Unit 2　Healthy eating(Period 4　Using language: Listening and speaking)

unit 2　healthy eating
period 4　using language: listening and speaking

整體設計
教材分析
this is the fourth teaching period of this unit. as usual, the teacher will first get students to review what they learned in the last period, and then lead in the new lesson.
we will mainly deal with listening and speaking in this period. at the beginning, students listen to a dialogue between wang peng and an expert. make sure students go through the exercises before they listen to the tape. this is to sharpen their attention and listen for the answers. this will also help them get the gist of the listening text. the teaching procedures may be as follows: first, let students go through the exercises and guess the listening text may be about. play the tape for students to listen to and decide whether their guessing is right. second, ask them to listen again for them to do exercise 3. third, let them listen a third time to check their answers. while they are listening, the teacher should pause and repeat the key sentences to help students understand. after listening, let them work in pairs and finish exercise 4. when checking the answers, explain some difficult listening points if necessary. in the end, show them the listening text and let them read and retell it. this step can help students understand and grasp the listening material far further. perhaps some students will find it hard to listen to and understand listening materials. encourage them not to give up. the more they listen to english, the easier it becomes.
as we know, young people can show that they are not eating a balanced diet in a number of ways—by being too thin, too fat or sick. so the exercise talking is to encourage students to discuss how their diets may affect their quality of life. it gives them the opportunity to practice a dialogue using the functional items for seeing the doctor, suggestions and advice. so they should learn some expressions of seeing the doctor, suggestions and advice first. then they are required to create such a dialogue. during the course, encourage them to use vocabulary from the reading and listening passages.
this period places emphasis on developing students’ listening and speaking ability. we should try our best to encourage students to say something. don’t always correct the mistakes they have made while they are speaking. otherwise, they would feel reluctant and not say anything more.
教學重點
1. develop students’ listening and speaking abilities.
2. enable students to master different listening skills.