1. Healthy children become overweight because they eat junk food and are given too much food by parents and grandparents.

5. Every morning.

Step Ⅲ Part 2

This activity encourages students to quickly read for details. Draw students’ attention to the instructions and read the instructions to them. Tell them. You are asked to read the passage quickly and make it clear-what healthy food and junk food are.

Say, Look at the chart in Activity 2,let’s see the examples first. Are you sure what you will do? Yes, read the text quickly and find out the answers to the chart.

Let them read and fill in the forms. After they’ve all finished, have them discuss the lists with their partners, and cheek the answers with each other.

Encourage students to report their answers with complete sentences. Ask one to report to the class. For example, One healthy food is fresh fruits.

Answers

Healthy food　　　　　　　 Junk food

eggs　　　　　　　　　　　 hamburgers

fresh fruits　　　　　　　 candy

vegetables　　　　　　　　 potato chips

fish　　　　　　　　　　　 chocolate

milk　　　　　　 　　　　　French fries

juice　　　　　　　　　　 sugar drinks like coke

Step Ⅳ Part 3

This activity encourages students to use he strategy of reading in context.

Say, we can see there are some words indicated in bold in the article. Let’s guess the meanings of them first. Then ask several ones to guess the meanings of the bold words, but just guess, don’t give them the correct answers.

Say, Do you know how you can be happy?

Read the article and you’ll know that.

Please begin reading it now. Try to guess the meanings of the bold words in context.

Have them to read the article to get the answer and try to get the meanings of the words in bold at the same time. Tell them to try to get the meanings in context this time. After they’ve all finished reading the passage once, ask the question, How can you be happy? The students may answer, It’s easy. Stop eating junk food, get more sleep, and exercise three times a week. Start today.

　Next read the instructions in Activity 3 to the students. Tell them that they have two tasks now-match the words and expressions with their meanings and make sentences with the words and expressions.

First let the students match the words to meanings individually. Then check for answers to ensure that students understand the task. At last, let the children make sentences with the words and expressions. If they feel it hard to do, try to find the sentences with the words in the article and make similar ones by themselves.

Work in pairs. Ask several students to read their sentences to the class. Correct any mistakes as necessary.

Answers

Junk food d; not have the energy a, national c; spoil b, especially f; catch up e

Step Ⅴ Part 4

This activity helps students read for specific information.

Read the instructions to the students. Ask the first question as a sample and ask one to answer it. Have the students read the article again and get the answers to the five questions by themselves.

Check the answers by asking different students to answer the questions. Answers may vary slightly.

Say, You should try to remember the answers before looking at the reading. Then let them ask and answer the questions in pairs.

Sample answers

4. It makes me feel healthy.

3. Yes, I do. Every day.

2. I sleep 8 hours each night.

Step Ⅰ Key Vocabulary

This activity introduces the key vocabulary words. Show the following vocabulary on the screen by a projector.

Say the words and have the students repeat several times until they can pronounce them fluently and accurately

Step Ⅱ Part 1

This activity allows students to activate their background knowledge before attempting the reading.

Read the title to the students first and ask them to predict what they think the article is about based on the title. Say,

Look at the two pictures on this page.

Try to say something about them to tell what is happening. Then ask two students to describe the pictures to the class. Correct the sentences if they’ve made some mistakes.

Read the instructions for Activity I to the students. Be sure they know what to do. Go over the five questions with them and choose five students to answer them individually. Then ask them to work in pairs, discussing the five questions. The answers will vary. Tell them not to look at the reading and give the answers by themselves before they begin. As students work, walk around the classroom, listen to them and offer any help they may need.

When all the pairs finish discussing, ask one or two pairs to ask and answer the questions. The others listen to them to see if they’ve made any mistakes and help them to correct their sentences.

Suggested answers

1. Yes, always

Up-down reading method

Pairwork.

Groupwork.

Train students’ reading skill.

Train students’ writing skill.

Key vocabulary.

Read the text to identify main idea.

Read the text to understand words in context.

Read the text for special information.

3. Moral Object

　Stop eating junk food, get more sleep, and exercise three times a week. Start today!

　Then you can be happy.