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Unit 2 Healthy Lifestyle
Section A Reading and thinking
Teaching plan
Subject：English Title：Section A Reading and thinking Period：1 class
Teaching objectives and core literacy：
Language ability：Read quickly to get the detailed information about habits for a healthy lifestyle；read carefully to do the deductive information
Learning ability：Study the structure features and language features
Cultural awareness：Let students be interested in English.
Thinking quality：Enable students to make a mind map on their own.
Teaching key points and difficulties
Teaching key points：Study the structure features and language features
Teaching difficulties：Let students be interested in English.
Teaching media：Multimedia, Blackboard, chalk
Teaching process：
一、Pre-class
1. Greeting
2. Leading-in
Student Activities:
Students to read The opening page, this Ask introduces “The greatest wealth is health” discussion questions and offers their thoughts on The topic of “Changing bad habits.”.
1 Are bad habits easy to change Why or why not
2 What habits do you think are unhealthy
3 What can you do to correct these bad habits
（2）Students browsed the instructions and options for activity 2, and according to the article title Habits for a Healthy Lifestyle pre-selected answers, speculated about the main content of the article to be discussed, and sorted the pre-selected answers, thinking about the structure of the article. The teacher can guide the students to pay attention to the relation between the key words and the title of each option, and establish the overall impression of the text structure.
（3）Students scan the strategy box to prepare for the next reading. Purpose: Activity 1 is the part of thinking and discussing before reading. Students first judge whether bad habits are easy to change according to their own life experience, then discuss which bad habits, and finally think about how to correct these bad habits. This process can activate the students' knowledge and experience about the habit topic, and help them form reading expectation. From the level of thinking, activity 1 let students access life experience, talk about their awareness of bad habits, as well as known practices to change habits, belong to the level of memory thinking activities. Activity 2 is a fast reading section to guide students to pay attention to the main idea of each paragraph. Getting the general idea of a paragraph is the main reading strategy in this unit. Understanding the main idea of each paragraph helps students to understand the main content of the passage, clarify the context of the passage, and improve reading efficiency. From the perspective of thinking level, activity 2 requires students to analyze the paragraph information and views, and then summarized, belong to the understanding level of thinking.
While-class
Student Activities: summarize the main idea of the paragraph. Students scan the passage, distill the main idea paragraph by paragraph, test and adjust the answers and order of activity 2. Teacher activities: (1) allow students to discuss with peers or groups before checking their answers. When checking the answers, you can ask the students to say the matching basis of each paragraph. For example, in the first paragraph, guide the students to find out the key sentences of this paragraph“To prevent harmful habits like these from dominating a teenager's life is essential”。The teacher can simply analyze the subject of such a long sentence that the author uses it in order to get the reader's attention. So, the general idea of this paragraph is
Why bad teenage habits should be changed。
（2）In the last paragraph, lead the students to find the key sentences“However，there is no 'magic pill' or delete button that will help you; you have to think about your bad habits and decide on some changes”。However is used to indicate the turning point in this sentence, which attracts the attention of the reader. It is also a way to highlight the sentence.In addition, the magic pill and delete button are synonyms for easy way, so you can tell that this paragraph is to the effect of“No easy way to change bad habits.”。
（3）Analysis of the structure of the article, clear intention of the author writing. Teachers can make use of the courseware to summarize the context of the whole text according to the main ideas of the paragraphs provided in activity 2. For example:
Why bad teenage habits should be changed→
What a habit is→
The cycle of how habits are formed→
How to change a bad habit and create good ones→
Changing habits gradually→
No easy way to change bad habits
The purpose of the activity is to illustrate the context of the passage and highlight the three words“Why”, “What” and“How”.
(4) based on the illustration, the teacher guides the students to extract the text structure, and divides the whole text into three parts.
Paragraph 1：Why bad teenage habits should be changed
Paragraphs 2 to 5：What a habit is and how to change bad habits
Paragraph 6：No easy way to change bad habits
The teacher can then lead the students to think about the author's writing intention by asking questions.
Why did the writer write this text？
Who's the intended reader？How can you tell？
Answer:
To explain a teenage problem and suggest possible solutions.
The intended readers are young people，especially teenagers. The first paragraph mainly discusses why it is easy for teenagers to form bad habits. The last paragraph starts with "For young people …."and "you" is used to address the reader.
Understand key details and analyze writing methods. The first four questions in activity 3 can be combined to form a group discussion.
How can a choice lead to a habit？Show the process in a diagram
What are the three stages of the habit cycle？Do you think the writer explains it clearly？How？
What should we do to change a bad habit？Give an example by filling in the following table.
The habit cycle Bad habit New habit
Cue feel unhappy
Routine
Reward feel happier but it's not healthy
How can a person use discipline to help change a bad habit
（7）Write an abstract. Teachers can guide students to review the basic principles of abstract writing, remind students to refer to the already organized article structure, try to use their own words to express. Objectives: Questions 1 to 4 of activity 3 address four main aspects of the topic of the text, that is, the formation of habits, the principle of habit cycle, the use of the principle to change bad habits, the use of the principle of attention. Question 5 is a text-based and beyond the text question, asking students whether they are willing to use the study to change their bad habits, develop healthy habits. Students' emotional attitude and values are displayed in this task.
三、After-class
Teacher Activities: (1) reviewing and summarizing the texts learned. Teachers may ask the following questions for students to consider and answer:
What important message have you learnt from this text？
Will you use the habit cycle to break your bad habits？Why or why not？
（2）Complete the first task of activity 4. Student group discussion: How to use the principle of habit circle to change a bad habit. Teachers can use the previous chart or tell a story about a bad habit change as a way to inspire students to think and speak. The teacher can present the contents of the following table as he or she makes a statement:
The habit cycle Bad habit New habit
Cue finished lunch finish lunch
Routine went back to the office and went to bed immediately Go to the playground and walk for 10 minutes
Reward felt relaxed but worried about its bad effect on health feel relaxed and healthier
（3）Finish the second task of activity 4. Discuss other effective ways to change bad habits. Teachers can continue to use the example to demonstrate.
To help myself form the new habit，I always invite some colleagues to walk together with me. While we're walking, we chat. That makes me feel that I'm not doing it alone and the walking becomes more interesting and I'm more willing to do it. Here is my strategy.
Find company.
Do something I like while trying the new routine.
四、Summary
Summarize what you have learned in class.
Homework assignment: read two posts about changing a bad habit and choose one to reply with specific suggestions. Apply what you have learned through writing tasks.帖子1：I have been suffering from the bad habit of overeating for decades. Every time I feel upset，I eat a lot. Overeating is the most effective way for me to relieve stress temporarily. It is ironic that I eat even more when I feel anxious about gaining weight. I am overweight and frequently have a stomachache. What shall I do？I really want to get rid of this terrible habit.
帖子2：My friends call me a night owl. I often stay up late and go to bed after 2 a.m. When I am actually in bed，I still can't help playing with my cellphone for one hour or more. In other words，I fall asleep later than 3 a.m. I feel dizzy from time to time. I find it hard to work efficiently at daytime. Sleeping late even makes my skin look bad. I know it is an unhealthy habit but I don't know what to do.
Write a letter of advice:
范文1：How to be healthy
You are what you eat. That are words of wisdom. If you want to keep healthy, what you eat is quite important. Drink plain milk every day or drink some mixture of water and honey every morning. Eat less rubbish food like chips, barbecues and various kind of snacks which make you fat.
Besides, do more exercises. It’s always desirable for you to play sports games after work or school. Exercises make you more pretty and strong. If you are just too lazy to do exercises outside, you can also do at home or even at your seat. Just try to move your body when you think about being healthy.
范文2
Nowadays, as the living standard improve, more and more people in the state of sub-health. And then people gradually realize the importance of keeping fit. Different people have different ways to keep fit, in my view, there are three ways to keep fit. They are as follow.
如今，随着生活水平的提高，越来越多的人处于亚健康状态。然后，人们逐渐意识到保持健康的重要性。不同的人有不同的方式来保持健康，在我看来，有三种方式来保持健康。他们是如下。
First of all, exercise is the most important way to kit fit. I don’t know whether you discover that most of the ancient people are healthy. The reason is that they have to do labor work every day, which also equal to do exercise every day. If people want to be health, they would better do exercise frequently. As for what kind of exercise should they take, I would say just depending on themselves.
首先，运动是保持健康最重要的方法。我不知道你是否发现大多数古代人都是健康的。原因是他们每一天都要做体力劳动，这也等于每天做运动。如果人们想要健康，他们就应该经常锻炼身体。至于应该做什么样的运动，我会说，看个人自己。
In addtion, having a good diet is also a good way to keep fit. People in the modern society have many choices to pick food. What people pick the most is meat andhigh caloric food. Those food can easily make people get fat. And then the health problem comes. Therefore , keeping a good diet is necessary. Keep a good die means eating more fruite and vegetables in the meat world.
此外，均衡的饮食也是保持健康的好方法。现代社会的人们有更多的选择来挑选食物。人们挑选最多的是肉类和高热量的食物。这些食物容易使人发胖。然后，健康问题就出现了。因此，保持良好的饮食习惯是必要的。保持一个良好的饮食意味着在这个肉食世界里要多吃水果和蔬菜。
The last but not least is that keeping a good mood is essential in people’s health. It is said that keeping a good mood will lead to a good body. It is true that the people always have a good mood is much healthier than those who always feel sad.
最后但并非最重要的是保持良好的心情对于人类健康也是不可或缺的。据说好的心情可以带来健康。这是真的，拥有好心情的人们总是比总是伤心难过的人健康多了。
In general, keeping fit needs to do exercise,keep a balance diet and keep a good mood.
总的来说，要保持身体健康就要锻炼，保持均衡饮食和保持一个好心情。

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