Unit-3--A-Healthy-Life.doc

Unit 3 A Healthy Life
-Reading
Teaching goals
1. target language 语言目标
a. 重点词汇和短语
cigarette, adolescent, addicted, mentally, physically, lung, quit, due to, accustomed to, smoking.
b.重点句式
It's amazing that...
... how easy it is to begin smoking and how hard it is to stop.
... I knew it was time to quit smoking.
It isn’t easy to stop smoking, but millions have managed to quit...
2. Ability goals 能力目标
Enable the ss to learn how people usually get addicted to cigarettes and how they can quit smoking.
能够让学生了解人们是怎样沉迷于吸烟的，并且明白吸烟的人可以怎样戒烟。
3. Learning ability goals 学能目标
Enable the Ss to learn how to give advice on stopping smoking.
让学生学会给出戒烟的建议。

Teaching peocedures & way
教学过程与方式
Step 1 Lead-in
This step is to lead the Ss to the topic of the reading passage.
Teacher shows some pictures on the screen, and gives a question:
“What do you feel when you see these pictures?”

Step 2 Pre-reading
In this step, the students will have a discussion about smoking, and the teacher gives some information about the harm of smoking.
1. Discussion:
(1) Why do you think adolescents start smoking?
(2) What advice do you give them?
2. Presenting;
The teacher shows the harm of smoking to Ss, and Ss try to fill the blanks of each sentence according to the pictures.
The leaves of lung turn _______;
The teeth & fingers become ______.
Smoking may cause ___________.
The ends of cigarettes may _______.
It is a waste of _____.
Smoking affects the health of ___________, especially for the pregnant women and the adolescents.
Step 3 Reading and Comprehension
This part includes Fast reading, Scanning, Skimming, Careful reading, Post-reading, Presentation and Summary, Ss should read the passage and finish every tasks.
1. Fast reading
Read the passage quickly and choose the best answer for the following questions.
(1) Why James’ grandfather write to James?
A. He wanted to tell James give up smoking.
B. He wanted to tell James the harmful effects of smoking.
C. He wanted to help James give up smoking.
D. He wanted to help James get some information.
(2) Which is NOT the effect of smoking?
A. Causing terrible damage to heart and lungs.
B. Affecting the health of non-smokers.
C. Having the clothes turn yellow
D. Not enjoying sport.
(3) The ways people become addicted to cigarettes according to the passage EXCEPT
A. Physically addicted to nicotine
B. Mentally addicted
C. Addicted through habit
D. Addicted into the feeling of smoking

2. Scanning
Scan the text on P18 and get the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. 1
Grandad’s life.
Para. 2
The for writing the letter.
Para. 3
Three to become addicted to cigarettes.
Para. 4
The harmful of smoking.
Para. 5
More and grandad’s wishes

3. Skimming
Ss skim the text on P18 again, and answer the following question:
“What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?”
Tip: the last paragraph might be helpful.

4. Careful reading
Read the letter carefully, and try to fill in the chart with information from the reading passage.

Information from the reading passage
Different ways people can become addicted to cigarettes
1. addicted to nicotine.
2.addicted through .
3. addicted
Harmful physical effects for smokers
1.do terrible damage to .
2.have difficulty in .
3.can not .
Effects that a person’s smoking can have on other people
1.Other people .
2. The cigarette smoke may do harm to
.
Effects that smoking can have on sporting performance
be unable to .

5. Post-reading
According to the passage, Ss choose the best answers with the following questions.
• From the passage, we can learn James’ grandad has the following characteristics EXCEPT________.
A. determined B. energetic
C. thoughtful D. out-of-date

6. Presentation
Imagine that your best friend has got addicted into smoking recently.
Group work: Make a list of the harmful effects of smoking and try to give him some suggestions.
Presentation: Make a short report from the discussion in not more than 50 words.

How to give up smoking
The harmful effects of
smoking
Advice on how to give it up
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3.
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Example:
• You’d better… , I think that’s the most important thing.
• You shouldn’t…, as…
7. Summary
What should we do to keep away from smoking?

Step 4 Homework
What should we do to have a healthy lifestyle?
How to stay health
Things we should do
Things we should not do
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