Unit 3 A healthy life
Warming Up and Pre-reading
Teaching Aims:
1. Knowledge aim
Let students have a better understanding the meaning of health. 2. Ability aim
Develop students’ speaking ability by discussing, cooperating and summarizing. 3. Emotional aim
Have students form and stengthen the sense of keeping healthy
Difficulty and importance
Learn about the reasons and the bad effects of smoking, and how to give advice on stopping smoking.
Teaching methods:
Discussion, cooperative learning and communinative approach.
Teaching aids
A computer and a projector
Teaching Procedures
StepI Greetings StepII Lead-in
Use two pictures to lead in a topic: what is a healthy person? StepIII Warming up
1. Show some pictures to students on the screen, ask students to find the differences among these pictures.
2. Let students discuss what health issues concern young people the most 3. Show a survey and a short video about smoking StepIV Pre-reading
1. Analyze the resons for smoking
2. Make a brief analysis about the harmful effects of smoking StepV Extension
Let students know how to quit smoking StepVI Discussion
Get students to discuss how to keep healthy StepVII Assignment 1. Preview the reading passage
2.Search some information about the harmful effects of smoking and advice on stopping smoking
