1. Unit 2 Healthy Eating Learning about Language
WenZhou No.21 Middle School
Maggie
Learning about Language

2. Whose menu do you prefer? Why?
Words Challenge!
Wang Peng’s menu
Yong Hui’s menu
fried rice
beef
barbecued mutton kebabs …
lemon
raw vegetables
...

3. Each thing has good points and bad points .
strengths weaknesses
Each thing has __________and __________.
强项，优势
Wang Peng’s food tastes delicious and can provide customers enough energy, but it can also make people gain weight because of serving too much fat. While Yong Hui’s slimming food will help people become slimmer, but it serves so little energy-giving food that customers may feel _______ (weakness) or even have no ________(strong) to walk.
put on weight
lose weight
weak
strength 力气

4. Are you curious about what I looked like in the past?
As for me, I preferred WangPeng's menu when I was in high school. I liked to eat a lot of barbecued mutton kebabs, fried chicken, so I put on 20 pounds.
Are you curious about what I looked like in the past?
Are you curious about how I lost weight?
To become slim quickly, I tried to be on a diet. I just ate some _________(slim) food like raw vegetables and fruit every day. I became ________(slim) than before, but I also became very weak and even had no strength to study. Then I began to overeat again, so I had to try another way to ____(slim) down.
out
slimming
slimmer
slim

5. Are you curious about what happened ?
I watched slim singers and hostesses every day on TV to remind myself to lose weight. And out of ________(curious), I tried a slimming product which was often advertised on TV.
________(curious), I didn't lose any weight but had diarrhea (腹泻) for two days which drove me crazy. Finally my father had to drive me to the hospital.
curiosity
Curiously ② ①
Match the meanings of “drive”.
① Wang Peng drove back home.
② Curiosity drove Wang Peng inside.
Explain the sentence “Curiosity drove me to try the slimming product” in you own words .
1. Out of curiosity, I tried the slimming product.
2. I felt curious about the slimming product, so I tried it.
3. Driven by my curiosity, I tried the slimming product.
...

6. Can you guess finally how I lost weight?
Finally I changed my eating habit. I tried to give up some fried food and keep a balanced diet. Besides, I kept on doing some sports every day. To my ________ (curious), I lost 15 pounds in three months.
curiosity

7. What can you learn from my experience?
Suggestions
What can you learn from my experience?
We ought not to rely on some advertisements which are telling people lies.
We ought to lose weight in a healthy way.
We ought not to ...
We ought to ...
Nothing is ______________(important) than our health.
Nothing is _________(good) than a healthy lifestyle.
more important
better
Nothing is better than a balanced diet.
没什么比均衡的饮食更好了。

8. Driven by the desire to become slim, many students especially girls in our school just eat raw vegetables or fruit as a meal to lose weight.
Hungry!!!

9. Write a speech about “How to lose weight in a healthy way?”
内容包括 ：
1）现象：好奇有那么多学生只吃水果或蔬菜来保持苗条。
2）缺点: 经常只吃水果蔬菜我们可能会变虚弱甚至没力气学习，因为它们不能提供足够的能量。
3）建议：应该均衡膳食，应该适当锻炼，这样才能健康减肥。
4）总结：没有什么比健康更重要了。让我们保持健康的生活方式。
Good afternoon my fellow students,
I am XXX (your name).——————————————____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Homework Check to see Assessment 包含所有内容要点 注意句子的连接，文章连贯自然
1.Polish your writing according to the standards of assessment.
2.Exchange your writing with your desk-mate to polish it better.
Check to see
Assessment
包含所有内容要点
注意句子的连接，文章连贯自然
拼写和语法错误, 卷面工整干净
字数80词左右

11. Good afternoon my fellow students,
Possible Version
Good afternoon my fellow students,
I am XXX. I am curious why so many students just eat raw vegetables or fruit to keep slim. But eating them for a long time, we may become weak or even have no strength to study, because they can not provide enough energy for us. So we ought to have a balanced diet and do some regular sports. / (I suggest we should have a balanced diet and do some regular sports.) Only in this way can we lose weight in a healthy way.
Finally I want to say “nothing is more important than our health.” Let’s keep a healthy lifestyle.
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