Unit 7 To Your Good Health

Unit 7 To Your Good Health（Comprehension focus）Teaching aims:This unit is about health. It deals with all the components of healthy life. It includes the text from a presentation about fitness, a song about health and three articles about various health topics. Through the course of this unit, students will learn the vocabulary involved in talking about health: the parts of the body, exercise, and nutrition. Students will share their ideas about health, fitness, and nutrition.1. To learn for information. 2. To develop speaking ability by discussing and finally presenting their ideas about living a healthy life.3. To master the words and phrases involved in talking about health.4. Grammar:Using the form “v. + ing” as participles or gerunds.Reviewing the four kinds of sentences in English.Important and difficult points:1. Get students to understand what fitness means.2. Make students learn the usage of the mastery words and phrsaes3. Help students to review the uses of “verb+ing”form, especially as the participles.Teaching procedures:Section 1: New Words and IdeasWhat Does Fitness Mean?Period one Step 1. Pre-readingIntroduce the title “To Your Good Health?” with books closed. Brainstorm with the class many words as possible that are related to health.Ask: 1.Do you feel healthy?2. How do you know whether you’re healthy or not? 3. What does it mean to be healthy?Show the Ss some pictures and help them to answer: —What does fitness mean? —Fitness is a word that describes how well your body is able to handle physical activities. Write the words “Fitness” as the theme on the Bb. Then draw the following outline on the board. As a pre-reading activity, have the class predict what the outline o...