Unit 3 A healthy life 教学设计1

Unit 3 A healthy life教学案1Teaching aims:1. Talk about health2. Learn the issues that the young people are concerned about3. Learn to advise people about what to do and what not to do4. Talk about smoking and its harmTeaching proceduresStep one Warming upThis step is to lead the students to the topic of this unit ―― A healthy life1. What health issues do you think concern young people the most?(After about 3 minutes)A sample list:Cigarette smoking Drinking alcohol Drug taking Diet Physical fitnessSexual health Stress AIDS and infections Cancer Anxiety and so on2. Group worka. Choose one health issue you think is particularly important.b. List five things you would like to tell other people about this issue.Show some pictures on the computerDirections:Looking at the following pictures. What are they doing? Which are healthy activities while which are unhealthy activities?(Ask the students to describe the pictures using their own words)Straightforward description:Picture one: They are Singing. HealthyPicture two: They are Dancing. HealthyPicture three: They are Playing basketball. HealthyPicture four: They are Doing Taiji. HealthyPicture five: They are Drinking alcohol. HealthyPicture six: They are Eating too much. UnhealthyPicture seven: They are Smoking, coughing. UnhealthyStep two Pre-readingQuestions:1. Have you ever smoked? If you have, have you ever tried to stop?2. Why do you think some adolescents start smoking?Possible answer:Some adolescents start smoking because they are falsely influenced by some media. Some think it’s cool. Maybe some want to lighten some stress.3. In what ways is smoking harmful?Mentally and healthily.4. What advice would you give to someone when wanted to stop smoking?Possible answer:Let them get interested in some positive hobbies like sports, playing music, reading, playing chess and so on.5. Where could you get good advice on stopping smoking?Step three HomeworkFind out some information from the Internet and write a short passage about the present situation of young people’s smoking in China as well as giving them some advice.The 2nd period ReadingTeaching aims:To promote the students’ understanding of the text.To solve the problems and difficulties they meet in understanding the text by cooperation.3. Enable the Ss to learn how to give advice on stopping smoking.4. To talk about the importance of health and the harmful effects of smokingTeaching methods:Discussion, cooperative learning and oral practice.Teaching procedures:Step one Greetings.Greet the Ss as usual.Step two Pre-readingPredicting:Read the title of the text and the headings within it, and find out:1. Who wrote the letter?2. What is the purpose of the letter?Step three Skimming1. Read and check the answers to the two questions.2. Listen to the tape and find out the main idea of each paragraph.A. The writer leads to the topic of the letter by talking about James’ problem of smoking.B. Introducing some different ways of becoming addicted.C. Telling the writer’s hope for his grandson and advice on stopping smoking.D. Telling the harmful effects of smoking.E. From the life the writer is leading now, we can know the importance of healthy life. Keys: 2—A 3----B 5-----C 4-----D 1-----EStep four Detail reading1. List the details under the following subtitles.The w ays to become addicted to cigarettesThe harmful effects of smokingSuggestions to quit smokingThe ways to become addicted to cigarettes1).Become physically addicted to nicotine2).Become addicted through habit3).Become mentally addictedThe harmful effects of smoking1). Do terrible damage to your heart and lungs2). Have difficulty in becoming pregnant3). Affect the health of non-smokers4). Smell terrible5). Have the ends of the fingers turn yellow6). Be unable to run fastSuggestions to quit smoking1). Prepare yourself2). Be determined3). Break the habit4). Relax5). Get help If you need it6). Keep trying2. Answer some questions. (refer to PPT)3. Fill in the chart on the next page with information from the reading passage.Information from the reading passageDifferent ways people can become addicted to cigaretteHarmful physical effects for smokersEffects that a person’s smoking can have on other peopleEffects that smoking can have on sporting performance4．Let students find the expressions in the passage that can be used to advise people about what to do and what not to do.Step five DiscussionSituation 1: Suppose you are a teacher, how will you persuade your students to quit smoking. Situation 2: Suppose your teacher is a smoker, how will you persuade him to quit smoking. Situation 3: Suppose you are a father, how will you persuade your son to quit smoking. Situation 4: Suppose your father is a smoker, how will you persuade him to quit smoking.Step six Homework1. Discuss the questions after class.2. Find out the key points of the text.3. Search some more information about the harmful effects of smoking and advice on stopping smoking.The 3rd Period Listening& SpeakingTeaching aims:1. To learn what should be paid attention to when going to the party and how to give advice and warnings to others.2. To train the ability of listening and speaking.Teaching procedures:Step one Listening1. Pre-listening1) Individual work:To show some pictures and make students judge which are the ways of keeping a health life.2) Group work:Discussion: Suppose you are invited to have a party in a nightclub by your friends, would you like to go there? If not, what are you worried about?While-listeningListen to what Tina and Sara are talking about and tick the things Sara is worried about.Listen again and complete Tina’s sentences.Listen to the tape for the third time. Understand the whole dialogue fully and check if the answers are complete, especially pay attention to different structures of giving advice.Post-listeningGuessing: Will Sara still be nervous about going after listening to Tina’s advice?To ask students what useful expressions we can use to give advice and teacher write them on the blackboard.Step two SpeakingReview the target function by giving students two situations.Situation1: Your friend is worried about theEnglish test the class is having on Friday. (giving some advice)Situation2: Your friend tries to cross the road and you see a car speeding towards him/ her. (giving some warnings)Have a discussion to make students list the rules for behaving properly in the party and share the lists with all the classmates.Step three Homework:1. Review the expressions of giving advice, warnings and prohibitions.2. Write a short passage to persuade one of your relatives to give up smoking.The 4th Period Learning about languageTeaching aims:1. To get students to learn and master the usage of the new words and the useful expressions in the reading.2. To enable students to grasp the grammar: the use of “it”.Teaching procedures:Step one ReviewReview the main idea of the letter and the suggestions to quit smoking orally.Step two Word study1.Find words and expressions from the text and match.accustomed feeling foolish or uncomfortable because of somethingmanage stop doingashamed having an unborn child or young in the bodyautomatically pressure caused by the problems of living, too much work, etc.quit done without conscious thought, esp. as a habitstress in the habit of; used topregnant because ofmental succeed in doingadolescents of the minddue to a boy or girl in the period between being a child and an adult.2. Complete the text with words from above. (Ex 1,P 20)1. Rice production has increased greatly in china over the last few years, largely _______super hybrid rice.2. Having lived in Hawaii all his life, he was not __________to the cold of Northern Europe.3. He was_________ of his body so he decided to go on a diet and do more exercise.4. In spite of her wounded leg, she ________to g et up the stairs.5. He told me the same story _____________ until I felt like screaming.6. With exams only a week away, I am under a lot of ______.7. When I ____________playing sport I become very fat and unhealthy.8._______health is as important as physical health.9. Now that I am __________ I eat a good diet because I want my baby to be born healthy.10.___________often take more risks than adults.Keys: 1.due to 2. accustomed 3. ashamed 4.manage 5.automatically 6.stress 7.quit 8. Mental 9. pregnant 10.Adolescents3. Complete the text with words from below. (Ex 2, P21)Before filling in the blacks, review the meaning of each with the whole class.adolescents青少年cigarettes香烟quit停止，戒drugs毒品due to 归因于stress压力eventually 终于alcohol酒addicted上瘾的manage管理，努力做Smoking ________, drinking ______or taking other_______ produce many harmful effects and have no real benefits. So why do __________do it? Some because they believe it makes them look cool. Others think it will help with _________in their life possibly_____ pressure from their parents or teachers. Some just want to see what it is like. What they don’t r ealize is that they will get into the habit and ________become _______. It will then be difficult to _____the habit. A few people ________to quit easily but for many it is a very painful process. Of course, the best way to deal with these drugs is not to start in the first place.Keys: 1. cigarettes 2. alcohol 3. drugs 4. adolescents 5. stress 6. due to 7.eventually 8.addicted 9.quit 10.manageStep three Discovering useful structures1. Go over the first reading passage again and find out all sentences with “it”.a. It’s a beautiful day here---b. It’s amazing that at my age I am still fit enough to cycle 20 kilometers in an afternoon.c. It’s my birthday in two weeks time---d. Your mother tells me that you have started smoking and that you are finding it difficult to give up.e. Believe me, I know how easy it is to begin smoking and how hard i t is to stop.f. This means that after a while your body becomes accustomed to having nicotine in it and ---g. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it automatically.h. I think I was addicted in all three ways, so it was difficult to give up.i. I didn’t know it could do terrible damage to your heart and lungs or that I was more difficult for smoking couples to become pregnant.j. When I was taken off the school football team because I was too slow, I knew it was time to quit smoking.k. It might help you to stop.2. Discuss with their partner about the use of “it” (pairwork)3. Explain the use of it.“It” can be used in the subject position to stand for an infinitive, -ing form or a clause. Impersonal “it” can be used to talk about time, date, distance or weather4. Let students sort all the sentences.It stands for an infinitive: h.It stands for-ing formIt stands fo r time: c.It stands for date:It stands for distance:It stands for weather: a.It stands for others: d, e, f, g, I, j, k5. Explain and extend.It stands for an infinitive: h.I think I was addicted in all three ways, so it was difficult to give up. 真正的主语to give up it形式主语structure: it is+ adj.+ to do---补充1.手头边有个小笔记本是个好主意。