放松的; 松弛的 Listen and answer the questions. Use the words and expressions to help you. advantage composition environment free time homework illness law personal pollution prevent protect safety1. What’s for homework? _____ 2. What’s the title? _____ _____A history composition.Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago?3. What does Betty ask about? _____ _____ 4. What does Daming ask about? _____ _____Betty asks whether they can write about topics such as medicine and pollution.Daming asks if they can write about personal safety.5. Does Mr. Jackson agree? _____ 6. What are Betty and her mother talking about? _____ _____ _____Yes, he does.They are talking about life in the past and now./They are comparing life in the past and now. 7. How many things have they compared? What are they? _____ _____Four. They are health, medicine, transport, work.Listen and readNow listen to Betty. She has nearly finished a composition. And she is talking about it with her mother. Listen and answer the questions:1. What’s the title of Betty’s composition? 2. What does she think of the life today?Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago?She thinks it is better. Listen again and choose the best answer.1. People are healthier and live longer today because _____. a) we’re better at preventing illness b) We don’t work as hard as we did c) We don’t take as much exercise2. Public transport is faster but _____. a) it makes pollution b) people take more exercise c) fewer people use it3. There’s more pollution so _____. a) children work harder b) life is more dangerous and less healthy c) public transport is better today4. People don’t have to work as hard today. However, _____. a) they don’t live as long b) no one has enough free time c) schoolchildren don’t do their best5. Betty will be more relaxed and less nervous about the exams if _____. a) she works harder b) she asks Mrs. Li to help her with her composition c) she goes on the school trip to the theatreRead the dialogue and complete the table and write notes.healthier and live longer than in the past. know more about medicine and are better at preventing illness. don’t eat as well as in the past and don’t take as much exercise as past. walk or use their bikes less and public transport is much better today. lazier; Faster transport also makes more pollution. This makes life more dangerous and less healthy. don’t have to work as hard as 50 years ago. don’t have too much free time. School children today work harder. Complete the sentence ... ...