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Module 3 Life then and nowUnit 2 I think life is better today. 教材分析本模块以“Life then and now”为话题，以学习谈论今夕生活的巨大对别，介绍了中国在改革开放以来社会经济的长足进步。通过模块学习，学生将重点掌握比较级和最高级的用法和注意事项，并学会用英语比较描述多种相关现象，表达论证自身观点。 教学目标【知识目标】A. 单词和短语：tiny electric light candle postman cold heat full-time role education transport；B. 英语论证自己的选择和观点。【能力目标】1. Reading for specific information. 2. Expressing views and opinions.【情感目标】Build up students patriotism. 教学重难点【教学重点】Students make the clarification and argumentation of their own points of view.【教学难点】The application of discourse makers in the passage. 课前准备1.课前准备：调试光盘与课件、给学生分组、为学生布置预习作业等； 2.教具学具：光盘、大卡片等。 教学过程Step1. Words1. Teach the new words and phrases in the lesson with the Chinese explanation and exact pronunciation.2. Show the Chinese meanings to let student answer English correspondents.3. Show pictures related to the difficult words and phrases to facilitate students perception.4. Encourage students to make up English sentences with the new learned words.5. Sum up the new words, phrases and sentence patterns. and looking after us was more than a full-time job.Families have got smaller than they were in the past.6. Game: word magic.Let students look at the words flashing forth and back in the slide. See which student can memorize the most numbers of words.Step2. Talking1. Work in pairs. Discuss what you did in your childhood and list some of them.2. Enjoy a video to see what your parents did when they were young.Step3. Learning1. Look at the woman in the photo. How do you think she feels? Think about what she will talk about.2. Read the passage and take notes on what Mrs. Li says about the points in Activity 1.3. Talk about the photo. Say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today. 4. Complete the notes and adds more points of our own.5. Read the part How has life changed? And finish the following exercises.6. Work in pairs and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of life for Mrs. Li.7. Complete the passage with the words and expression in the box.Step4. Language points1. 这句话的主语是动名词短语looking after us。单个v-ing形式短语在句中作主语时，谓语动词要用单数。句中more than表示“不只是，多于”。2. whats more表示递进，“然而/还有 ”的意思，独立使用，既可以放句首，也可以放句中，whats more后面加逗号。 3. generally speaking表示“一般而言，总的说来”。in general也可以表达同样的意思。4. get married意为“结婚”，表示短暂行为，不能与表示一段时间的状语连用。表示结婚多长时间，要用be married。Step5. Writing1. Write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today.2. Choose two or three points from the notes in Activity 2 to write about.3. Give examples or reasons to support those points.4. For each of the points you choose, write about an advantage and/or a disadvantage. Use the words however, but, although or used to where appropriate.5. Finish the passage with the conclusion.6. Present outstanding passage to the class.Step6. Summary1. Summarize the new learned phrases and sentence patterns.2. Let students spend 2 minutes testing their vocabulary through the bilateral translation between English and Chinese.3. When finished, exchange papers to see who does the best.Step7. Practice1. 用方框内所给单词的恰当形式填空。2. 根据提示翻译句子。Step8. Homework请根据下表所列的内容要点以Changes in my hometown为题目, 用英语写一篇短文。要求：1. 短文须包括所有内容要点, 可适当发挥, 使短文连贯、通顺；2. 80词左右，开头已给出, 不计入总词数。无
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