Unit 3 A Healthy Life

Period 1 Warming Up, Pre-reading & Reading

Teaching Goals:

1. To make Ss know what a truly healthy life is.

2. To arouse Ss to pay more attention to the healthy issues and realize the danger of smoking and drugs.

3. Learn some new words and expressions.

Teaching Procedures:

Step 1. Warming Up

　Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to talk about some healthy issues in our daily life.

1. Show the following two pictures to Ss.

　　　Ask Ss what they are doing and whether smoking or drinking is good for health?

2. Pair work

Ask some Ss to answer the questions:

(1) What health issues do you think concern young people the most nowadays?

(2) What is a truly healthy person?

Lead Ss to understand that a truly healthy person must be well in both body and mind.

3. Group work