"I think life is better today" Life now and then PPT courseware

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"I think life is better today" Life now and then PPT courseware

Look at these Beijing’s pictures. Say what life was like in the past and what life is like today.

roads --- narrow houses --- small, crowded

ring roads --- wide buildings --- tall, bright

living conditions --- hard

living conditions --- comfortable

communications --- simple, slow

learning objectives

1. To get 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

Words review

tiny adj. Tiny; extremely small

electric adj. Electric; electric

light n. electric lamp

candle n. candle

postman n. postman

cold n. cold; cold air

heat n. high temperature; heat

full-time adj. full-time; full-time

role n. role; responsibility; role

education n. (personal) education; academic studies

transport n. transportation industry; transportation

Read the second and third paragraph and answer the following questions.

1.Where did Mrs. Li’s family live?

In a tiny house.

2. What was her father?

He was a postman.

3. How long did her father work a day?

12 hours a day.

4. Why didn’t she go to school?

Because her family was too poor. What’s more, she was a girl.

paragraph 4: read and fill in:

Families have got _________than they were in the past. Today people only have one______! The role of women has _________, too. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good __________, and she goes to work even after getting married. I'm happy to see she's busy __________every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can't come to see me often.

Read paragraph 5-7and say T or F:

1. Transport and travel are easier today than in the past.

2. Now people go to everywhere on foot or by bike.

3. There’s less traffic on the road.

4. Mrs Li likes watching Beijing Opera and old films.

5. Life is better today than in the past.

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) _________. 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) ___________.

Language points

1. …looking after us was more than a full-time job.

…taking care of us is harder than working a full-time job.

The subject of this sentence is the gerund phrase looking after us. When a single v-ing form phrase serves as the subject in a sentence, the predicate verb must be singular. More than in the sentence means "not just, more than". For example:

He is more than a coach. He is a friend.

He's not just a coach, he's a friend.

2. …what’s more, because I was a girl.

And, I'm a girl.

What’s more means progression, “however/there is also...”. It can be used independently. It can be placed at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence. Add a comma after what’s more.

You should remember it and, more importantly, understand it correctly.

You should remember it, and what’s more, you should get it right.

3. Generally speaking, I think life is better today.

Overall, I think life is better today.

Generally speaking means "generally speaking, generally speaking". In general can also express the same meaning. For example:

Generally speaking, we enjoyed the trip.

Overall, we had a great time on this trip.

In general, women live longer than men.

Overall, women live longer than men.

Main phrases and sentence patterns in this lesson

1. more than

2. what’s more

3. generally speaking

4. I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it.

5. Families have got smaller than they were in the past.

6. The only thing I don’t like, though, is that there’s so much more traffic.

Homework

Please write a short essay in English based on the key points listed in the table below with the title Changes in my hometown.

past

1. Living in poverty and dilapidated houses;

2. Serious pollution and garbage everywhere;

3. Inconvenient transportation and few tourists.

Now

1. The houses are spacious and bright, and many people have private cars;

2. The mountains are greener, the water is clearer, and the sky is bluer;

3. Thousands of tourists from all over the world every year.

Prompt word: convenient

Require:

1. The essay must include all the main points and be appropriately developed to make the essay coherent and smooth;

2. There are about 80 words, which are given at the beginning and are not included in the total number of words.

Changes in my hometown

In the past, my hometown was very small.

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