高中英语Unit 24 Lesson 1 Consumer Society (warm up)课件北师大选修8.ppt

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1、Warm-Up2021/8/11 星期三1In this unit you will Discuss social issues,talk about society in the past and make suggestions.Listen to a radio news report,a story,dialogues and a song.Use listening strategies for dealing with cultural references.2021/8/11 星期三2 Read magazine articles and letters to a newspap

2、er.use reading strategies for summarising.Write a discursive essay.Learn about complex sentences used for persuasion.2021/8/11 星期三3Warm-upWhat do you think are the biggest problems in Western countries?Put them in order of importance.Exercise 1Exercise 1Key words:social problems2021/8/11 星期三4 beggin

3、g2021/8/11 星期三5racial discrimination.2021/8/11 星期三6domestic violence2021/8/11 星期三7drugs2021/8/11 星期三8inequality2021/8/11 星期三9homelessness2021/8/11 星期三10poverty2021/8/11 星期三11unemployment2021/8/11 星期三12Violent crime2021/8/11 星期三13Exercise 2 Listen to the radio news report about changes in British soc

4、iety.Match the topics with the graphs below.a)Percent of households with carsb)Percent of households with computersc)Percent of women who workd)Percent of 16-18 year olds in full-time education2021/8/11 星期三14a)Percent of households with carsb)Percent of households with computersc)Percent of women wh

5、o workd)Percent of 16-18 year olds in e)full-time education2021/8/11 星期三15Listen again and complete the table.19812001average income of British family per week 326life expectancy for men and womenunemployment1.7 millionaverage income 550men 7074women 7579less than 1 million2021/8/11 星期三1619812001num

6、bers in full-time further educationnumber of crimes550,0001,300,000280,000520,0002021/8/11 星期三17Tape-script:A recent report on British society has shown that most Britons live longer,are healthier,better educated and much richer than twenty years ago.However,we work longer hours and are much more wo

7、rried about crime than ever before.Our standard of living has risen and the average income of British families is now nearly 550 a week,compared with 326 in 1981,which is a considerable rise even when taking into account inflation.The percentage of households with cars has climbed from 62%to 72%,whi

8、le the number with central heating has increased from 61%to 90%.The percentage of households with computers has rocketed dramatically from around 3%to over 40%.Not everybody has benefited though and there are much greater inequalities than twenty years ago,the2021/8/11 星期三18top 20%are much richer th

9、ey now have 46%of the nations wealth compared with around 35%in 1981.the bottom 20%of society are now relatively much poorer and their share of the nations wealth has declined from 10%to 6%.Problems like begging and homelessness are on the increase.Life expectancy has gone up steadily.In 1981,Britis

10、h men could expect to live around 70 years and British women on average 75 years.Now men live 74 years and women 79.Over the last twenty years,unemployment has fluctuated but has gone down recently.It went up from around 1.7 million in 1981 to 2.1 million in 1989 only to fall beneath a million in th

11、e spring of 2001.However,we work much longer hours than before,in fact the longest in Europe.There are many more women working than before nearly 72%compared2021/8/11 星期三19with 57%in 1981,the highest figure in Europe.However,on average women still only earn 80%of that earned by men.Britons are bette

12、r educated than twenty years ago,at least in theory.Now nearly 60%of 1618 year olds are in full-time education compared with 32%twenty years ago.The numbers of full0time students in further education has more than doubled,from 550,000 in 1981 to over 1,300,000 in 2001.Possibly the most worrying tren

13、ds are related to crime and violence.Between 1981 and 2001,the number of crimes in England and Wales almost doubled from 280,000 to 520,000.the amount of violent crime rose from 56,000 to 61,000,not such a big increase perhaps but a figure fifteen times higher than that of 1950.there has also been a

14、n increase in cases of domestic violence in the last few years.2021/8/11 星期三20Work in pairs.Use the key words to say true or false sentences about trends in British society.Key Words:Describing Trends to rise,to climb,to go up,to rocket,to double triple,to be on the increase to fall,to go down,to decline,to be on the decrease to fluctuate,to go up and downModern China(After the Reform&Opening)Computercarmobile phonepovertytellycarcrimedeath2021/8/11 星期三212021/8/11 星期三22