New Standard English Book (2)

Module 1 Our Body and Healthy Habits

吴忠中学    英语组    赵立萍

I．教学内容分析

    本模块的话题围绕生活习惯、饮食起居、健身运动和疾病症状等的英语表达展开，指导学生学会表达自己的见解和观点，最后通过进一步的讨论使学生明白什么样的生活习惯才是健康的，培养学生爱好体育锻炼、注意身体健康的意识。

Introduction这一部分先复习和学习与饮食健康相关的词汇，并通过Activity 2的活动进行巩固；接着列举了一些与饮食健康相关的谚语，最后通过对Activity 4中问题的讨论使学生对中外有关健康的谚语表达有个初步的认识。

Ⅱ．三维目标

1 Knowledge and Skill

1) Make students master some words about healthy habits.

2) Encourage students to participate in class actively.

3) Know more about some Proverbs in relation to healthy habits

2 Procedure and Method

1)Train students speaking ability through individual ,pair and group work

2) Learn some daily expressions concerning healthy habits.

3 Emotion and Value

Improve students’speaking ability , make them realize the importance of health and know how to keep fit.

Ⅲ. Key pionts

1 Encourage students to talk about healthy habits.

2 Train students’speaking ability.

3 Teach students some new words: dentist,diet,fat,fit,flu,get a cold,rare,toothache,wealthy.

4 Learn some daily expressions about healthy habits.

Ⅳ. Diffficult pionts

1 Lead students to talk in class actively.

2 Help students to understand some English proverbs.

Ⅴ.Teaching tool : Multimedia

Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures：

Step 1．Leading-in

Ask Ss listen to an English song named If you are happy,… Ask them whether they are happy.Piont out that the happier you are, the healthier you will be.

Step 2．Question 1

Let students see some pictures and think about the problem “What cause people unhealthy?”Then,ask some to anser this question and check by giving some factors of causing people unhealthy.

Factors of causing people unhealthy

1 Disease

2 Unhealthy  diets

3 Unhealthy living habits

4 The bad environment

Step 3 Activity 1

   Read the words in the box while students listen and follow.Ask which of them are connected with illness.Check the answers.

Step 4 Activity 2

    Ask Ss to go through the sentences in Activity 2 on P1，and tick the sentences that are true for themselves．Then ask them to know the meaning of the sentences and read these sentences.

Step 5 Group work:Discussion

First, ask Ss to work in groups of four and discuss the question;”Is health very important” And what shall we do to keep healthy?”Choose some to present their opinions.

Second,share my opinion with them by giving some pictures about healthy habits.

Advice on how to keep fit

To form good and healthy habits.

 (healthy diet, good living habits ,enough exercise, good spirit)

Step 6  Proverbs

   Ask Ss to say some chinese proverbs they know about healthy habits.

For your reference：

v    1 病从口入。

v    A close mouth catches no flies.

v    2 健康胜于财富。

v    Health is over wealth.

v    3 饭后百步走，延年又益寿。

v    After supper walk a mile.

v    4 冬吃萝卜夏吃姜，不用医生开药方。

v    Carrots in winter and gingers in summer keep the doctor away.

Then, ask Ss to work in pairs and read the four proverbs in Activity 3 on P1 together and then discuss what the proverbs mean either in English or in Chinese．

 For your reference：    ．

    (1)You are what you eat．人如其食。

    It means that your body and even mental state are affected by the type of food you eat．

(2)Healthy mind in a healthy body．健康的思想寓于健康的身体之中。

    It means that if you are clear about eating healthily，and follow a sensible diet，you are likely to be clear thinking in other areas of life．

    (3)Early to bed，early to rise makes a man healthy，wealthy and wise．早睡早起的人享有健康、财富和智慧。

    It means that sleeping late or sleeping in the morning is not good for the body，the mind or the business．

    (4)An apple a day keeps the doctor away．每天吃苹果，不必上诊所。

    It means that it is important to eat fresh fruit and vegetables everyday in order to stay healthy．

Step 7．Writing

Write a short passage to tell us how to keep fit in no more than 80 words. Some powerful sentences are for you as follows:

v    1 We all want to grow up healthily and happily, and for this goal ,we must do several things.

v    2 Taking exercise helps us build up our body and keep clear mind so that we can work better.

v    3 We need to do sports so that we can keep fit.

v    4 It is better to eat healthy food than junk food.

v    5 We should have a balanced diet.

v    6 Turn a bad mood into a good mood. If we smile at life ,life will smile on us in return.

v    7 Do not stay up. Avoid overuse of our eyes.

v    8  Improve our environment and make our world a better place to live in.

Step 8．Homework

v    1 Remember some new words and proverbs connected with  health.

v    2 Write a long passage to tell us how to keep fit in no more than 120 words according to the introduction.

v    3 Preview Reading in Page2.

Blackboard  Design

Module one Our body and healthy diets

Words and expressions:

Dentist ,diet, fat,fit, unhealthy,rare,toothache,wealthy,catch a cold

Factors:                     Advice:

English Proverbs:

1 You are what you eat.

2 Healthy mind in a healthy body.

3 Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

4 An apple a day keeps the doctor away.