Unit 2　Healthy eating(Period 1　Warming up and reading)

(6)wang peng decided to compete with yong hui by copying her menu.3)the passage can be divided into 3 parts. give the main idea in each part.partmain ideapart 1part 2part 33. reading and discussionread the passage a third time and then work in pairs to do the following:1)write out your answers.(1)the weakness of the diet in wang peng’s restaurant was that it did not give ______________.(2)the strength of the diet in wang peng’s restaurant was that it provided ______________.(3)the weakness of the diet in yong hui’s restaurant was that it did not give ______________.(4)the strength of the diet in yong hui’s restaurant was that it provided ______________.2)discuss these questions. write down your main points and compare them with those of another pair.(1)what do you think wang peng will provide to win his customers back?(2)how do you think the story will end?(let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions with their partners. encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences. )4. explanationhelp students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meanings of some new words. encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context.discuss and explain in your own words the following important sentences or parts of sentences taken from the passage.1)wang peng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very frustrated.2)nothing could have been better.3)something terrible must have happened if li chang was not coming to eat in his restaurant as he always did.4)he could not have yong hui getting away with telling people lies!5)perhaps with a discount and a new sign he could win his customers back.5. reading aloud and underliningask students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework.collocations: sit in his empty restaurant, feel very frustrated, a very strange morning, prepare his menu, by lunchtime, by now, ought to, be full of, be made of, nothing could be better. , hurry by, follow sb. into. . . , lose weight, be fit, be amazed at, more than, a good meal, get away with, had better, do some research, too much, even though, energy-giving food, feel more hopeful, win. . . back, be on→step 5 consolidationask students to talk about the problems with the diet in wang peng’s restaurant and yong hui’s restaurant in their own words according to the text. then let them retell the whole story.