Unit4 Then and now

Step1 Free talk

Good morning, boys and girls. 1. T: I’m your English teacher, We know each other well. Can you try to say something

about me?

Ss: You are tall. You like surfing the Internet. You can teach English… T: Good. Look at this picture. Who’s that？ S: She is…

T: It’s me. She was your English teacher thirty years ago. What could I do then? Let’s take a look.(PPT播放一组照片)

T：What do you think of me? Can you do the judgments? (1). Thirty years ago, my hair was short. (2). Thirty years ago, I could dance.

(3). Thirty years ago, I could speak English. (4). Thirty years ago, I could teach. Ss: Judge and correct.

2. T: What could I do thirty years ago? Ss: You could…(根据刚才看过的图片回忆说) T: Here are some pictures of me. Let’s see. Step2 New lesson 1.整体感知

T: I have changed a lot, right? Today, we will see more changes about these people. Look! Who are they? (看图说)

T: What is the passage about?(生尝试说)

T: What is the title of this passage? Here are three choices. Let’s watch and choose.(给出三个选项，看卡通，选择标题) T: Which one do you choose?

S: B. Then and now.(揭题，带读标题) 2.自主分段学习 （1）阅读理解

T: What differences happened? Open your books and turn to Page38. Read the story by yourselves and fill in the blanks.(学生阅读并完成)

T: Have you finished? Please say it in pairs just like Su Yang and Yang Ling. Ss: Six years ago. Mike couldn’t… （2）当堂反馈

T：Who can try?(出示Mike图片)

S: Mike couldn’t write. Mike can do many things. T: How many years ago? S: Six years ago.

T: What could he do six years ago? S: He could…

T: What can he do now? S: He…

T: Now let’s read this part. (Read the first part.) （出示Mr Brown图片）

S: Twenty years ago, Mr Brown wrote letters to friends. He used the telephone at home…

S: Now, he writes e-mails. He has a mobile phone. T: Good.(图片)a telephone, a mobile phone(带读)

T: What’s the difference between a telephone and a mobile phone?

S: We put our telephone at home or in the office. We can take our mobile phone to anywhere.

T: What else? Which one do you prefer, the telephone or the mobile phone? S:…

T: We can use the mobile phone to call people anywhere. What does it mean? Here are two choices.(给出两个英文解释，让学生学会用英文解释英语) T: Which one do you choose?

S: He can call people no matter where they are. T: Now let’s read this part.(Read the second part) （出示Grandpa图片）

S: Thirty years ago, Grandpa listened to the radio. He read newspapers. S: Now, He reads and watches news on the Internet. He reads e-books.

T: Thirty years ago, grandpa got news from the radio and newspaper. But now, we have something new.

S: Internet/Computer.(带读Internet, e-book)

T: Grandpa uses the Internet to get news. What else can we do with the Internet? S: We can use it to…

T: What’s the difference between a book and an e-book？

S: A book made from wood. Books sometimes are very heavy. E-books are machines. They are expensive, but we can read a lot of books in one e-book… T: Which one do you prefer? S: …

T: Now let’s read it.(Read the third part) （出示Mrs Brown图片） S: Twenty years ago, Mrs Brown made friends at schools. She bought things from shops. S: Now, she has e-friends from all over the world. She does shopping on the Internet. T: Now, she has e-friends from all over the world. What does it mean? I’ll also give you two choices (给出两个英文解释，让学生选择)

S: She has e-friends from different countries in the world.

T: Mrs Brown likes going shopping. Why she does shopping on the Internet now？ S: Perhaps. Shopping on the Internet is very convenient. The price is reasonable. You have more choices.

T: Now let’s read the last part.(Read the last part) 3.整体回顾课文

T: You see, they have changed a lot. What do you think of their life? Why? This time, let’s read after the computer and think about this question. Read after the computer sentence by sentence.

Ss: Read it together.

T: What do you think? You can discuss in groups first.

Ss: Their life is…( colourful, cool, modern, happy…),because… Step3 Practice

T: This time, let’s work in 4.Each one chooses a part to read. Then use the phrases on the blackboard to make a report about your part.(分组练习朗读，然后四人一组，上台借助板书进行反馈) Step4 Task

1. T: You act well. Let’s make it more interesting. Make a Live Show. This is CXTV. Welcome to today’s Daily Talk Show. What are we going to talk today? Then and now. Our Guests today are Brown’s family.

Who will be the host? We can have some hosts, and I can be the first one. Who can be Mike?(选四人， 做示范)

Do you have any questions to Brown’s family?（板书互动问题）

2. T: Four of you in a group. Try to make this TV show. And you can prepare to ask or answer some questions like this. Otherwise, who would like to be the host? Try. Step5 Homework

1. Listen and read Story time. 2. Retell Story time on P38.

3. Bring two photo (during your kindergarten years and in the present), and think of the changes between two photos on P40.