教案

Unit 7 A Long and Healthy Life(Reading part)

Teaching aims

Knowledge aims

1.Students can grasp some useful words and expressions about Japanese life style .

2. Students can know about how Japanese people live long and healthy.

Ability aims

1.Students can improve their ability of catching the aimed information, analyzing and settling some problems.

2. Students can train their ability of working in pairs and groups and develop their ability of thinking.

Emotion aims

1.Students can train their awareness of health.

2.Students can learn to live a healthy and happy life.

Important and difficult points

1.Students will know about the Japanese different ways to live healthy and happy.

2. Students will know about how Japanese people live long and healthy and get students to learn to live a healthy and happy life.

Teaching procedures

Step1.Leading in ( 2minutes)

StepⅡ. Skimming ( 3minutes)

Read the text quickly and answer two questions.

1.How many Japanese people live longer than 100 years?

2.What is the secret of long life in Japan?

StepⅢ.Listening( 7minutes)

Listen to the record of paragraph 1 and decide true or false.

( )1.They seldom get stressed out.

( ) 2.They work short hours.

( ) 3.They take crowded trains.

( ) 4.Many people drink and smoke

StepⅣ. Scanning. ( 7minutes)

Read the paragraph 2 and paragraph 3, then do the exercises

1.( ) How often do Japanese drink green tea ?

A. two or three times a day

B. two times a day

C. three times a day

2.( ) How often do Japanese eat fish?

A. twice a week

B. three times a week

C. two or three times a week

3.( ) How often does Dr. Tanaka get exercise?

A. Every two days

B. Every day

C. Every three days

4（ ）Why does Dr. Tanaka live longer? Which is not true below?

A. Get a lot of exercise

B. Spend time with family and friends

C. Take the elevator.

5.( ) How old Dr. Tanaka’s wife?

A 92 B. 89 C .100

StepⅤ.Careful reading( 6minutes)

What do you think of the Japanese lifestyle? Read the statements and decide if they are healthy (H) or unhealthy (U).

1. They eat a lot of fish.__________

2.They often get stressed out_____

3. They work long hours.__________

4. They usually walk a lot._________

5. They take crowded trains.____

6. Many older people live with their children.___

7. Many people drink and smoke._____

StepⅥ.Post-reading. ( 8minutes)

Tom has written a report about the long and healthy life in Japan,

unfortunately, some words are missing ,and can you help him fill in the missing words.

Japanese people live long and healthy life. There are more than 20,000 men and women ____100 years old in Japan. Japanese people

often get __________out . They usually work ___ hours and take ____trains. In addition, they have many bad habits. But what is the secret?

Firstly, it’s the _____. Secondly , _______is very important. What’s more, keeping a good mood is also of great importance.

StepⅦ.Preparing for an interview ( 10minutes)

Suppose you are Mrs Wang who is 101 years old, and you are interviewed about how to keep healthy by a journalist from sina. Please make a dialogue and act it out with your partner. Journalist: Nice to meet you.

Mrs Wang: Nice to meet you , too

Journalist: how can you keep healthy and

live a Long life ?

Mrs Wang: -----------------------

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Homework: ( 2minutes)

1.Find out the unhealthy living style we have at present.

2.Discuss with your classmates more about what we can do to keep healthy in our school life.