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Unit 2You should always go with someone.

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Try to remember

Look at the pictures. Say what

the advantages or dangers are.

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Couch potato is a person who watches

TV a lot on the couch.

Healthy diet helps us keep fit.

It’s very dangerous. If we don’t obey the rules, we may be knocked down.

Read the passage. Which paragraphs

describe what you can see in the pictures?

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Healthy life style (flash)

Decide who the passage is written for:

1. parents 2. families

3. teenagers 4. older people

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4. Decide where these sentences go in the passage.

a---b---c---

Paragraph 2 (before the last sentence)

Paragraph 4 (at the end)

Paragraph 5 (before the last sentence)

1.Thanks to improvement in both health care and personal safety, most people are living healthier, longer lives.

* thanks to: used to say that something

good is caused by something else 多亏…

多亏了你的帮助，我才能通过考试。

Language points

Thanks to your help, I can pass the exam.

2. Someone who is born today can expect to live 25 years longer than someone who was born in the 19th century. 定语从句 * today ---adv. at the present time * Attributive clauses: who is born today who was bornin the 19th century

3. It’s even thought/hoped/said/… that…: 人们认为 / 希望 / 说……(it 形式主语，真正的主语是 that 引导的从句 )

据说他要出国了。

人们希望生活条件能够得到改善。

It’s said that he will go abroad.

It’s hoped that the living conditions will be improved.

4. Climbing may also mean falling—what goes up must come down.

攀爬也可能意味着摔倒—上升的东西必然会下降。

a. 动名词作主语和宾语 : Seeing is believing. 眼见为实。b. what goes up 为主语从句 What I wanted is a book. 我想要的是本书。

5. Sure, it’s comfortable to sit on the couch.

动词不定式是真正的主语，放在后面， it 作形式主语。It’s kind of you to help me with my English.

吃早餐很重要 .

解这道题花了我半个小时 .It’s important to have breakfast.

It took me half an hour to work out the problem

幸亏 ; 感谢期待做某事终日懒散在家的人 … 的数量保持健康许多增重不仅…而且…对…焦虑对…的影响

thanks toexpect to docouch potato

the amount of…keep fitplenty ofput on weight

not just…but…

be worried about

effect on…

1. What improvements in health care and personal safety do you think help people do live longer today?

2. Why should you always go with someone, or tell someone where you’re going in the countryside?

3. How many steps a day do you think you take? Does 10.000 seem a lot?

Answer the questions.5

4. How often do you think it’s OK to

eat fast food?

5. What would you like or like to do to

stay happy?

6. How do smoking and drugs damage

people’s health?

Make notes about the rules you read in the passage.

1. Be careful!

Writing

a. Don’t run across the road. / Don’t be alone for an out walking in the countryside. / Don’t cycle too close to car.

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b. When you go across the street or road, make sure there aren’t oncoming cars. / When you’re in the countryside, wear a pair of comfortable shoes. / When you are in the countryside, know where the nearest village, bus station, hospital… is…

a. Don’t sit on the couch and watch too much. / walk at least 10,000 steps every day to keep fit. / Get enough exercise every day.b. When you are watching TV, drink enough water and eat fruits rich in Vitamin C. / Rest form watching TV regularly, or your waist and eyes will be sore…

2. Don’t be a couch potato!

3. Watch your diet.

a. Eat plenty of the right things. / Take fast food or sweets as something very special.b. Eat slowly. / Drink some water or soup before eating. / Avoid fried food and food rich in fat and sweet. / Check the weight regularly…

Say what happened

1.Be careful.

Don’t run across the road.

I was late for school one morning and I was running along the pavement. I got to the crossing, but the traffic lights were green and…

Think of a situation when you broke

one or more of the rules.

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Include the examples you wrote in

Activity 6 and the situations you

wrote about in Activity 7.

My rules for a safe and healthy life

Write a passage 8

Sample passange:

I was late for school one morning and I was running along the pavements. I got to the crossing, but the traffic lights were green and the cars began to run, I became scared in the road and I didn’t know what to do then. Suddenly a car run into me and I felt I would die. I remembered there was a lot of blood.

When I woke up, I found I had been in hospital and my parents were looking after me. But I felt my parents might have cried because there were tears in their eyes. Then I decided to get up earlier and won’t hurry again. From then on, I have not make my parents worried about me again.

Thank you!