外研版九年级英语下册教案Module 3

Module 3 Now and then I. Teaching goals 模块教学目标 Listen to the dialogue about life today and 50 years ago. 听 Talk about the life today and in the past 说 Skill Read articles about life in the past 读 Focus Compare people’s life today and in the past Write sentences with advantages and disadvantages about people’s life 写 Write about the life of your own family Talking about life: The advantage is that we know more about medicine today. P18 We’re better at preventing illness. P18 功 But people don’t eat as well as in the past, and don’t take as much 能 exercise as they did. P18 句 Faster transport also makes more pollution. P18 式 And that makes life more dangerous and less healthy. P18 Language Focus 1(重点词汇 debate illness prevent medicine suppose relaxed eldest married get married couple diet disease 词 2(短语 as a result instead of grow up each other have to do one’s 汇 best free time next month fall off lead a …life The positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree 语 of adjectives and adverbs. 法 Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago? P18 The most important difference is that people are healthier today and 重 they live longer than they did in the past. P18 点 But people don’t take as much exercise as they did. P18 句 People walk or use their bikes less, and they are lazier. P18 子 I really want to do my best. P18 II. Teaching material analyzing 教材分析 本模块以“life”为话题，以学习“现在和过去生活”的对比为主线，介绍了现在生活和过去生活的优与劣。通过模块学习，学生将重点掌握形容词的比较级和最高级，并能运用所学知识对周围事物和人进行比较。 Unit 1 通过听、读、说训练，要求学生了解五十年后生活的变化，初步学习两者之间进行比较的 方法 快递客服问题件处理详细方法山木方法pdf计算方法pdf华与华方法下载八字理论方法下载 。 Vocabulary and listening Activity 1要求学生看图，然后两人一组谈论现在和过去的生活。Activity 2要求学生听录音，利用所给词汇回答问题，并通过再次听录音检查答案，从而对Activity 3 的对话有一个准备。Activity 3听读一段Betty and his mum 关于对现在和过去生活进行对比的对话，在让学生了解50年生活变化的同时，学习一些关于比较的句式。Activity 4根据对话内容选择最佳答案。Activity5要求学生学习对话，学会分类提取重要信息来完成表格。Activity6根据对话内容完成 句子 关于阅读的唯美句子关于古风的唯美句子执行力的经典句子鼓励人努力奋斗的句子用沉默代替一切的句子 。 Pronunciation and speaking Activity 7 要求学生听录音，注意重读的单词。Activity 8 要求学生自己朗读句子，标出认为需要重读的单词，并听录音检查自己是否读得正确。Activity 9两人一组活动，就所列举的方面谈论50年前后的生活变化，加强对形容词比较级的理解和运用。 Unit 2. 通过读、写训练，学习谈论过去的生活状况，学会用事实来支持论点。 Reading 该单元共设计了7个活动。Activity 1看图，运用所给词说说图中woman生活 的变化。Activity 2通过阅读关于Mrs. Li 的过去生活的文章，来让学生了解他们奶奶爷爷辈的生活。Activity 3要求学生两人一组讨论Mrs. Li那辈人生活的优缺点。 所给事实需要表明的观点。 Activity 4通过深入理解课文找出 Writing Activity 5要求学生继续阅读相关文章和对话，对五十年生活变化的优劣进行讨论写作，要有正反观点并要有支持各自观点的依据。Activity 6要求学生能把Activity 5中的论点和例证连起来，同时运用合适的连词，使文章紧凑又有逻辑。Activity 7要求学生以“Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago?”为题，运用讨论的观点和例证，采取正确合理的句式，下笔成文。 Unit 3 对形容词的比较级和最高级这一语法项目以及今昔生活的对比的话题进行综合训练。 Activity1根据所给形容词，选用其正确形式进行填空。Activity 2运用所给词汇对两幅图进行对比，进一步练习功能句型。Activity 3把所给的单词进行归类。Activity 4通过看图和课文阅读来了解过去生活的艰辛，并找出三个使过去生活艰辛的例子。Activity 5 再读Activity4的文章，找出所提问题的原因。Activity 6. 听录音完成表格。 Activity 7. 根据听力材料中所听到的信息，写一篇短文比较他们的生活。 Around the world 介绍了Dr. Barnardo资助贫困儿童上学的事迹。 Module Task就孩子是否应该工作这一话题组织小组进行辩论。 Activity 8 小组活动，以“小孩不应该干活”为主题,进行辩论。Activity 9 学生分出正方和反方准备辩论。Activity 10 进行辩论。Activity 11 写出你作为正方或反方的陈述。 III(Class types and periods 课型设计与课时分配 Period 1 Listening and speaking Period 2 Reading and writing Period 3 Language in use Period 4 Integrating skills IV. Teaching plans for each period分课时教案 Period 1 Listening and speaking Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Language goals 语言目标 a. Key vocabulary 重点词汇和短语 Advantage composition environment free time homework illness law personal population prevent protect safety b. Key sentences 重点句子 There were not so many cars as they are today. People are healthier today and they live longer than they did in the past. We know more about medicine today. But people don’t eat as well as in the past, and don’t take as much exercise as they did. 2. Ability goals 能力目标 Enable students to listen to, read and talk about how life has changed using the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives.. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标 Help the students learn how to talk about how life has changed using the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives. Teaching methods 教学方法 Listening and speaking. Explanation and discussion Teaching important/difficult points教学重难点 How to compare the life now and then. Teaching aids 教具准备 a tape recorder, a projector and a computer Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式 Step ?Warming up and lead-in In this procedure, try to make students talk about the differences between the past life and the present life. Show some pictures on the screen: T: Good morning! Boys and girls. A new day begins. But I want to show you some old pictures of a city. Please look at Picture 1 and Picture 2. Can you guess which city it is? Ss: Beijing. T: Good! You are clever. The two pictures are about Beijing in the 1950s. The third picture, please look! How beautiful the city is! Do you know its name? Ss: It’s also the picture about Beijing. Wow, it has changed a lot. T: Picture 3 is about Beijing today. Many changes have taken place in Beijing in the past 50 years. Can you say out the differences? Work in pairs, talk about the photos. What was life like in the past and what is life like today? Encourage students to work in pairs and make conversations like this: 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. Or: let the students see a short movie about the life in the past and compare it with the life today. T: Is it the same as the life today? What’s the difference? Ss: Of course, it isn’t the same as the life today. There is much more traffic and the city is more beautiful now. T: Do you like the life in the movie? Why? S1: The life in the movie makes me think a lot. We should learn from their spirit. But I like the life today better because it’s more convenient. S2: From the movie, we can see that the life in the past was much harder. We should worker harder today to make our city more beautiful. T: Do you want to know more about the changes? Do you know the advantages and disadvantages of the changes? Let’s begin to learn Unit 1. Step II. Vocabulary and listening T: Before we read the conversation, it’s necessary for us to learn some new words. So let’s play a guessing game. I say the words and its English explanation. And you tell me the Chinese meaning of these words. OK? Ss: OK! T: Advantage: something useful or helpful. Something which can bring success. Ss: 优点;好处。 T: Right! Composition: exercise in writing by one who is learning a language. Ss: 作文 T: Environment: surroundings Ss: 环境 T: Free time: the time you can do what you want. Ss: 自由时间 T: Homework: a work that a pupil is required to do in the evening at home and take to his teachers at school. Ss: 作业 T: Illness: state of being ill. Ss: 疾病 T: Law: rule made by authority. Ss: 法律 T: Personal: private; individual; on one’s own Ss: 个人的;私人的。 Pollution: making dirty Prevent: stop or hinder Protect: keep safe; guard Safety: being safe; freedom from danger. T: Well done! I think you are very happy to learn like this. Now listen to the tape and answer the questions. Use the words and the expressions in Activity 2 to help you. Question1: What’s for homework? Question2: What’s the title? Question3: What does Betty ask about? Question4: What does Daming ask about? Question5: Does Mr. Jackson agree? (Use PPT to make a flash) Check the answers together. (If the students have some trouble to get the answers, they can listen to the tape once again.) Step III. Listening and reading. Listening T: Have you got such homework like Betty and Daming? How will you finish your homework? What do you think of your homework like this? Now listen to Betty. She has nearly finished a composition. And she is talking about it with her mother. Listen and answer the questions. Question 1: What’s the title of Betty’s composition? Question 2: What does she think of the life today? After the listening, the teacher may check the answers with the whole class. T: The title of her composition is... Ss: “Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago? T: What does she think of the life today? Ss: She thinks it’s better. T: This time you will listen to the dialogue again and choose the best answer for each question in Activity 4. Let the students listen three times. For the first time, let them try to choose the best answer. For the second time, pause at each question in order to help them find the right answer. For the third time, let them listen as a whole to check their answers. The answers: a a b b c Reading T: Read the dialogue about Betty and her mother. Then complete the table and write notes. You can work in groups. The sample answers to Activity 5: Advantages Disadvantages Personal People are healthier and live health longer that they did in the past. People know more about People don’t eat as well as in the Medicine medicine and are better at past and don’t take as much exercise preventing illness. as they did. People are lazier. Faster transport People walk or use their bikes also makes more pollution. And that Transport less and public transport is makes life more dangerous and less much better today. healthy. People don’t have to work as People don’t have too much free Work hard as they worked 50 years time. School children today work ago. harder. (Use PPT to make a flash) T: Read the dialogue carefully again, and complete the sentences in your own words in Activity 6. Then check the answers with the whole class. The possible answers to Activity 6: 1. Because it’s late, Betty’s mum thinks that Betty should go to bed. 2. Betty is working late in order to finish her composition. 3. Betty’s mum thinks we know more about medicine, although people don’t eat as well as in the past and don’t take as much exercise as they did. 4. Betty reminds her mum that she is going on the school trip next month. 5. Betty’s mum thinks that Betty’s school trip and theatre visit will make her more relaxed and less nervous before her exams. After finishing the exercises, the teacher should let the students read aloud in pairs and then act it out. Step ? Pronunciation and speaking In this procedure, get the students listen, read after the tape and learn to underline the words which they think the speaker will stress. a. Activity 7 1. Play the tape only to listen for the first time. 2. Play the tape again to read after it. 3. Learn to say these sentences without listening to the tape. b. Activity 8 Underline the words which the students think the speaker will stress. The sample answer: Yes, I agree. People walk or use their bikes less, and they’re lazier. Faster transport also makes more pollution. And that makes life more dangerous and less healthy. (Use PPT to make a flash) Listen and check. As you listen, say the passage aloud. c. Activity 9 Work in pairs. Talk about the answer to the question. Is life today better or worse that it was 50 years ago? Say what’s better or worse in: At home education entertainment environment life medicine transport work (Use PPT to make a flash) T: Just now Betty and her mother talked about the life today and the life in the past. Can you talk about the same question to compare what’s better or worse in the life at home, education ….and so on? Discuss the question with your groups. And try to write down your opinion and your partner’s opinion. The sample dialogue: S1: Do you think life today is better or worse than it was 50 years ago? S2: I think the life today is better. We have better education. Especially we girls have the same opportunity as boys in education. What about you? S1: I also think it’s better. We have more entertainments and they are more interesting. S2: And there is so much more traffic today and it’s more convenient. But at the same time, faster transport also makes more pollution. S1: In the past, we know less about medicine, but now we know more about medicine. …… Step ? Homework 1. Make an interview of your parents to ask something about their ideas of the differences between the life today and in the past. Take down what they said. 2. Preview Unit 2 Period 2 Reading and writing Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Language goals 语言目标 a. Key vocabulary 重点词汇和短语 eldest, married, couple, diet, fall off, get married b. Key sentences 重点句子 Families have changed a lot since I was young. These days people change their jobs much more often. My mother never bought ready-made food as people do today. There are lots more buildings and so much more traffic. I am healthier than I’ve ever been. 2. Ability goals 能力目标 Enable students to read and understand the passage” Life in the past.” Enable student to write a composition about the changes in the past 50 years including the main points and the examples. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标 Help the students learn how to write a composition about the changes in the past 50 years including the main points and the examples. Teaching methods 教学方法 Reading and writing. Explanation and giving examples. Teaching important/difficult points教学重难点 How to write an argument using the main points and the examples. Teaching aids 教具准备 a tape recorder, a projector and a computer Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式 Step?Warming up and lead-in In this procedure, get the students look at the photos and talk about the changes. T: Morning, everyone! How is it going? Ss: Not bad. T: Here is a photo of an old woman, Mrs. Li. She is over 70 years old. She has lived in Beijing all her life. Look at the photo, how do you think life has changed for her? These words can help you: family, health, life in Beijing, marriage, the role of women, work. S1: I think the families were much bigger in the past. My grandmother have six children, but I am the only child. S2: I think she is healthier today. S3: There is much more traffic. I think she walks less and takes the bus more. S4: In the past, their parents helped her find the husband, but now, the love is free. S5: In the past, most women stayed at home to do housework, but now women can go out to work. T: Well done! Is what you said the same as what is written in this passage? Let’s learn “Life in the past”. Step II. Reading a. let the students read the passage and do Activity 2. T: This passage is about an old woman’s life in the past. It’s written from the aspects listed in Activity 1. Now, read the passage and write notes about Mrs. Li’s answers to the ideas in Activity 1. For example: family: bigger families, less money The sample notes: health: healthier, live longer, eat better life in Beijing: much better, more buildings, so much more traffic, walk less and take the bus more. marriage: in the past, parents choose partners for their children; now, children choose partners for themselves the role of women: in the past , women stayed at home; now, they go out to work work: in the past, do the same job all one’s working life; now, change jobs more often b. Let the students read paragraphs by paragraphs to know some details. T: Read Paragraph1 and answer the questions: Show the questions on the screen: Paragraph1: Family Question1: Where did Mrs. Li’s family live? Question2: What did she think of her family? Question3: When did her eldest sister leave school? Question4: What does she think of the family in the past and today? Two minutes later T: Are you ready to answer my questions? Ss: Yes. S1. In a small house beside a restaurant. S2. They weren’t very rich but they were happy. S3. At the age of 12. S4. In the past, families were much bigger. Most people had lots of children. Today most people only have one child and the families are small. T: Good! You have known the main idea of the paragraph. Next, I will explain some language points. Please take good notes. Language points: the eldest child老大 old 有两种比较级和最高级: older, oldest; elder, eldest 说明: elder, eldest虽然是old的一种比较级和最高级形式，但一般只用作定语， 表示兄弟姐妹的长幼关系，elder不能与than连用表示比较。 (Use PPT to make a flash) T: Let’s read paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks: Show on the screen: Paragraph2: Work and the role of women Mrs. Li’s father ________ to work for ________hours a day. He never _______ his job in his life. But now people change their jobs ___________. Mrs. Li’s mum was a _________ before she met Mrs. Li’s father. After marrying, she had to ________ at home to ____________ the children. Today it is ___________ for many married women ___________ to work. But in the past, it was _______________. Answers: went out, 12, changed, much more often, teacher, stay, look after, normal, to go out, less common Language point in this paragraph 1. a full-time job 全职工作 反义词: a part-time job 兼职工作 2. normal 正常的 3. less common 不常见 说明:这也是一种比较级，如果表达A方不如B方可用三种句式: )A+谓语的否定式+形容词(或副词)比较级+than + B 1 This room isn’t bigger than mine. He doesn’t run faster than his brother. 2)A+谓语+less+形容词(或副词)的原形+than+B I am less tall than he. He does his homework less carefully than his brother. 3)A+谓语的否定句+so(as)+形容词(或副词)的原级+as+B Mrs. Brown is not so / as old as she looks. It doesn’t rain so/ as often in Xi’an as in Wuhan. (Use PPT to make a flash) T: Read paragraph3 and complete the table: Show the table on the screen Paragraph3: Life in Beijing Food at home Things to do at home In the past today The possible answers are: Food at home Things to do at home Three times a day Played games Eat enough Read a lot In the past Freshly cooked Helped the younger Much better brother with his homework in the evenings Buy ready-made Have television today food Watch TV in the evenings Language point: 通常放在名词前修饰名词。如: 1. enough adj. 足够的 He has enough money to buy this book. adv. 足够地 通常放在被修饰词的后面。如: The room is big enough to hold 100 people. 2. freshly cooked 新做的,现做的 3. ready-made food 现成的食物，预先制成的食物 T: Let’s turn to Paragraph 4. Read it and choose the right answers: Show the questions on the screen: Paragraph 4: Marriage 1. Mrs. Li first met her husband ____ years ago. (50, 60) 2. Mrs. Li’s husband helped her carry the ________when she fell off the bike. (books, bags ) 3. Mrs. Li’s parents thought her husband came from a _____ family. (good, rich ) 4. Mrs. Li married her husband at the age of _________. (19. 20) 5. Now most couples meet __________ (at work, in the street). The answers are: 1. 60 2. bags 3. good 4. 19 5. at work Language point: 1. fall off 从…摔下来 He fell off the bike and hurt his leg yesterday. 2. get married 结婚 3. couple 夫妻 T: Read Paragraph 5 and judge the statement is true or false. Show the statement on the screen: Paragraph5: Life in Beijing Mrs. Li often walks and takes the bus less to keep healthy. The answer is: False Language point: 1. lots more / much more 形容词(或副词)的比较级可用much, lots, a little, even, still等词修饰。 T: Read the last paragraph and choose the best answer. Show the question on the screen: Paragraph 6: Health Mrs. Li thinks life is better today because ____________________. A. She is not poor any longer. B. She has more free time. C. She is healthier and lives longer. D. She walks less and takes the bus more. The answer is: C Language point: One day I’ll be talking to your own grandchildren. 有一天我会正与你的儿孙交谈呢～ 说明:这句话不用详细讲解，只要能翻译大意就行。这是将来进行时。 Step ? Reading skills. In this procedure, the teacher should teach the students some reading skills. T: Read this sentence from the passage. It’s an example of a main point. Let’s learn how to find a main point from some sentences. Example: My parents, my sister and three brothers lived in a small house beside a restaurant. Main point: Families were bigger in the past. Now choose the correct main point for these examples from the passage. 1. My sister … left school when she was only 12 … a) The school leaving age was lower in the past. b) My sister no longer wanted to go to school. 2. Looking after us was a full-time job, so she stayed at home. a) It wasn’t necessary for the mother to work. b) Married women were too busy at home to continue working. 3. … my mother never bought ready-made food as people do today. a) The food we eat today isn’t as healthy as it was. b) There wasn’t any fast food in the past. 4. My parents liked him, and thought he came from a good family … a) Parents usually decided who their children married. b) People from good families were always kind. 5. Yes, there are lots more buildings and so much more traffic! a) There was less traffic in the past. b) Cars are cheaper today. The answers are: 1. a, 2. b, 3. a, 4. a, 5. a 说明:做阅读时要了解一些重要句子的内在涵义和其想表达的主要要点，不需要一 字一句翻译。 Learning to learn: 选择你需要关注的内容是一种重要的语言学习技巧。比如说， 你在做听力或阅读前，你需要先仔细读读提示或说明。当你做听力或阅读时，一个 很好的方法是把你的注意力锁定在你需要的信息，而不是尝试去理解每个词。 Step ? Writing. In this procedure, get the students learn some writing skills about an argument. Pre-writing: T: Read the passage in Activity 2 and the conversation in Unit 1, Activity 3. You’re going to write a composition. The title is: Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago? T: Before you write it, you must write down main points for the composition. For example: Main point: People are healthier and live longer. You also need to write down an example of each main point such as: Example: Mrs. Li says we live longer toady. Then you can write down an opposite point to each main point and give an example of each opposite point. For example: Opposite point: Pollution makes people less healthy. Example: Mrs. Li walks less and takes the bus more. Students can work in pairs, groups to discuss. Try to get more main points and more opposite points. Give each point an example. T: After getting so many points and the examples. Let’s join them together with “For example”. People are healthier and live longer. For example, Mrs. Li says we live longer today. Now join the main points and their opposite points with “However” or “On the other hand”. People are healthier and live longer. For example, Mrs. Li says we live longer today. However, pollution makes people less healthy. For example, Mrs. Li walks less and takes the bus more. Writing: T: Now you can begin your composition with the title. Next, add your main points, examples and opposite points. At last, you can finish the composition with your conclusion or opinion like this: In conclusion, I think life today is …. The sample composition: Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago? Generally speaking, the life today is better than it was 50 years ago. But on the other hand, it has its disadvantages. Parents are less tired to support the family and educate their child. For example, today most people only have one child. However, their children are more tired. For example, two children have to look after four old people in the future. People are healthier and live longer today. For example, Mrs. Li says we live longer. However, pollution makes people less healthy. For example, Mrs. Li walks less and takes the bus more. It’s more convenient now. For example, there is so much more traffic and the traffic is faster. However, there is more pollution. For example, faster transport makes more pollution. Today people’s life is more colorful. For example, they can take part in all kinds of parties and watch more programs. However, it influences the work. For example, they spend too much time on TV. In conclusion, I think the life today is much better. But, at the same time we should think about some disadvantages and try our best to get rid of them. Step?Homework: 1. Finish writing the composition. 2. Preview Unit 3 “Language in use”. Unit 3 Language in use Teaching goals 教学目标 1. Language goals 语言目标 a. Key vocabulary 重点词汇和短语 diet, lead a … life, disease b. Grammar point: 语法点 The usage of the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs. 2. Ability goals 能力目标 Enable students to master the usage of the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs. 3. Learning ability goals 学能目标 Help the students learn how to use the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs correctly. Teaching methods 教学方法 Explanation and giving examples. Asking and answering. Practicing Teaching important/difficult points教学重难点 Help the students master the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs. Teaching aids 教具准备 a tape recorder, a projector and a computer Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式 Step I. Warming up and lead-in In this procedure, let the students master the usage of the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives. (Some pictures and real objects should be used here) T: Please look at the two rulers. (One is red and the other is blue.) Which is longer, the red one or the blue one? Ss: The red one is, I think. T: Yes, we can also say like this: The red one is longer than the blue one. I say three big cities: Chongqing, Baoding and Shanghai. Please tell me which is the biggest city in China? Ss: Of course, Shanghai is the biggest. T: Which subject do you think is more difficult, English or maths? S1: I think English is more difficult. S2: I think math is more difficult. T: Is today warmer than it was yesterday? Ss: No, it’s cooler than it was yesterday. T: Is football more popular than volleyball in China? Ss: No, we don’t think so. Get the students practice like this in pairs or in groups or the whole class T: I can see you are very active. Are you interested in it? Ss: Yes, we think it is very interesting, especially we can do it with some real facts. T: OK! But there are some items for you to pay attention to. Let’s learn together. Step II. Grammar. a. Learn the comparative and the superlative degrees of adjectives and adverbials. 比较级的句型: 比较常见的句型有: 1)比较级+than 例如: Health is more important than wealth. He got up earlier than I did this morning. 2)比较级+and+比较级，表示“越来越„„ 例如: He is growing more and more impatient. Our life is getting better and better. 3) The+比较级，the+比较级，表示“越„„，越„„ 例如: The more time you spend on it, the greater progress you will make. The more he talked, the more excited he grew. 同极比较 同级比较一般采用as…as…句型，否定句可以用not so/as…as…表示。例如: He is as tall as his brother. He runs as fast as Liu Xiang. I can’t get up so early as you. 最高级句型 常见的最高级句型有: 1)the+最高级+of / in… 例如: He is the most diligent student in his class. Of all his novels I like this one best. 2) 选择疑问句 例如: 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. 比较级和最高级的修饰语 比较级和最高级的修饰语应置于其所修饰的形容词或词前。常见的比较级修饰语 有much, still, a lot, even, three years, five times, far…等。例如: People worked much harder then. b. Doing Exercises T: You have got more details about the grammar. Now, please do Activity 1 and Activity 2. The answers to Activity 1 are omitted. The sample answers to Activity 2: There are more cars in the street today than it was 50 years ago. The buildings are much taller, much more beautiful and much newer. The streets are much wider. The environment is much better. I can see people are much busier than before. The life is much better than before. There are more shops than before. Step III. Reading In this procedure, let the students have some reading training. a. The passage in Activity 4 T: Read the passage in Activity 4 on Page 23 and find three examples of things that made life harder in the past than it is today. Give the students some minutes to prepare for the task. T: Is it easy to find the three examples? Ss: No, it’s a little difficult. But, we will have a try. S1: The life in the past was harder in Victorian Britain. For example, 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. S2: It was harder in the past. The pollution from factories covered the streets. People put their rubbish outside in the streets. As a result, there were many diseases. S3: In those times, life was harder for children. They didn’t 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. T: I am very happy you have used your heads. Next task: Read the passage again and find the reasons for the sentences in Activity 5. You can discuss in groups. Give the students some minutes to discuss, and then check the answers with the whole class. T: Now begin: How do you know that families were big in Victorian times? S4: Often, there were five children in one family. T: How do you know that many houses were small? S5: They lived very close to each other, with no space for children to play and they had to sleep in houses of just two rooms. T: How do you know that there was no indoor toilet for each house? S6: A whole street had to share one outside toilet. T: How do you know that people weren’t healthy? S7: Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy and there were many diseases. T: How do you know children didn’t go to school? S8: Because they had to work hard. Many children started work in factories when they were only 12 hours old. T: How do you know factory work was dangerous? S9: Because many children were hurt in accidents from the machines. Some difficult points: (show them on the screen) be interested to do something thousands of people hundreds of millions of instead of something/instead of doing something close to: near The sound of gun was much closer to us. as a result as students as you know as everybody is here etc very little only a little very few only a few be pleased/ glad to do something be pleased/ glad that clause b. Around the world T: Now another passage about Dr Barnardo whose homes for poor children are very famous. Please read it and then do some exercises. Show the exercises on the screen: 1. Write down the things which happened in the following years: 1) in 1870: Thomas Barnardo opened his first homes for children without parents. 2) in 1905: Thomas Barnardo died. 2. Fill in the blanks according to the passage. In 1870, Thomas Barnardo studied medicine and he lived near the hospital. While he was studying, he taught at a school for poor children. He found out that many children at the school had no parents and no homes, so he raised money and bought a house for them as a school and home. 3. Judge true or false. Now, there are no Barnardo’s homes, so no one help children and families. (F) Now, although there are no Barnardo’s homes, the charity continues to help children and families. Step ? Listening and writing Listening T: Listen to the tape and complete the table in Activity 6. Listen to the first time only to get the main idea, the second time listen to write down the required information about Grandmother and Mother and the third time listen to check the answers. After the listening, ask some students read out their answers. The teacher must make sure that all the students can understand the material in the listening and write down the notes because they will be used in Activity 7. Writing T: Now, you have had the required information about Grandmother and Mother, which is enough for you to write a passage comparing their lives. The grandmother had 8 brothers and sisters so she had a bigger family. She started school when she was older, but she left school earlier… Step ? Module task 1. Work in groups. Read the subject of the debate. Children should never work 2. Decide who is for the subject of the debate and who is against it. You can use some of the following ideas : For: Extra money for the family Stop children from being bored Teach children the value of work Help children to become independent Against: Work is for adults, not children Children need to concentrate on learning. Conditions of work not suitable for young people Families and employers not treat children fairly. The students can be divided into two halves and several groups. According to their willingness. 3. Prepare your opinions for or against the subject of the debate. 4. Have a debate. ,Those for the subject give their opinions. ,Those against the subject give their opinions. ,Take turns to say what you think. ,Write down a summary of the opinions for and against. ,Have a vote. Are most people for or against the subject? At last ask each team to give the conclusion to the whole class. 5. Write down the argument for or against the statement. Sample argument 1: Children Should Work In my group, we think Children should work. The reasons are as follows. First, they can earn extra money. Because some families are very poor, if children work, the life will be better. Second, it can stop children from being bored. By working, children can get much fun. Third, it can teach children the value of work. By working, they can know it’s not important to make money and they can feel the sense of achievement. Fourth, it can help children to become independent. Because they can learn to solve the problems in work and make money by themselves. Sample argument 2: Children Should Never Work The people in my group think children should never work. There are also four reasons. First, work is for adults, not children. Children should study hard. Second, Children should concentrate on learning. If children worked, their learning would be influenced. Third, the conditions of work are not suitable for young people. Maybe the work is too hard and the relationships among people are too complicated. Fourth, families and employers may not treat children fairly. Children are so young, so they can be looked down upon and deceived. Step ? Homework 1. Write a short passage comparing the life in the past and today. 2. Revise the usage of usage of the positive degree, the comparative degree and the superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs.