1. Unit 1 Past and Present
Welcome to the unit

2. Warming-up
Welcome back to school , everyone!
Did you have a good time in winter holiday ?
Where did you go ? …

3. The changes in our life !
Great changes have taken place in our daily life!
There have been great changes in our daily life!
Our daily life has changed a lot.

4. Present living condition Present diet Present lifestyle
What are these changes?
Present living condition
Present diet
Present lifestyle
Environment in nowadays
Transport in our everyday life

5. How do you go to school every day?
bike
bus

6. How do your parents go to work when the weather is very bad?
taxi

7. New words past 过去，往事 present 现在，目前 since 自……以来 times 时期，时代
transport 运输，交通工具
double-decker 双层公共汽车
light rail 轻轨

8. light rail

9. train

10. underground

11. bus

12. plane

13. Please guess the different forms of transport.
It travels along a fixed route and has many stops to let people get on and off. It can take you to many places but does not cost you much.
bus
2. It is the fastest way of travelling to a place far away, but it will cost you a lot of money.
plane

14. Please guess the different forms of transport.
3. Thousands of people go to work on it every day. It is fast and it is under the ground.
underground
4. It is like a bus, but has two floors.
double-decker
5. It is a car with a driver, and you have to
pay the driver to take you somewhere.
taxi

15. taxi coach bus light rail underground train plane
Write the correct names under the pictures:
taxi
coach
bus
light rail
underground
train
plane
double-decker

16. A timeline for the different forms of transport in Beijing [Back to the past]
double-decker
underground
light rail
train
taxi
bus
plane coach

17. Listen to the tape about comic strip

18. Where was Hobo’s food an hour ago? It was in the bowl.
Listen to the dialogue between Eddie and Hobo
and answer the following questions:
Where was Hobo’s food an hour ago?
It was in the bowl.
2. Why did Eddie eat Hobo’s food?
Because he was very hungry.
3. Is Hobo happy?
No, he isn’t.
4. What does Hobo think of Eddie?
He thinks Eddie has changed.

19. Complete the following passage.
Hobo’s food _______ in the _______ an hour ago.
But it isn’t there now. Why? Eddie has just
_______ it because he was ________. Hobo
thinks Eddie has _______ and he is _______ bad
now. He doesn’t want to _______ with Eddie
any ________.
was
bowl
eaten
hungry
changed so
play
more

20. ACT OUT!