Reading A Long and Healthy Life教學設計

韓先艷

Ⅰ、Analysis of the teaching material

These two periods are about the second part of this unit. They are reading lessons. The topic is “A Long and Healthy Life”. Such a topic is closely related to students daily life so it can easily raise their learning interest. The words and expressions to be taught in these lessons will be helpful for students to learn the writing part of this unit. The key points of these lessons are how to make the students get the general idea of the passage and master the following words、phrases and the usage of the present tense：die、smoke、stress、alcohol、rarely、vacation、occasionally、learn from、stress out、take the stairs. The difficult point is how to enable the students to use the present tense properly.

Ⅱ、Analysis of the students

The students are freshmen majoring in tourism management. Most of them are outgoing girls. They behave actively in the class. Some students have told me they want to learn English well，because they like travelling and they hope to go abroad as guides several years later. Mastering English especially spoken English is significant to them.

Ⅲ、Teaching aims

（1）Knowledge aims：Students will be able to use the words and phrases in the passage correctly and master the grammar tips of the present tense.

（2）Ability aims：Train the students abilities of working in groups and using the Internet to learn English by themselves.

（3）Emotional aims：Cultivate the students interest in studying English and help them enhance self-confidence;make the students be aware of the importance of both physical and mental health.

Ⅳ、Teaching methods

communicative teaching method、task based teaching method.

Ⅴ、Teaching procedure

Period 1：

Stage 1 Pre-reading

I will have the class brainstorm a list of important things in their life，such as car、house、love、family、work、health and so on. Then Ill ask the students to finish a questionnaire about sub-health. At last of this part，the students asked to have a guess：Do you know in which country people live the longest？

The purposes of my design are to attract the students attention and arouse their interest to talk about their health problems. And by having a guess I can lead them to the topic naturally.

Stage 2 While-reading

Task one：Skim the passage and match the main idea to each paragraph it belongs to. While doing this task，the students are required to do some exercises about each paragraph. Task two：Choose the best answer.

The purpose of my design is to train the students reading ability and make them get a general idea of this passage：the secret of a long and healthy life.

Stage 3 Post-reading

Discussion：What are your living habits？

After the discussion，I will play a video about some other healthy lifestyles，like keeping a good mood、living in good environment、getting close to nature. They belong to physical health styles. We also should pay attention to metal health. Here is an example about Lin Senhao.

The purpose of my design is to educate the students focus on both physical health and mental health.

Stage 4 Assignment

1. Surf online to find more tips to live a long and healthy life.

2. Write a letter to your parents or your friends on how to live long and healthy.

The purpose of my design is to make the students get more information about how to keep healthy and use the information to write a letter.

Period 2：

Stage 1 Revision

Translate the phrases into Chinese：run up the stair、go wrong、under stress、take a

vacation、drink alcohol、have a high fever、be active、be killed、control ones diet.

The purpose of my design is to have a review about the words and phrases the students have learned in the listening and speaking part.

Stage 2 Explanation

Explain each paragraph of this passage. Below are the important language points：

1. Just like in other countries，many people have had bad habits---- they drink alcohol and smoke.

smoke?v.?/ n.?煙

smoker?抽煙的人

Translation：

抽煙多

戒煙

濃煙

一個煙癮大的人

2. Lonely people die young.

lonely 荒涼的，偏僻的，（指地方荒無人煙，指人孤單寂寞，有傷感色彩）

alone?獨自，單獨（用作形容詞是常作表語。指獨自一人，無感情色彩）

alone不可以用very修飾，但可以說very much alone

Translation：

1）聽任…..別打擾……

2）The old lady was left ____ in the____ village，and he felt very _____.

A. lonely;lonely;lonely?????B. alone;lonely;lonely

C. lonely;alone;alone??????D. alone;alone;alone

3. Lonely people die young.

die 死

注意：為短暫性動詞，不能和一段時間狀語連用

區分die of?die from?die for?die out

4. Eat well，get a lot of exercises，and spend time with family and friends.

spend?v. 花費時間或金錢

spend?+時間/金錢+on sth.

send +時間/金錢+（in）doing sth.

spend +時間+with sb. 和某人度過時間

5. Japanese people often get stressed out.

stressed out?焦慮不安;心力交瘁

stress：精神壓力;心理負擔;緊張

Things can easily go wrong when people are under stress .

人在壓力之下，辦事情就容易出差錯。

to suffer from stress

有精神壓力

coping with stress

應對壓力

stress-related illnesses

與精神壓力有關的疾病

emotional/mental stress

感情 / 思想負擔

6. 一般現在時：

時間：指動作發生在"現在"的時間段內。

狀態：

經常性："經常發生的動作"，比如每天起床、吃飯、上學，一個星期去幾次超市或新華書店等。

規律性：在生活中，有的事情是有規律的，有的是偶爾做幾次。

習慣性：這個動作經常發生，是一般的情況而不是具體的某一次。

真理性：有些動作或狀態是永恒的，比如長江向東流、地球繞著太陽轉，比如諺語中舉的事例、文學作品中描繪的事例，像“好馬不吃回頭草”等等。

The purpose of my design is to help the students get a better understanding of the passage.

Stage 3 Practice

Exercise 1 Fill in the blanks with a word given below.

suggest?kill?trouble?alcohol?vacation?diet?active?stair

1. The children ran up the ______ to the third floor.

2. The ______ with him is that he doesnt really want to study.

3. You look tired—you should take a ________.

4. People are not allowed to drive after drinking _______.

5. I ________ that we go out to eat.

6. Grandpa is still very _______，although he is nearly 80.

7. Three people were ______ in the car accident.

8. You should control your ______ if you want to lose weight.

Exercise 2?Expression translation

They usually walk long hours and _______________.（乘坐擁擠的火車）

2. He often ______________（野餐）with his wife.

3. He often drinks green tea____________________.（每天兩到三次）

4. Japanese people often _____________（有外在壓力）.

5. Dr. Tanaka also ________________________.（花時間和他人在一起）

Exercise 3 Translate the sentences.

1.房間里充滿了煙。（smoke）

2.他已經死了兩年了，也就是說他兩年前死的。（die）

3.他為國捐軀，而不是死于一種疾病。（die of）

4.他一個人住，但他從不覺得孤單。（lonely）

5.他在垃圾食品上花了很多錢。（spend）

The purpose of my design is to consolidate the usage of words and expressions.

Stage 4 Assignment

1. Have a review about the language points.

2. Do Exercise 4 and 5 on Page 116-117.

The purpose of my design is to have a review about the language points and train the students writing ability.