1. Unit 2 Reading Dying to be thin

2. Teaching aims  Grasp the main ideas of the three e-mails  Help the students to express their own opinions on a topic.  Review how to answer a mail.

4. If you are a bit over-weight, how would you lose weight?

5. going on a diet Doing exercise

6. receiving surgical treatment receiving surgical treatment taking weight-loss pills taking weight-loss pills

7. 2. Which method would you prefer? What are the disadvantages of each of them?

8. going on a diet disadvantages weak; tired;

9. exercising in the gym disadvantages waste time; have to pay

10. receiving surgical treatment disadvantages waste money; lose one ’ s life

11. taking weight-loss pills disadvantages waste money; damage health

12. Fast reading Read the three e-mails quickly and do the following exercises.

13. 1.Where does Amy come from? 2.What kind of pills did Amy take? 3.What caused Amy’s liver to fail? 4.what’s the meaning of the title? Canada Weight-loss pills called Fat-Less The weight-loss pills The first is that Amy wanted to be thin very much. The second is that Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills.

14. TRUE OR FALSE 1. In Amy’s first e-mail to Zhou Ling, she is going on a diet to lose weight. 2. In the last two months Amy has lost 10kg. 3. In Amy’s second e-mail, she regrets taking those weight-loss pills. F F T taking weight- loss pills 7kg

15. 4. Zhou Ling didn’t answer Amy’s e-mail in time because she has no computer. 5. In China, no one takes weight-loss pills. F F many people her computer was broken

16. Detailed reading

17. Fill in the charts about the three periods of Amy’s mood. What is her mood in each period? And what are the reasons and results?

18. What Amy did ReasonsResultsAmy’s emotions take Fat- less pills be in hospital an actress; ashamed of being fat slimmer; tired and weak liver failure;dying; joyful good medical treatment recovering regretful hopeful e-mail one and two recover

19. Reply to Amy (e-mail three) She felt happy at her recovery It’s a really touching story We shouldn’t be embarrassed about our weight 1.How did Zhou Ling feel when she heard about Amy’s problems? 2.How did she feel when she heard Amy was recovering? 3.What did she think of the story? 4.What did she learn from Amy? She was sorry to hear about it

20. Title: 1.______ to be thin ThemeMain point Being eager to become slimmer In order to 2._____ weight, Amy thought and thought, then decided to 3._____ weight-loss pills, which can 4._______ her liver to fail and became slimmer and slimmer. 5.___________ Amy was now in 6. _______, where she received dood 7.________ treatment. Now she knows people shopldn’t be 8._________ of their appearance. Valuing health Zhou Ling was sorry to hear about Amy’s problems and hoped that she as 9. _____ as all the others who would like to lose weight could value the importance of 10. _______. Fill in the blanks with appropriate words Dying lose take ashamed medical well health Recovering cause hospital

21. 1. According to Paragraph 2 in the first email, Amy is an actress, _______. A. who often exercises B. who wanted to lose weight C. who became ill D. who ate little Choose the best answer.

22. 2. Why did Amy decide to take weight- loss pills? A. She was overweight. B. She was having problems. C. Her clothes did not fit. D. She wanted to become slimmer.

23. 3. The pills did great harm to Amy’s _______. A.heart B. lungs C. liver D. eyes

24. 4. What does Amy do now in order to recover? A. She goes to the gym every day. B. She does exercise and eats healthy food. C. She stays in bed all day. D. She takes a lot of medicine.

25. 5. Zhou Ling, Amy’s friend, _______. A. did not want to read Amy’s emails B. was sorry to hear about Amy’s problem C. thinks Amy should lose weight D. thinks diets and weight-loss pills are necessary

26. 6. Amy’s experience is _______. A. an interesting one B. caused by her family C. like that of some people in China D. a problem only for actresses

27. Which is more important, beauty or health? Why?

28. Health is more important than beauty ⑴. health means life ⑵.physical beauty will not last for ever. ⑶. everything depends on physical( 身体 ) health ⑷.health is priceless ⑸.beauty bases on health

29. Beauty is also important in our daily life ⑴.easy to find a good job ⑵.to live a rich and happy life ⑶.to be confident ⑷.to be attractive ⑸. easy to find boyfriends or girlfriends

30. Answer a mail  Suppose your foreign friend Ginger, who is overweight, e-mailed you telling that she is going to have a surgical treatment to lose weight. Please answer the mail and prevent her from doing so.

31. Hi, How are you these days? I’m delighted to tell you that I have persuaded my parents to take me to hospital to have a surgical treatment to lose weight. Maybe you will not recognize me next time you see me.Keep in touch. Love Ginger

32. How can we keep healthy?

33. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

34. Healthy Diet Pyramid

35. Often drink cabbage soup, need not have doctor prescribed.

36. Drink 6-8 glasses each day.

37. work out in the gym

38. Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy.

39. Laughter is the best medicine.

40. After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

41. How can we keep healthy? 1.Exercising running, swimming, playing basketball, football, table tennis volleyball … 2.Enough sleep 3.Healthy diets more fruits, more vegetables, drink more water low fat, low sugar, low salt, low calories full at breakfast, good at lunch, less at supper 4.Mental health