Unit 16 Health

Step 1: Checking the oral practice of Unit 15

Step 2: Explain listening skills in Unit 16

Part A ： Micro-Listening

Exercise 2

1. caring 2. regular 3. squares

4. researchers 5. affects 6. pressure 7. Bloc

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8. Being optimistic and joyful is also an important way

to stay healthy.

9. These emotions are not good for your health.

10. that will certainly be advantageous to your body

and help make you live a long and healthy life.

Part B ： Marco-Listening

Passage 1: Safe Blood

Culture Notes:

1. The Red Cross An organization founded by the Gene

va Convention of 1864 to bring relief to victims of war

or natural disasters. Its headquarters are in Geneva an

d its emblem, the Red Cross, represents the Swiss flag.

The International Red Cross, which is staffed mainly b

y volunteers, has twice won the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1

917 and 1944.

Part B ： Marco-Listening

New words and expressionsdonate v. 捐赠 pregnant adj.

怀孕的victim n. 受害者 cancer n. 癌 , 癌

症supply n. 供给 , 供给品 infection n. 感染storage n. 储存 diabetes n. 糖尿

病

Part B ： Marco-Listening

Passage 2: Full of Life

Culture Notes:

1. A medical check-up a thorough medical examination t

o detect if everything is fine with a person’s health

Part B ： Marco-Listening

Culture Notes:

2. a routine blood test a regular test of a sample of blood,

which usually included in a medical check-up

3. everyone was still. Everyone was quiet, not making a so

und because they were all so tense, for fear if the operati

on had hurt the body.

Part B ： Marco-Listening

New words and expressionsroutine adj. 例行公事的 , 常规的lump n. 肿块 biopsy n. 活

组织检查malignant adj. 恶性的 devastate v. 压倒tumor n. 肿瘤 lymph n. 淋

巴node n. 节 , 结 furious adj.

非常生气地surgery n. 外科手术 relief n. 减轻 , 缓

解

Part C Oral Practice

I Pair Work

• Students are required to work in pair and mak

e similar conversations of their own, using the

given situation and sentences on the textbooks.

Part C Oral Practice

II Retelling

• Listen to the previous passage “Full of Life” and

retell it in your own words.

Part C Oral Practice

III Discussion

1. Besides blood safety, what other health problems p

ose great danger to us?

2. If you were Michelle, would you have made the sa

me decision as she did? Why or why not?

3. The story is titled “Full of Life”. What do you thin

k it means?

Part D Home Listening

Home listening on page 162-163