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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