With this question and watch the video carefully(播放带字幕动画)

　　Check up and lead in the answer: C. many years ago and now

　　【设计意图】

　　教师呈现问题，学生带着问题观看动画，初步感知课文内容。

　　T: Today we have a happy life. But life was very different in China many years ago.

　　Lead in: different

　　T: How was it different? Can you guess?

　　【设计意图】

　　让学生了解很多年前中国的生活前进行预测与讨论，激活学生的思维、原有认知和生活经验，为新课的学习做好准备。

　　Step 3. Presentation

　　1. T: How was the life many years ago?

　　Ask the students to read the second paragraph and underline the sentences with "____".Circle the new words you don't know.

　　The students try to say out the answers.

　　1) There weren't any buses.

　　2) There weren't any televisions.

　　3) We lived in a small house.

　　4) We didn't have enough food.

　　Ask the students to retell the four sentences.

　　【设计意图】

　　让学生带着问题再次阅读文本并在课本中画出相应的语句，培养了学生从文本寻找答案的能力，同时也培养学生养成了不动笔墨不读书的习惯。另外让学生圈出不认识的新单词，并在语境中学习新单词，可以加深学生对新单词的领悟和理解能力，做到了词不离句，句不离篇。