牛津译林版八级下Unit1 Reading课件（共56张PPT.ppt

Unit 1 Past and present;Where is your hometown? How long have you lived there? What have changed in your hometown?;Past and present;Important words: since, ever, northern, married, wife, block, since, over, pollution, factory, waste, realize, situation, however, impossible, before, lonely, anyway;Watch and read;A Times have changed Millie wants to write about the changes in Sunshine Town for her history project. Daniel’s grandpa, Mr Chen, knows a lot about Sunshine Town, so Millie is interviewing him to get some information.;Millie: Do you know Sunshine Town very well, Mr Chen? Mr Chen: Sure. I’ve lived here since I was born. Millie: Have you ever moved house? Mr Chen: Yes. I first lived in the northern part of town with my parents. When I got married in 1965, my wife and I moved two blocks away and we’ve lived in this area since then. Millie: Has the town changed a lot over these years?;Mr Chen: Yes! We only had some small restaurants and shops years age. And we had a post office and a cinema in the town centre. Now the government has turned part of the town centre into a new park. We have a new theatre and a large shopping more too.;Millie: Was pollution a problem then? Mr Chen: Yes, it was. There was once a steel factory near the Sunshine River. They often put the waste into the river. Later the govern realized the problem and took action to improve the situation. Now the river is much cleaner. Millie: Do you think life is better now? Mr Chen: Well, in some ways it is. Its really ;nice to have a beautiful modern town. However, most of my old friends have moved away. It has become impossible for us to see each o