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Unit 3 Language in use
Ⅰ Teaching model
Revision and application
Ⅱ Teaching method
Formal and interactive
Ⅲ Teaching aims
To summarize and consolidate comparative degree and superlative degree, and finish the tasks.
Ⅳ Teaching aids
Recorder, OHP, handouts
Ⅴ Teaching Steps
Step 1 Revision
Show some pictures to say what life was like in the early 1980s and what life is like today.
Step 2 Sentences presentation
1. Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class.
1) People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
2) But people don’t take as much exercise as they used to.
3) More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
4) We eat better and we live longer.
2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.
Step 3 Language practice
1. 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). But 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.
2. Look at the two pictures and talk about how the town has changed.
Use the words in the box to help you.
big building busy house modern more shop street tall traffic tree
3. Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box.
Ask the students to read the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3.
heat more than seldom spare speak up
Ask the students to read through the sentences in Activity 3.
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 punish think of him as their friend.
Complete the sentences with the words or expressions in the box.
Ask the students to check with a partner.
Check the answers.
Step 4 Reading
1. Read the email and find three examples that show life was harder in the past than it is today.
2. Read the email again. Find sentences that tell us:
1) There was not enough living space for people.
2) Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy.
3) Life was harder for children in those times.
3. Write examples.
1) People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play.
2) _____________________________________________________________.
3) _______________________________________________________________.
Ask the students to check with a partner.
Check the answers.
Step 5 Listening
1. Listen and complete he table.
Grandmother Mother
Age to start school
Age to start work
Age to get married
Number of children
Age to stop working
2. Let Ss listen again, and write a passage comparing the lives of the speaker’s grandmother and mother in Activity 6.
Step 6 Around the world: Cars
1. Ask the students to look at the picture and discuss what they can see.
2. Read through the information with the whole class.
3. Fill in the blanks.
1) The modern car has changed life a _________ deal.
2) Using horses for travel was________, and of course walking was even ________.
3) Cars allow people to travel long distances________, in comfort and________.
4) It was almost ___________ to get rid for the manure of the horses.
5) The cars may cause_________, but the first cars actually made cities_________.
4. Ask the students to check with a partner.
5. Check the answers:
6. Read the passage together.
Step 7 Module task: Organizing a debate.
1. Work in groups. Read the motion of the debate.
Health is more important than wealth.
2. Now decide who is for the motion and who is against it. You can use some of the following ideas:
For :
Without health, wealth means nothing.
You can enjoy life better if you are healthy.
Against:
It is hard to be healthy without wealth.
You can enjoy life better if you are wealthy.
3. Prepare your arguments. Give examples to support your ideas.
4. Hold the debate.
Those for the motion give their opinions.
Those against the motion give their opinion.
Take turns to say what you think about each other’s arguments.
5. Discuss and find out whether most people are for or against the motion.
Step 8 Exercises: 中考连接
1. —Which season do you like _______, winter or summer
—Summer. (北京)
A. well B. better C. best D. the best
2. Many students think it _______ to learn English by using news. (佛山)
A. interest B. interesting C. interested
3. It is said that Shanghai students have scored the ________ in an international
test. (佛山)
A. high B. higher C. highest
4. — Mom, what do you think of our new house
— It’s nice, and it’s _________ than the old one. (通辽)
A. big B. bigger C. biggest D. the biggest
5. Lin Fang comes home _____ than before this term. She doesn’t have so
many classes in the afternoon. (重庆)
A. early B. earlier C. late D. later
6. “Have you read today’s newspaper ”
“Yes. It’s really boring. There’s ______ in it.” (贵阳)
A. something new B. nothing new C. anything new
7. —How do you like the book you read yesterday (丹东)
—Oh! It’s one of ______ books I’ve ever read.
A. interesting B. more interesting
C. most interesting D. the most interesting
8. Mike is the _______ boy in his class now. (宁德)
A. tall B. taller C. tallest
9. The baby is sleeping, please play the piano ________. (宁德)
A. loudly B. quietly C. clearly
10. How ________ Li Ming writes!
Yes, he is the ________ in our class.
A. carefully, most careful
B. care, most careful
C. carefully, careful
D. careful, careful (黔东南)
Step 9 Homework
Write a passage about the changes in your hometown, using the comparative and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs we have learnt.
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