Unit 3 A healthy life

Warming-up and Reading

Ⅰ.Teaching Aims

1. To improve the students' reading ability.

2. To understand the general idea and details.

3. To help the students know some knowledge and importance of a healthy life and the harm of smoking.

Ⅱ. Teaching Important Points

1. To improve the students' reading ability.

2. To help the students to understand the general idea and details.

Ⅲ.Teaching Difficult Points

How to help the students really understand how to lead a healthy life and avoid smoking.

Ⅳ.Teaching Procedures

Step 1. Lead-in

Q1. What's a healthy person?

A truly healthy person is someone who is healthy in both body and mind.

Q2. What's a healthy life?

A healthy life is a life healthy in mind, body and spirit.

Step 2. Warming-up

　 Look at the following pictures.

Q1. What are they doing?

Q2.Which are healthy activities while which are unhealthy activities?

Q3. Can you tell any harmful effects of smoking?

Step 3.Pre-reading

Q1. Have you ever smoked? If you have, have you ever tried to stop?

Q2. Why do you think some adolescents start smoking?

Q3. Where could you get good advice on stopping smoking?

--Reading: Advice from grandad

Step 4. Listening

　　Listen to the tape and then decide the following questions are true or

　　false.

1. The passage is a letter from Grandpa to his grandson. (T)

2. Grandad is more than 82 years old.(F)

3. James found it hard to stop smoking.(T)

4. Grandad never smoked when he was young. (F)