1、Warm-Up,In 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., Read magazine articles and letters to a newspaper. use reading stra
2、tegies for summarising. Write a discursive essay. Learn about complex sentences used for persuasion.,Warm-up,What do you think are the biggest problems in Western countries? Put them in order of importance.,Exercise 1,Key words: social problems,begging,racial discrimination.,domestic violence,drugs,
3、inequality,homelessness,poverty,unemployment,Violent crime,Exercise 2,Listen to the radio news report about changes in British society. Match the topics with the graphs below.,Percent of households with cars Percent of households with computers Percent of women who work Percent of 16-18 year olds in
4、 full-time education,Percent of households with cars Percent of households with computers Percent of women who work Percent of 16-18 year olds in full-time education,Listen again and complete the table.,average income 550,men 7074,women 7579,less than 1 million,550,000,1,300,000,280,000,520,000,Tape
5、-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 worried about crime than ever before. Our standard of living has risen and the average income of
6、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%, while the number with central heating has increased from 61% to 90%. The percentage of house
7、holds 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, the,top 20% are much richer they now have 46% of the nations wealth compared with around 35% in 1981. the bottom 20% of society
8、 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, British men could expect to live around 70 years and British women on average 75 years. Now me
9、n 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 the spring of 2001. However, we work much longer hours than before, in fact the longes
10、t in Europe. There are many more women working than before nearly 72% compared,with 57% in 1981, the highest figure in Europe. However, on average women still only earn 80% of that earned by men. Britons are better educated than twenty years ago, at least in theory. Now nearly 60% of 1618 year olds
11、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 trends are related to crime and violence. Between 1981 and 2001, the number of crime
12、s 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 an increase in cases of domestic violence in the last few years.,Work in pai
13、rs. 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 down,Modern China (After the Reform & Opening) Computer car mobile phone poverty telly car crime death,
