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1、Reading： Dying to be thin Shang Tun taking medicine. receiving surgical treatment. dieting. doing exercise. Fast reading Read the three e-mails quickly and answer the three questions. 1. Where does Amy come from? _ 2. What kind of pills did Amy take? _ 3. Why didnt Zhou Ling read Amys e-mails in tim

2、e ? _ Canada. Weight-loss pills. Because her computer was broken. Careful reading Task 1: Read the three e-mails again carefully and then choose the best answers. 1). According to Paragraph 2 in the first e- mail, Amy is an actress, _. A. who often exercises B. who wanted to lose weight C. who becam

3、e ill D. who ate little B 2). Why did Amy decide to take weight-loss pills? A. She was overweight. B. She was having health problems. C. Her clothes did not fit. D. She wanted to become slimmer. 3). The pills did great harm to Amys _. A. heart B. lungs C. liver D. eyes D C 4). What does Amy do now i

4、n 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 5). Amys 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 B

5、 C Task 2: Find the main point of each of the three e-mails. Write one or two sentences to describe the main point of each e-mail. SubjectMain point 1. Dying to be thin 2. Recovering 3. Re: Recovering In order to lose weight, Amy takes weight-loss pills and becomes slimmer and slimmer. Weight loss p

6、ills cause Amys liver to fail. Her mother sends her to the hospital and she is recovering. Zhou Ling is sorry to hear about Amys problem and she thinks that health is the most important. Task 3: Can you guess the two possible meanings of the title ( Dying to be thin. )? 1). Amy wanted to be thin ver

7、y much. 2). Amy was going to die because she had taken some weight-loss pills. 11 After reading the text, we know that: nothing is more important than health! Lets watch a short video. Group Activity: Producing a TV show! You are required to work in groups and produce a TV show named Healthy Life. T

8、oday, the TV show invites a famous health expert to answer questions about health from students. We need a host, a guest(health expert), and two students. Producing a TV show! ? Host: Hello, everyone! Welcome to our TV show “Healthy life”. Im the host, and this is our guest. Health expert: Hi, everyone! Im very glad to be here. Student 1: . Health expert: . Student 2: . Health expert: . . Host: Ok, thats all for today. Thank you for your watching! 14 Summary 1. It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. Gandhi (甘地甘地) 2. Losing weight is really abou