Unit 13 Healthy Eating

Ⅰ. Teaching Goals:

1. Talk about eating habits and health. Talk about seeing the doctor. Practise giving advice and making suggestions.

2. Use the modal verbs: had better, should and ought to.

3. Learn some useful cooking terms. Read and write recipes.

Ⅱ. Teaching Times: 5 periods

The First Period

§ Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: sweet, mushroom, fried, junk food, fat, snack, stomach, fever, salad, peach, ripe, ought, examine, plenty, all the time, have a fever, be careful with, plenty of.

2. Sentence Patterns: (1) advise sb. (not) to do sth.

(2) There’s sth. wrong with…

3. Train the Ss’ listening ability.

4. Develop the Ss’ speaking ability by describing, talking and discussion.

§ Important Points & Difficult Points:

1. Trains the Ss’ listening ability.

2. Master the new phrases, sentence patterns and everyday English and make the Ss be free to talk about their favourite food and give reasons for their decisions.

3. How to finish the task of speaking.

§ Teaching Methods:

1. Listening-and-answering activity to help Ss go through with the listening material.

2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student work in class.

§ Teaching Aids:

1. a tape recorder

2. the blackboard

§ Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Warming-up: Brainstorm (words about food)

* List the food we eat in the Spring Festival:

rice, porridge, noodle, dumpling, corn, big flatbread, steamed bun, fried twisted dough sticks, walnut, peanut, chestnut, bean cake, mushroom, fried chips, hamburger, ice cream, chocolate, apple, pear, banana, orange, grape, chicken, beef, fish, pork, cucumber, carrot, tomato, potato, cabbage.

* Fill in the table

Name Food Junk food / Healthy food

Breakfast

Lunch

Snack

Supper

* Talk: Are these food good for our health, or be harm to our health?

Model:

A: Do you like eating fried chips? B: Yes, I like it very much.

A: But I think it is junk food, because it has a lot of fat and sugar.

B: Really? So I’d better not eat too much.

Step 2. Speaking

T: There are so many food for us to eat, right? They are very delicious, but if you eat too much in a meal, or eat some raw food, you will be ill as Sharon. Turn to Page 3, read the dialogue and pay attention to the useful expressions.

* Useful Expression

I’ve got a pain here. This place hurts. I don’t feel well.

There’s sth. wrong with my back / my knee / my arm.

Lie down and let me examine you. Let me have a look.

* Make a short dialogue

Step 3. Listening

* First time, listen carefully and try to understand what does it talk about?

* Second time, answer the following questions

1. What’s wrong with Mike?

2. What did Mike have for breakfast?

3. Can you give Mike some advice? What should he eat less of?

* Third time, answer the next three questions

1. Which side of Mike’s stomach hurts?

2. Does Mike have a fever?

3. What does the doctor tell Mike to do?

Step 4. Homework

1. One reading exercise everyday

2. Ex1 & 2 on Page 72

3. Preview the reading part

§ The Design of the Writing on the Bb

Unit 13 Healthy eating (first period)

Brainstorm: Words & Phrases:

dumpling, all the time

corn, have a fever

noodle… be careful with…

The Second Period

§ Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: soft, bar, fuel, diet, calory, pace, bean, fibre, mineral, disease, environmental, chemical, probably, balance, keep up with, too much, make choices, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for, go for

2. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.

3. Enable the Ss to understand the best way to make sure that we will feel and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits by learning the reading text

§ Important Points & Difficult Points:

1. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.

2. Master the following phrases: keep up with, too much, make choice, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for.

3. How to make the Ss understand the reading material better and answer the questions on the passage.

§ Teaching Method:

1. Discussion before reading to make Ss interested in what they will learn

2. Discussion after reading to make Ss understand what they’ve learned better

3. Fast reading to get a general idea of each paragraph

4. Careful reading to get the detailed information in the text

§ Teaching Aids:

1. a tape recorder

2. the blackboard

§ Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Review the words and phrases learnt last period

Step 2. Pre-reading

Q1. Which of the following gives you the most energy: a banana, a soft drink, a bar of chocolate? (a bar of chocolate)

Q2. How many meals do you eat every day? Which meal do you think is the most important? Why? (3, breakfast)

Q3. How much water do you drink every day?

Step 3. Reading

* Fast reading, what does the text mainly talk about?

* Details

Q1. What does the word “green” mean in the text above? What about the word “fuel”? Can you find any other words used in the same way?

A: unpolluted, unharmful and good for people’s health; other words used in the same way; fuel means all the things we eat for our bodies, it can help keep our body functioning and fighting disease.

Q2. The text gives examples of how people make choices about what they eat. List the examples and the reasons why people eat or don’t eat certain kinds of food.

A: Many people today make choices about their eating habits based on what they believe. Some people are vegetarians, because they believe it is healthier not to eat meat or because they do not think we should kill animals for food.

Q3. How have our eating habits changed? Why? Try to think of as many examples and reasons as possible.

A: People have experienced the processes from having no enough food to having enough food, and later from having enough food to having better food. Now people buy and eat sth. , we not only think about if the will give us the nutrients we need, but also if the food belongs to eco-foods.

Q4. Why do people go to fast food restaurants?

A: it is very convenient, and it can save time.

Q5. Why is it not good for you to eat too much sugar or fat?

A: If people eat too much sugar and fat, they put on weight very easily and some of them may have bad teeth.

Q6. Why are crash diets and supplements so popular?

A: Because people want to be smarter, healthier, in particular, young people want to be more beautiful. It goes with the need of the times.

Q7. What can we do to keep a balanced diet?

A: Buy and eat good, nutrient foods from all the food in the right amounts, and eat less sugar and take more exercise.

* More exercises: translate the sentences underlined on Page4 into Chinese

Step 4. Homework

1. Finish word study on Page5

2. Preview the integrating skill reading on Page74

3. One reading exercise every day

The Third Period

§ Teaching Aims:

1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: soft, bar, fuel, diet, calory, pace, bean, fibre, mineral, disease, environmental, chemical, probably, balance, keep up with, too much, make choices, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for, go for

2. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.

3. Enable the Ss to understand the best way to make sure that we will feel and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits by learning the reading text

§ Important Points & Difficult Points:

1. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.

2. Master the following phrases: keep up with, too much, make choice, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for.

3. How to make the Ss understand the reading material better and answer the questions on the passage.

§ Teaching Method:

1. Discussion before reading to make Ss interested in what they will learn

2. Discussion after reading to make Ss understand what they’ve learned better

3. Fast reading to get a general idea of each paragraph

4. Careful reading to get the detailed information in the text

§ Teaching Aids:

1. a tape recorder

2. the blackboard

§ Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Revision: What does the text mainly talk about?

Ask some Ss to try to say sth. about the text.

Step 2. Integrating Skills--Don’t be a Mouse Potato (on Page74)

* Fast Reading

Read the quickly in 5 minutes, and then answer the following questions.

Q1. What is a couch potato?

A: couch potatoes means people who spend too much time in front of the TV and eat too much junk food.

Q2. What is junk food according to this text?

A: It is food that has a lot of calories but few nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

Q3. Why are people becoming potatoes and what can people do to avoid it?

A: One reason is our modern way of life; we must make sure that our diet is varied and balanced.

* More reading exercises on extra materials from English Weekly.

Step 3. Important Points and Difficult Points

1. prepare (sth.) to do / for… 2. in the form of… 以…形式

prepare oneself for… 3. be short of 短缺…

be / get prepared for / to do… 4. go for 也如此，對…也適用，向…攻擊

5. be based on / upon 以…為依據

6. exercise不可數，意為“運動” exercises可數，意為“練習，體操，演習”

7. not a bit一點兒也不 not a little非常

* Exercises

1. Bob is a diligent student and is ___ his coming examinations while his mother is ___ supper.

A. preparing for; preparing for B. preparing; preparing for

C. preparing for; preparing D. preparing; preparing

2. We should do more exercises, both __ for our health and __ for our knowledge.

A.exercise;exercise B. exercises;exercisesC.exercise;exercises D.exercises; exercise

3. ___ do you base your calculation?

A. On which B. On what C. About what D. For what

4. some stones weigh ___ fifteen tons.

A. as more as B. so more as C. as much as D. as many as

5. ---Are all the telephone numbers ___ in the directory? ---Yes, all __ Jane’s.

A. listed; included B. listing; includes C. listed; including D. being listed; includes

6. Before the election, the candidates(候選人) ___ each other in the newspaper.

A. went with B. went for C. went over D. went forth

7. The boy __ on the ground __ that he had seen a cock __ an egg.

A. laying; lay; lay B. lying; lie; lie C. lying; lied; lay D. lay; lying; lay

8. Jenny ___ have kept his word. I wonder why she changed her mind.

A. must B. should C. need D. would

9. We ___ last night, but we went to the concert instead.

A. must have studied B. might study C. should have studied D. would study

Answers: 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. C

Step 4. Homework

1. One reading exercise every day

2. Prepare a healthy diet and explain why it is healthy

3. Remember the first 15 words and prepare for the dictation.

The Forth Period

§ Teaching Aims:

1. Review the words learned in the last three periods.

2. Learn and master modal verbs: had better, should, ought to

§ Important Points & Difficult Points:

1. How to guess the missing word according to the given sentence.

2. Let the Ss learn how to give advice or opinion about sth. , especially master hoe to use “should, ought to, had better and their negative forms” to give advice.

§ Teaching Aids:

1. a tape recorder

2. the blackboard

§ Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Revision---dictation about the first 15 words in this Unit

1. junk food 2. fat 3. stomach 4. salad 5. ought to 6. energy 7. peach 8. plenty of 9. examine 10. ripe 11. soft 12. fever 13. fuel 14. diet 15. keep up with

Step 2. Word Study

Give Ss 5 minutes to do the exercises on Page5, then ask some Ss to say the Chinese meaning of the sentences, and check the answers.

1. nutrient 2. diet 3. vitamin 4. mineral 5. fat 6. sugar 7. protein 8. calory

Step 3. Grammar

* Translate the following sentences into English

1. 外面很冷，你最好穿上你大衣。

It is cold outside, you’d better put on your coat.

2. 你最好別脫下你的衣服。

You had better not take off your clothes.

3. 我們應該尊敬老師和父母。

We should / ought to respect our teachers and parents.

4. 你不應該這么粗心。

You shouldn’t / ought not to be so careless.

* More exercises on Page5 and Page74

Step 4. Homework

1. One reading exercise every day

2. Remember the second 15 words