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Module 3 Life now and then Unit 3 Language in use,Language practice,People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past. But people dont take as much exercise as they used to. More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less. We eat better and we live longer.,Grammar: 形容词与副词,形容词和副词的句法作用 1. 形容词 形容词一般放在名词之前作定语，或放在系动词之后作表语，或作宾语补足语。形容词作定语，一般都是放在名词之前，但若修饰不定代词 something, anything等则后置。 We must keep our classroom clean. (宾补） They were kind and nice. (表语） Can you see the old tree there? (定语） Is there anything funny in the paper today?,2. 副词： 副词一般作状语，修饰动词、形容词以及全句，表示程度、方式等。 注：副词作状语修饰动词，一般是后置，修饰 形容词或副词要前置。 Mr Wang works hard in school. Lily can speak Chinese very well. 频度副词：一般位于行为动词之前，系动词或 助动词之后。常见的有 always, often, sometimes, usually, seldom, never。 程度副词：常置于形容词或副词之前。常见的 有very, much, quite, pretty, so 等。,形容词和副词的比较等级 一. 常用的比较级的句型： 1) A + 动词 + 比较级 + than +B. Mary is younger than Betty. He got up earlier than I did this morning. 2) 主语 + 动词 + the 比较级 + of the two. (说明：在of the two这样的比较范围或特指 哪一个时，比较级前要加the) Tom is the taller of the two. 汤姆是两个中较高的那个。 Lily runs faster of the two. 莉莉是两个中跑得较快的那个。,3) The + 比较级, the + 比较级, 表示“越， 越”。 The more you study, the more you know. 你学的越多，知道的越多。 The harder the test is, the lower marks we get. 测试题越难，我们的得分越少。 4) 比较级 + and + 比较级，表示“越来 越”。 The computer is cheaper and cheaper. 计算机越来越便宜。 He studies harder and harder. 他学习越来越努力。,二. 同级比较： 同级比较肯定句型: asas 否定句型: not so / as as He is as tall as his brother. He runs as fast as Jim. I cant get up so early as you.,3. 常用的最高级句型： the + 最高级 + of / in She is the tallest girls in our class. This novel is the most interesting of the three.,2) 选择疑问句 Who is the tallest, Tom, Jack or Bill? 3) 被定语从句所修饰的先行词 He is the most diligent student I have ever seen.,4. 比较级的修饰语 比较级和最高级的修饰语应置于其所修饰的形容词或副词之前。常见的比较级修饰语有：much, still, a lot, a little, even, three years, five times, far 等。如： People worked much harder then.,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). Buy communication is changing (4) _ (fast) of all. Today, with the Internet, people can communicate (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.,easier,healthier,longer,fastest,more easily,good,fit,more crowed,worse,Look at the two pictures and talk about how the town has changed. Use the words in the box to help you.,work in pairs,big building busy house modern more shop street tall traffic tree,The sample answers,There are more cars in the street today than it was 50 years ago. 2. The buildings are much taller, much more beautiful and much newer. 3. The streets are much wider. 4. The environment is much better. 5. I can see people are much busier than before. 6. The life is much better than before. 7. There are more shops than before.,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 pupils think of him as their friend.,Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box.,heat more than seldom spare speak up,seldom,spare,heat,speak up,more than,1 There was not enough living space for people.,Read the email again. Find sentences that tell us:,People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play. Families in those days were quite big. A whole street had to share one outside toilet.,2 Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy. 3 Life was harder for children in those times.,The pollution from factories covered the streets. People put their rubbish outside in the streets. As a result, there were many diseases.,Children didnt always go to school, because they had to work. They did dangerous and unhealthy jobs for little money. Many were hurt in accidents from the machines.,Listening,Listen and complete the table.,8 6 14 22 18 24 4 1 50 55,Write a passage comparing the lives of the speakers grandmother and mother in Activity 6,The speakers grandmother and mother have lived very different lives. Her grandmother had a much bigger family,Cars The modern car has changed life a great del. Before the invention of the car, people had to travel by rail, on horseback or by horse-drawn carriage, or on foot. Using horses for travel was slow, and of course walking was even slower. Cars allow people to ravel long distances quickly, in comfort and convenience. The car also solved an enormous problem caused by using horses for transport in cities: manure! There were so many horses in large cities that it was almost impossible to get rid of the manure. Modern people are used to the idea that cars cause pollution, but the first cars actually made cities cleaner!,Around the world,
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