Book 3 Unit 2 Healthy Eating

Period 2 Reading

Step 1  Pre-reading

  Get the students to discuss the questions with their partners in this part. Then ask them to report their work. This part will help the students understand the text.

T: Please look at the slide show and discuss the questions with your partners. Then I’ll ask you to report your work. Are you clear?

Conclusion: A good meal should contain some food from each of the three categories above.

Step2 Reading

 Get the students to comprehend the passage quickly and accurately and meanwhile help the students to form a good habit of reading. Give the students a couple of minutes to look through the whole passage. Tell the students to read the text silently and then ask for the main idea of the text on the slide show with their partners. Encourage the students to express their ideas.

1.      Fast reading

In this part ask the students to read the text quickly for the first time and find out the main idea of the text. Then ask them to read the text again carefully to obtain some details. Finish exercise 4 on P11

Part 1 ： Wang Peng is worried because his restaurant is not as full as it usually is.

Part 2 ： He follows his friend to a newly opened restaurant which is very popular.

Part 3 ： Worried, he does some research to win his customers back. 

2.      Careful reading

T: Now it is time for us to read the text carefully and decide which sentences are true. Then correct the false ones. First read the sentences.

a.       Usually Wang Peng’s restaurant was full of people.   (T )

b.      Yong Hui could make people thin in two weeks by giving them a good diet. (F)  ( It would take longer than that)

c.       Wang Peng’s regular customers often became fat. (T)

d.      Yong Hui’s menu gave customers more energy-giving food.   (F ) (No. It gave them protective or body-building food.)

e.       Wang Peng’s menu gave customers more protective food.  (F ) (His menu gave customers energy-giving food.)

f.       Wang Peng decided to compete with Yong Hui by copying her menu.  (F )  ( He decided to advertise the benefits of his menu!)

T: In your own words explain the following sentences or parts of sentences taken from the passage.

1.      Li Chang always came to his restaurant so if he did not, it meant that something serious had happened to stop him.

2.      He did not want Yong Hui to tell lies and people to believe her.

3.      If he gave his customers cheaper prices and advertised the benefits of his menu, perhaps his customers would return.

Step 3 Discussion

1.    By now, the students have had a further understanding of the text. Let the students read the text again and find out the differences between the two restaurant.

T: Now please read the text again and fill  in the chart together with your partner.

2.    T: Until now we have known what’s wrong with both restaurant. What does it matter if you only eat at one of the  restaurant?

S1:…

S2:…

S3:…

T: You all have a point here. But what will they do? What do you think Wang Peng will provide to win his customers back? Do you think we should follow his example?

Suggested answer (Ideas will vary but possible answers are):

l      Wang Peng will offer more protective food with his meals such as salad.

l      He will cook his food in less oil.

l      He will stop serving ice cream and cola because both of those have too much fat or sugar.

Ss: Yes.

T: Now, how do you think the story will end?

        Possible answers:

l     Wang Peng will lose his restaurant.

l     Yong Hui will come to his restaurant and become very angry with him.

l     Yong Hui’s customers will become so tired they will return to Wang Peng’s restaurant.

Step 4 Homework

1.      Try to retell the text.

2.      Prepare for the language learning and do Using words and Expressions on WB (Page 49-50)

这节课是把pre-reading和reading结合在一起上，