Unit3Ahealthylife公学案.doc

Unit 3 A healthy life
Warming Up and Reading
By Yanqing Liu
Teaching Aims:
Enable Ss to learn how to give advice on stopping smoking.
Teaching difficult points and key points:
Learn the bad effects of smoking and how to give advice on stopping smoking. Learn in what ways people get addicted to cigarettes.
Teaching methods:
Discussion, cooperative learning and oral practice.
Teaching aids:
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures & ways:
StepⅠ Warming up
( Ask three students to act out the report, one is a reporter ,one is an interviewer, one is an interviewee )
A report
Health China, 2005, which is about ten issues concerning Chinese people
They are AIDS and infections ， food and nutrition, family issues, air pollution, cancer,, birth control, cigarette smoking, Drinking alcohol , Drug , Obesity, etc
•
• Interviewer:
• Which issue do you think is the most important one? Why？Or any others questions?
• Interviewee:
• I think:
Step 2 Reading Advice from Grandad
Part 1 of the reading
Task 1 Please Listen to the text and skim it then try to find out how many parts the text includes and what each part is mainly about.
The reading includes _____ parts.
The first part is a letter from a ______to his _______ explaining how a smoker becomes addicted to ----------and why he should give up.
The second part gives ________about how to stop__________

Task 2 Detail reading

Read the letter carefully, and try to finish the following chart in pairs.

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 be unfit and smell_____________ .

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 ______________ .

Task 3 Find out the difficult words and expressions in the text ，For example:

mentally(精神的) automatically（自动化的） eventually（最后，终于）

addicted to9沉溺于） be accustomed to（习惯于）then use them to fill in the blanks.

1.The air-conditioner(空调)can control the temperature________________.

2.One can become physically and __________ addicted to nicotine.

3. He tried many times but he gave it up______________.

4. When young he was ________ ___ watching cartoons and playing games online.

5. He was used to having a walk alone in the garden after dinner.
He _____ ____________ ____having a walk alone in the garden after dinner

Task 4 Summarize the main idea of each Para in the letter

Para1: the writer tells about the _______ he is leading and the importance of _____________ .

Para2: the writer is talking about James’ problem of __________ .

Para3: it introduces the _______ different ways of becoming addicted.

Para4: it is about the_______________ of smoking.

Para5: it is about the writer’s _______ for his grandson.

Part 2 of the reading
Task 1

Skim the second part of the text and answer the following question quickly:
What suggestions does it give for smokers to quit smoking?
How can I stop smoking?
1._________________________2.________________________
3._________________________4._________________________
5._______________________ 6.__________________________

Task 2

Fill in the blanks and the summary of the article. (Part2)

Choose a day that is not __________ to quit smoking. Make a list of all the __________

you will get from stopping smoking. ___________ all your cigarettes at the end of the day

before you plan to quit. ________ the list of benefits you wrote when you feel like smoking.

Develop some other habits like walking, drinking some water, cleaning the house and so

on to keep yourself busy. If you feel nervous or stressed, try to do some __________

exercises like deep breathing. You can stop smoking with a friend or join a group. If you

feel really bad, ask a doctor or _________ for help. The most important thing is to keep

trying. Don't feel ________ if you _________ because some people have to try many times

before they finally quit smoking. Never give up and you will succeed.

Step 3 Sum up the whole reading
Useful words & Expressions:
physical, mental, drinking, alcohol, cigarette smoking, stress, addicted, quit, adolescents
Reading Skills: Skimming & Scanning
About the topic “A Healthy Life”:
The description of a healthy person
The harmful effects of smoking
Suggestions given to smokers to quit smoking
Step 4 Homework
1 Read the passage many times and understand it better.
2 Underline the difficult words, phrases and sentences which you can’t understand.
3 Discussion: Suppose your father is a smoker, how will you persuade him to quit smoking and write your suggestion out ? you can discuss it with your partners.