（Comprehension focus）

Teaching aims:

This unit is about health. It deals with all the components of healthy life. It includes the text from a presentation about fitness, a song about health and three articles about various health topics. Through the course of this unit, students will learn the vocabulary involved in talking about health: the parts of the body, exercise, and nutrition. Students will share their ideas about health, fitness, and nutrition.

1. To learn for information.

2. To develop speaking ability by discussing and finally presenting their ideas about living a healthy life.

3. To master the words and phrases involved in talking about health.

4. Grammar:

Using the form “v. + ing” as participles or gerunds.

Reviewing the four kinds of sentences in English.

Important and difficult points:

1. Get students to understand what fitness means.

2. Make students learn the usage of the mastery words and phrsaes

3. Help students to review the uses of “verb+ing”form, especially as the participles.

Teaching procedures:

Section 1: New Words and Ideas

What Does Fitness Mean?

Period one

Step 1. Pre-reading

Introduce the title “To Your Good Health?” with books closed. Brainstorm with the class many words as possible that are related to health.

Ask: 1.Do you feel healthy?

2. How do you know whether you’re healthy or not?

3. What does it mean to be healthy?

Show the Ss some pictures and help them to answer:

-What does fitness mean?

-Fitness is a word that describes how well your body is able to handle physical activities.

Write the words “Fitness” as the theme on the Bb. Then draw the following outline on the board. As a pre-reading activity, have the class predict what the outline of Unit 7 might look like. Make sure books are closed.

1. What do you need to be fit?

2. The five areas of fitness.

3. Important information?

4. What my heart looks like?

Step 2. Careful reading

1.Show the following questions one by one on the Bb.

What do you need to be fit?

When your body is physically fit, you will be able to:

(1)do physical things for a longer time

(2)do harder physical activities more easily

(3)learn better

(4)sleep better

(5)digest and use your food better

(6)feel better and have more energy

(7)have more fun

2.Speak out the five areas of fotness.

If you are really “fit ”, you will:

(1)be able to twist and turn the parts of your body in many different ways.

(2)be able to run and play and work over longer periods of time, your heart and

lungs will be used to working hard for long periods of time.

(3)have strong muscles that can lift heavier things.

(4)be able to run, walk, or swim faster.

(5)find that everything in your body will work together better.

3.What is the important information?

(1)The heart is a muscle which pumps blood through blood vessels to all the

cells in our bodies. Our hearts beat continually every day.

(2)Blood feeds and removes waste from the cells

(3)To keep our hearts healthy, we need to do enjoyable physical

(4)Activities and eat healthy foods every day.

4.What does your heart look like?

(1)My heart is about as big as my fist.

(2)My heart beats about 90 times per minute. (at rest)

(3) My heart is located in my chest, slightly to the left of the centre.

(4) Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood from the left side of my heart to the rest of my body.

5.Veins are the blood vessels that carry blood from my body to the right side of my heart.

Detailed reading(true or faulse questions):

(1)Your body is a simple network of system.

(2)The more you use your body, the worse it works.

(3)Being fit helps you to stay alert and focused on your lessons.

(4)Your body has a few ways to use the food that you eat.

(5)Physical exercise acts like a stimulant which gives you energy.

(6)If you are really fit ,you will be able to twist and turn the part of your body.

(7)Blood feeds and absorbs waste from the cells.

(8)My heart is located in my chest, slightly to the right of the center.

(9)Veins are the blood vessels that carry blood from my body to the right side of my heart.

Fill in the blanks.

Danny gave a _______________ about what _________ mean. Every day you use your ____ to do _________ things. Your body is a ____________________ of Systems. The _____ you use your body, the _______ it works. When your body is __________ fit , you will be able to do a lot of things: ____________ things; ________ better; ________ better; ________________________________ better and have_____________ and have more ______. If you are fit , you are work over longer period of time , have strong ______,run walk or ______ faster and find that everything in your body will work ________ better. The heart blood arteries and veins play different _______ in our life. To keep our hearts healthy, we need to __________________ activities and eat ________ food every day.

Step 3. After-reading

Discussion:

Do you often have such life experiences? For example, you can't do physical things for a long time; you won't fall asleep at night easily and always feel tired after waking up the next day, in class you are often absentminded instead of focusing your attention on your lessons. In that case, please discuss the following questions with your partners:

　　1. What are the causes of these phenomena?

　　2. How can you deal with the problem?

　　3. How important is good health to you?　　

Step 4. Homework

1. Read the whole text.

2. Try to recite the whole text.

Period two

Step 1.Language points

In fact, the more you use your body, the better it works.

the＋比較級，the＋比較級，意思為“越……越……”。

[例]______ you praise him, ______ he works.

A. More; the harder B. The more; the harder

C. The more; harder D. More; harder

(答案為B)

Step 2. Meaning through practice

1.Divide the class into groups. Give each group a large piece of paper to draw the human body and write the words an the body parts. As the students are working, provide the following word on the board: heart, lungs, kidney, brain, stomach, liver, artery, veins, and bones.

2.Explain that over can be a preposition or a prefix that can be added to verds, adjectives or nouns. The prefix can mean: 1. excessive 2. outer, extra 3. like “over” in various senses.

Discuss the meaning of each prefix. Have the students write a sentence for each word.

Explain that under is also a proposition or prefix meaning: 1. below, beneath 2. lower in status 3. incomplete

Here are more example: underclothes, underdog, undergraduate, underclass.

4. Listen to the tape and do the Ex.

5. Let’s talk: Sentence Stress and Rhythm.

6. Review the following vocabulary before reading the dialogue: emphasize, de-emphasize,

Step 3. Writing

Write an invitation to a dinner party with a menu. Use the sample shown in the text as a model.

Use the mapping strategy to help the students organize their ideas. Illustrate on the board a circle with lines going out from the circle. The circle represents how to develop a health lifestyle. Each line will represent a component of a healthy lifestyle. In groups have the students identify the components. For example: diet, physical, mental, social/emotional.

Students will make a chart that has the components listed on each side of the columns. Under each component list the unhealthy and healthy habits of parents, classmates, etc.

Divide the class into groups. Students will share their list of unhealthy and healthy habits. As a group, the students make a “Do” and “Don’t” chart. Remind the students to use modals in this activity because they are giving advice as to what are unhealthy and healthy habits. For example：“You should ride your bicycle every day” “ You should not smoke.”

Step 4. Grammar: 現在分詞

現在分詞表示“主動和進行”，分詞可以有自己的狀語、賓語或邏輯主語等。

1.分詞作狀語分詞在句子中作狀語，可以表示時間、條件、原因、結果、讓步、伴隨等。分詞做狀語時，它的邏輯主語與句子的主語一致。作狀語的分詞相當于一個狀語從句。

【例如】 Hearing the news, they all jumped with joy. Using what you know of word stems and word formations, you can make a guess at the meaning of a new word.

　　The students went out of the classroom, laughing and talking. Accompanied by his friend, he went to the railway station.Given better attention, the plants could grow better.

　　He looked tired and depressed, visibly disturbed by the news of his mother’s illness.

　　分詞在句子中作狀語，使用何種分詞，要取決于分詞與句子主語的關系：主謂關系用現在分詞，動賓或被動關系用過去分詞。

【例如】 Taught by mistakes and setbacks, we have become wiser and handled our affairs better. (we are taught/teach us) .Inspired by the International, the working people of all countries have been fighting for their final liberation. (the working people were inspired/ inspire the working people)____the earth to be flat, many feared that Columbus would fall off the edge.

　　A. having believed B. Believing C. Believed D. Being believed

本句意思為：相信地球是平的，許多人擔心哥倫布會從邊上掉下去。許多人與相信之間是主謂關系，及分詞與主語之間為主謂關系。因此，應用現在分詞，答案為B。

　　No matter how frequently ____, the works of Beethoven always attract large audiences.

　　A. performing B. performed C. to be performed D. being performed

本句中貝多芬的作品被反復表演，可見分詞與句子的主語之間是被動關系，應該用過去分詞，故答案為B。

　　____ as it was at such a time, his work attracted much attention.

　　A. Being published B. Published C. Publishing D. To be published

　　本句中as引導的是讓步狀語從句，意思為：他的作品盡管在被這樣的時候出版，還是引起了關注，可見分詞與句子的主語之間是被動關系，應該用過去分詞，故答案為B.

　　2.“while ( when, once, until, if , though等連詞)＋分詞”結構現在分詞或過去分詞作狀語時，有時可以在分詞前加while，when, once, although, until, if等連詞。

【例如】 When leaving the airport, she waved again and again to us.While waiting for the train, I had a long talk with my sister about her work..

　　Once recovered, he threw himselfsintoshis work and made every effort to do it well.

　　Although working very hard, he failed to pass the final exam.If translated word by word, the passage will be difficult to understand.

　　3. 分詞作定語分詞作定語時，單個的分詞通常放在被修飾的名詞之前，分詞短語一般置于所修飾的中心詞后面。現在分詞修飾的是發出該動作的名詞(即與名詞有主謂關系)，過去分詞修飾承受該動作的名詞(即與名詞是動賓關系)。

【例如】 We will go on with our experiment as soon as we get the added fund.

　　This is really an exhausting day to all of us!

　　We can see the part of the moon lighted by sunlight.

　　After a night spent in excitement and sleeplessness, I forced myself to take a long walk along the beach the next day.

　　More and more developing countries established strategic partnership with developed countries.

　　The young sitting between my sister and my brother is my cousin Jack..

　　As early as 1649 Ohio made a decision that free, tax-supported schools must be established in every town ____ 50 households or more.

　　A. shavings B. to have C. to have had D. shavingshad Town

　　后面由分詞做定語，而且town本身有50或以上人家，故town與分詞間為主謂關系，應該用現在分詞，答案為A。

　　4. 分詞作賓語補足語現在分詞在see, watch, hear, observe, notice, feel, find, glimpse, glance等感官動詞和look at, listen to等短語動詞以及have, keep, get, catch, leave, set, start, send等使役動詞后面與名詞或代詞構成復合賓語，作賓語補語的成分。

　　5. 分詞作表語分詞作表語通常看作形容詞來用。現在分詞表示主語的性質，而且主語多為物；過去分詞表示主語的感受或狀態，主語多為人。

Stip 5. Reading

1. Using the same illustrated outline as used in the first reading, have the students read the text and fill in the outline with the four ideas and brief description of each idea in this text.

2. Discuss the title. Is there any relationship between appetite and emotion?

3. Ask the students some questions:

○1“What is an emotion eater?”

○2Do you know anybody who is an emotion eater?

○3Do the post-reading activities.

4. Students need to prepare a short summary of the text to answer the question, “what is the text about?”

Have the students read the story and in 4 sentences identify the main idea of the story answering the 5 Wh questions: Who, Where, When, What and Why.