前景实用英语二unit2教案

教案编号 2

Unit 2 Food Culture

Teaching aims:

In this unit, students are supposed to

▪know how to talk about food and food culture;

▪master the basic language to express giving views and opinions;

▪understand the main idea of Text A, and master the useful sentence structures and words and expressions;

▪master the phonetic skill: strong and weak forms;

▪know adverbial conjunctions in adverbial clause;

▪know how to write “certificate”.

Teaching procedures:

I Listening and Speaking (2Period)

II Text A & text-related exercises (2Period)

III Workbook & text-related exercises (2Period)

IV Grammar Review and Practical Writing (2Period)

Part A Lead in

Task 1 Study the pictures and discuss the questions below in small groups. Use the words given below if necessary.

1.Do you like vegetables? Why?

Cues: delicious, balance, healthy, tasteless

2.What do you think of the food in McDonald’s?

Cues: tasty, health problems, getting fat

3.How much do you know about the cooking pot in the third picture?

Cues: earthen pot (砂锅), soup, delicious, take a long time

Task 2 Listen to the following short dialogues and fill in the blanks.

Task 3 Discuss the following questions.

1. What do you think is a “balanced diet”?

A balanced diet can help maintain or improve health. It involves consuming

appropriate amounts of all essential nutrients and an adequate amount of water.

Different nutrients can be obtained from different foods. That means our daily foods should be various.

4.Have you heard of the concepts of yin and yang? How much do you know

about them? Can you give some examples?

As far as I know, yin and yang are often used to describe how opposing forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. Many opposing things or events, such as dark and light, female and male, low and high, cold and hot, are considered yin and yang respectively. These concepts are widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, martial arts and exercises, such as taijiquan (tai chi), qigong (chi kung), etc.

Part B Text A

Solving the American Health Crisis with Chinese

Diet Methodology

Language points:

release

n. (news, films etc.) to be made known; the act of setting free or being set free e.g. The release of her new album gained great fame for her.

新专辑的发行使她一举成名。

After their release, the prisoners came home.

犯人们被释放后回了家。

turn to somebody/something

to go to sb./sth. for help, advice, etc.

e.g. She has nobody she can turn to.

她求助无门。

The child turned to his mother for comfort.

那孩子向母亲寻求安慰。

yin and yang

Originally the Chinese characters for yin represented the

moon and yang represented the sun.

Chinese philosophy uses yin and yang to represent a wider range of opposite properties in the universe: cold and hot, slow and fast, still and moving, masculine and feminine, lower and upper, etc. The function of yin and yang is guided by the law of unity of the opposites. In other words, yin and yang are in conflict but at the same time mutually dependent. The nature of yin and yang is relative, with neither being able to exist in isolation. Without “cold” there would be no “hot”; without “moving”there would be no “still”; without “dark”, there would be no “light”.

swirl

n. the movement of causing (air, water, etc.) to move or flow with twists and turns and with varying speed

e.g. Swirls of smoke rose through the trees.

树林中升起袅袅青烟。

She topped the cake with a swirl of cream.

她给蛋糕浇上旋涡状的奶油。

harmoniously

ad. in a way that the parts of sth. go well and are in

proportion to each other

e.g. In the garden, there are stone paths that blend harmoniously with the scenery.

花园里的石子路和周围的景色很协调。

The group of buildings stands harmoniously with the

surroundings.