外研版九年級(jí)英語(yǔ)下冊(cè)《Language in use》Life now and then PPT免費(fèi)課件，共47頁(yè)。
Language practice
People are wealthier today, and they live longer than they did in the past.
But people don't take as much exercise as they used to.
More people have cars, and they walk or use their bikes less.
We eat better and we live longer.
課堂操練
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.
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.
Write examples.
1. People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play.
2. The pollution from factories filled the air. People put their rubbish outside in the streets.
3. They didn’t always go to school, because they had to work instead.
Learning to learn
When you do a listening or reading exercise, you should read the instructions carefully. Then you can focus your attention just on the information you need. You don’t have to understand every word.
Hold the debate.
Those for the motion give their opinions.
Those against the motion give their opinions.
Take turns to say what you think about each other’s arguments.
語(yǔ)法要點(diǎn)
1. think of... as 把……看作
eg: I think of you as my friend. 我把你當(dāng)作我的朋友。
think of... as意為“把……看作”，此處的as是介詞，后可接名詞（短語(yǔ)）等。類似的短語(yǔ)還有consider... as, look on... as, regard... as等。
eg: They regard him as their friend.
他們把他當(dāng)作他們的朋友。
2. find out 找出；查明
其后可接名詞（短語(yǔ)）、代詞或從句等。
eg: We must find out who broke the window today.
今天我們一定要查出誰(shuí)打壞了窗戶。
3. as a result 因此，結(jié)果
eg: It was late at night and there was no bus. As a result, we had to walk home.
夜深了并且沒有公共汽車。結(jié)果我們不得不步行回家。
Summary
本節(jié)課主要學(xué)習(xí)了以過(guò)去生活和現(xiàn)在生活的不同為主要內(nèi)容的郵件，掌握了知識(shí)點(diǎn)think of… as, find out, as a result的用法，做了練習(xí)題并進(jìn)行了語(yǔ)言練習(xí)。
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