Transcript be ashamed of…

Unit 3
Dying to be thin…
授课老师：胡君
授课班级：300班
2013.10.31
Important words and phrases
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2.
3.
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6.
7.
ashamed
kilogram
energetic
chemical
damage
attractive
embarrassed
为情的
8.
9.
adj.惭愧的，羞愧的
n. 千克，公斤
adj. 精力充沛的，充满活力的
n. 化学物质 adj.化学的
vt. &n. 损害；伤害
adj. 有吸引力的，有魅力的
adj. 尴尬的，不好意思的，难
pressure
diet
n. 压力
n. 节食；日常饮食vi.节食，控
suffer
vt.&vi.受苦；遭受（磨难）
制饮食
10.
1. work out
2. at the moment
3. be ashamed of
4. lose weight
5. not …any more
6. insist on
7. in secret
8. go on a diet
9. side effect
10.as you are
锻炼；设计；解决
目前，此刻，此时
感到羞愧
减肥
不再
坚持
秘密地
节食
副作用
像你现在的样子
Lead-in:
What problems are they facing?
What problems are they facing?
fat / overweight
Pair Work
Can you give them
some advice on how
to lose weight？
work out in the gym
exercise, do sports
go on a diet
( eat less food )
have an operation
take some medicine
( take weight-loss pills )
Read the first two e-mails
quickly and answer the
following questions.
The 1st e-mail
1. Where does Amy come from?
Canada.
2. Why did Amy want to lose weight?
Because she was ashamed of
her body.
3.What kind of pills did Amy take?
Weight-loss pills called Fat-Less.
now
Used to go
to the gym
dangerou
s
…
priceless
Why?
Take weightloss pills
The 1st E-mail
result
7
Mum
kg
don’t
feel …
be ashamed of…
The 2nd E-mail----T or F Questions
failure
1.Amy is now recovering from liver
a bad
cold
in hospital. ( F )
2.The pills were going to completely
destroy Amy’s liver if she continued
taking them.( T )
3.Amy follows doctor’s advice
and
often goes to the gym. ( F )
but
seldom
4. Now Amy eats lots of fruit and
vegetables. ( T )
5. For a slim and attractive figure, we
can’t
can damage our health. ( F )
2.Suppose you are
Amy’s best friend.
If you are going to
write a letter to her,
what will you say to
her? And what
advice would you
give to Amy?
The 3rd e-mail
sorry
To Amy:
glad
• We shouldn’t be embarrassed
about out weight.
Zhou’s • Nothing is more important than
advice health.
To many Chinese people:
•They should learn from Amy’s
story.
Read the three e-mails again
carefully and then choose the
best answers.
1. According to Paragraph 2 in the
first email, Amy is an actress,
_______.
A. who often exercises
B. who wanted to lose weight
C. who become ill
D. who ate little
2. The pills did great harm to
Amy’s ______.
A. heart
B. lungs
C. liver
D. eyes
3. What does Amy do now in order
to recover?
A. She goes to the gym every day.
B. She does exercise and eats healthy
food.
C. She stays in bed all day.
D. She takes a lot of medicine.
4. Zhou Ling, Amy’s friend, _______.
A. did not want to read Amy’s emails
B. was sorry to hear about Amy’s
problem
C. thinks Amy should lose weight
D. thinks diets and weight-loss pills
are necessary
5. Amy’s experience is _______.
A. an interesting one
B. caused by her family
C. like that of some people in China
D. a problem only for actresses
6. From the passage, we know
“Dying to be thin” means _______.
A. Amy died.
B. Amy wanted to be thin very
much
C. Amy was going to die because she
had taken some weight-loss pills
D. Both B and C
The title has two meanings:
died
Amy wanted to Amy nearly____
be thin
_______very
because she wanted to
much.
lose weight.
Listen to the recording
and fill in the blanks.
An actress called Amy is 2.________to
dying be
1.______
thin. In her letter to Zhou Ling, Amy said that
she didn’t work 3.______in
the gym as usual.
out
She was taking weight-loss pills for a role in a
but
new TV show. The pills worked, 4._____her
mother warned her not to take them. She
refused. Soon, she was in hospital, recovering
5._____liver
failure. She realized that 6.______
from
it
wasn’t worth damaging her health for a slim
and attractive figure. Zhou Ling replied that
as she was and
Amy looked great 7.______
8.______was
no need to be embarrassed about
there
weight. Nothing is more important than health.
What lessons can we
learn from Amy’s story?
Health is the most important thing.
(Nothing is more important than health.)
Don’t damage your health for a slim
and attractive figure. It isn’t worth it.
We shouldn’t be ashamed of the way we
look.
Sayings(谚
语)
1. Health is happiness.
健康就是幸福。
2. Good health is over wealth.
健康是最大的财富。
3. He who has health, has hope, and he who
has hope, has everything.
身体好就有希望，有希望就有一切。
4. Clothes don’t make the man.
好马不在鞍，人美不在衫。
Homework
1. Read the text again to get
a better understanding.
2. Finish D1, D2, E on P45.