《I think life is better today》Life now and then PPT精品课件

外研版九年级英语下册《I think life is better today》Life now and then PPT精品课件，共28页。

Thinking

How did people live in the past?

How do we live now?

Transport: How do people travel

Family: How many members in a family

Food: What do people eat

Work life: Where do people work

Education: Who can go to school

Presention

tiny adj. 微小的；极小的

electric adj. 用电的；电动的

light 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

Read the part‘What was your life like in the past? ’and answer the questions.

1. What did Mrs Li ’s parents do?

Mrs Li ’s father was a postman and her mother was a housewife.

2. Was Mrs Li ’s father ’s work hard? How do you know that?

Yes, it was. Her father often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.

3. Why Mrs Li ’s parents didn ’t send her to school?

Because her family couldn ’t afford it, and what ’s more, because she was a girl.

Critical Thinking

Opinion : I think life in the past is better than now.

Reason 1 : Families are smaller today.

Examples : busy working, loneliness

Reason 2 : There is so much traffic.

Examples : traffic jam, too much noise, pollution

Conclusion : Generally speaking, I think …

Exercises

Ⅰ.根据语境用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。

1. Are there any ________(candle) at home, Linda?

2. Most people think more money should be spent on ________(education) and houses.

3. The street ________(light) are usually turned off at 6 in the morning.

4. Jim lives in a ________(tiny) bedroom than that of his sister.

5. Ten years ago the brothers were ________(postman), but now they run a company.

Ⅱ. 根据语境从方框中选择恰当的单词填空，有的需要变换形式。

transport, cold, heat, full-time, role

1. The temperature is minus ten degrees! But she doesn't seem to feel the ________.

2. Mulan is one of the greatest ________ she has played.

3. Ms Jones would like to look for a ________ job.

4. The ________ from the fire has already made my wet coat dry.

5. The money could be spent on improving public ________.

Homework

Must-do:

1. Finish exercises of M3U2 in KSTX

2. Read the passage for 2 times

3. Remember and recite the words and expressions of this unit

Choose-to-do

Write a passage about the change of our life.