Period 3 Reading Dying to be thin...⑴

Learning aims（学习目标）：

1. To grasp the main topics of the three letters written by two good friends---Amy's problems, how she dealt with it and Zhou Ling's concerns and advice to Amy.

2. To improve reading ability.

3. To develop our interest in learning English by talking about their own opinions when it

comes to the topic "To be beautiful or to be healthy ".

Important and difficult points（重点难点）：

1. Find the main points in the three letters and express them.

2. Understanding the text.

预习导航

1. Show the students some pictures and ask them to answer the following questions:

● Do they look good and feel good?

● Whom do you like better, the thin or the fat? Why?

2. Then show them a picture about a fat man exercising to lose weight which may make the students laugh and ask them this question: