Unit 2 Healthy Eating
Reading
What are the three essential elements for us human beings to survive on the earth?
water
air
food
Warming Up
Look at the pictures and learn some new words about food.
cucumber
黄瓜
eggplant
茄子
pepper辣椒
mushroom蘑菇
peach桃子
lemon柠檬
pea豌豆
bean豆
nut坚果
mutton羊肉
mutton kebabs烤羊肉
roast pork烤猪肉
fried potatoes炸马铃薯
eggs
cheese
milk
tofu
cabbage
What else?
tofu
tomato
potato
cucumber
bean

strawberry
apple
grape
orange
banana
Do you know that the food you eat helps you grow in different ways?
fast energy foods
rice sugar noodles potatoes
spaghetti bread
slow energy foods
butter cream oils nuts
foods to give you energy
meat, eggs, cheese,
milk, tofu
foods to grow bones and muscle
all vegetables,
all fruit
foods that give fibre for digestion
milk, cheese, yogurt; meat, poultry, fish, beans
fats, oils, sweets
Fruit; vegetable
bread, cereal, rice, pasta
fat
protein 蛋白质
Fibres, sugar
Provide our body with:
vitamins
Food Pyramid
Do you eat a healthy diet?
Which one would you prefer? Western food or Chinese food?
What do you usually have for breakfast / lunch
/supper?
What will happen if you do not eat a balanced diet?
How to keep healthy?
Junk food
—has a lot of calories but few nutrients, vitamins and minerals.
Healthy food
—give us the calories we need but not contain too much fat and sugar.
What is healthy diet?
Healthy diet: a diet that is balanced and neither too rich in fat, sugar and salt nor too poor and lacking in essential nutrients.
Discussion
Decide which food is junk food or healthy food and give reasons.
I think …is junk food because…
I think … is healthy food because…
(be rich in; be low in)
vs
Speaking
Fast Reading
Listen to the tape and read the reading passage by yourselves, then finish the exercises on Page 21 in Best English.
Careful-reading
How many parts can the passage be divided into? Write down each main idea.
Wang Peng is worried because his restaurant is not as full as it usually is.
He follows his friend to a newly opened restaurant which is very popular.
Worried, he does some research to win his customers back.
Part 1 (L1 to L10)
Part 2 (L11 to L28)
Part 3 (L29 to end)
Paragraph I:
1. Who is Wang Pengwei?

2. What happened on that strange morning?
He is a restaurant keeper.
There was no customer in his restaurant that morning, which was unnatural.
Paragraph II:
1. What did Wang see when he followed Li Chang?
2. What kind of food was served in this restaurant?
He saw that a new restaurant was opened and there was a sign in its window.
Only slimming food was served there.
Paragraph III:
1. Who is Yong Hui?

2. What amazed Wang in Yong Hui’s restaurant?
She is the owner of the new restaurant.
The menu and the price in Yong’s restaurant amazed him very much.
3. What did Wang decide to do after he left there?
He decided to go to library to find out whether his restaurant’s food made people fat.
Paragraph IV:
1. What did Wang find out after reading?

2. What did he do then?
He found out that Yong Hui’s restaurant was not giving its customers energy-giving food.
He wrote a sign to win his customer back!
mutton kebabs; roast pork; stir-fried vegetables; fried rice
raw vegetables; fruit
cola; ice cream
water
Compare the two restaurants:
expensive
cheap
giving its customers energy-giving food
make its customers thin
cause the customers to be fat
the customers become tired quickly
1. Usually Wang Peng’s restaurant was full of people.
2. Yong Hui could make people thin in two weeks by giving them a good diet.
T
F
True or False
3. Wang Peng’s regular customers often became fat.
T
4. Yong Hui’s menu gave customers more emery-giving food.
No. it gave them protective food but no energy-giving or body-building food.
F
5. Wang Peng’s menu gave customers more protective food.
6. Wang Peng decided to compete with Yong Hui by copying her menu.
He decided to advertise the benefits of his menu.
F
F
Do Exercise 2 on Page 11 in your text books.
Retelling the story
Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very __________ because his _________did not come to his restaurant as they ______ did. He felt very strange. He ________ his friend to a newly opened restaurant _______ offered to make people ________________ in two weeks.
usually
followed
which
frustrated
customers
fit / lose weight
The new restaurant was _____ of customers. Worried, he did some _________and tried to ______ his customers ______. He set a new _____ and offer a _________ to his customers.
full
win
back
research
sign
discount
Thank You!