A: Buy and eat good, nutrient foods from all the food in the right amounts, and eat less sugar and take more exercise.
* More exercises: translate the sentences underlined on Page4 into Chinese
Step 4. Homework
1. Finish word study on Page5
2. Preview the integrating skill reading on Page74
3. One reading exercise every day
The Third Period
§ Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: soft, bar, fuel, diet, calory, pace, bean, fibre, mineral, disease, environmental, chemical, probably, balance, keep up with, too much, make choices, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for, go for
2. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
3. Enable the Ss to understand the best way to make sure that we will feel and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits by learning the reading text
§ Important Points & Difficult Points:
1. Improve the Ss’ reading ability.
2. Master the following phrases: keep up with, too much, make choice, be harmful to, lose weight, be prepared for.
3. How to make the Ss understand the reading material better and answer the questions on the passage.
§ Teaching Method:
1. Discussion before reading to make Ss interested in what they will learn
2. Discussion after reading to make Ss understand what they’ve learned better
3. Fast reading to get a general idea of each paragraph
4. Careful reading to get the detailed information in the text
§ Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. the blackboard
§ Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Revision: What does the text mainly talk about?
Ask some Ss to try to say sth. about the text.
Step 2. Integrating Skills--Don’t be a Mouse Potato (on Page74)
* Fast Reading
Read the quickly in 5 minutes, and then answer the following questions.
Q1. What is a couch potato?
A: couch potatoes means people who spend too much time in front of the TV and eat too much junk food.
Q2. What is junk food according to this text?
A: It is food that has a lot of calories but few nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
Q3. Why are people becoming potatoes and what can people do to avoid it?
A: One reason is our modern way of life; we must make sure that our diet is varied and balanced.
* More reading exercises on extra materials from English Weekly.
Step 3. Important Points and Difficult Points
1. prepare (sth.) to do / for… 2. in the form of… 以…形式
prepare oneself for… 3. be short of 短缺…
be / get prepared for / to do… 4. go for 也如此,对…也适用,向…攻击
5. be based on / upon 以…为依据
6. exercise不可数,意为“运动” exercises可数,意为“练习,体操,演习”
7. not a bit一点儿也不 not a little非常
* Exercises
1. Bob is a diligent student and is ___ his coming examinations while his mother is ___ supper.
A. preparing for; preparing for B. preparing; preparing for
C. preparing for; preparing D. preparing; preparing
2. We should do more exercises, both __ for our health and __ for our knowledge.
A.exercise;exercise B. exercises;exercisesC.exercise;exercises D.exercises; exercise
3. ___ do you base your calculation?
A. On which B. On what C. About what D. For what
4. some stones weigh ___ fifteen tons.
A. as more as B. so more as C. as much as D. as many as
5. ---Are all the telephone numbers ___ in the directory? ---Yes, all __ Jane’s.
A. listed; included B. listing; includes C. listed; including D. being listed; includes
6. Before the election, the candidates(候选人) ___ each other in the newspaper.
A. went with B. went for C. went over D. went forth
7. The boy __ on the ground __ that he had seen a cock __ an egg.
A. laying; lay; lay B. lying; lie; lie C. lying; lied; lay D. lay; lying; lay
8. Jenny ___ have kept his word. I wonder why she changed her mind.
A. must B. should C. need D. would
9. We ___ last night, but we went to the concert instead.
A. must have studied B. might study C. should have studied D. would study
Answers: 1. C 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. C 6. B 7. C 8. B 9. C
Step 4. Homework
1. One reading exercise every day
2. Prepare a healthy diet and explain why it is healthy
3. Remember the first 15 words and prepare for the dictation.
The Forth Period
§ Teaching Aims:
1. Review the words learned in the last three periods.
2. Learn and master modal verbs: had better, should, ought to
§ Important Points & Difficult Points:
1. How to guess the missing word according to the given sentence.
2. Let the Ss learn how to give advice or opinion about sth. , especially master hoe to use “should, ought to, had better and their negative forms” to give advice.
§ Teaching Aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. the blackboard
§ Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Revision---dictation about the first 15 words in this Unit
1. junk food 2. fat 3. stomach 4. salad 5. ought to 6. energy 7. peach 8. plenty of 9. examine 10. ripe 11. soft 12. fever 13. fuel 14. diet 15. keep up with
Step 2. Word Study
Give Ss 5 minutes to do the exercises on Page5, then ask some Ss to say the Chinese meaning of the sentences, and check the answers.
1. nutrient 2. diet 3. vitamin 4. mineral 5. fat 6. sugar 7. protein 8. calory
Step 3. Grammar
* Translate the following sentences into English
1. 外面很冷,你最好穿上你大衣。
It is cold outside, you’d better put on your coat.
2. 你最好别脱下你的衣服。
You had better not take off your clothes.
3. 我们应该尊敬老师和父母。
We should / ought to respect our teachers and parents.