泰州田家炳实验中学必修一Unit3LookinggoodfeelinggoodPeriod1教案

Module 1 unit 3

Period 1

主备人李倩

单元：Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good

板块：Welcome to the unit

Teaching aims:

After learning this part, the students will be able to describe people 's current situaatinodnsexpress their own opinions by comparing the importance of beauty and health. Their oral English will be improved by talking about the pictures.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

1. Let the students enjoy some pictures about some beauties and some handsome young men. Then

activate students' imagination by asking the following questions:

?Are these movie stars good-looking? Are they very famous?

? Are the young men very handsome? Where can you find them?

? Do you wantto be as beautiful and attractive as them?

2. Ask the students to say something about an unpleasant picture and answer this question:

?Do they look good and feel good? Why?

3. Ask the students to answer the following two questions concerning themselves:

?Do you think appearance plays an important part in your life?

?Which do you think is more important, looking good or feeling good?

Step 2 Picture talk and further discussion

Let the students look at the following pictures in Warming Up and do as they are advised to.

? Imagine a situation that fits the first one and try to make up a story with the following phrases:

1. a high school student named Jane

2. be admitted to the university

3. hold a party to celebrate her success and achievements

4. invite sb. to share sth.

5. be at a loss about

6. be worried about being too fat

7. spend sometime selecting clothes

A suggested version:

Jane is a high school student and she is extremely happy, because she has been admitted to the university she wanted to go to. Tonight her parents will hold a party to celebrate her success and achievements. All her friends and relatives are invited to share her happiness. But now she is at a loss about the clothes she is going to wear tonight. She is confident about everything except her weight. She is constantly worried about being too fat. Now she has spent at least half an hour selecting clothes without success.

?Look at the second and third picture and discuss the following questions:

? Do you think we can make ourselves more attractive by wearing different clothes? Why or why not?

?Do you usually go to a gym to do sport or exercise?

?Do you think doing sport regularly has a good effect on your health and your understanding of life? ?Why does the boy eat so much fruit?

?Do you think that will work?

?Which do you think is more important, eating well or doing exercise? Why?

?What others can we do to keep ourselves looking good and feeling good?

? Complete the following dialogue according to the fourth picture:

D —Doctor G—Girl

D: What 's the matter?

G: _____ 1____

D: What did you do last night?

G: _____ 2____

D: Why do you want to be so slim?

G: ___ 3 ______

D: Then, have you ever taken any medicine?

G: ___ 4 ______

D: I know the problem. You should stop taking the medicine and get enough sleep to stay healthy.

Suggested answers:

1. I ' m not feeling well, doctor.

2. I stayed up late to do exercise to keep slim.

3. It ' s a fashion. All girls want to be slim.

4. Yes, I took the weig-hlotss pills.

Step 3 Conclusion

Sum up the balance of how to look good and feel good after the discussion is finished and let the students have a further discussion about this topic: How can we both look good and feel good?

Some suggested key words are as follows:

Confident /Healthy Physically /Healthy mentally /Exercise regularly /Healthy diet

Step 4 Advice

Ask the students to work in groups to discuss the advice about how to keep fit.

Some suggested measures for the students to stay healthy are as follows:

? Don' t eat junk food. Try and eat a healthy diet.

? Don' t go to bed too late. Make sure you get sufficient sleep.

? Get regular exercise.

? Go to see the doctor if you ' re not feeling well.

? Don' t spend too much time using computers or watching TV, as it is bad for your eyes.

Step5 Homework

1. Find more information about how to keep fit.

2. Write a passage about “ health and beauty ” or “ healthy eating and exercise

Period Two 主备人：李倩单元：Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good 板块：Reading（I）

Teaching aims:

After learning this part, the students will be able to grasp the main topics of the three e-mails—Amy' s problems, how she dealt with them and Zhou Ling ' s concerns and advice to Amy and the students' intereswt ill be stimulated in learning English by expressing their own opinions on

the topic “ To be beautiful or to be healthTyhrough some”pr.actice, the students will improve their reading abilities of skimming and scanning to a certain level.

Teaching procedures:

Step1 Lead-in

1. Show the students some pictures and ask them to answer the following questions:

?Do they look good and feel good?

?Whom do you like better, the thin or the fat? Why?

2. Then show them a picture about a fat man exercising to lose weight which may make the students laugh and ask them this question:

?What ' s the man trying to do?

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Do some pair work to discuss this question?

? If you are the person who is a little over-weight, how would you lose weight?

Suggested answers:

Going on a diet / Exercising in a gym / Receiving surgical treatment / Taking weight-loss pills

2. Talk about the ways to lose weight and discuss which methods they prefer, including the advantages

and disadvantages. Finally fill in the form.

Two questions for further discussion:

?Which method would you prefer?

?What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of them?

3. Ask the students to look at the title and predict what will be talked about in the text. (Who,what, how,

why, the results …)

Step 3 Reading

1. Fast reading

Ask the students to read the text fast and answer the three questions on page 42. and try to guess the meaning of the title “Dying to be thin …”

Suggested answers:

1) The first is that Amy wanted to be thin very much.

2) The second is that Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills.

2. Careful reading

Let the students read the first two emails paying attention to some detailed information and then finish some exercises.

1) True or false exercises:

(1) In Amy ' s first-me ail to Zhou Ling, she says she is going on a diet.

(2) In the last two months Amy has lost 10kg.

(3) In Amy ' s second-meail, she regrets taking those weight-loss pills.

(4) Li Dong, who comes from Canada, has donated his liver to save Amy

's life.

(5) Zhou Ling didn ' t answer Am-ymai'l insteime because he has no computer.

(6) In China, people seldom take weight-loss pills to lose weight.

Suggested answers:

1. F

2.F

3. T

4. F

5. F

6. F

2) Multiple choice questions:

1. According to Paragraph 2 in the first email, Amy is an actress, _____ .

A. who often exercises

B. who wanted to lose some weight

C. who become ill

D. who ate little

2. Why did Amy decide to take weight-loss pills?

A. She was overweight

B. She was having problems.

C. Her clothes did not fit.

D. She wanted to become slimmer.

3. At the hospital, the doctor told Amy she would ____ .

A. live for seven days

B. has to donate her liver

C. die without a new liver

D. need her mother ' s liver

4. Li Dong, a young Chinese, ____ .

A. saved Amy ' s life by donating money to her

B. saved Amy ' s life by giving her part of his liver

C. told Amy never to take weight-loss pills again

D. once worked with Amy

5. Zhou Ling, Amy ' s friend, _______ .

A. did not want to read Amy ' s emails

B. was sorry to hear about Amy ' s problems

C. thinks Amy should lose weight

D. thinks weight-loss pills are n ecessary

6. Amy ' s experienee is _______ .

A. an in teresti ng one

B. forgotte n by her family

C. like that of some people in Chi na

D. a problem only actresses have

Suggested an swers:

1-6 BDCBBC

3. Detailed readi ng

2) Have a discussi on about this questi on:

Suppose you are Amy ' s best friend. If you are going to write a letter to her, what will you say to her? And what advice would you give to Amy?

3) Read the last email and pay atte nti on to some detailed in formatio n and the n fin ish some

exercises.

Questi ons and an swers:

(1) Why didn ' t Zhou Ling write to Amy until today?

(2) Why does Zhou Ling feel touching when she knows Amy ' s story?

(3) Zhou Ling thinks who should learn from Amy ' s story?

Suggested an swers:

(1) Her computer was broke n.

(2) Because a stra nger don ated part of his liver to Amy whom he does n't even know.

(3) Many people in China, some of whom are not over-weight at all.

4．Do the pair work to finish Part C2 on page 44. and give the main idea of the text.