M3 Diet and health
U8 Growing healthy, growing strong
Topic: How to be a healthy child
Date: 3 December, 2009
Class: Class Two, Grade Seven
Teacher: Lynn Lu (Lu Zijuan)
Teaching plan
Language objectives:
1) Learning to use adverbs of degree
e.g. He eats too much fried food.
He eats too many crisps.
He doesn’t do enough exercise.
2) Learning to use modal verb “should” to express suggestions
e.g. If you want to stay healthy, you should/ should not ...
3) Learning to pronounce and use the new vocabulary
e.g. stay healthy, exercise regularly, at least
Ability objectives:
1) Helping students use the new words and sentence patterns to talk about the topic on health
2) Helping students learn to give others suggestions
Emotional objectives:
1) Helping students find out their own bad habits and change their bad habits
2) Helping students offer their suggestions to their classmates to show their care
Difficulties:
1) Using “too much, too many, not enough” correctly
2) Pronouncing and using “regularly” correctly
Teaching aids:
Multi-media system, some pieces of paper, some letter papers
Warming-up:
Show students some pictures.
And ask: What are you doing in the pictures? Why do you run every day?
Pre-task preparation:
1. Introduce five cartoon characters to the students and let them guess why the five little sheep come to our class.
2. Ask students: Is Lazy sheep a healthy child? And tell students why Lazy sheep is unhealthy. Show them pictures about Lazy sheep to introduce the adverbs of degree.
e.g. Lazy sheep eats a lot of fried food. He eats too much fried food.
Lazy sheep eats a lot of crisps. He eats too many crisps.
Lazy sheep likes sleeping. He doesn’t do enough exercises.
3.Let students look at the other four little sheep and find out the health problems they have. Ask students to finish the exercises according to different requirements.
1) Pleasant sheep is clever and brave, but he always plays __too__ __many__ (too many, too much) computer games and he drinks (too many, too much) __too___ __much___ lemonade. So his eyes hurt.
2) Pretty sheep is beautiful and slim, but she likes eating __too__ _much__ (too many, too much) chocolate and she doesn’t eat __enough__ (many, enough) meat. So she often has toothache and a bad cold.
3) Fork sheep is strong, but he often drinks ___too__ __many___ soft drinks. He sometimes watches __too__ __much__ TV. He does _not__ eat __enough__ vegetables and fruit. So he often has a headache.
4)Warm sheep is kind, but she is too fat. She always eats too much hamburgers. She also drinks too many apple juice. She doesn’t eat many fruit. So she is fat and unhealthy.
4. Ask students to work in pairs according to the modeled dialogue to find out each other’s bad habits. Then, invite some pairs to practice the dialogue.
S1: Do you have any bad habits?
S2: Yes, I often eat/ drink/ watch/ play … What about you?
S1: I always eat/ drink/ watch/ play…/ I don’t eat/ drink/ do …
While-task procedure
1.Tell students that the five little sheep and they are not healthy enough. Ask: What should they do if they want to keep healthy?
2.Tell students that we will go to visit Health Camp. Students there will give us some suggestions about how to be a healthy child.
3.Play the recording for p60, students listen and fill in the missing words. After that, ask students to read the text with the recording to practicing reading.
1) If you want to __stay___ healthy, you should go to bed ___early___ and get up __early___.
2) If you want to stay healthy, you should __exercise_ _regularly__.
3) _ If you want to stay healthy _, you should eat a lot of _healthy food___, like fruit and vegetables, and drink at least __eight glasses of__ water every day.
4)_ If you want to stay healthy __, you should not _eat too much sweet food_or __drink too many soft drinks__.
4. Tell students that they have got some suggestions from Health Camp. Ask: Can you give some suggestions to the sheep.
Problem: Pleasant sheep plays too many computer games every day.
Suggestion: “If you want to stay healthy, you should not play too many computer games.”
Problem: Fork sheep watches too much TV.
Suggestion: “If you want to stay healthy, you should not watch too much TV.”
Problem: Warm sheep doesn’t eat enough vegetables and fruit.
Suggestion: “If you want to stay healthy, you should eat enough vegetables and fruit.”
5. Let students discuss in groups to brainstorm and think of more suggestions about how to be a healthy child.
Post-task activity
1. Review and see health problems the five little sheep have. And ask the leader of each group to come forward to choose one sheep they want to help. Then, make a dialogue in groups of three or four according to the modeled dialogue.
Pleasant sheep: What should I do if I want to stay healthy?
S1: You should (not) …if you want to stay healthy.
S2: You should (not) …if…
S3: If …, you should (not) …
Pleasant sheep: I see.
First, I should (not) …if I…
Of course, I should (not)…if I…
What’s more, I should (not)…if I …
Thank you for your suggestions.
2. Ask students to work in groups to write a letter to Slow sheep to say what they’ve learned in this class.
3 December
Dear Mr. Slow sheep
Thank you for sending me here. I’m glad to see Lynn and her class. They are all very kind and helpful. I have got a lot of suggestions about how to be a healthy child.
First, if we want to be a healthy child, we should (not) __________________.
Of course, we should (not) ______________________.
What’s more, we should (not) _________________ if _______________________.
In a word, we should change our bad habits in order to (为了) be a healthy child.
Yours,
Lazy sheep
3.Tell students to change their bad habits to be a healthy child.
Consolidation:
1) Oral work: read and recite the text on p60.
2) Written work: write a letter to your parents to give them some suggestions about how to stay healthy.
