My Teaching Design for
Healthy Eating
July, 2007
Unit 13 Healthy Eating
Reading Comprehension: We are what we eat
★ About the teaching material
The reading part is about eating habits. It begins from the changes in eating habits to
the food choices and whether it is necessary to go on diets. And at last, it calls on us to meet the challenge and have good health, we need to form a healthy eating habits.
★Teaching Goals:
1 Get students to understand something about foods, nutrients and the choices of food.
2 Call on students to form a healthy eating habit and refuse junk food in the hope that they will have good health to work 50 years and enjoy the whole life..
3 appreciate and practice the phrases and structures.
★Key points:
Analysis of the material to help students understand the passage thoroughly and cultivate their abilities in reading and analyzing.
★ Difficult points:
The ”Reflecting and discussion” is the difficult point in this period because all the questions are open-ended and require students to think independently and represents the answers in their own words.
★Time: one period
★Means and methods:
Reading extensively and intensively for information and slides and discussions for deeper understanding.
★Teaching process:
Ⅰ Background information as lead-in
1 Everyone eats everyday. But do you care about what you eat? Actually, what you eat has a lot to do with your health conditions. We used to eat for taste, but thanks to economic progress, people now have changed their eating habits and eat for health.
2世界卫生组织评出十大垃圾食品
油炸食品
罐头类食品
腌制食品
加工的肉类食品（火腿肠等）
肥肉和动物内脏类食物
奶油制品
方便面
烧烤类食品
冷冻甜点
果脯、话梅和蜜饯类食物
3 Food and Health 食品与健康
Tofu is as good as medicine for lowing cholesterol
Fish
Eating fish is a good way to reach health
Green Tea an antioxidant found in green tea, is at least 100 more times more effective than vitamin C and 25 times more effective than vitamin E at protecting cells and DNA from damage.
ⅡIntensive reading.
Read each paragraph and finish the given tasks:
Paragraph one:
1 What’s the main idea?
2 How do you understand the word “fuel”?
Answers to 1 We must change our eating habits to keep up with the times.
2 “fuel” originally means material that is used for producing heat or power by burning or by atomic mean. But here it means the food we need to keep our body healthy and active, that is, to make our body function well.
Paragraph two:
1 What is the main idea?
2 Match the nutrients with the food in which they are contained.
Answers to 1 Our body needs various nutrients to grow and stay healthy.
2 proteins bread, rice
calcium fish, bean
carbohydrate egg, milk
vitamin vegetable, fruit
Paragraph three:
1 What’s the main idea?
2 How do you understand the word “green”?
Answers to 1 When people choose what to eat, they don’t just consider nutrition.
2 “Green ” here doesn’t mean the color. Green foods are organic foods, foods that are free of pollution and grown and produce naturally.
Paragraph four and five:
1 What’s the main idea?
2. According to this text, if we want to become smarter, healthier and more beautiful, what should we do?
Answers to 1Keeping a balanced diet is the best way to stay healthy and guarantees us a happy life.
2 Buy good food and keep a balanced diet;
Eat healthy food in the right amount;
Try to eat less fat and sugar and exercise more.
Ⅲ Reflection and discussion:
1 What is your understanding of the title “We are what we eat”?
Students may not understand the title correctly at first sight, but after they have read the whole passage, they will form their own opinions.
What and how we eat is the reflection of our health conditions, or it affects our health directly.
Remind students this is also a good phrase we often meet in reading. For example, “we are what we wear” means what and how we dress will reflect our personality.
2 “Healthy eating” means what? And in your opinion, how can we stay healthy?
“Healthy eating” means we should eat healthy, not junk food in the right amount. Personally, to stay healthy, we’d better
Eat properly, Exercise regularly and Live cheerfully.
Ⅳ Structure Appreciation
Explain each structure and practice them orally.
1.Because we have so much to choose from, …
have/ there be … to choose from
2.The same goes for “crash diets”…
the same goes for = the same is true of