Unit 12 Food and Health
Ⅰ. Teaching Objectives:
1. Get the students to master the basic words, expressions and sentence patterns in Focus and Memorize and to use them in talking about health.
2. Enable the students to speak appropriately in terms of seeing a doctor. 3. Get the students to understand the dialogue in Testing Your Ears.
4. Get the students to practise the dialogue in Task 1 and to understand the dialogue in Task 2 in Putting It Together.
5. Get the students to master some key words, expressions and structures in the text and to get the main idea of the text.
6. Introduce the basic knowledge about Emphatic Structures and get the students to put the grammatical knowledge into use.
7. Get the students to understand and use connecting words in combining and making sentences.
8. Get students to know more about health and help them learn how to keep a healthy diet.
Ⅱ. Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
1. Listening and Speaking 1) Talking about health 2) Seeing a doctor 2. Reading
A. Vocabularies: Words variety essential undesirable efficient absorb thus require beneficial necessity properly inevitably digestion taste detail reward costly convenience source require vital level time-consuming
Expressions a variety of keep … in balance at a high price in the end meet requirements play an important role B. Structures be a key part in … by doing prefer … to some of which定语从句 3. Grammar Emphatic Structures 4. Writing
The use of either…or, then, while, however, and, but, both…and…, neither…or, not only…but also…
Ⅲ. Teaching Methods:
1. Group work and individual work
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2. Explanation and practice 3. Question-and-answer activity 4. Brainstorming 5. Role-play
6. Listening, speaking, reading and writing
Ⅳ. Teaching Aids:
1. A loudhailer
2. A multimedia computer 3. A blackboard
Ⅴ. Teaching Periods:
Period 1 Listening & Speaking Period 2 Reading Comprehension Period 3 Detailed Study of the Text Period 4 Further Practice Period 5 Grammar in Use Period 6 Grammar Practice Period 7 Writing
Period 8 Revision and Exercises
Ⅵ. Teaching Procedures:
1. Listening & Speaking ◆ Getting into the Topic ◆ Testing Your Ears ◆ Script of the Dialogue (1) ◆ Putting It Together ◆ Script of the Dialogue (2) 2. Reading ◆ Warming Up ◆ Background Information ◆ Detailed Study of the Text ◆ Further Practice 3. Grammar in Use 4.Writing
5. Revision and Exercises
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Period 1 Listening & Speaking
Ⅰ. Teaching Objectives:
1. Get the students to master the basic words, expressions and sentence patterns in Focus and Memorize and to use them in talking about health.
2. Enable the students to speak appropriately in terms of seeing a doctor. 3. Get the students to understand the dialogue in Testing Your Ears.
4. Get the students to practise the dialogue in Task 1 and to understand the dialogue in Task 2 in Putting It Together.
5. Practise the students? abilities of listening and speaking.
Ⅱ. Teaching Important and Difficult Points:
1. Have students learn how to talk about health.
2. Enable the students to speak appropriately in terms of seeing a doctor.
3. How to help students practice and improve their abilities of listening and speaking.
Ⅲ. Teaching Methods:
1. Group work and individual work 2. Listening & speaking 3. Brainstorming 4. Role-play
Ⅳ. Teaching Aids:
1. A loudhailer
2. A multimedia computer 3. A blackboard
Ⅴ. Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Greetings & Free-talk
Greet the whole class and have a free talk with them. Step 2 Revision
1. Ask the students to translate the following sentences into Chinese.
a. His new product was so promising that his students decided to advertise it for him.
他的新产品很有前景，他的学生们决定为他做宣传。 b. How can I persuade them to take part in our activity? 怎么才能说服他参加我们的活动呢?
c. One of the most important skills in life is to identify your own strengths. 生活中最为重要的一项能力就是发现自己的优点。 d. Nothing in the world will induce me to do that. 什么也不能诱使我做那种事。
e. It is evident that the education of the young is vital to the future of a country.
不言而喻，青年人的教育对于一个国家的未来是致关重要的。
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2. Ask the students to make sentences by using the following words or phrases. a. provide sth. for sb. b. as well as c. in turn
d. be related to e. link … with … f. be tailored to
Step 3 Listening & Speaking 1. Getting into the Topic
1) Brainstorm with the students some words, expressions or sentence patterns about health.
2) Present to the students the following words and expressions:
go to see a doctor get a bad headache give me a bad cold have one?s temperature taken get a check-up cause side effects have some symptoms taken the medicine feel ill prescribe flu
3) Ask the students to make up sentences of their own by using these words and expressions.
4) Present to the students some basic formulas about seeing a doctor.
Seeing a doctor What?s up with you? What?s the trouble/matter? How are you feeling? I?m sick/ill. I feel bad/sick/awful. I feel tired/powerless. I have a stomachache. / I got a pain in my stomach. My stomachache hurts. I?m running a fever. / I?ve got a temperature. I don?t have any appetite.
5) Ask the students to role-play Dialogue 1 and Dialogue 2. 2. Testing Your Ears
1) Play the recording for the first time and ask the students to finish Task 1. Key: √ in the hospital
Note: It can be inferred from the man?s words “There?s something wrong
with me, doctor.” that the dialogue most probably takes place in the hospital.
2) Play the recording again and ask the students to finish Task 2. Key: √ headache
√ fever
√ runny and blocked nose
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√ tiredness and weakness
Note: The answers can be inferred from the following lines in the dialogue:
M: … because I had a terrible headache yesterday, which hasn?t gone away yet.
M: I also felt very hot yesterday. But now I feel very cold although it?s hot outside.
M: My nose is runny and blocked.
W: Are you feeling very tired and weak? M: Yes, doctor ...
3) Play the recording for the third time and ask the students to finish Task 3. Key: 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
Note: Draw the students? attention to the following expressions and sentences:
How can I help you?
There?s something wrong with me, doctor. What seems to be the problem? have a terrible headache
feel very hot/very cold/tired and weak have some symptoms
catch a cold
take your temperature
4) Check the students? answers and explain the key points.
? Script of the Dialogue (1)
W: How can I help you? M: There?s something wrong with me, doctor. W: What seems to be the problem? M: I am unable to work because I had a terrible headache yesterday, which hasn?t gone away yet. W: I see. M: I also felt very hot yesterday. But now I feel very cold although it?s hot outside. W: Do you have any other symptoms? M: My nose is runny and blocked. W: Are you feeling very tired and weak? M: Yes, doctor. I think it?s the sudden weather change that has given me a bad cold. W: Yes, you probably have caught a cold. Now let me take your temperature.
3. Putting It Together
1) Ask students to finish Task 1 and encourage them to use different expressions in practicing the dialogue.
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