内容正文:
Lesson 2 A healthy way of eating
1. Teaching Objectives
1. Language ability:
Master key words & phrases about healthy diet; understand the structure and information of the passage; talk about balanced diet and healthy lifestyle.
2. Cultural awareness:
Learn about Chinese Food Guide Pagoda; build awareness of scientific eating habits; establish positive attitudes towards healthy living.
3. Thinking quality:
Sort out information; compare healthy and unhealthy lifestyles; think critically about teenagers’ dietary problems.
4. Learning ability:
Learn to get information from expository texts; cooperate in group work; take initiative to explore healthy eating plans.
二. Teaching Key Points & Difficult Points
Key Points
1. Students can grasp the main idea and detailed information of the passage.
2. Master key expressions: come down to, along with, different kinds of, stay healthy, balanced diet.
3. Know the structure of the Chinese food guide pagoda and understand the meaning of a balanced diet.
Difficult Points
1. Students can use target language to discuss healthy eating and make personal healthy eating plans.
2. Understand that a healthy diet is only one part of a healthy lifestyle and form healthy living concepts.
三. Teaching Methods
Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT); Cooperative Learning; Reading Stratage Instruction; Situational Teaching
四. Teaching Aids
PPT, worksheet, pictures of Chinese food guide pagoda, textbook
五. Detailed Teaching Procedures
Step 1 Lead-in & Warming-up
Activities:
1. Teacher shows pictures of different food and asks questions:
T: What food do you like to eat?
Are they healthy or unhealthy?
Invite 3–4 intermediate students to share simple answers.
2. Present the topic: Today we will learn A healthy way of eating. We will learn how to keep a balanced diet.
Design Intent: Create relaxed English environment, activate students’ existing vocabulary about food; arouse learning interest. Start with students’ daily life, lower speaking difficulty for intermediate-level students.
Step 2 Pre-reading
Activities:
1. Present new key phrases and explain with simple examples: balanced diet, come down to, along with, stay healthy Drill choral reading and individual reading.
2. Predict: Look at the title and the picture of Chinese food guide pagoda. Ask students: What do you think the passage will talk about? Students share predictions in pairs.
Design Intent: Remove language barriers before reading. Teach key phrases in advance so medium-level students can follow the reading task smoothly. Prediction training helps students form good reading habits.
Step 3 While-reading
Task 1 Skimming
Ask students to read the passage quickly and answer:
What is the main idea of the text?
Expected answer: The passage tells us what a balanced diet is and introduces the Chinese food guide pagoda. It also gives advice on healthy eating and healthy lifestyle. Teacher checks answers and summarizes the structure of the article.
Design Intent: Train skimming skill to grasp general idea. Help students understand the layout of expository writing.
Task 2 Scanning:
Students read carefully, find out food for each level and finish exercise 2 on page 5. Check answers together:
Base: water; grains (cereals and potatoes)
Level 2: vegetables and fruits
Level 3: animal-based foods (pork, mutton, beef, fish, eggs)
Level 4: milk, dairy, soybeans and nuts
Top: salt and cooking oil Teacher shows the pagoda picture and checks student answers.
Design Intent: Train scanning to locate specific information. Combine text and picture, visualize knowledge. Medium students can easily find clear evidence in the article and gain a sense of achievement.
Task3 Careful reading:
A How can we develop a healthy way of eating?
B What should we do to live a healthy life?
Students work individually first, then check answers with partners, finally share answers in class. Reference answers:
A. Start the day with a healthy breakfast. Eat three or more types of food listed in the pagoda. Have milk every day.
B. Keep a healthy diet, take regular exercise, have enough sleep and deal with pressure.
Design Intent: Guide students to dig deep information. Train students to locate complete sentences and reorganize answers with their own words, improving information processing ability.
Step 4 Post-reading
Activity 1 Phrase filling (Exercise4)
Complete the dialogue:
1. different kinds of
2. along with
3. comes down to
4. stay healthy Students finish individually, then check and read the dialogue aloud.
Design Intent: Consolidate key phrases learned in class, realize the transformation from input to language output.
Activity 2 Group work:
Make a healthy eating plan (Exercise5) .Divide students into groups of 4. Tasks:
1. Recall your three daily meals.
2. Make a one-day healthy eating plan according to the Chinese food guide pagoda.
3. Choose one representative to share the plan in front of the class. Teacher walks around to offer help for medium-level students. Give feedback and praise after presentations.
Design Intent: Cooperative learning reduces difficulty for intermediate students. Connect knowledge with real life, realize the practical use of language; cultivate healthy diet awareness.
Step 5 Summary & Homework
Summary
T guides students to review:
1. What is a balanced diet?
2. The levels of Chinese food guide pagoda
3. Tips for healthy eating and healthy lifestyle
Design Intent: Help students sort out knowledge and construct complete knowledge framework.
Homework
1. Read the passage fluently and copy the key phrases.
2. Share your healthy eating plan with your family and ask for advice.
3. Write a short passage (80 words): My healthy eating advice for teenagers.
Design Intent: Hierarchical homework. Consolidate language knowledge; extend learning from class to daily life; realize the education value of the text.
六. Blackboard Design
Lesson 2 A healthy way of eating
1. Key phrases balanced diet come down to along with stay healthy different kinds of
2. Chinese food guide pagoda (draw simple pagoda outline) Top: salt, cooking oil Level4: milk, dairy, soybeans, nuts Level3: meat, fish, eggs Level2: vegetables & fruits Base: grains + water
3. Healthy lifestyle healthy diet + exercise + enough sleep + manage pressure
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