《Language in use》Life now and then PPT课件3

Language practice

Is life today better or worse than it was 50 years ago?

The most important difference is that

People are healthier today, and they live longer.

But people don’t take as much exercise as they did.

People walk or use their bikes less, and they’re lazier.

And that makes life more dangerous and less healthy.

I really want to do my best.

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Grammar: 形容词与副词

形容词和副词的句法作用

1. 形容词

形容词一般放在名词之前作定语，或放在系动词之后作表语，或作宾语补足语。形容词作定语，一般都是放在名词之前，但若修饰不定代词 something, anything等则后置。

We must keep our classroom clean. (宾补）

They were kind and nice. (表语）

Can you see the old tree there? (定语）

Is there anything funny in the paper today? 

2. 副词：

副词一般作状语，修饰动词、形容词以及全句，表示程度、方式等。

注：副词作状语修饰动词，一般是后置，修饰形容词或副词要前置。

Mr Wang works hard in school.

Lily can speak Chinese very well.

频度副词：一般位于行为动词之前，系动词或助动词之后。常见的有 always, often,  sometimes, usually, seldom, never。

程度副词：常置于形容词或副词之前。常见的有very, much, quite, pretty, so 等。

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形容词和副词的比较等级

1. 常用的比较级的句型：

1) A + 动词 + 比较级 + than +B.

Mary is younger than Betty. 

He got up earlier than I did this morning.

2) 主语 + 动词 + the 比较级 + of the two. 

(说明：在of the two这样的比较范围或特指哪一个时，比较级前要加the)

Tom is the taller of the two. 

汤姆是两个中较高的那个。

Lily runs faster of the two. 

莉莉是两个中跑得较快的那个。

3) The + 比较级, the + 比较级, 表示“越……，越……”。 

The more you study, the more you know. 

你学的越多，知道的越多。 

The harder the test is, the lower marks we get.

测试题越难，我们的得分越少。

4) 比较级 + and + 比较级，表示“越来越……”。 

The computer is cheaper and cheaper. 

计算机越来越便宜。

He studies harder and harder.

他学习越来越努力。

2. 同级比较：

同级比较肯定句型: as…as…

否定句型: not so / as … as …

He is as tall as his brother.

He runs as fast as Jim.

I can’t get up so early as you. 

3. 常用的最高级句型：

1) the + 最高级 + of / in … 

She is the tallest girls in our class. 

This novel is the most interesting of the three. 

2) 选择疑问句

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. 

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1. (2011哈尔滨) English people can’t give up 

hamburgers or fried chicken because they’re 

delicious. However, the French are changing. 

They aren’t interested in ____ food like before.

A. fast B. healthy        C. natural

2. (2011呼和浩特) ----What do you think of Tom’s speaking?

----No one does      in our class.

A. good     B. better    C. well     D. best

3. (2010·扬州中考) —Yummy! The coffee is good.

--That’s right. It will taste________ with some milk.

A. good  B. better     C. best    D. the best

4. (2010·黄冈中考) —What’s the low-carbon life style like?

--Save _______ energy, produce________ carbon.

A. more; more    B. less; more 

C. less; less    D. more; less

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The sample answers 

1. The buildings are much taller, much more beautiful and much newer. 

2. There are more cars in the street today than it was 50 years ago.

3. The streets are much wider and cleaner.

4. The environment is much better. 

5. People are much busier than before.

6. The life is much better than before.

7. There are more shops than before.

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Read the passage and find three examples of things that made life harder in the past than it is today.

Big families lived in very small houses.  

Close together with no space for children to play.

There was only one outside toilet for the whole street.

Big cities were dirty and unhealthy.

Pollution from factories covered the streets.

People put their rubbish outside in the streets, so there were many diseases. 

Children worked instead of going to school.

They worked for 12 hours a day from the age of four or five in dangerous and unhealthy jobs.

Many were hurt in accidents from the machines. 

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Some important points in the passage:

be interested to do sth

thousands of / hundreds of / millions of

instead of sth /instead of doing sth close to: near  

The sound of gun was much closer to us.

be pleased / glad to do sth

be pleased / glad + that 从句

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Answer the questions according to the passage. 

1. Who was Thomas Barnardo?

A doctor who started a charity to help children. 

2. What did Thomas do in 1870? 

Thomas Barnardo opened his first homes for children without parents. 

3. Was he successful in his lifetime?

Yes, when he died there were about 100 Barnardo’s homes caring for more than 8,000 children. 

Module task: 

organising a debate about life in the past

Debate Process

1. Choose a subject of debate. 

2. Decide who is for the subject of the debate and who is against it.

Approving side: Against side:

3. Prepare your opinions for or against the subject of  the debate.

4. Start to have a debate. 

5. State your idea and give general explanation to your idea.

6. Disprove your opponent’s idea and precisely prove your idea.

7. Reemphasize your idea and conclude your proves and the weakness in your opponent’s idea.

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Homework

1. Finish the exercises in the workbook Ex. 1, 2, 9 & 10.

2. Finish the passage comparing their lives in the Activity 7.

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