Teaching aims:

1. Train the students’ ability of speaking.

2. Get the students to talk about how to protect ourselves from dangers.

Teaching Important Points:

Finish the task of talking about how to protect ourselves from dangers to train the students’ speaking ability.

Teaching Difficult Point:

How to help the students finish the task of speaking.

Teaching Methods:

1. Free talk, quiz, discussion and speaking to train the students’ ability to use English.

2. Individual, pair or group work to make every student take an active part in class.

Teaching Aids:

1. the multimedia

2. the blackboard

Teaching Procedures:

Step Ⅰ Greetings and Lead-in

1.Why do we need to protect ourselves?

Because there are many dangers which we have to face and many people die of different kinds of causes every year.

2.What are the dangers that we should protect ourselves from?

Natural disasters and problems

3.What should we do to protect ourselves from these dangers ?

Protect our environment.

Form good habits.

Keep away from bad habits

4.What has the United nations done to remind people to protect themselves ?

Special UN Days

What are they ?

Now let’s have a quiz.

Step II have a competition between students

Quiz World Day for Water

22 March

World Water Day (WWD) 2007 was guided by the theme 'Coping with Water Scarcity' under the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

World Health Day

7 April

World Health Day marks the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). It is an occasion to raise awareness of key global health issues. This year's theme is international health security. "Invest in health, build a safer future".

International Day of Families

15 May

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed that 15 May of every year shall be observed as the International Day of Families. For 2007, the theme of the observance is "Families and Persons with Disabilities".

World No Tobacco Day

May 31.

This yearly celebration informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies, what WHO is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic, and what people around the world can do to claim their right to health and healthy living and to protect future generations.

World Environment Day

5 June,

World Environment Day is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.The World Environment Day slogan selected for 2007 is Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?

International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

26 June

By resolution 42/112 of 7 December 1987, the General Assembly decided to observe 26 June as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking as an expression of its determination to strengthen action and cooperation to achieve the goal of an international society free of drug abuse.

International Day of Older Persons

1 October

The General Assembly designated 1 October the International Day of Older Persons by resolution 45/106 of 14 December 1990, following up on initiatives such as the Vienna International Plan of Action on Ageing, adopted by the 1982 World Assembly on Ageing and endorsed later that year by the General Assembly.

World Habitat Day

the first Monday in October

The United Nations has designated the first Monday in October every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of human settlements and the basic right to adequate shelter for all.

World AIDS Day

December 1

The theme for world AIDS day 2003 is Stigma and Discrimination.

the theme of World Aids Day of 2005 ( the 18th World Aids Day.); stop Aids. Keep the promise.

Step III talk about welcome to the unit:

Picture 1:

What is the poster about?

What is the purpose of the picture being shown to people?

What should we do or not do to stay safe from the dangers shown in the poster?

This poster is about Aids. It shows a poster of people holding a big picture that is covered in handprints. I think that they choose this picture because the hand prints are different colours ,and this shows that Aids can affect everyone, no matter what their skin colour is or what country they are from. This tells us that aids is an international problem that we have to work together to try and fight.

The words ‘stop the chain of aids’ can be seen on the poster. The poster encourages us to stop spreading this disease. .

We need to make sure that we do not become infected by Aids.

Picture 2:

What is the poster about?

What is the purpose of the picture being shown to people?

What should we do or not do to stay safe from the dangers shown in the poster?

Everyone knows smoking causes great harm to one’s health, but many smokers just keep on smoking. This poster wants to persuade them to give up cigarettes. The human skull with a cigarette between its lips shows that the result of smoking is death.

Smoking can cause various deadly diseases, such as lung cancer, heart trouble and high blood pressure. Smoking is one of the biggest killers In the world. Although most people know the dangers of smoking. Many find it very hard to stop smoking because cigarettes are so addictive.

Picture 3:

What is the poster about?

What is the purpose of the picture being shown to people?

What should we do or not do to stay safe from the dangers shown in the poster?

The warning ‘say no to drugs!’ tell us that we must not take drugs. There are some drugs in the poster . Drug-taking is a global problem, so the whole world is paying special attention to this problem. 26 June is international Day against Drug Abuse And Illicit Trafficking. The theme of this day in 2006 is ‘ Drugs are not child’s play’. It aims to tell people that drugs are not fun and are not safe. Let’s just say no to drugs

Picture 4:

What is the poster about?

What is the purpose of the picture being shown to people?

What should we do or not do to stay safe from the dangers shown in the poster?

This poster shows a damaged car that has obviously been in an accident. The driver may be dead. From the world ‘Don’t drink and drive!’ we can know what caused the accident. Next to the car lies a bottle of what looks like alcohol. The driver was probably drinking alcohol before driving . In many countries ,driving after drinking is the main cause of traffic accidents every year.

Especially in recent years , with the rapid increase in the number of cars on the road, more traffic accidents have taken place because of driving after drinking . Looking at the poster every one of us must remember that no one should drive after drinking. We should consider both our own lives and the lives of others, and drive safely.

Step IV: discussion:

1.Why do you think people do things that are wrong and dangerous to their health and lives?

I think there are a number of reasons why people do these things. The first reason is that they do not know how serious the results of their actions are. People may be curious about taking drugs and want to try something new. They may think, ‘I will just try this once, and I will not become addicted to it.’ people may also be influenced by their idols smoking, and think it is cool, so they copy their idols and smoke too. Some people just do not obey the law. For instance, no one should drive after drinking.

However, some people think that they will be lucky and nothing will happen to them. Finally, some people do not have enough knowledge about how to protect themselves. Maybe they do not know that one can be infected with Aids through a blood transfusion, when the hospital has not checked for Aids, or unprotected sex.

2. What do you know about Aids?

Aids is a deadly disease, and that there is no cure. The medicines used to treat aids are very expensive, so many people cannot afford to pay for them. For many Aids victims, there is nothing they can do. The situation is very serious around the world, especially in African and Asia.African has the highest number of HIV-positive people in the world. Some children are now being born with HIV because their mothers were infected with HIV when they were pregnant.

3.Can you think of some other bad habits that harm people’s health and lives?

Some young people, includingsome university and high school students, are addicted to computer or video games. They often play these games deep into the night. Some high school students even miss school and do not do their homework in order to play these games . Some may even lie to their parents or steal money so that they can afford to play games on line.Being addicted to video games not only does harm to their health but can also ruin their future.

Other bad habits include students going to school without breakfast in the morning. Some like juice or fizzy drinks, and do not want to drink fresh water. some eat too much meat and almost no vegetables every day .

Step V: Homework

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Health

A recent survey shows that the health of the students in our school has been going from bad to worse in the past three years. The number of short-sighted students has increased from 78.2% in 2002 to 92.5% this year,while that of overweight students from 36% to 52.4%. Nearly 10% more students don't have enough sleep because of more homework. Besides, over 15% more students become mentally unhealthy.

To improve students'health, we call for less homework. Only in this way can students get plenty of sleep and be more healthy. Proper diets and exercise should also be paid attention to so that they won't easily put on weight. With their heavy burdens removed, students can then keep in normal mental health.