Unit 3 A healthy life  

Warming up and Reading

一．Teaching aims

1. knowledge & skills（知识与能力）

1.Students can master the different ways people become addicted to smoking

2.Students can know the bad effects of cigarette smoking

3. Students can know how to stop smoking

4.Students can use some reading skills to master the main meaning and get details of reading material.

2. process& method（过程与方法）

Dialogue teaching , Brain-storming ,task-based approach, situational teaching approach.

3. emotion, attitude & value（情感态度与价值观）

Students can realize the importance of health and the harmful effects of smoking.

二．Teaching Important Points教学重点

1.The information about one of health problems－－smoking

2.Enable students to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material.

三．Teaching Difficult Points教学难点

How to help the students to grasp and remember the detailed information of the reading material

四．Teaching Procedure教学环节

Step 1 Warming up

T:1. What do you think is important in our life?(brain-storming)

S₁:  ……

S₂: ……

 ……

T:2.What is the most important?

S₁: ……

S₂:  ……

S₃:   ……

……

T:Yes,Health.An old English saying“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”有健康即有希望,有希望即有一切. We should be a healthy person.

T:3.What’s a healthy person?

A truly healthy person is someone who is healthy in both body and mind.

T:4.Which are healthy activities and which are unhealthy activities？

Look at the following pictures.  

What are they doing?

Can you tell which activity is healthy and which is unhealthy?

Slide show

Step 2 Lead in

T:1.What causes health issues? （Brain-storming）

S₁: Drinking alcohol…

S₂: Cigarette smoking…

S₃: …

S:Cigarette smoking   Drinking alcohol   Drug abuse  Diet       

Physical fitness  Sexual health   Stress   Obesity…

T:2.Can you tell the harmful effects of smoking?

1. Smoking is a waste of _______.

2. Smoking may cause ___________.

3. The ends of cigarettes may cause____

……

T:OK,today we will learn something about Cigarette smoking,now please open your books and turn page ,A Letter from Grandad.

(设计说明：为学生提供一种轻松、自由的学习环境，激发学生的学习兴趣；通过头脑风暴培养学生的发散思维，同时为接下来学习的内容起到铺垫、引入的作用)

Step 3 Fast reading

T： Skim the letter and find the main idea of each paragraph.

Tip:

the first or the last sentence of each paragraph might be helpful

(设计说明：阅读理解是本节课的重点之一，快速阅读掌握文章的大意是做好阅读理解的重要环节，设计此环节旨在培养学生能根据每段的第一句或最后一句把握文章大意的方法。)

Step 4 Careful reading

Ask some students to stand up and check the right answers,and then ask how he or she know the answer.

（设计说明：细读是阅读理解的另一重要环节，本环节对每段落进行了设题，旨在检测学生对文章所涉及的词汇及句型是否掌握及巩固其词汇、句型，同时帮助学生掌握相关信息及培养学生获取具体信息的能力。）

Step 6

T:There are some proverbs on health,choice the right meaning of each one . 

1.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.      B

2.Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,wealthy and wise. A

3.A light heart lives long.     C

4.Good health is over wealth.   E

5. It is not work that kills,but worry.  D                             

A.早睡早起使人健康，富有和聪明

B.每天一只苹果, 无需医生进

C.静以修身

D.工作不损寿，忧郁才伤身。

E. 健康是最大的财富。

S1:

S2:

S₃:   ……

……

Remember

He who has health has hope,and he who has hope has everything.
有健康即有希望，有希望即有一切

五．Homework

Suppose your friend is a smoker, write a letter to persuade him to quit smoking.