diet is essential to your health. If you often feel tired or fall sick, it is likely that you don`t have a balanced diet.

　　Important points: let the students learn more about problems with a diet, a balanced diet and nutrition and get them to learn difficult reading skills.

　　Difficult points: develop students` reading skills and enable them to talk about different kinds of food and a balanced diet.

　　Knowledge aims: get students to learn new words and expressions: diet, nut, bean, pea, cucumber, eggplant, pepper, mushroom, peach, lemon, balance, barbecue, mutton, roast, fry, ought, bacon, slim, curiosity, hostess, raw, vinegar, lie, customer, discount, balanced, diet, ought to, lose weight, get away with, tell a lie, win....back

　　Step 1 Leading -in

　　Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:

1. Everybody has to eat, but do you eat a healthy diet?

2. What do you usually have for breakfast / lunch / dinner?

3. What kind of food do you like best?

4. Why are you so strong / weak / fat / thin?

5. Does it have anything to do with your die?

6. Do you think you are eating a balanced diet?

　　Step 2 Warming up

1. Turn to page 9. Get them to think it over and fill in the blanks.

Healthy food Unhealthy food

2. Information about food.

Food that provides energy (energy-giving food) Food that helps grow bones and muscles (body-building) Food that helps the body fight disease ( protective food) Rice, noodle, spaghetti, bread, chocolate, cream, oils, nuts potatoes, butter, Meat, eggs, cheese, tofu, milk Most vegetables (beans, peas, cucumbers, eggplants, pepper, cabbages, mushrooms) and fruit (apples, peaches, oranges, lemons), 3. Discuss and answer the following questions:

Which groups of food do you like best?

Which do you eat most often?

Do you eat the three kinds of food each day?

What will happen to you if you don`t eat a balanced diet?