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Lesson 4 Be happy, be healthy!
1. Teaching Objectives
Language Competence
1. Master key phrases: deal with pressure, be positive, focus on, instead of, take care of, balanced diet, regular exercise
2. Grasp the structure of expository passages (topic sentence + supporting details)
3. Use target phrases to complete dialogues, talk about personal pressure and write a short passage about stress relief methods
4. Understand the idiom Every cloud has a silver lining
Cultural Awareness
1. Realize that academic pressure is common for junior high students
2. Develop a positive, scientific attitude towards stress; form healthy living and learning habits
3. Learn to seek help from friends and family when facing negative emotions
Thinking Quality
1. Classify and sort reading information via tables to improve logical summarizing ability
2. Distinguish facts and false statements in True/False exercises to develop critical thinking
3. Combine personal real-life experience to analyze pressure sources and solutions
Learning Ability
1. Finish reading tasks independently and cooperate with partners to share ideas
2. Master reading strategies: skimming for main ideas, scanning for specific details
3. Apply learned language knowledge to oral communication and short writing output
二. Key & Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Master core phrases and the five tips to deal with pressure in the text
2. Extract supporting details of each tip and complete the information table
3. Use target phrases correctly in dialogues and simple writing
Difficult Points
1. Distinguish the usage of instead of and focus on in context
2. Organize complete, logical sentences to write personal experience of dealing with pressure
3. Understand the implied meaning of the idiom Every cloud has a silver lining
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching, Cooperative Learning, Situational Teaching, Reading Stratified Teaching
四. Teaching Procedures
Step 1: Warm-up & Lead-in
Activities:
1. Teacher shows two guiding questions from Exercise 1 on PPT:
A What pressure have you faced in your daily life recently?
B Where do you think this pressure comes from?
2. Pair work: Students discuss the two questions for 2 minutes. Teacher walks around to listen and give simple guidance for intermediate students.
3. Invite 3–4 pairs to share their answers (allow simple mixed Chinese and English for less confident students). Teacher writes key pressure sources on the blackboard: exams, homework, after-school classes.
4. Transition: "All of us have pressure. Today we will read a passage with 5 useful tips to help us deal with pressure. Our topic is Be happy, be healthy!" Write the title on the blackboard.
Design Intention:Create a real daily-life situation to activate students’ prior experience; lower the speaking threshold for intermediate students by allowing mixed language; naturally lead into the text theme and arouse reading interest.
Step 2: Pre-reading
Activity 1: Key Phrase Learning
1. Teacher presents core phrases with pictures and simple explanations:
deal with pressure (picture: student talking with friend)
be positive (smiling face picture)
take care of (pictures: early sleep, healthy food)
focus on / instead of (contrast pictures: solving problems vs worrying)
2. Choral reading first, then pair reading; teacher corrects pronunciation for intermediate students with weak oral foundation.
Activity 2: Text Prediction
Teacher asks: "Look at the title and pictures in the textbook. How many ways do you think the writer will give to stay happy and healthy? What may they be?" Students guess freely. Teacher records students’ guesses on the board.
Design Intention:Visual pictures help intermediate students memorize phrases easily; prediction activities set clear reading tasks, helping students read with purpose instead of blind reading.
Step 3: While-reading
Task 1: Skim for main idea & True/False exercise
1. Task requirement: Read the whole passage quickly , finish Exercise 2 True/False questions A, B, C.
A When faced with a challenge, you should focus on the problem. (F)
B Exercise is beneficial for staying healthy. (T)
C The author emphasizes the importance of schoolwork. (F)
2. Students finish independently first, then check answers with deskmates.
3. Teacher invites students to share answers and find sentence evidence in the text to support their judgment. Teacher guides students to spot the contrast: focus on finding a solution instead of the problem.
Task 2: Scan for details
1. Task requirement: Read the text carefully, find all 5 tips and their supporting details to fill in Exercise 3’s table.
2. Teacher gives clear hints for intermediate students: Each bullet point is one tip; underline sentences after each tip as supporting details.
3. Independent reading for 5 mins, then group discussion (4 students a group) to perfect the table.
4. Teacher shows the standard table on PPT, invites groups to report answers one by one and reads the complete tips together.
Number
Tips
Supporting details
1
be positive
look on the bright side; focus on finding a solution
2
move your body
do regular exercise to strengthen bones and improve mood
3
spend time with friends
get support, talk and laugh together
4
develop hobbies or interests
listen to music, read, play ball games
5
take care of yourself
keep early hours; eat balanced diet
Design Intention:Stratified reading follows the rule "general idea first, specific details second", matching intermediate students’ reading logic. The table simplifies scattered text information into clear structure, reducing reading difficulty; group discussion helps students make up for information gaps and avoid anxiety of individual mistakes.
Step 4: Post-reading
Activity 1: Dialogue Completion
1. Students complete Exercise 4 with the 4 phrases: instead of, focus on, deal with, take care of.
Answers:
1. take care of
2. Instead of; focus on
3. deal with
2. Check answers together, explain the usage difference of instead of (follow noun/doing) and focus on (pay attention to).
3. Pair role-play: Students read the dialogue with emotion. Teacher picks several pairs to perform in front of the class.
Activity 2: Oral Sharing & Short Writing
1. Oral preparation : Think about the question in Exercise 5: How do you deal with pressure? Students use the 5 text tips to talk with partners, prepare 2–3 personal methods.
2. Writing task : Write a 4–6 sentence short passage about personal ways to relieve pressure. Teacher provides a simple frame for intermediate students:
"I often face pressure from ______. To deal with it, I usually ______. Besides, I also ______. I believe these ways can make me happy and healthy."
3. Invite 2–3 students to read their passages aloud; teacher gives positive feedback on correct phrase usage.
Design Intention:Dialogue practice consolidates core phrases in context; oral sharing lays foundation for writing output. The writing frame lowers the difficulty for intermediate students, ensuring they can complete the task independently and realize language output from input.
Step 5: Summary & Homework
1. Summary
Teacher guides students to review together:
5 tips to deal with pressure
4 key phrases we learned today
Teacher asks: "Which tip will you try to use from now on?" to connect text to real life.
2. Layered Homework
• Basic homework (Required for all): Copy 5 tips and 4 key phrases twice; read the passage aloud 3 times.
• Advanced homework (Optional): Polish your short passage and add one more stress-relief method you like; share it next class.
Design Intention:Summary consolidates the whole lesson’s knowledge; layered homework fits intermediate students’ different learning levels: basic tasks consolidate foundation, advanced tasks expand students’ writing ability.
Step 6: Blackboard Design
Lesson 4 Be happy, be healthy!
1. Key phrases
deal with pressure take care of
focus on instead of
balanced diet regular exercise
2. Five Tips to beat pressure
Be positive → look on the bright side
Move your body → exercise to improve mood
Stay with friends → get support
Develop hobbies → music, reading, sports
Take care of yourself → early sleep & healthy food
3. Sentence pattern
Instead of worrying about problems, focus on finding solutions.
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