Unit 2 Reading

Dying to be thin

Teaching aims

Grasp the main ideas of the three e-mails

Help the students to express their own opinions on a topic.

Review how to answer a mail.

If you are a bit over-weight, how would y

ou lose weight?

going on a dietgoing on a diet Doing exerciseDoing exercise

receiving surgical treatmentreceiving surgical treatment

taking weight-loss pillstaking weight-loss pills

2. Which method would you pref

er?

What are the disadvantages of

each of them?

going on a diet

disadvantages

weak; tired;

exercising in the gym

disadvantages

waste time;have to pay

receiving surgical treatment

disadvantages

waste money;lose one’s life

taking weight-loss pills

disadvantages

waste money;damage health

Fast reading

Read the three e-mails quickly and

do the following exercises.

1.Where does Amy come from?

2.What kind of pills did Amy take?

3.What caused Amy’s liver to fail?

4.what’s the meaning of the title?

Canada

Weight-loss pills called Fat-Less

The weight-loss pills

The first is that Amy wanted to be thin very much. The second is that Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills.

TRUE OR FALSE1. In Amy’s first e-mail to Zhou

Ling, she is going on a diet to lose weight.

2. In the last two months Amy has lost 10kg.

3. In Amy’s second e-mail, she regrets taking those weight-loss pills.

F

F

T

taking weight-loss pills

7kg

4. Zhou Ling didn’t answer Amy’s

e-mail in time because she has no computer.

5. In China, no one takes weight-loss pills.

F

F

many people

her computerwas broken

Detailed reading

Fill in the charts about the three

periods of Amy’s mood. What is her

mood in each period? And what are

the reasons and results?

What Amy did

Reasons Results Amy’s emotions

take Fat-less pills

be in hospital

an actress; ashamed of being fat

slimmer; tired and weak

liver failure; dying;

joyful

good medical treatment recovering

regretful

hopeful

e-mail one and two

recover

Reply to Amy (e-mail three)

She felt happy at her recovery

It’s a really touching story

We shouldn’t be embarrassed about our weight

1.How did Zhou Ling feel when she heard about Amy’s problems?

2.How did she feel when she heard Amy was recovering?

3.What did she think of the story?

4.What did she learn from Amy?

She was sorry to hear about it

Title: 1.______ to be thin

Theme Main point

Being eager to become slimmer

In order to 2._____ weight, Amy thought and thought, then decided to 3._____ weight-loss pills, which can 4._______ her liver to fail and became slimmer and slimmer.

5.___________

Amy was now in 6. _______, where she received dood 7.________ treatment. Now she knows people shopldn’t be 8._________ of their appearance.

Valuing health

Zhou Ling was sorry to hear about Amy’s problems and hoped that she as 9. _____ as all the others who would like to lose weight could value the importance of 10. _______.

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words Dying

losetake

ashamed

medical

well

health

Recovering

cause

hospital

1. According to Paragraph 2 in the first

email, Amy is an actress, _______.

A. who often exercises

B. who wanted to lose weight

C. who became ill

D. who ate little

Choose the best answer.

2. Why did Amy decide to take weight-

loss pills?

A. She was overweight.

B. She was having problems.

C. Her clothes did not fit.

D. She wanted to become slimmer.

3. The pills did great harm to Amy’s

_______.

A.heart B. lungs

C. liver D. eyes

4. What does Amy do now in order to

recover?

A. She goes to the gym every day.

B. She does exercise and eats healthy

food.

C. She stays in bed all day.

D. She takes a lot of medicine.

5. Zhou Ling, Amy’s friend, _______.

A. did not want to read Amy’s emails

B. was sorry to hear about Amy’s

problem

C. thinks Amy should lose weight

D. thinks diets and weight-loss pills are

necessary

6. Amy’s experience is _______.

A. an interesting one

B. caused by her family

C. like that of some people in China

D. a problem only for actresses

Which is more important, beauty or health?

Why?

Health is more important than beauty

⑴. health means life

⑵.physical beauty will not last for ever.

⑶. everything depends on physical( 身体 ) health

⑷.health is priceless

⑸.beauty bases on health

Beauty is also important in our daily life

⑴.easy to find a good job

⑵.to live a rich and happy life

⑶.to be confident

⑷.to be attractive

⑸.easy to find boyfriends or girlfriends

Answer a mail

Suppose your foreign friend Ginger, who is overweight, e-mailed you telling that she is going to have a surgical treatment to lose weight. Please answer the mail and prevent her from doing so.

Hi,

How are you these days? I’m delighted to tell you that I have persuaded my parents to take me to hospital to have a surgical treatment to lose weight. Maybe you will not recognize me next time you see me.Keep in touch.

Love

Ginger

How can we keep healthy?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Healthy Diet Pyramid

Often drink cabbage soup, need not have doctor prescribed.

Drink 6-8 glasses each day.

　 work out in the gym

Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy.

Laughter is the best medicine.

After dinner sit a while, after supper walk a mile.

How can we keep healthy?

1.Exercising

running, swimming, playing basketball, football, table tennis volleyball …

2.Enough sleep

3.Healthy diets

more fruits, more vegetables, drink more water

low fat, low sugar, low salt, low calories

full at breakfast, good at lunch, less at supper

4.Mental health