外研版九年级下册(新)Module 3 Unit 3 listen, read and around the world 课件 (30张)概要1.ppt

* Unit 3 Is life better today than in the past? Why? Talk about it with your partner. 1. Big families lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play. 2. A whole street had to share one outside toilet. 3. Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy. Read the email and find three examples that show life was harder in the past than it is today. 4 Read again and find information about: Living space Conditions in big cities Life for children 1. There was not enough living space for people. 2. Most of the big cities were dirty and unhealthy. People lived in very small houses, very close to each other, with no space for children to play. The pollution from factories filled the air. People put their rubbish outside in the streets. There were many illnesses. Read again and find sentences that tell us: They didn’t always go to school, because they had to work instead. Many children started work in factories when they were only four or five years old. They worked twelve hours a day in dangerous jobs for very little money. 3. Life was harder for children in those times. Work in pairs. Talk about your life by using the email as an example. Do you like talking with your grandmother? How many children does she have? Did she go to school when she was young? When did she get married? Grandmother Mother Age to start school Age to start work Age to get married Number of children Age to stop working 8 years old 14 years old 14 years old four children 50 years old 6 years old 22 years old 24 years old one child 55 years old Listen and complete the table. 6 Compare the table and discuss the differences with your partner. Write a passage comparing their lives. The speaker’s grandmother and mother have lived very different lives. Her grandmother had a much bigger family of four children. The speaker’s mother has only one child. Her grandmother and mother had different childhoo