100909 We Are What We Eat
综合英语教程四_Unit_9_Chinese_Food
What did people say about…
One should eat to live,not live to eat.
We are what we eat.
吃什么东西，就长什么样子。
Moliè re (1622 - 1673) French playwright
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
吃什么,是什么PPT课件
(It is suggested that people should eat healthy food in the right amounts )
6. How can we feel and look fine? (We ought to develop healthy eating habits.)
Carbohydrates
for bones and teeth
bread, rice and noodles
for our body functioning well
vegetables and many other foods
vegetables, fruitshould consider what kinds of nutrients that the foods contain.)
3. Fill in the form according to Paragraph 2.
for our muscles
fish, meat, beans
Calcium
Structures
Discussion
1. What do you eat every day?
2. Do you think your eating habit healthy? List your reasons. (If not, what measures would you like to take?)
UNIT 13 Healthy eating
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
UNIT 13 Healthy eating.MPG
by Yin Hongmei
True or false
1. Choosing what to eat is as easy as it once was. (F) 2.Our body needs different kinds of nutrients to make us grow and stay healthy . (T) 3. Vegetarians believe it is healthier not to eat meat. (T) 4. If we want to be smarter, healthier and more beautiful, we must have some pills. (F)
unit 13 we are what we eat
that some companies say will make us lose _w_e_i_g_h_t fast . Instead of _ea_t_in_g_ (eat) expensive diet foods or _g_o_in_g__o_n_ unhealthy diets , we can simply try to eat less fat and sugar and exercise more .
should not kill animals for food . Others become _v_e_g_a_n_s and will not eat any animal _p_ro_d_u_c_t_s at all , not even _y_o_g_h_u_r_t or eggs . We also make choices b_a_s_e_d__o_n how the products are grown or made : environmentally friendly food , or “_e_c_o_-_fo_o_d_” , is produced by companies who have tried to use green and clean ways to grow it . O__rg_a_n_i_c_ vegetables are those that are grown without _c_h_e_m_i_c_al_s_ that can be _h_a_rm__fu_l_ to human beings or the environment .
we should buy to become smarter , healthier
and more beautiful . It is probably better , _h_o_w_e_v_e_r , if we spend our time and money in _b_u_y_in_g_(buy) good food and k_e_e_p_i_n_g_ (keep) a _b_a_la_n_c_e_ddiet . If we eat healthy food in the right a_m__o_u_n_ts_ , we do not have to buy any _s_u_p_p_le_m__e_n_ts_ . The same goes for “c_r_a_s_h_d_i_e_ts”
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
高一英语必修三 Unit2 Healthy eating WE ARE WHAT WE EAT一、说教材（一）教学内容分析WE ARE WHAT WE EAT是一篇介绍“饮食习惯”的文章，包括传统饮食习惯的改变，基于食物营养和饮食信仰的日常饮食选择以及营养补充胶囊和减肥食谱的必要与否。
旨在让学生明白健康的饮食习惯的养成是拥有健康体魄的前提，健康体魄是融人21世纪，面对社会挑战的保证。
本篇文章生词量较大（共有546个单词，其中包括34个生词），知识含量较高，标题较抽象，各段主题句分布不太明显（大部分分布在段落中间）。
且大部分学生对饮食与健康的关系（如人体每天必须摄入的六种基本营养成分的来源、健康饮食的重要性、什么是绿色食品等）了解较少。
因此，本文的学习难度较大。
（二）教学目标具体从语言知识、语言技能、情感态度和文化意识三个方面制定如下教学目标。
1. 语言知识目标：a)使学生了解protein, calcium等基本营养成分的来源和主要功能，健康的饮食习惯是健康的保证，以及素食主义等信息。
b)学习掌握有关营养成分与食物的词汇，如：protein、calcium 、fibre、 mineral、 vitamin 、green food and clean food 等，以及 keep up with ，The same goes for…2. 语言技能目标：a)使学生学会克服生词障碍，通过略读，寻找文章的主题句，理清文章的总体框架与脉络；通过查读，捕捉文章的重要细节，理解作者的写作意图。
b) 使学生学会运用各种猜词技巧，猜测部分生词在具体的语言环境的含义。
c) 使学生能够运用所学知识，用英语为自己所熟悉的一个人设计一份“healthy diet”，并阐明设计的依据。
3.情感态度与文化意识目标：a）使学生学会审视自己、审视食物，提高养成健康饮食习惯的意识。
b）使学生懂得：健康是做好一切事情的根本。
要想有强健的体魄，除了合理安排好一天的生活以外，还需要有科学、卫生的饮食习惯，每天一定量的体育活动和体力劳动。
we-are-what-we-eat
If you are what you eat, and especially if you eat industrial food, as 99 percent of Americans do, what you are is "corn."During the last year I've been following a bushel of corn through the industrial food system. What I keep finding in case after case, if you follow the food back to the farm — if you follow the nutrients, if you follow the carbon —you end up in a corn field in Iowa, over and over and over again.Take a typical fast food meal. Corn is the sweetener in the soda. It's in the corn-fed beef Big Mac patty, and in the high-fructose syrup in the bun, and in the secret sauce. Slim Jims are full of corn syrup, dextrose, cornstarch, and a great many additives. The “four different fuels” in a Lunchables meal, are all essentially corn-based. The chicken nugget—including feed for the chicken, fillers, binders, coating, and dipping sauce—is all corn. The french fries are made from potatoes, but odds are they're fried in corn oil, the source of 50 percent of their calories. Even the salads at McDonald's are full ofhigh-fructose corn syrup and thickeners made from corn.Corn is the keystone species of the industrial food system, along with its sidekick, soybeans, with which it shares a rotation on most of the farms in the Midwest. I'm really talking about cheap corn — overproduced, subsidized, industrial corn — the biggest legal cash crop in America. Eighty million acres — an area twice the size of New York State — is blanketed by a vast corn monoculture like a second great American lawn.I believe very strongly that our overproduction of cheap grain in general, and corn in particular, has a lot to do with the fact that three-fifths of Americans are now overweight. The obesity crisis is complicated in some ways, but it's very simple in another way. Basically, Americans are on average eating 200 more calories a day than they were in the 1970s. If you do that and don't get correspondingly more exercise, you're going to get a lot fatter. Many demographers are predicting that this is the first generation of Americans whose life span may be shorter than their parents'. The reason for that is obesity, essentially, and diabetes specifically.Where do those calories come from? Except for seafood, all our calories come from the farm. Compared with the mid-to-late 1970s, American farms are producing 500 more calories of food a day per American. We're managing to pack away 200 of them, which is pretty heroic on our part. A lot of the rest is being dumped overseas, or wasted, or burned in our cars. (That's really how we're trying to get rid of it now: in ethanol. The problem is that it takes almost as much, or even more, energy to make a gallon of ethanol than you get from that ethanol. People think it's a very green fuel, but the process for making it is not green at all.)Overproduction sooner or later leads to overconsumption, because we’re very good at figuring out how to turn surpluses into inexpensive, portable new products. Our cheap, value-added, portable corn commodity is corn sweetener, specifically high-fructose corn syrup. But we also dispose of overproduction in corn-fed beef, pork, and chicken. And now we're even teaching salmon to eat corn, because there's so much of it to get rid of.There is a powerful industrial logic at work here, the logic of processing. We discovered that corn is this big, fat packet of starch that can be broken down into almost any basic organic molecules and reassembled as sweeteners and many other food additives. Of the 37 ingredients in chicken nuggets, something like 30 are made, directly or indirectly, from corn.Now, how do you get people to eat so much of this reengineered surplus corn? That took the ingenuity of American marketing. One example is supersizing. When I was a kid, Coke came in these lovely little eight-ounce glass containers. Today, a 20-ounce container is the standard size for soda. The idea that you could sell soda that way was an invention. It has a history, and you can find the individual responsible, an ingenious movie theater manager named David Wallerstein, who invented the idea of supersizing and sold it to Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's.Before you go out and sue McDonald's over the size of your waistline, consider that overproduction of cheap corn is government policy. It's done in the name of the public interest, using our taxpayer dollars. American taxpayers subsidize every bushel of industrial corn produced in this country, at a cost of some four billion dollars a year (out of a total of 19 billion dollars in direct payments to farmers).But before you blame subsidies for all these problems keep in mind that agricultural overproduction is an ancient problem that long predates subsidies. In any other business, when the price of the commodity you're selling falls, the smart thing to do is to curtail production until demand raises prices. But farmers don't do that, because there are so many of them, and because they all operate as individuals, without any coordination. So when prices fall farmers actually expand production, in order to keep their cash flow from falling. This economically and environmentally disastrous phenomenon has resulted in an increase in the American corn harvest from four billion to ten billion bushels since the 1970s.How do we begin to change this system? First, we all need to begin to pay attention to the Farm Bill, working to develop farm programs that allow farmers to stay in business without falling into the trap of overproduction. Most city people don't realize the stake they have in it. They assume it's a parochial concern of members of Congress from farm states, but it's not. If it were called the Food Bill, I think we would all pay a lot more attention to it, and get a saner result. The Farm Bill sets out the rules of the game that everyone is playing in, whether you're an industrial or an organic farmer, whether you're eating industrially or not.The other thing we can do is become responsible consumers. I’ve never liked the word "consumer." It sounds like a character who’s using up the world, rather than creating anything. I was at a gathering in Italy last October where Carlos Petrini, the founder and president of Slow Food International, offered a wonderful redefinition of the word. He called the consumer a “cocreator.” Ithink that’s exactly right, and we’ve seen why: with the organic movement, consumers and farmers have shown how they can work together as cocreators of an alternative food system. We need to join together now, to recruit a larger and larger army of cocreators, to rewrite the rules of the game — and “cocreate” a different kind of food system.This essay is excerpted from an article that originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine. It is reprinted with permission from the author, a contributing writer for the magazine.如果你是你吃什么，特别是如果你吃的工业食品，99％的美国人，你是什么是“玉米”。
unit-13--reading--we-are-what-we-eat(2019年新版)
1.Which of the following gives you the most energy: a banana,a soft drink or a bar of chocolate?
3.What is called “crash diets”?
It means that some food makes someone lose weight fast.
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We Are What We Eat
《We Are What We Eat》教学设计教材分析本篇文章选自Unit13 Healthy eating（全日制普通高级中学教科书英语第一册下---经全国中小学教材审定委员会2003年审查通过），它属于阅读课型。
“读前”部分设计了四个和饮食有关的问题，引导学生相互交流饮食喜好,理解健康饮食的重要性，激发英语阅读的欲望，为下一步的“阅读”自然地打下基础。
“阅读”部分从传统饮食习惯的改变，基于食物营养和饮食信仰的日常饮食习惯到营养补充胶囊和减肥食谱的必要与否一路娓娓道来。
最后点睛一笔，让学生明白健康的饮食习惯的养成是拥有健康体魄的前提，健康体魄是融入21世纪，面对社会挑战的保证。
学会本文的目的是让学生重新审视自己，审视食物，从这一角度提高养成健康饮食习惯的意识，同时，通过对文章的阅读丰富有关这个主题的语言和信息。
“读后”活动由四个大问题构成，并环环相扣，层层深入。
第一、二个问题完全是来自于文章，旨在检查学生对文章的理解，第三个问题立足于文章，然后对其进行主题细节的拓展及延伸，要求学生联系生活实际丰富细节，列举饮食习惯的实例和改变的原因。
第四个问题从文章中挑选出来，针对文章中的一些并未展开的细节进行深入挖掘，以此培养学生用英语思维、交际、生活的能力。
通过这两节课，要求学生掌握六个方面的重点难点：1.v-ing形式作主语(Choosing what …Eating habits become…)2.情态动词(had better , ought to , should , can , have to…)3.定语从句(the fuel we need for …Calcium , which is found…)4.倒装句(Only in that way will we …)5.不可数名词(fa t , sugar , advice , food , fish , meat , fruit…)6.复述课文。
We are what we eat PPT课件 1 人教课标版
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动名词短语作主语 1. Choosing what to eat is no easy
important for health. 适当的饮食和运动对于健康都是很重要的。
They gave us plenty of food and
drink. 他们给了我们大量的食物和饮料。
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8、真正的爱，应该超越生命的长度、心灵的宽度、灵魂的深度。
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9、永远不要逃避问题，因为时间不会给弱者任何回报。
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10、评价一个人对你的好坏，有钱的看他愿不愿对你花时间，没钱的愿不愿意为你花钱。
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11、明天是世上增值最快的一块土地，因它充满了希望。
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12、得意时应善待他人，因为你失意时会需要他们。
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She's unusually tall, as _a_r_e_ (be) both her parents. He likes eating as _d__id__ (do) his wife when she had children.
He believes, ______ , that peace and prosperity is what the nation needs. A. like his family do B. like does his family C. as do his family D. as his family
高一英语WeAreWhatWeEat课件
Lead in
What kind of food do you want to be?
What’s the meaning of the title?
A. We will become what we eat. B. Our health is decided by what we eat. C. We should buy and eat nutritious food. D. What we eat can make us healthy.
eco-food Environmentally friendly food, or_________ is produced by using green and clean way. Organic without be vegetable are grown_______ chemicals that can___ harmful to environment ________ _____ human being or the __________ .
Group report If your are a nutritionist, give your report and tips for healthy eating
1 eat a variety of nutrient-rich food 2 eat plenty of whole grains, fruit, vegetables 3 maintain a healthy weight 4 eat moderate portions 5 eat regular meals 6 reduce, don’t forget certain food 7 balance your food choices 8 make changes gradually 9 remember, foods are not good or bad
unit-13--reading--we-are-what-we-eat(2019年8月整理)
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We are what we eat
Pre-reading
Discuss the following questions with your partner.
1.Which of the following gives you the most energy: a banana,a soft drink or a bar of chocolate?
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高一英语we-are-what-we-eat课件
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6. Build one’s body 7. For example/such as 8. Be based on… The relativity is based on gravity. 9. Organic vegetables/food 10. Keep a balanced diet 11. Go for…适用于 The way of study goes for us. 12. Lose weight/put on weight 13. Exercise v. /n.
• Pron. • Li Ming works very hard, as does Wang Tao .(as=so) 和 一样。 • as ….as possible/one can • as usual • as 用于Attributive clause • Restrictiv such…as • Non-restrictive clause: 正如
• E.g. Only like this,can you gain a great success. • Only when we finish the homework, will we go out to play.
思是说你要把身体养得好好的。”“娘亲，女儿身体好好的呢，只是有壹事，要与您相商。”“什么事情还能比你养好身子， 踏踏实实、平平安安地嫁进王府更重要？”“娘亲，含烟从小就服侍女儿，比女儿还要大四岁，今年已经十七了。如果这次随 女儿陪嫁进王府，壹时半会儿女儿又离不开她，那含烟的婚事还不就被耽误了？而且，壹旦随女儿进了王府，名义上她是女儿 的丫环，可是，包括女儿在内，哪壹个人，哪壹样物件，不都是王府的？搜霸天下女儿哪里还能当得了含烟的主子， ； 搜霸天下 lgh10neh 别说大事了，就是壹点点小事也做不了含烟的主。所以，女儿断断不能带含烟嫁进王府！”“可是，含烟从小就服侍你，伺候 你最精心，你用着也最顺手，这进了王府，本来就人生地不熟，搜霸天下再没有了含烟这个得力的帮手，你在那王府可怎么过 啊！”“可是，含烟跟了女儿进王府，这壹辈子可就被女儿毁了啊！现在都十七了，再耽误两年，不要说如意郎君，就是适龄 婚配的男子都找不到啊！不是上年纪没了妻的，就是要给人做二房，含烟与女儿，名为主仆，实为姐妹，这让女儿如何安 心？”“不管怎么样，娘亲就是不能同意！含烟的婚事，娘亲会记着，可是，你初来乍到王府，又是侧福晋，手边再没有自己 的人，你让娘亲如何放心得下？！”“娘亲要是不同意，女儿，女儿，女儿就不嫁这个什么破王爷！”“你给我闭嘴！你这个 小祖宗，还想无法无天了！那是你的夫君！在家从父，出嫁从夫，你跟师傅都是怎么学的？这种混帐话也是你能说得出口 的？”“娘，女儿意决，您若不同意，女儿就……”冰凝的脾气禀性年夫人哪里不知道？宁为玉碎不为瓦全，她是做得出来的。 为了年家，为了这个大婚如期顺利进行，她唯有妥协：“好，好，女儿大了，也会威逼娘亲了。”“娘，女儿不孝，望您成 全。”“行吧，含烟就不随你陪嫁了。不过，你手边总得有咱们年府的陪嫁丫头，否则，王府的水那么深，你哪里是那些个福 晋、格格们的对手？搜霸天下把娘的大丫环吟雪拨给你，她今年十四，虽然也不小，但总归能比含烟多陪你几年……”“娘亲 啊！女儿本已不孝，怎么还能要您的大丫头？”“除了吟雪，娘谁也不放心！另外，再给你拨壹个丫头，就月影吧，她今年才 十岁，虽然年岁小壹些，还没有调教好，但至少能陪你个十年八年的！”“娘啊！”冰凝已经哽咽得说不出来话，娘亲为她考 虑得这么周到，不但把吟雪拨给了她，还想到了更长久的将来，自己不但不能尽孝搜霸天下 ，还要娘亲为自己如此精心考虑， 她此生，欠了娘亲太多，太多。第壹卷 第五十三章 誓言五月初十就这么飞快地到来。年总督终于抢在五月初九那天，风尘 仆仆地赶到了京城。那天晚上，冰凝足足实实地给爹娘拜了又拜，从今以后，她就是王爷的侧福晋，她与
高一英语We-Are-What-We-Eat课件
4.It is probably better if we spend our time and money on buying good food and keeping a balanced diet.
5.The best way to make sure that we will feel and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits.
Health is most valuable thing in our life. Keep healthy. Eat healthy. Healthy body + healthy brain=? The adaptation to the society is a kind of healthy Optimistic + active+ _____ …+_______=healthy
Topic sentences of each paragraph
1.Choosing what to eat is no longer as east as it once was. 2.When we choose what to buy and eat, we’d better think if the food will give us the nutrients we need. 3.Many people today make choices about their eating habits based on what they believe
If we keep a__________ balanced diet and eat healthy food in the right________, amounts we don’t have to buy any________________. supplements
综合英语教程四-Unit-9-Chinese-Food
1.verbs for ways of cooking:
steam, boil, fry, roast, stew, bake, braise,…
蒸，煮，炸, 煎， 烹，
烤，焖
2. expressions for types of food:
hot pot, jiaozi/dumplings, rice, noodle, Chinese sandwich, staining tofu, rice with fried vegetables
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826) French politician, and writer.
He that eats least eat most.
e.g. they won’t eat milk, eggs, meat, and won’t wear fur coats and leather shoes
Brainstorming
Directions:
work with your partner to think of as many words /phrases/expressions as possible regarding the following topics.
▪火锅，饺子，米线， 肉夹馍，臭豆腐，米 饭菜，… what are
the English versions
for these food you
eat everyday?
Direction: work in groups to compete the following four category.the group that has the longest list can get the cake on the right.
youarewhatyoueat翻译
youarewhatyoueat翻译You Are What You Eat你吃什么，你就是什么When it comes to health, nutrition is one of the most important factors. After all, we are what we eat. A balanced diet can help us maintain a healthy weight, reduce our risk for chronic diseases, and improve our overall well-being. However, in today’s fast-paced world, it can be difficult to make healthy food choices. Many people rely on convenience foods that are high in calories, sugar, and unhealthy fats.说到健康，营养是最重要的因素之一。
毕竟，我们吃什么就是什么。
均衡的饮食可以帮助我们保持健康的体重，减少慢性病的风险，提高整体健康状况。
然而，在今天这个快节奏的世界中，做出健康的食物选择可能很难。
许多人依赖高热量、高糖分和不健康的脂肪的方便食品。
Processed foods, for instance, are often stripped of their nutrients and packed with preservatives, additives, and other chemicals. These foods canbe convenient and cheap, but they can also contribute to obesity, heart disease, and other health issues. Eating a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins can help us stay healthy and feel great.加工食品通常被剥夺了其营养物质，并充满了防腐剂，添加剂和其他化学物质。
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Gut Bacteria: We Are What We Eat
The human digestive system is full of bacteria -- mostly good bacteria. These organisms help break down food so the body can use the nutrients. Scientists are exploring the link between what kinds of bacteria live in our gut and what kinds of food we eat.
Gary Wu from the University of Pennsylvania and other scientists did two studies. According to Mr. Wu, the studies looked for connections between the food that people ate and the kind of microbes living in their intestines. He says, “We collected stool samples to look at the types of bacteria in the gut of people who provided us information about what they ate. People with one kind of diet had very different bacteria than people who ate a different diet.”
So, people found essentially that there are two major categories in which individuals could be classified by the bacteria in their gut: one associated with sort of a western-type diet, and another one associated with a more agrarian or fruit-vegetable type of diet.
In the second study, ten volunteers took part in a so-called controlled feeding experiment. They had to change their normal diet. Y et their digestive bacteria remained much the same. This suggests that the mix of bacteria is based on long-term dietary patterns, not what people ate in recent days.
Gary Wu thinks testing people's mix of intestinal bacteria might be a better way to measure their disease risk than asking about their diet. He says intestinal bacteria might even play a part in the development of disease. If so, this could lead scientists to new ways to help prevent diseases. According to Gary, it means that if you could switch the types of bacteria in your gut, perhaps you could influence the development of certain types of diseases -- perhaps the types of diseases associated with western or more industrialized nations. That’s a little bit more speculative, but that's something that is certainly very much of interest in the field.
The two studies are in the journal Science. The research may add to understanding of how diet affects health.
Another recent study involving diet warned that obesity is increasing worldwide, but especially in the United States and Britain. The findings appeared in the Lancet medical journal.
Worldwide, experts say one and a half billion adults are overweight. Another half-billion are obese. At current rates, about half of all American adults could be obese by twenty-thirty. In Britain, obesity rates could reach forty-eight percent for men and forty-three percent for women.
Experts say the rise in obesity is likely to lead to an increase in cases of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other conditions.
Obesity is also on the rise among children.
(September 9, 2011）Enjoy the passage with the help of the context not your dictionary!。