Unit3 Looking good and feeling good

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Unit3 Looking good, feeling good
( Reading Part < Period 1> )
傅建红 绩溪中学
I.The Intention of the Teaching Design:
In this period students can read two emails whose topic is “ Dying to be thin---” and learn Army’s story of losing weight and his failing in the end. By reading, students can improve their abilities of reading and understanding. By doing the given exercises and discussing related questions, students can understand the reading material further and form an appropriate attitude towards losing weight, especially for teenagers. Through the designed problems, the teacher guides students to know beauty comes in many ways. We should accept what we are and appreciate what we are. What’s more, being healthy, energetic and optimistic is the most important and the most beautiful as well.
二、The Design of Teaching :
Teaching Conductor. Fu Jianhong Subject English School Jixi High School
Teaching material Unit3 Looking good, feeling good ( Reading Part < Period 1> )
Teaching Aims Knowledge and Skills: To improve the students’ reading ability by predicting, identifying the given information and so on.Process and Strategies:Read the text for informationFinish the given reading tasksDiscuss to form an appropriate attitude towards losing weight.A competition to learn more about health and beauty.3. Feeling and Value: Enlarge the students’ knowledge and make them think about health and beauty.
Teaching Important Points 1.Train the students’ abilities of speaking, reading and thinking in English. 2.Help the students understand how to be healthy and have a right attitude towards what is beauty and the problem about losing weight.
Teaching Difficult Points Read the passage and finish the given tasks.
Teaching Methods Discussion/ fast reading /careful reading
Teaching Aid Multimedia / the blackboard
Teacher’s Activities Students’ Activities. Purpose
Step One Lead-in1. Show the flashes and get the students to find why some people are fat.
2. Encourage the students to give the fat some advice to lose weight.3.Discussion: (1)Is taking weight-loss pills a good way to lose weight (2) What side-effects does it have, do you know Step Two Reading1. Choose two students to read the emails while the others listen carefully.2. Get the students to answer the questions in Part A and guess the meaning of “ Dying to be thin---”.3. Design some exercises to help students understand the reading further. (1).Tell the sentences ( on the screen ) true or false.(2).Choose the best answer according to the emails. (3).Discuss and answer the following questions:<1>.Why did Army want to lose weight <2>.What lessons can we learn from her story of losing weight While students are discussing, the teacher can go around them and give some help if necessary.Step Three Listening and Reading aloudGet the students to listen to the tape and read aloud after it.Step Four Further discussionAsk: To be thin is to be good-looking What attitude do you have towards weight –loss Show some pictures to help students discuss.我胖，故我在。肥，而不腻；笨，而不拙最需要进球的一瞬才会逼出体内神功 回手搧“胖人歧视”者一大嘴巴子这是壮，不是胖。Step Five ConsolidationGet the students to translate some proverbs about health and beauty.Beauty is but skin-deepBeauty is in lover’s eyesAn apple a day keeps the doctor away.Health is above wealthHealth is happiness. Bed is a medicine. After supper walk a mileHe who has health, has hope, and he who has hope, everything. Beauty is truth,truth beauty…Step Six SummaryToday we did some reading and learnt that health is above everything else in some way. We should value it . And we should have a right attitude towards the problem of losing weight.Step Seven Homework Write a letter to Army after reading the emails again and reviewing what we talked about today.Step Eight Writing on the blackboard 1.Amy wanted to be thin very much ;2.Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills. watch and answereating/drinking/sleeping too muchcertain medicinegeneticDiscussion and advice Go on a dietDo regular exerciseReceive surgical treatmentTake weight-loss pills … Express their own opinions:Any medicine has its own side-effects. Do harm to their health, even threaten their life.Read /speakShow their opinions and come to the text“ Dying to be thin…”(Amy wanted to be thin very much;Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills.)Students finish the exercises( 1 ) ( 2 )individually, and then check each other’s answers with their deskmate.In this part,students can discuss in pairs and come to the following Lessons:We shouldn’t be ashamed of the way we look.Weight-pills do harm to our body, even threaten our life.Look after our bodies.Do more exerciseEat more fruits.Value health.Health is above everythingListen to the tape and then read aloud.This time, students pay special attention to the pronunciation and intonation.watch/ discuss （ Possible answers）To be thin is not the only way to look good. Beauty comes in many ways.We should accept what we are and appreciate what we are. What’s more, being healthy, energetic and optimistic is the most important and the most beautiful as well.。。。 Students try to translate the proverbs as many as possible.红颜易变情人眼里出西施一天一个苹果，医生不来找我。 健康胜于财富健康就是幸福睡好觉，如服药饭后百步走，活到九十九身体好就有希望，有希望就有一切。美即是真，真即是美。……Students look back on what they have learned and practised in this class.Put what they have got in this class(language and thoughts ect.)into practice, writing an email instead of Zhou Ling. Use some flashes to draw students’attention to the class quickly and arouse their interest in the topic—Looking good and feeling good.Create situations for studentsto solve the practical problem.The discussion can inspire the students with interest in reading for information.1.Develop the top students’ strongpoint in reading aloud.2.Improve the students’Comprehension.Guide students to value health and be careful with losing weight.By listening and reading aloud, the students can understand the text better and improve their pronunciationand intonation.Help students form a right attitude towards beauty and understand how to look good and feel good,Enlarge students’knowledge and get them to have a better understanding of beauty and health..A 45-minute lesson is just a complete little poem. Without any of the three-beginning body and ending, it would not be perfect.The best way to learn English is to use it.The writing on the blackboard is the soul of the class.Today what we read and discussed about is all based on it.
ments:
The teaching material comes directly from our real life so students are familiar with it. Students show great interest in all the designed activities. While conducting the activities, I pay special attention to the top students and the students with problems in learning English. On one hand, I must make sure the top students can develop their strongpoints further. On the other hand, I should keep the latter students up and make sure they can also enjoy success. As for the average students, I focus more on their pair work and group work. So the whole teaching design is conducted in response to the demand of every student. It is a teaching design which reflects the spirit of
English teaching of the time.
The teaching design has the following characteristics:
project-based learning.
students-centered
use tasks that represent meaningful instructional activities.
focus on processes as well as products.
Pay more attention students’ autonomy.
develop students’ all-side potential.
make full use of multimedia while teaching.

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