Warming up and Reading

Teaching goals   教學目標

1. Target language目標語言

a. 重點詞匯和短語

energy, fiber, digestion, bean, cucumber, mushroom, lemon, ham, mutton, roast, slim, curiosity, raw, lie, customer, muscle, cheese, protective, frustrated, drive, sugary, body-building, energy-giving， newly-opened, balanced diet, ought to, tired of, throw away, get away with, tell lies, take off, be amazed at, do some research

 b. 重點句子

His fried rice was hot but did not taste of fat.

Tired of all that fat? Want to be thinner? Only slimming food served here.

I will take all that fat off you in two weeks if you eat here every day.

It was not giving its customers energy-giving food!

Something terrible must have happened if Maochang was not coming to eat with him as he always did.

He wondered if he should go to the library to find out.

He couldn’t have Yong Hui getting away with telling people lies!

2. Ability goals 能力目標

a. Enable students to talk about their eating.

In what ways the food you eat helps you?

How can you have a healthy diet?

What will happen if you don’t have a balanced diet?

b. Understand the text and answer the following questions.

What happened to Wang Peng’s restaurant?

Why would his customers prefer to eat at Yong Hui’s restaurant?

What did he do after leaving Yong Hui’s restaurant?

c. Understand the details about the text and retell the text in the role of Wang Peng.

3. Learning ability goals 學能目標

Enable the students to learn how to talk about their eating.

What does a healthy diet mean?

Is what Yong Hui did right? Why?

What will you do if you are Wang Peng?

Teaching important points  教學重點

a. Identify different groups of foods and talk about healthy eating.

b. What kind of food did they provide for their customers, healthy or unhealthy? Why?

Teaching difficult points   教學難點

a. Understand the real meaning of healthy eating.

b. How was the competition going on? Who would win?

Teaching methods  教學方法

a. Fast and careful reading.

b. Asking-and-answering activity to check the Ss’ understanding of the text.

c. Individual, pair or group work to finish each task.

d. Discussion.

Teaching aids  教具準備

A recorder, a computer and a projector.

Teaching procedures & ways  教學過程與方式

Step 1 Warming up

What are the three essential elements for us human beings to survive on the earth?

Water, air, food

Which one would you prefer? Western food or Chinese food?

What do you usually have for breakfast / lunch /supper ?

What will happen if you do not eat a balanced diet？

Step 2 Discussion

What is healthy diet?

Healthy diet: a diet that is balanced and neither too rich in fat, sugar and salt nor too poor and lacking in essential nutrients.

Step 3 Speaking

Decide which food is junk food or healthy food and give reasons.

I think …is junk food because…

I think … is healthy food because…   

(be rich in; be low in)

Step 4 Pre-reading

1. What do you think should go into a good meal?

A good meal should contain some food from each of the three categories above.

2. Imagine you and your partner are going to invite some friends for dinner. What special food of your place would you offer them? Plan a menu.

3. Look at the title of the reading passage and the pictures. Predict what the passage is about.

Step 5 Fast reading

    Read the text quickly to find out which sentence is the main idea of the text.

1. The two restaurants supplied the healthy food.

2. The reason why Yong Hui’s restaurant was so popular with customers.

3. Wang Peng found out why he had lost his customer and decided to win them back.

Key: 3

Step 6 Reading

1. Usually Wang Peng’s restaurant was full of people.  T

2. Yong Hui could make people thin in two weeks by giving them a good diet.  

    It would take longer than that.  F

3. Wang Peng’s regular customers often became fat.   T

4. Yong Hui’s menu gave customers more emery-giving food.   F

    No. it gave them protective food but no energy-giving or body-building food.

5. Wang Peng’s menu gave customers more protective food.   F

6. Wang Peng decided to compete with Yong Hui by copying her menu.   F

He decided to advertise the benefits of his menu.

Step 7 Post reading

1. The weakness of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant was ______ _______________________________.

2. The strength of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant was _____      ____________________________ __________.  

Step 8 Homework

1. Retell the text.

(1) Use the first person to retell the story.

(2) Try to use proper prepositions and conjunctions.

2. Prepare for the language learning and do Using Words and Expressions on WB (Page 49and 50).