一、 teaching content
unit 13 reading (2); post-reading
二、 teaching goals
1. improve the students’ reading ability by catching detailed information.
2. enable the students to understand the best way to make sure that we will feel and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits by learning the reading text.
三、 teaching important points:
1. master the new words, phrases and useful expressions in the text.
keep up with, too much, make a choice; be harmful to; lose weight; be prepared for
2. train the students’ reading ability to develop healthy eating habits.
四、 teaching difficult points
1. how to train the students’ reading ability.
2. how to make the students understand the reading material better and answer some questions on the passage.
五、 teaching methods:
explanation and inductive methods to make the students master the new words.
六、 teaching aids
1. a projector
2. the blackboard
七、 teaching procedures

step 1 greetings
t: good morning! my boys and girls!
t: sit down, please!
step2 reading
t: we’ve got a general idea about the reading. but i think the passage is very difficult.
t: ok. let’s read the passage carefully together.

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t: we listen to the tape paragraph by paragraph, and then explain the paragraph.
t: listen to para 1. and try to answer the questions.
(1)para 1
1) listen
t: it’s easier to choose what to eat in the past.
true or false? (t)
t: why?
ss: in the past, people didn’t have so many kinds of food to choose. people even can’t get enough food to eat. / now, people take more care about their figures.
2) explaining
our eating habits have changed, as has our way of life.
t: what does the underlined part mean? = and our way of has changed too.
t: as has our way of life 是倒装结构
as + 助动词/ be + 主语 也一样
e.g. she’s unusually tall, as are her parents 她特别高, 她的父母也都那么高.
he’s a doctor, as was his wife before she had children.
3) understand
t: what does the word “ fuel” mean?
ss: original meaning:燃料
t: e.g. the machine needs fuels to go on work.
t: but you should pay attention to the word in the text. here it means 营养物质
t: listen to paras. 2 and 3
(2)paras. 2 and 3
t: fill in the table.
nutrients functions where can we get it?
protein good for our muscles fish, meat and beans
calcium for our bones and teeth eggs milk and other dairy products
carbohydrate the main fuel for our body rice, bread, noodles
fibre help keep our body function well
mineral
vitamins help our body fight disease vegetables, fruit, fish, milk

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questions
t: why do some people become vegetarians?
t: what does the word “ green” mean? does it mean the color of green?
ss: green: environment protecting
t: green food is very popular nowadays. can you find any other words with the same meaning as green food?
t: e.g. environmentally friendly food / eco-food
t: can you find an example about green food in this paragraph?
ss: organic vegetables

(3)paras 4 and 5
t: listen to paras 4 and 5
t: you can find the word “diet” several times in para 4.
t: what’s the different meaning of them? look at the blackboard.
a balanced diet 均衡的饮食
crash diet 速成食疗
diet food 减肥食品
unhealthy diet 不健康的饮食
t: in order to keep fit, what shall we do and eat?
1) buy good food and keep a balanced diet.
2) eat healthy food in the right amount.
3) eat less fat and sugar and exercise more.

step3 post-reading
t: how have our eating habits changed? why?
t: discuss question 4 in pairs.
t: retell the text according to some topic sentences.
step4 summary and homework
t: today we’ve learned the passage. the passage may be very difficult to you. after class, you’d better review the reading including some words and phrases.
1. retell the text, try to get a summary of this text
2. review words we have learnt in this unit
3. preview grammar of this unit
4. do the exercises the word study on page 5




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八．黑板板书设计blackboard:
(l)
as + 助动词/ be + 主语 也一样
e.g. she’s unusually tall, as are her parents
(m)
nutrients functions where can we get it?
protein good for our muscles fish, meat and beans
calcium for our bones and teeth eggs milk and other dairy products
carbohydrate the main fuel for our body rice, bread, noodles
fibre help keep our body function well
mineral
vitamins help our body fight disease vegetables, fruit, fish, milk
(r)
a balanced diet 均衡的饮食
crash diet 速成食疗
diet food 减肥食品
unhealthy diet 不健康的饮食
九、evaluation