What is your favorite food

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What is your favorite food?
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Unit 13 Reading WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
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Skimming ?What is the best way to make sure that
we will feel and look fine?
To develop healthy eating habits
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match the main idea
Para 1
Choosing what to eat is difficult
Choosing what to eat based on nutrients
Para 2
Choosing what to eat according to what we
believe
Para 3
Keeping a balanced diet
Para 4
Developing healthy eating habits
Para 5
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Make the right choices about
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How
What
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(Para. 3-4)
Ways to keep healthy (Para 5)
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Questions on details
Para 2. Find out the nutrients, their
functions and sources(??) mentioned in the
text.
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protein
fish, meat, and beans
good for our muscles

• egg, milk, and
• other dairy
• products

good for our bones and teeth
calcium
bread, rice, and noodles
main fuel for our body
carbohydrate
help keep our body functioning well help our
body fight diseases
Vitamins, fibre and minerals
vegetables, fruit, fish, and milk
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Para 3. Find out beliefs in food choice
mentioned in the text

• It is healthier not to eat any meat.
• We should not kill animal for food.
• 3.How the products are grown or made.

Eco-food organic food
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Para 4. According to this text , if we want
to become smarter, healthier and more
beautiful, what should we do?
1.Buy good food and keep a balanced diet. 2.Eat
healthy food in the right amount. 3.Try to eat
less fat and sugar and exercise more. 4.
Develop healthy eating habits
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True or false statements
( )1.Choosing what to eat is very easy for
people today. ( )2.Traditional diets often
have too much fibre and too many
nutrients for the 21st-century person. (
)3.Protein, which is found in eggs, milk and
other dairy products, is good for our
bones and teeth. ( )4.The nutrient of
calcium helps our body fight disease. ( )5.
Vitamins are the main fuel for our
body. ( )6.Organic vegetables are grown
without chemicals that can be harmful
to human beings or the environment. (
)7.Because we have so little to choose from,
many stores and companies offer advice
about what we should eat. ( )8.If we eat
healthy food in the right amounts, we do not
have to buy any supplements. ( )9.The
best way to keep fit is to develop healthy
eating habits.
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fat
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calories
Calcium
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vitamin
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Carbohydrates
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much
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We are what we eat

• We will become what we eat.
• B. Our health is decided by what we eat.
• C. We should buy and eat nutritious food.
• D. What we eat can make us healthy.

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Free Talk
1.What is a healthy diet?
2.Do you think you keep a healthy diet? a. If
you do, explain it. b. If you dont, how can
you develop a healthy diet?
3.What can our school canteen do to help us
develop a healthy diet? Do you have any
suggestion?
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Analyzing the following sentences
and our way of life has changed, too

• Choosing what to eat is no longer as easy as it
  once was.
• Our eating habits have changed, as has our way of
  life, and the fuel we need for our bodies is
  also different.
• If we want to keep up with the high pace of
  modern life, we had better learn to make the
  right choices about what and how we eat .

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• When we choose what to buy and eat , we had
  better think whether the food will give us the
  nutrients we need .
• We should also eat carbohydrates, the main fuel
  for our body, which we can get from bread, rice
  and noodles .
• nutrients
• protein
• calcium
• carbohydrate
• fibre and minerals
• vitamins

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good for our muscles
fish, meat, beans
eggs, milk and other dairy products
good for our bones and teeth
bread, rice, noodles
the main fuel for our body
vegetables, fruit
keep our body functioning well
vegetables, fruit, fish, milk
help our body fight disease
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• Many people today make choices about their eating
  habits based on what they believe .
• Eating habits become part of who we are .
• Some people become vegetarians because they
  believe it is healthier not to eat meat or
  because they think we should not kill animals for
  food .
• Organic vegetables are those that are grown
  without chemicals that can be harmful to human
  beings or the environment .

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• It is probably better, however, if we spend our
  time and money on buying good food and keeping a
  balanced diet.
• The same goes for crash diets that some
  companies say will make us lose weight fast .
• It is probably better if we spend our time and
  money on buying good food and keeping a balanced
  diet.

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• The best way to make sure that we will feel and
  look fine is to develop healthy eating habits.
• Only in this way will we be ready for the
  challenges and opportunities in life.
• Only in this way can we learn English well.
• Only in this room can I sleep well.
• The best way to make sure that we will feel
  and look fine is to develop healthy eating habits.

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Post-reading on P4(Answers)
1.It means the food we need to keep our bodies
healthy and active. Green foods are organic
foods, that is, foods that are grown and
produced naturally. But not all green foods are
actually green in colour.
2.Any food that tastes good any food that is
healthy any food that is a vegetable any
food that is organic any food that is safe.
3.We have more foods to choose from and many of
the foods are not produced organically We are
busier than in past years so we now have less
time to eat than before More snack foods are
available since more people like to eat bet-
ween meals now many people are paying more
attention to their health because others
remind them to some people re- fuse to eat
foods produced with chemicals because they
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believe they are unsafe some people care as
much about the health and safety of animals as
people so they refuse to eat meat people
today expect food to taste good and still be
healthy, and they now have more choices when they
go to market many people dont get enough
nutrition from their food so they take
supplements, especially vitamin pills.
4.Sample answers ?People go to fast food
restaurants because they are quick and
convenient. ?Too much sugar and fat will make you
as big as a whale. ?Some people start crash diets
because they are in too much of a hurry to
lose weight naturally. ?To keep a balanced diet,
we must first make a list of the foods we most
often eat.
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Homework 1.Write your suggestions into a
letter to the leader of the canteen. 2.Healthy
diet www.enorth.com.cn www.
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The balanced diet is the best! Let's enjoy a
healthy lunch!