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课件网) Unit 2 I think life is better today. Module 3 Life now and then To get specific information from the passage about life now and then 2. To learn some key words and useful expressions 3. To learn to write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today 1. Is the woman young or old 2. What is she holding in her hands 3. Does she look happy or sad 4. What is she doing She is old. Old photos. She looks happy. She is talking to someone about the photos. Answer the following questions. My father was a _____, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the _____ cold or in the _____ heat. postman winter summer Read the passage and fill in the blanks. Families have got _____ than they were in the past. Today most people only have _____ child. smaller one My mum was a _____ girl. She didn’t go out to work. My daughter goes to _____ even after getting married. farm work I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t _____ it, and what’s more, because I was a _____. My daughter is really _____. She has a good _____. afford girl lucky education Read the passage again and complete the notes and add more points of your own. Life in the past Life now Family bigger; five children smaller; one child Food Work Education Transport Entertainment simple, eat meat once or twice a year more food and better food hard and difficult work, long hours interesting jobs for boys and girls expensive, often only for boys good schools for everyone on foot or by bike much easier, buses, cars and planes no television television, computers, etc. 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) _____. Complete the passage with the words and expression in the box. candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic 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) _____. postman cold tiny candles generally speaking traffic 某人一生 电灯 外出；游玩 照顾；照管 超过 一份全职工作 一两次 更重要的是 接受良好教育 上班 结婚 步行 骑自行车 乘公共汽车 乘飞机 一般而言；总的说来 all one's life electric lights go out look after more than a full-time job once or twice what's more have a good education go to work get married on foot by bike take the bus take a plane generally speaking 1. My family lived in a tiny house. tiny 微小的，极小的--tinier--tiniest 2.There were no electric lights, only candles. light (un.) 光线，光 light（adj.）轻的，浅色的，明亮的 light (v.) 点燃--lighted/lit--lighted/lit 3. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. postman--postmen cold (un.) 寒冷，冷空气 (cn.) have/catch a cold 感冒 (adj.) 寒冷的--(反) hot heat (n.) 高温，热度 (adj.) 加热，使变暖 4 …looking after us was mo ... ...
