A healthy life

My presentation Analysis of the Teaching material Teaching aims Teaching important and difficult points Analysis of students Teaching Methods Teaching aids Teaching procedures

Analysis of the Teaching material This is the first teaching period of this unit. Warming Up presents issues about health for students to discuss. Pre－reading provides some questions to help students focus on the topic of the reading passage and get the students to realize the harm of smoking. Teachers may provide students some advice on how to give up smoking.

Teaching aims 1. Aims of knowledge and abilities (1)To learn about some health problems and how to live a healthy life. (2)To enlarge the students’ vocabulary about healthy life. (3)To develop the students' speaking ability by talking about health problems. 2. Aims of emotion, attitude and value: (1)To get the students to reflect on some health issues which may concern them in the future and make sure they will be less likely to become addicted to risky behavior. (2)To develop students' sense of cooperative learning.

Teaching important and difficult points 1．To enable the students to learn about health problems and enlarge the students’ vocabulary about healthy life. . 2．To enable the students to describe a healthy person or a healthy activity.

Analysis of students The students of Grade 2 have got certain reading and speaking ability. Students can master the language knowledge under teacher' s guidence and have a command of some reading skills. And they can present a PPT in simple English by themselves. The students are familiar with the topic of healthy life. They know how to search some information by Internet and make a PPT.

Teaching Methods Communicative teaching method “ Task- based” teaching method Teaching aids A computer , Projector , a microphone and. blackboard Teaching time 40 Mins.

Teaching procedures Before class: Give students tasks 1 The teacher give two reading materials about the healthy life and smoking to students so that the students know the topic better before class. 2 Ask them to search for some information on the Internet of the following topic and questions. 3 Make a PPT and prepare for the presentation in class.

Step 1. Lead-in （5mins） Have a free discussion: What do you think is important in our life? Show some pictures and let Ss know that a healthy person is someone who is healthy in both body and mind.

car house money Health job/work love family friendship

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. Good health is over wealth.

Is he a healthy person?

a famous film star in HK, her nickname is “Feifei” a famous singer in HK, sang a song “monica”. committed suicide in 2003 a famous film star in HK, her nickname is “Feifei” depression cancer mental disease physical disease 13 13

What kind of person can be regarded as a healthy person? A healthy person is someone who is healthy in both body and mind.

Step 2. Warming-up （5 mins） Show some picture and guide the students to judge what kind of person can be regarded as a healthy person. And the vocabulary about healthy issues would be introduced while the pictures are being shown.

Can you tell which activity is healthy and which is unhealthy?

We are doing shadowboxing. Doing Taiji

dancing healthy

Playing basketball Healthy

Drinking alcohol

I’m addicted to overeating.

Obesity Unhealthy

I’ve become addicted to smoking cigarettes.

Drug abuse Unhealthy

Stress Unhealthy

Step 3 Discussion （10mins） Have a discussion on the topic: What should we do to keep healthy? Brainstorming: Group Work: Each group may choose one aspect to talk about in detail

Each group may choose one aspect to talk about in detail sports diet stress … What should we do to keep healthy? Computer hobbies Attitude to the life Study habits

To be truly healthy，a person must be well in mind，body and spirit.

Step 4 Pre-reading (3mins) Do you think smoking is a healthy habit? Show some pictures and guide the students to know that smoking is an unhealthy habit and we should get rid of it.

Do you think smoking is a healthy habit?

teenagers 3. In what ways is smoking harmful? 2. Why do you think some adolescents start smoking? teenagers 3. In what ways is smoking harmful?

Step 5 presentation (15mins) 1 Choose 2 or 3 students to give a presentation on the following topics about smoking with their ppt. 1) Why do you think some adolescents start smoking? (reasons for smoking) 2) In what ways is smoking harmful？(Bad effects) 3) What advice would you give to someone who wanted to stop smoking? (solutions) 2 Ask the Ss to add more different opinions about smoking.

A waste of _______ money

Smoking is not good for ____________ smokers. secondhand 中国约十万人因吸二手烟而死. Smoking is not good for ____________ smokers. secondhand

the two big diseases are related to smoking lung disease

What advice would you give? My advice is that let them get interested in some positive hobbies like sports, playing music, reading, playing chess and so on.

Where could you get good advice on stopping smoking? Doctors Medical magazines Parents and friends …

Summary get the students to reflect on some health issues which may concern them in the future and make sure they will be less likely to become addicted to risky behavior such as smoking.

Homework 1. Search more information about healthy life in Internet 2. Preview Reading One :Advice from Grandad