Teaching planTeaching content: A healthy life ( Period 2 Reading) Teaching aims:1.Improve the students’ reading ability.2.Get the students to understand the text fully.3.To talk about the importance of health and the harmful effects ofsmoking.Teaching important and difficult points:How to help the students understand the text fully.Teaching aids: a computer , a microphone and a tapeTeaching time:45 MinsTeaching procedures:Step 1 Greetings. ( Slide 1)Greet the Ss as usual.Step 2 Pre-reading1. Show some pictures on the screen and get the students to answer the following questions: (Slide 2---Slide 9)1) What are they doing?2) Which are healthy activities while which are unhealthy activities?2. Get the students to answer the following questions in class. ( Slide 10 )1). Have you ever smoked? If you have, have you ever tried to stop?2). Why do you think some adolescents start smoking?Step 3 Skimming (Slide 11 )Read and find out the main idea of each paragraph.A. The writer leads to the topic of the letter by talking about James’problem of smoking.B. Introducing some different ways of becoming addicted.C. Telling the writer’s hope for his grandson and advice on stopping smoking.D. Telling the harmful effects of smoking.E. From the life the writer is leading now, we can know the importanceof healthy life.Keys: 2—A 3----B 5-----C 4-----D 1-----EStep 4 Detail reading (Slide 12--13)Read the letter carefully, and try to finish the following chart.Information from the reading passageDifferent ways people can become addicted to cigarette 1.____________ addicted to nicotine.2.addicted through __________3. ___________ addictedHarmful physical effects for smokers 1.do terrible damage to .2.have difficulty in .3.can not _______________ .Effects that a person’s smoking can have on other people 1.other people _________________ .2. The cigarette smoke may do harm to __________________________Effects thatsmoking can haveon sportingperformancebe unable to ______________ .Suggested answers: physically, habits, mentally, heart and lungs , becoming pregnant , run fast, dislike the smell ,other people near the smoker ,enjoy sportStep 5 Reading, listening and summary1. Read the article and find out the suggestions James’ grandfather found on the Internet.(Slide 14)Suggested answers:1)Prepare yourself.2)Be determined.3)Break the habit.4)Relax.5)Get help if you need it.6)Keep trying.2. Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks in the following summary.(Slide 15)Choose a day that is not __________ to quit smoking. Make a list ofall the __________ you will get from stopping smoking. ___________ all your cigarettes at the end of the day before you plan to quit. ________ the list of benefits you wrote when you feel like smoking. Develop some other habits like walking, drinking some water, cleaning the house and so on to keep yourself busy. If you feel nervous or stressed, try to do some __________ exercises like deep breathing. You can stop smoking with a friend or join a group. If you feel really bad, ask a doctor or _________ for help. The most important thing is to keep trying. Don't feel ________ if you _________ because some people have to try many times before they finally quit smoking. Never give up and you will succeed.3. Check the students’ answers.Suggested answers:Stressful, benefits, throw away , Reread ,Relaxation, chemist ,ashamed , weaken4. Get the students to read the passage together.Step 6 Discussion ( Slide 16)1. What kind of person do you think James’ grandfather is?2. Suppose your father is a smoker, how will you persuade him to quit smoking? Make a short dialogue in pairs.Step 7 Homework ( Slide 17 )1. Discuss the questions after class.2. Find out the key points of the text.3. Search some more information about the harmful effects of smokingand advice on stopping smoking.Step 8 Ending ( Slide 18)Module 6 Unit 3 A Healthy LifeUsing LanguageHIV/AIDS: Are You at Risk?Teaching Aims:By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:＊get to know more about HIV/AIDS＊know how to protect themselves from AIDS＊talk about AIDS and AIDS awarenessTeaching Important and Difficult Point:To show the students an appropriate attitude towards AIDS patientsTeaching Procedures:The lesson with begin with the song “Live for Love United” sung by famous football players.Step One: Warming UpThe students are asked to watch a video clip and discuss what it is about. (The video clip is about the change of an AIDS infected woman in 90 days.) This part is designed to impress the students with the damage HIV/AIDS does to a person.Step Two: Pre-readingBackground Learning: Some information about AIDS.＊red ribbon is an international symbol of AIDS awareness＊it is worn by people around the World AIDS Day＊it calls for care and concern on AIDS＊the World AIDS Day: December 1stStep Three: While-readingTask 1: Skimming1) How many sections can we divide this text into ?Choose a main idea for each section＊ Section 1 Background information about what HIV / AIDS.＊ Section 2 Ways to protect yourself.＊ Section 3 Some wrong statements about AIDSTask 2 Careful ReadingPart One: 1. What is HIV?HIV is a virus, a very small living thing that causes disease.2. How does HIV harm people’s health?HIV virus weakens a person’s immune system and eventually it damages the immune system somuch that the body can no longer fight against disease.3. Is there a cure for AIDS and HIV at the moment?No, it is incurable.Part Two: In order to stay safe, you _________.A. should not share needles with someone else.B. have to avoid using anything else that the person has used while injecting drugs.C. should use a condom if you have sex with another one.D. All of the above.Part Three: How much have you learnt about AIDS?＊You can catch AIDS after drinking from the glass used by an HIV-infected person.＊I can become infected with HIV by swimming in a pool, holding hands or kissing someone with HIV.＊People who have not injected drugs do not need to get tested for HIV.＊If I had HIV, I would know because I would feel sick.＊Kids can get AIDS by being bitten by mosquitoes or other insects.＊Sharing food with someone infected with HIV will give you HIV, too.＊It is very likely that you will die if you become infected with HIV.＊If you have HIV, you will always get AIDS eventually. Comprehending:1. What do the “it” stand for? HIV or AIDS?There are between 900,000 and 1,125,000 Americans infected with it.Some two million people died of it each year2. This passage is _____.A. an advertisementB. a posterC. a magazine coverD. a criticismStep Four: Post-reading Let’s say something about AIDS.1. Word Bank: The new words we have learned.do damage/harm to 损害infect (v.感染) – infected (adj.被感染的) – infectious (adj.有传染性的)be infected with 被…感染stage (v.阶段) drug (n.毒品)inject (v.注射) injection (n.注射)red ribbon 红丝带 prejudice (n. 偏见)awareness (n.意识，觉悟) be aware of 意识到virus (n.病毒) immune system 免疫系统cure (v.治愈) – curable (adj.可治愈的) – incurable (adj.不可治愈的)2.Exercise 1: Fill in the blanks with proper words.①艾滋病是一种可传染的无法医治的疾病。