Unit 2

Healthy eating

Warming Up and Reading

What do you usually have for breakfast?

fried dumplings

steamed dumplings pan cake

twisted cruller

What do you usually have for lunch?

steamed bread

shrimp

meat

fish

rice

What do you usually have for supper?

spaghettidumpling

porridge noodles

What do you think about making a

healthy meal?

Why are you so strong / weak / fat / thin?

Does it have anything to do with your

diet?

Do you think you are eating a balanced

diet?

What is a balanced diet in your opinion?

There are no healthy or unhealthy foods --- only healthy or unhealthy diets.

fruit ＆ vegetables

bread, other cereals ＆potatoes

meat, fish ＆ alternatives

foods containing fat, foods ＆ drinks containing sugar

milk ＆ dairy foods

A balanced diet simply means

a bit of everything, including meat, fish,

vegetables and fruit.

A balanced diet must contain carbohydrate, protein, fat, vitamins, mineral salts and fibre. It must contain these things in the correct proportions.

carbohydrates: these provide a source of energy.proteins: these provide a source of materials for growth and repair.fats: these provide a source of energy and contain fat soluble vitamins.vitamins: these are required in very small quantities to keep you healthy.mineral salts: these are required for healthy teeth, bones, muscles etc..fibre: this is required to help your intestines function correctly; it is not digested.

Junk food is an informal term applied to some foods which are perceived to have little or no nutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all.

If we don’t eat a balanced diet, what may happen?

too fat

too thin

Reading

What is the main idea of the passage?

It introduces two unbalanced diets through the story of Wang Peng and Yong Hui.

Fast reading

Read carefully and find out the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1 Wang Peng’s menu and the popularity of his restaurant

Para2

Para3

Para4

Finding Yong Hui’s restaurant

Yong Hui’s restaurant and menu

Wang Peng’s research

Careful reading

1. What were the menus in the two restaurant?

2. What was the weakness of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant?

3. What was the strength of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant?

4. What was the weakness of the diet in Yong Hui’s restaurant?

5. What was the strength of the diet in Yong Hui’s restaurant?

Answer the questions.

1. What were the menus in the two restaurants?

Wang Peng’s menu contained mutton kebabs, roast pork, fried rice and so on.

Yong Hui’s menu contained raw vegetables, fruit and water.

2. What was the weakness of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant?

His diet did not give enough foods containing fibre.

3. What was the strength of the diet in Wang Peng’s restaurant?

The diet provided plenty of energy.

4. What was the weakness of the diet in Yong Hui’s restaurant?

The diet did not give enough energy foods.

5. What was the strength of the diet in Yong Hui’s restaurant?

The diet provided plenty of fibre foods.

Explain the following sentences or parts of sentences.

1. Something terrible must have happened if

Li Chang was not coming to eat in his

restaurant as he always did.

Li Chang always came to his restaurant so

if he did not, it meant that something

serious had happened to stop him.

2. He could not have Yong Hui getting away

with telling people lies!

He did not want Yong Hui to tell lies and

people to believe her.

3. Perhaps with a discount and a new sign he

could win his customers back.

If he gave his customers lower prices and

advertised the benefits of his menu, perhaps

his customers would return.

4. What do you think Wang Peng will provide

to win his customers back?

5. How do you think the story will end?

3. Why does it matter if you only eat at

Wang’s or Yong Hui’s restaurant?

1. What makes a balanced diet?

2. What is wrong with the diets of both Wang Peng and Yong Hui?

Discussion

A Sample

Wang Peng is worried because his customers are not coming to his restaurant as they usually did. He follows hid friend to a newly opened restaurant which offers to make people thin in two weeks. Worried, he does some research and tries to win his customers back.

Retelling

Homework

1. Make a dialogue according to the

expressions in Talking in Workbook.

2. Review the story and find out the

sentences containing modal verbs.