1、Module3 Unit2 教案教案 Teaching model Reading and writing. Teaching method Top-down approach Teaching aims 1. To get information from the passage about life in the past 2. To learn more expressions and new vocabulary Teaching Objectives 1. Key vocabulary: tiny, electric, light, candle, postman, cold, he
2、at, full-time, role, education, transport 2. Keys structure: Sentence structure. Teaching aids Tape recorder, handout Teaching Steps Step 1 Work in pairs. 1. Show some pictures to ask the students to talk. (Key words: Life in the past, life now, family, work, health, education) Step 2 Presentation 1
3、. Show the new words. tiny adj. 微小的；极小的 electric adj. 用电的；电动的 n. 电灯 candle n. 蜡烛 postman n. 邮递员 cold n. 寒冷；冷空气 heat n. 高温；热度 full-time adj. 专职的；全日制的 education n. (个人的)教育；学业 transport n. 运输业；交通 role n. 作用；职责；角色 2. Read the words after the teacher. Step 3 Look and say. 1. Look at the woman in the phot
4、o in Activity 1. 2. Ask and answer: 1) How do you think she feels? 2) Think about what she will talk about: family work health education Step 4 Reading 1. Play the recording and ask students to listen to the tape carefully and take notes on what Mrs Li says about the points in Activity 1. family wor
5、k health education Keys: Families have got smaller than they were in the past. Today most people only have one child. There were five children in my family. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat. My mum was a farm girl. She d
6、idnt go out to work. My daughter goes to work even after getting married. I wasnt sent to school because my family couldnt afford it, and whats more, because I was a girl. My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education. 2. Read the passage and then complete the notes and add more points of yo
7、ur own. Life in the past Life now Family: bigger; five children Family: smaller; one child Food: _ _ Work: _ _ Education: _ _ 3. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner. 4. Call back the answers from the whole class and check the answers. Step 5 Complete the passage. 1. Read the passag
8、e again. 2. Read through the words and expressions in the box in Activity 3. candles cold generally speaking postman tiny traffic 3. Complete the passage with the words and expressions in the box. Mrs Lis father was a (1) _. He often worked outside for twelve hours a day in the summer heat or in the
9、 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) _. 4. Ask the students to check their answer with a partner. 5. Call back the an
10、swers from the whole class and check the answers. Keys: 1. postman 2. cold 3. tiny 4. candles 5. generally speaking 6. traffic Step 6 Language points 1. looking after us was more than a full-time job. 照料我们比做一份全职工 作还要辛苦。 这句话的主语是动名词短语 looking after us。 句中 more than 表示 “不只是， 多于” 。 例如： He is more than a
11、 coach. He is a friend. 他不只是教练，更是朋友。 full-time adj. 专职的；全日制的 e.g. students in full-time education 全日制学生 Looking after a child is a full-time job. 照管小孩是一天忙到晚的活儿。 2. Generally speaking, I think life is better today. 总的说来，我认为今天的生活更 好了。 generally speaking 表示“一般而言，总的说来”。 in general 也可以表达同样的意思。例如： General
12、ly speaking, we enjoyed the trip. 总的说来，我们这次旅行很愉快。 In general, women live longer than men. 总的说来，女性比男性更长寿。 Step 7 Homework 1 Write a passage about the advantages and disadvantages of life today. 1) Choose two or three points from the notes in Activity 2 to write about. Families and smaller 2) Give exa
13、mples or reasons to support those points. Most people only have one child today. 3) 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. Families are smaller because most people only have one child today. As a result, families have more money to spend on their child. However, an only child may feel lonely 4) Finish the passage with your conclusion. Generally speaking, I think 2. Present your passage to the class.
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