Book 6 Unit 3 A healthy life

Reading: Advice From Grandad

Teaching Aims:

1. Knowledge aims:

a. To learn about the ways to become addicted to cigarettes,the harmful effects of smoking and the suggestions to quit smoking.

b. To master some new words and expressions.

2. Ability aims:

a. Develop students' ability and skills of drawing a mind map.

b. Enable the students to talk about the health problem:smoking.

3. Emotion aims:

a. Encourage students to live a healthy life.

b. Enable the students to learn cooperatively and autonomously.

Teaching Important and Difficult Points:

1. Teaching important points:

a. To learn about the harmful effects of smoking and how to stop smoking.

b. To master some new words and expressions.

c. Improve students' skills of drawing a mind map.

2. Teaching difficult points:

Involve students in activities and tasks, and encourage them to speak confidently.

Teaching Methods:

1. Students-centered approach

2. Cooperative learning approach

3. Task-based language teaching

Teaching procedures:

Step1: Lead-in (Revision)

Math the main idea of each paragraph.

1. Show your mind maps.

a. Before class divide the students into 5 groups. Each group analyses one part of the reading passage and make a mind map of it

b. Ask students to show their mind maps

2. Perfect your mind maps.

Ask the students to make their mind maps complete.

Step3: Task2: Group Exchanging

1. Form new groups to let each group have five different parts of mind maps.

Share your mind maps with your new group members, and form a new mind map which includes all five parts of the passage.