1. Get students to learn some useful new words and expressions in this part.
2. Get students to read the letter.
3. Let students learn the prohibition, warning and permission.
1. Develop students’ reading skills and enable them to learn how to use different reading strategies to read different reading materials.
2. Enable student s to understand how to give advice.
1. Stimulate students’ interests of learning English by reading and acting this play.
2. Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork.
1.state the main idea of each paragraph in own words
2.ways to become addicted to cigarettes
3.the harmful effects of smoking
4. suggestions to quit smoking
1. sorting out major idea and minor idea
2. master key words in key sentence
Show some proverbs on health
1.An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
2.Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
1How many parts does the reading text consist of?
2. Who wrote the letter to whom?
3. How many ways can a man become addicted to smoking?
1. The first sentence of the letter shows James granddad______ .
A. lives a healthy life B. is addicted to sitting in the garden
C. has nothing to do at home D. is tired when cycling 20 kilometers
2. From the second paragraph, we can know granddad ______________.
A . never smoked B. likes smoking
C. used to smoke heavily D. still smokes now
Ask students to discuss the following questions in pairs.(让学生分组讨论,形成书面形式)
1.Different ways people can become addicted to cigarettes.
2. Harmful effects for smokers
3.ways to quit smoking
Write some advice to persuade smokers to quit smoking
How to live a healthy life?
1. write down the suggestions given by granddad
2. try to persuade one to give up smoking