★ Avoid the situations in which you used to reach for a cigarette.

★ If you need to, ease the withdrawal symptoms with nicotine patches or gum.

Conclusion: Smoking is very harmful to our health, when you are smoking, you are risking in heart disease, long cancer and asthma, and it can also cause dull skin and wrinkles. Besides, it can bring harm to the people around you. In the text of this unit, we will learn more about this.

Step 3. Reading

1. Skimming

Purpose: To get a brief understanding of the text.

(1) Individual work

Ask Ss to skim the whole text and find out how many parts the text includes, and what each part is mainly about.

Suggested Answers:

The reading is in two parts. The first part is a letter from a grandfather to his grandson explaining how a smoker becomes addicted to cigarettes and why he should give up. The second part gives advice about how to stop smoking. It is set out like a page on the Internet.

(2) Pair work

Ask Ss to read the letter with a partner, each reading half the letter. Ask Ss to understand the meaning of the letter together.

(1) Group work

Ask Ss how the two passages are related (James' grandfather attached the internet page to his letter.)

(2) Individual work

Ask Ss to read the second passage very quickly and answer the following questions:

① Why does each paragraph start with a short, highlighted sentence?

② How are the pictures at the bottom connected with the text? Why do you think the authors of the website included them?

③ Why do you think the authors used a question as the main heading?

(3) Scanning

Purpose: To get Ss to have some details in the text.

① Pair work: