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TEEN FAINTS AFTER SKIPPING MEALS
Students 45 students Topic Teen faints after skipping meals
Lesson reading Duration 45mins
Teaching philosophy The whole design is based on the New English Curriculum Standards. In this lesson. And students’ English core competences which are language ability, cultural awareness, thinking quality and learning ability would be taken into consideration and improved through activities. Student--centered teaching philosophy are also included in this instructional design. In this lesson, in order to help students have a better understanding of this passage, the teacher will design some activities to guide and help students do team work and self-study.
Text analysis Thematic context : human and self Genre: a news report Source of text: The text is a news reports selected from the Book 1 of the Compulsory English published by the Yilin Press. What: The news report is about a teenage girl fainted in her class because she skipped meals to lose weight, which reveals a common phenomenon that many teenagers of both sexes have unhealthy weight-loss habits. And heath experts are making some efforts to solve it. Why: the author hopes students understand that being healthy is being beautiful, and teenagers need to choose healthy ways to become beautiful. How: the news report goes based on Jennifer’s story of losing weight which reveals the social phenomenon that in our society, most people think being beautiful is being thin. However, health experts suggest that teenagers should choose healthy ways to become beautiful.
Students analysis What they have My 45 students are in senior one, the first year of senior high school. Actually, most students have mastered some reading strategies, like scanning, skimming, so they are able to find specific information in the text. And in the last class, they have learned some new words, like faints, extreme, slim down and so on. Of course, this topic is about losing weight, it is close to their real life, so they would be interested in it. What they need Although they master some reading skills, they are not good at reading for meaning, and they are not familiar with inferring words’ meaning in the context, and they also need to cultivate critical thinking.
Teaching objectives By the end of this lesson, my students will be able to: infer the meaning of words in context illustrate what is beauty, and how can teenagers and people become beautiful. express their opinions about the weight loss current situation in their class.
Focal and difficult points Focal points: Students learn some reading strategies, like inferring the meaning of words in context, and illustrate the theme of this text are focal points. Difficult points: After learning this passage, students express their opinions about the weight loss current situation in their class is the difficult point.
Teaching methods Activity-based teaching method, Cooperative learning method.
Teaching aids Blackboard, PPT, chalk
Teaching procedures
Parts /Time Activities Purposes
Pre-reading 8mins Step1. Lead in The teacher Shows some pictures of Xie Jiayi, the champion of Miss HongKong in 2020, and a news report named : Xie Jiayi, the fattest miss HongKong in history, and asks students to think about these 5 questions: 1). Do you know her 2). Is she fat 3).Why is she regarded as the fattest Miss HongKong /Why do people laugh at her weight 4). What is beauty in your opinion 5). How can we be more beautiful？ Step 2. Prediction The teacher guides students to focus on the title and the pictures in the text and asks them to think about these following questions. 1). What can you see in the second picture / How can we become more beautiful with these things 2). What would happen if we skip food or meal or meals 3). What did she do (emphasize on “meals”) 4). what’s the result 5). predict which meal she skipped How long has she skipped meals To arouse students’ interests about this topic. To create a context and lead to the topic. To learn some new words, like, energetic overweight, to make the reading easier. To lead students to read this passage easier and more purposeful with the guide of the prediction.
While-reading 20mins While-reading 20mins While-reading 20mins While-reading 20mins While-reading 20mins Step3. Fast reading Students read this passage quickly to check whether their predictions are right or not. Students read this passage and fill in this form. detailsWhoWhat When Where Why
1). Who is the main character 2). What happened to her or him 3). When did this happen 4). where did this happen 5). Why did this happen 6).Where did you find this information Step4. Detailed reading The teacher invites students to read para.2 and fill in this form with more details of this text. (and the focal point is “what”) detailsWhoWhat When Where Why
2. Students read para.3 and para.4 and answer. ( the focal point is “why”) 1). why did she choose to skip meals 2). How did she skip meals 3). What was the result 3.After reading para.2-4, the teacher would guide students to think about these following questions. 1). Do you think only Jennifer or only girls lose weight like this 4. Read para.5 and answer these questions. 1). find out the answers to the questions above. 2). What methods do people often choose to lose weight 3). How are their methods？(extreme) 4). why do they choose these extreme methods (quickly) 5). what efforts do experts make 6). let’s think about What is beauty Overweight= not beauty 5. Read para.6 and answer these questions: 1). What are health experts’ opinions about the way of using extreme methods 2). What are health experts’ opinions about overweight And reflect thin=beauty 3). In experts opinions, if we are dangerously overweight, what should we do (properly) 6. Read para.7 and fill in this chart. suggestionsreasons
( What suggestions do health experts give And why ) 7.Think about Jennifer’s case again and answer these questions. 1). Is her attitude to beauty right or wrong 2). Is her way to lose weight proper or not 3). What’s your attitude to the relationship between being beautiful and being overweight To check students’ prediction. To cultivate their ability to get specific information. To help students get more detailed information about Jennifer’s event. To help students get more information about the reasons and ways that Jennifer chooses to lose weight. To lay a foundation for the study of the fifth paragraph. To guide students to realize losing weight has became common phenomenon, people think being thin is being beautiful. To let students understand experts’ opinions that being healthy is being beautiful. To assist students to understand that we should choose healthy ways to become beautiful. To guide students to emphasize the theme.
Post-reading 15mins Step5. Check whether you are overweight or not. The teacher asks student: Do you think you are overweight The teacher gives the weight calculation formula and a table of weight standard to help students know whether their weight is normal or not. And emphasize the view of thin means beauty is wrong. BMI=weight/ (height)2 categoriesRange of BMIthin≤18.4normal18.5-23.9Slightly overweight24-27.9overweight≥ 28.0
Step6. Do a survey and design a poster The teacher encourages students to do a survey about the weight loss current situation in their groups and design a poster. 1). How many students are really overweight in your group 2). How many students want to lose weight in your group 3). What ways have they tried 4). What suggestions would you like to offer to them To help students to realize that most people are not overweight, they are healthy and they don’t need to lose weight. To practice students’ speaking skills. To help students form a correct view of beauty.
Assignment 2mins Asks students to write a report based on the poster they have designed in 100 words. To encourage students to put their random ideas into a logic writing.

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