Unit 7 Food Festival Topic3 Welcome to our food festival! Section D

赤峰市翁牛特旗梧桐花中学 赵亚平

1a Read and understand

Pre-reading questions:What do you usually have for each meal? What do you think is healthy or unhealthy food? Write them down.

Healthy food

Unhealthy food

How do you eat to be healthy?

1. We need to have enough food, never too much or too little.2. The food must be clean and we should cook it properly.3. It’s very important for us to have a balanced diet. 4. We should eat regularly.5. In short, we should not only eat enough, good and healthy food but also eat regularly.

Key sentences

1. Do we need fruit and vegetables to make us healthy? Yes, we do.2. How to keep a balanced diet? We should eat different kinds of foods.3. Should we eat regularly? Yes, we should.

Read the passage in 1a carefully, and find out the answers to these questions.

Healthy Eating Healthy eating is important for us. What and how should we eat tobe healthy? First, we need to have enough food, never too much or too little. The food must be clean and we should cook it properly. Second, it’s very important for us to have a balanced diet. Differentkinds of foods are necessary, such as bread, meat, fish, eggs, milk,fruit and vegetables. Bread gives us energy. Meat, fish, eggs and milkhelp our bones grow. Fruit and vegetables make us more healthy. Third, we should eat regularly. It’s said that half of the students don’t have a regular breakfast or don’t eat anything at all in the morning. It isbad for their health. In fact, a good breakfast keeps us strong. In short, we should not only eat enough, good and healthy food but also eat regularly.

1a Read and understand

1b Work alone

Read 1a again and mark the following statements True (T) or False (F).

( ) 1. We may eat food freely.

( ) 2. We should eat different kinds of healthy foods.

( ) 3. Meat is the most important food for our health.

( ) 4. The more regularly we eat, the healthier we are.

( ) 5. Not all students have a regular breakfast.

F

F

T

T

T

2 Written work

Rose, an American girl, is going to visit China. Please write an e-mail to tell her something about eating habits and how to eat healthily in China.

Dear Rose, I’m glad to hear that you will visit China. I would like to tell you something about eating habits in China. In the southern part, people eat rice a lot, while in the north, they often eat noodles and dumplings. All Chinese people eat with chopsticks. There are many kinds of delicious foods in China. I believe youwill enjoy them very much. We should eat bread, meat, fish, milk, and lots of fruit and vegetables, but we should eat less junk food.If we eat regularly, we can keep healthy. I’m looking forward to seeing you. Best wishes! Yours, ...

3a Grammar focus

Comparative and superlative degrees of adverbs( )Ⅱ

Jane cooked more successfully.

I cooked the most successfully.

Jane cooks more successfully than she/her.

The more regularly we eat, the healthier we are.

Example: Mary cuts up the meat finely.Alice cuts up the meat more finely.Tom cuts up the meat the most finely.

cook pear carefully peel beef slowlycut up meat finelyspread curry lightlyscoop bread neatly

Read “Grammar focus” and then make similar sentences using these words and expressions.

3b Useful expressions

Let’s wish them success! Enjoy yourselves!

Thanks for your order. May I have the bill, please?

Here’s your change. Just a little, please.

The results were worth the effort.

Read the sentences in 3b carefully, and then make a dialog.

4 Project

1. In groups, discuss and make a list of healthy food and drinks.2. Make a menu for a week.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Breakfast

Lunch

Supper

3. Report to the class about the reasons for your menu.4. Choose the best menu and then present it to the class.

根据汉语提示完成句子。1. 我们应该吃足够的食物，不能太多或太少。 we need to have enough food, ______ too much or ______ ______.2. 保持均衡的饮食对我们很重要。 It’s very important for us to keep a _________ ______.3. 据说有一半的学生吃早饭没有规律甚至不吃早饭。 ______ ______ that half of the students don’t have a regular breakfast or don’t eat anything at all in the morning.4. 总之，我们不仅应该吃足够的，健康的食物，而且也要饮食有规律。 ______ ______, we should not only eat enough, good and healthy food but also eat regularly. 5. 她不仅写了正文部分，而且还挑选了插图。 she _____ _____ wrote the text _____ _____ selected the illustrations.

never too little

balanced diet

It’s said

In short

not only but also

选择填空。

( )1. — Why was Mrs. Smith angry with Jack? — Because he worked _____ than the others. A. more carefully B. worse C. better D. more clearly ( )2. He asked me _____ we could go to Beijing to watch the game by plane. A. that B. if C. how D. what( )3. — Hi, Andrew. How can you improve your English so much? — Oh, nothing difficult. The _____ you work at it, the _____ progress you will make. A. harder; more B. more hardly; more C. hardier; greater D. harder; great( )4. It’s important _____ the piano well. A. of him to play B. for him to play C. of him playing D. for him playing

B

B

A

B

1. Learn some new words and phrases: balanced diet, in short, not only ... but also2. Review comparative and superlative forms of adverbs: Jane cooked more successfully. Jane cooks more successfully than she/her. I cooked the most successfully.3. Learn balanced diet and its importance: We need to have enough food, never too much or too little. It’s very important for us to have a balanced diet. We should eat regularly. We should not only eat enough, good and healthy food but also

eat regularly.

Search more information about

eating habits in different countries

around the world from the Internet,

magazine, TV…

In short, we should not only eat enough, good

and healthy food but also eat regularly.

总之，我们不仅应该吃足够的，健康的食物，而且也要饮食有规律。not only... but also... 不但 ······ 而且 ······ 如：I not only read the book but also copied it.

我不仅读了这本书而且还抄过它。

The more regularly we eat, the healthier we are.

我们饮食越有规律，身体就越健康。“the + 形容词或副词的比较级 + ······ ， the + 形容词或副词的比较级 + ······” 意为 “越 ······ ，越 ······” 。如：The earlier you start, the sooner you will be back.

你动身越早，回来得就越早。