牛津高中英语教案 模块一 Unit3 Looking Good, Feeling Good

Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good
单元规划
内容预览
Focused on the topic of “beauty and health”, this unit tries to reveal the relationship between beauty and health. Also the unit makes it clear to the students how to look good and feel good. The reading material intends to convince that health is priceless, which is considered as the most valuable treasure. It is not worth obtaining the temporary beauty at the cost of damaging health. Also, it shows the students the harmful side effects of taking weight-loss pills blindly. The part of Word power teaches students vocabulary concerning sports. The part of Grammar continues talking about non-restrictive attributive clauses and question tags. In conclusion, the unit tries to convince the students that the most effective way to lose weight is a balanced diet as well as regular exercise.
Welcome to the unit
In this part, students will be presented with several pictures representing different people’s current situations and their states of mind about looking good and feeling good.
Reading
The reading material of the unit is made up of three letters written by two good friends who exchange their opinions about appearance and health after one of them has suffered after trying to lose weight in an unsafe way.
Word power
This part focuses on types of sports with relevant exercises designed to expand vocabulary.
Grammar and usage
This part is made up of two sections: non-restrictive attributive clauses and question tags.
Task
This section deals with inviting a friend to join a gym. Integrated relevant tasks and activities about finding information about a gym and recommending one to a friend by note-taking and writing an e-mail are presented.
Project
In this part, understanding how to keep health and fit, and making a booklet about fitness is the main assignment.
Self-assessment
The self-assessment section at the end of the unit aims to allow the students to determine what they have achieved, and what else they can do to improve their study.
课时安排
Period 1 Welcome to the unit
Periods 2-3 Reading
Period 4 Word power
Periods 5-6 Grammar and usage
Periods 7-8 Task
Periods 9-10 Project
Period 1 Welcome to the unit
整体设计
教材分析
This unit presents the topic of “beauty and health”. Beauty is an eternal theme. The whole unit tries to reveal the dialectical relationship between beauty and health and various ways of keeping healthy as well as beautiful. “Welcome to the unit” is the introduction to the unit, which discusses the topic “Beauty and health”. The “Welcome to the unit” part is comp osed of four pictures showing four common but effective ways to look good and keep good at the same time. In this section, some pictures describing people’s current situations and their opinions on looking good and feeling good are presented for the students to think about and discuss. Following the four pictures are three questions for students to discuss. These three questions are so designed that students are able to share with each other their knowledge and ideas concerning the topic in the unit “Looking good, feeing good”. In this way, students are well prepared for the further study later in the unit. In this part, students are expected to express their own opinions by comparing the importance of beauty and health in order to practice their spoken English. Considering the function and features of “Welcome to the unit”, this part is usually designed as a speaking lesson. Generally speaking, teachers are supposed to put forward more questions besides the ones in the text book so that students are able to have a free discussion centered on the topic “beauty and health”.
三维目标
1. Encourage the students to discuss about the essence of beauty and how to make them more attractive.
2. Make the students to pay attention to their health and work out their own idea of living an ideal life.
3. Arose their interest in learning this unit through activities. And convince them that the real beauty is based on health.
4. Encourage the students to express their own ideas by meanings of pair work and class discussing and debating.
5. Help the students to learn to talk about various ways to keep one looking good and feeling good.
6. Learn some important words and expressions make me look slimmer, feel strong, get enough sleep to stay/remain healthy, an other way to stay slim
(Print out these words and expressions and hand them out to the students. The students are supposed to get familiar with these words and expressions before coming into the unit. )
7. Learn some key sentence patterns
What do you think of beauty and health, which is more important?
Do you think looking good is as important as feeling good?
In your opinion, how a person can both look good and feel good?
重点难点
1. The students are supposed to express their own ideas by comparing the importance of beauty and health.
2. The students are encouraged to carry out a debate and competition about what is beauty
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and how to become beautiful.
3. Ask the students to collect some information about Audrey Hepburn, Princess Diana, Christopher Reeve and David Beckham and get ready for the discussion before class.
教学方法
1. Discussion in pairs or in groups.
2. Task-based in-class activities.
3. Explanations of some language points.
教具准备
A tape recorder and the multimedia
课前准备
1. Ask the students to prepare for a free-talk for about two or three minutes on the following topic: what is beauty? The students may have various opinions on the topic. Encourage them to form a proper idea on the real meaning of beauty, which obviously contains not only physical beauty but also spiritual beauty as well. If the students can realize that the eternal beauty comes inside from the person, they will not try to lose weight blindly.
2. They are supposed to search for the information in the library or on the Internet about four famous people: the film star Audrey Hepburn, the football player David Beckham, Princess Diana and the legend actor who once acted as the superman so that they can carry out a brainstorming about the four people in the class.
3. Divide the whole class into several groups, with four to six students in a group so that they can share what they have found and their ideas.
教学过程
In the new English textbook, many activities have been designed on the basis of a coordination of topic, function and structure. By means of taking part in all kinds of language activities, students have more opportunities to improve their ability of using simple English to express their feelings and ideas towards different problems. In this way, students are supposed to develop receptive ability including listening and reading skills as well as productive ability including speaking and writing skills. In terms of the “welcome to the unit” part, emphasis is usually focused on the training of speaking ability, which is basically in the form of task-based teaching methods, such as discussion in pairs or groups, oral presentation, debate and so on. All the activities should be centered on students and be used to develop their skills of both independent thinking and cooperative communication.
→Step 1 Lead-in
1. Play
of the song on the blackboard and ask the student to listen and sing together). An English song might be an enjoyable start of a lesson of Welcome to the Unit, which can help the students to have a better understanding of beauty. Also, if the students in the class are to some extent introverted, such a happy and strong song will get students to become excited. It will be a good warm up which can make students more relaxed and interested in what they are going to learn in the part of Welcome to the Unit, preparing them for the coming lessons in this unit.
2. Ask the students to think about the following questions which should be presented on the blackboard:
1)What is the real beauty?
2)Do you think beauty is totally determined by appearance?
3)Will good looking have a great impact on one’s confidence?
(These three questions will help the students have a consideration of the meaning of beauty and its impact on people’s life, th oughts, value and psychology, which will help to make good preparations for the study later. )
The teacher can divide the whole class into several groups with four students in a group and ask the students to have a discussion with their partners in the groups so that they can share with one another the information they have searched for before they come to the front of the whole class to give a presentation.
→Step 2 Brainstorming
Show the pictures of some famous and attractive people. Ask students to talk about them. Present such questions as follows on the blackboard:
1. Do you think the people look good?
2. What do you think has made them so attractive that they are in people’s memory all the time?
Then ask the students to discuss with their partners for two minutes and share ideas with all of the students. Start a competition in the following way. Divide the whole class into four groups—G1, G2, G3, and G4. After the discussion, anyone in the four groups can stand up directly and say whatever he knows about the person in the pictures. Make the rules clear to the students: one good idea will get one star. And the first student to stand up will be given two stars.
These pictures are famous film star Audrey Hepburn, football player David Beckham, Princess Diana who is known as the England rose and the legend actor who is a real “superman”. The reason for choosing these pictures lies in that all of them are popular with the students. Students know something or even a lot about them. Also, they like them so much that they are to some extent the idols or, in other words the heroes in their heart. They have something to say and they are willing to say. The following are some possible answers.
Possible answers:
1. They are among the most attractive people around the world in history.
(The teacher can give some encouragement and give the first student to stand up two stars
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because it would be a good start and set a very good example to other students. Other students become excited. Most of them want to win a star for their groups. Also, in this way the teacher can encourage other groups to catch up.
2. Audrey Hepburn has always been my idol. She stands for elegance, benevolence and beauty. She has set an excellent example for all women who want to become beautiful. And even
(The teacher should give her a star too and a good remark. Such kind of answer shows that the student is very interested in the person and has made good preparations as the teacher has required. )
3. There is no doubt that Audrey Hepurn is beautiful. To me, Audrey Hepurn is very charming. There’s something very special in her eyes, in her smiles, in her timeless and natural elegance. Also, she was not only known for her beauty and acting talent but also for her selfless love for the suffering children around the world and set up a fund to help those African children in need.
(As the teacher asks for other ideas about other famous people, students will compete with each other in stating their opinions. )
4. The people in the three pictures have amazing appearance and perfect figure which attract people’s attention. I want to say something about Diana. She was called the Rose o f England. She was beautiful of course; also she has made a great contribution to the control of AIDS, which made her loved and respected by the people all around the world.
(Such answers are considered wonderful. Encourage the students to say whatever they know about the pictures and thus try to create a warming atmosphere. As is often the case, boys are more interested in football. So there is no wonder that some of the students maybe say something very interesting about David Beckham, who seems to be one of their best football players. Since David Beckham is so handsome and fashionable that there are millions of fans throughout the world who are crazy about him. Students believe that it is his great skills in playing football that make them crazy, which can hardly be matched by other players. )
And the last one is the ‘superman’. Some students know he is Christopher Reeve and he starred in the series movie Superman and became world famous due to his amazing performance. However, other students think what attracts people most was not his handsome appearance or great acting but his strong mind, his bravery, his love for life as well as his contributions to the medicine after he became seriously hurt in an accident.
In conclusion, it has been proved by the speaking activity that the students has searched for a lot of information. Now present the question on the blackboard (with the competition continuing. ) as is often the case, some groups are in the lead, while others are behind. The teacher should give some encouragement so that those lagging behind can catch up.
→Step 3 Discussion and sharing opinions and information.
With discussion and competition going on, the teacher can present the following questions on the blackboard.
1. So in your opinion, which is more important? Health or beauty?
2. Do you think it really worth losing weight in as many ways as you can think of?
Give the students two or three minutes to discuss the questions. Then when time is up, ask them to state their opinions freely.
Then the te acher can draw students’ attention to the problem of losing weight. If the multimedia is available, show the students a segment of the movie. (瘦身男女or the teacher can use some pictures) Ask the students to describe what the actress is doing. Give students some minutes to prepare.
Possible answers: The leading actress is struggling to lose weight by taking some exercise. It is common today for people to lose weight with different methods. In my opinion, taking exercise is the most effective way to lose weight. The problem is whether you can stick to it or not. The actor in the movie also tries many other ways. But they obviously have little use.
Now the teacher can ask the students to have a brainstorm and think of as many ways as possible to lose weight. Then the teacher should list the answers suggested by students on the blackboard. Students are supposed to create their own ways to lose weight. Even some unusual way of losing weight should be considered acceptable. For example, it is important to have mental support in the process of losing weight. So the students should be encouraged to come up with such ideas as not to be too hard on yourself at the beginning of losing weight and to give yourself some little presents if you manage to lose some weight. In this activity, competition, which has been carried out, can still be used to stimulate students’ interest (show the pictures to give students some inspiration)
Possible answers:
1. The first way is doubtlessly taking some exercise. Instead of sitting around watching TV or playing computer games, we should get out and do some physical activity. It is very useful to play outdoor games, such as riding a bike, going skating, taking swimming lessons, climbing a mountain, going walking, playing basketball, long-distance running and trying to get faster each day. In a word, it is of great necessity to do something active to burn up that fat. What is more, doing outside activity makes you get close to nature and other people as well.
2. We should pay attention to what we eat. First of all, we should control what we eat in a
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proper amount. We need food to stay alive. If we don’t eat, we die. But if we eat more than our body needs, the extra food turns into body fat and we become overweight. Secondly, we should try to eat the food that makes us slimmer and healthier, such as all kinds of fruits and vegetables. Also the healthier way to cook food is also helpful. For example, we can avoid the fried meat and other fried food.
Suggested answers:
1. To cause you to feel weak
2. Can work in a short time but will do harm to health in the long term
3. Very dangerous to health
4. Very expensive
5. An effective way to lose weight
6. Of little use
Since the students have mentioned that exercising is a good idea. Look at these pictures. Taking exercise really helps people to lose weight healthily. The teacher can now show some pictures of people doing different kinds of sports.
The teacher can point out that a balanced diet and regular exercise are decisive for losing weight, and then present the following question on the blackboard.
Do you have any idea about how to eat healthily?
(Show the pictures and ask the students to discuss in groups. )
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. See your doctor before you begin any healthy weight plan.
According to the picture, the teacher can point out the fact to them that the most important food we should eat is vegetables and fruits, which are at the base of the pyramid, then the carbohydrates and protein or dairy and then the fats the last one are sweets which they can see from the healthy weight pyramid. Ask the students to compare their diet in their everyday life with the above diet pyramid, and then make a research whether the students in the class have a healthy and proper diet. Most students may realize that they do not have a healthy diet. And the teacher can ask them to pay more attention to what they eat in daily life, which without any doubt is of great importance for them to keep fit.
Then the teacher can require the students to imagine themselves as an actor or an actress and think over how to keep looking good? Ask them whether they will take some pills to keep slim? The teacher can present some sentence patterns on the blackboard:
‘If I were an actor/actress, I would ’
Remind the students that they are still going on with the competition.
Now it’s time for the teacher to raise another question:
Do you think that only appearance can make people look attractive?
Suggested answers:
1. I think confidence makes people look attractive. If you are confident of yourself, you are beautiful.
2. I think both body health and mental health are important to make people attractive.
→Step 4 Accumulation
The teacher can ask the students to enjoy some sayings on how to keep healthy.
(Play some beautiful music and ask some students to read the quotations out. )
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes you healthy, wealthy & wise.
After dinner rest a while, after supper walk a mile.
→Step 5 Language points
1. look slimmer/stay healthy
Here, both the words “look” and “stay” are link verbs—系动词+形容词作表语
系动词可以分为三类:
1)表感觉: be, feel, look, sound, taste, smell, seem, appear
eg. smell nice, appear friendly, sound frightened, look surprised
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2)表变化: become, grow, turn, go, get
eg. get stressed, grow dark, turn yellow, go hungry/unpunished/crazy
3)表状态: remain, continue, stay, keep, prove, turn out
eg. turn out a success, prove useful, stay young, keep slim
2. You must get enough sleep to stay healthy. In this sentence, the word “enough” should be discussed in detail.
⎪⎪⎩
⎪⎪⎨⎧”敁“,,,充足足够作代词或动词不定式复合结构后可接动词不定式
作副词放在它们后面副词修饰形容词作副词置于名词前或后面修饰名词作形容词，，，，、enough I don’t have enough money to pay for a taxi.
我没有足够的钱打的了。

The story is interesting enough to attrac t children’s attention.
这故事很有趣，足以吸引孩子们的注意力。

Translate the following phrases into English.
1)使我看起来苗条______________________________________
2)获得足够的睡眠______________________________________
3)不同的衣服______________________________________
4)锻炼______________________________________
5)保持健康______________________________________
6)那个孩子害怕一个人在家, 晚上常醒着。

______________________________________
7)这本书很容易, 孩子们能读懂。

______________________________________
8)她经常看书一直到深夜才睡。

______________________________________
Suggested answers:
1)make me look slimmer
2)get enough sleep
3)wear different clothes
4)taking exercise
5)stay/remain healthy
6)The child is afraid of being alone at home and often stays awake at night.
7)The book is easy enough for children to read.
8)She always stays up late at night.
Extension
If the Internet access is available, the teacher can surf the Internet in class and lead the students to have a look at what other people’s ideas about health and beauty.
→Step 6 Homework
After class, the teacher can ask the students to look for more information about the causes of fatness and problems fat people possibly have by referring to books or searching on the Internet. If possible, ask them to write an essay on the topic and encourage them to give a presentation in the next lesson.
板书设计
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Periods 2-3 Reading
整体设计
教材分析
This reading part provides three emails between two friends relating to the problem of being overweight and the experiences of losing weight. In the first email the young girl Amy relates to Zhou Lin the problem she has encountered—she is dying to be thin and how she loses weight. In the second email, Amy describes that she has had some harmful weight-loss pills, which causes her liver to fail. After the proper treatment, the girl dreaming of looking slim finally understands the relationship between beauty and health. In the third email which is from Zhou Lin to Amy, Zhou Lin expresses her worries about Amy and her own her ideas on how to keep a balance between looking good and feeling good. In a word, the topic is what students are concerned about and interested in. As a result, this topic will wi thout any doubt arouse the students’ passion in the reading. At the same time, students can think about how to live a healthy life. By learning this unit, the teacher can also help the students to develop some good habits, which will have a good effect on their later life.
While reading the passage, some reading strategies should be introduced to the students-understanding sentences with “however” or “but”. When the students come across “however” and “but” while reading, they are supposed to guess the meani ng of the following sentence which has something different to what has just been expressed. In this sense, these two words have a very important role in the understanding of the passage.
Meanwhile, various in-class activities should be well organized so that the students can take part in. In this way, the students are supposed to develop their abilities both in reading and in listening and speaking as well. Also, tables are used to help the students to find useful information in the text. More pair work and group work activities are designed for students to learn to cooperate with one another in the group. Besides, exercises in different forms are designed to help the students consolidate the usage of new words and phrases as well as language points.
三维目标
1. Train the students’ reading ability, introducing the important role of the two conjunctions however and but in reading by means of quoting the examples of these two conjunctions in the text.
2. Encourage the students to learn to discuss the different ways of losing weight and having a slim figure.
3. Learn some useful words and expressions
ashamed, weight-loss, priceless, recover from liver failure, contain, harmful, chemical, operation, exact, match, follow one’s advice, damage one’s health, attractive, embarrassed, pressure, overweight, go on diets, in secret, properly
4. Learn some important sentence structures
1)be worth doing, be embarrassed about, donate something to somebody
2)It is not until that
重点难点
1. Help the students to learn about the relationship between appearance and health and search for as many healthy ways as possible to lose weight and keep a slim figure.
2. Help the students to learn to use some of the new words and expressions.
3. Help the students to learn to make a booklet about how to keep feeling good and looking
good at the same time.
教学方法
1. Pair work and group discussion.
2. Task-based in class activities.
3. Explanations of some language points.
教具准备
A tape recorder and the multimedia
课前准备
1. Ask the students to prepare for a free talk for about two or three minutes. They can discuss the important effects of appearance on one’s confidence or say something about the different ways of losing weight, or even make a plan to lead a healthy life. This will help the students to get involved in the in-class activities and help them to keep a strong body and good figure. Considering some students may feel difficulty in doing such a group discussion, the teacher can help them to search for enough information and get well prepared before class.
2. Encourage the students to go to the library or resort to the Internet to get some examples about how famous people keep figure, which might succeed or fail. They can also be divided into several groups to share the information they have found and try to figure their own way to keep a strong body and a slim figure.
reading strategy on page 43. If time permits, ask them to finish exercises C1, C2 and D1, D2 on page 43 to make preparations for a better understanding of the text.
教学过程
→Step 1 Revision and Lead-in
Check the homework
At the end of the previous class, the students are asked to find out the causes of the appearance of an increase number of overweight children in China today as well as the effect that fatness has on life and problems that fat people may encounter. At the beginning of this class, encourage the students to speak out their discoveries in front of the whole class to make a presentation. After one student finishes his or her free-talk, other students or the teacher can ask him or her some questions.
For the teacher, it is necessary to point out the fact that the real wealthy people in foreign countries usually eat good food instead of “much food”. On the contrary, poor people tend to eat more. In this sense, overeating is obviously not a sign of being rich. Also, it has been proved that those successful and wealthy people attach much importance to taking exercise after work, which is believed to have a significant effect on their life and career.
(If the multimedia is available, this design is recommended. )
Show part of the video about the movie with Lious Liu and Zhen as the leading role(瘦身男女), and ask the students to describe some of the scenes in the movie/some of the pictures about losing weight.
→Step 2 Reading skimming
Come to the reading material, which is made up of three letters written by two good friends who exchange their opinions about appearance and health after one of them has suffered after trying to lose weight in an unsafe way. Amy, a Canadian girl, gives a vivid description of losing weight and the following bad effects. Ask the students to read the text quickly and answer the
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three questions in Part A.
Check the answers:
1. Canada
2. Weight-loss pills called Fat-less
3. The weight-loss pills
After the students finish it, the teacher can ask students their ways of doing fast reading. In other words, how to get the answers in such a short time?
The teacher should help the students to review the reading strategies of skimming and scanning in the process of looking for the useful information in a quickest way. The students have learned these two reading strategies at the very beginning of the semester and they have been practicing them in the reading training in and after class. Therefore, they are supposed to be very familiar with the two strategies and able to use them freely in the reading practice.
At the same time, focus the students’ attention on the Reading Strategy in this unit. Try to make the students understand and distinguish the differences between “however” and “but”.
1)Read through the Reading Strategy together with the students, asking them: What can you expect in the following sentences or passage whenever you see the two words in an article?
2)Ask the students to underline all the sentences which have the word “but” and “however” in the text.
Brainstorming
Before asking the students to do careful reading of this reading passage, divide the whole class into small groups with four students in a group. And then ask them to have brainstorming.
Question:
Suppose one of your friends is addicted to losing weight and have tried many ways, which, however, are of little use. Do you think you can manage to help him or her out of the trouble and stay a healthy life?
This design, which has been introduced in Unit 1, is used to help the students to get familiar with how to predict what to read in this passage, to learn how to select different materials, and to get the students more interested in reading the passage, to push the students to get involved in the class more actively and share their opinions with other students confidently. In this way, more students are given opportunities to speak in class. While the students are having a discussion, the teacher can go into the students, give them some inspiration, listen to their creative ideas and sometimes can even help them with some difficult expressions. In this way, the teacher and the students will be able to have an interactive communication.
List all the possible ways raised by the students on the blackboard. The teacher also can put forward some other ideas according to the text.
Possible answers:
To go on a diet.
To exercise in the gym.。