Teaching Steps: 

Step 1: 1 minute free talk before the class

       Call two students to make a free talk according to the material the teacher gives

Step 2: Let’s watch TV to find out the answer to the question. Close your books, listen to it carefully, grasp the general idea and answer the Question.

Step 3:Ask one question: Which is the better diet about Chinese food and Western food?

Why?Answer:Chinese food is the better diet.

Chinese food contains a lot of fruit and vegetables and is rich in fibre and low             in sugar.

Western food contains too much fat and sugar in the form of cakes, butter and chocolate.

Step 4:Reading:Ask the students themselves to read the text and grasp the general idea.Give the students five minutes.

Step 5:Explain the points to the students

a.  foods: food is countable in scientific terms.

b.  fibre: the texture of foods that helps us with our digestion

c.  burning up calories=using calories

d.  take exercise:walking,running and other physical activity

e.  put on weight=becomeh eavier and fatter

f.  in the form of: This phrase introduces specific examples(e.g. potato crisps)of a

g.  general group(foods containing a lot of fat or sugar)

h.  potato crisps: small pieces of fried potato(similar to Chinese shrimp crisps)

i.   soft drinks: e.g. cola,fizzy orange..

Step 6:Retel the whole text 4 times

According to the keys words and the pictures,ask the students to learn by heart.

The first time,the teacher speaks himself. The students listen to the teacher.

The second time, the teacher speaks in a loud voice. The students speak in a low voice.

The third time, the teacher speaks in a low voic(04教育资源网，转载请注明)e.The students apeak in a loud voice.

The fourth time, The teacher don’t speak. The students speak themselves.

The following key words

                                           fat

People contain water                     

 fibre

healthy foods                  contain

salt(04教育资源网，转载请注明)

People need energy to live

burn up   different ammount

sleep walk play

When ----        ------your body

Chinese diet

A lot of fruit and vegetables  (04教育资源网，转载请注明) Be rich in fibre and low in sugar

Western food

Too much fat and sugar

Step 7: According to the text,ask students to make a free speech

Step 8:Shorten the text (about ten sentences)

Step:9Homework: Rewrite the text and hand in tomorrow.

Step10: Teaching aid: Tape_recorder(04教育资源网，转载请注明)

Sound lab

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