Health is above Wealth".
Aims:
to develop speaking skills through a wide range of speaking tasks which necessitate giving information, exchanging and justifying opinions and ideas, comparing and contrasting, agreeing and disagreeing, suggesting and speculating;
teach to analyze and arrange specific data into meaningful patterns;
to develop positive attitude to health.
Tasks:
to practise and activate all essential vocabulary on the topic “Healthy Way of Life”;
to provide an opportunity to use linguistic skills in real situations of communication;
to broaden students’ understanding of the various aspects of healthy way of life;
to teach to work collaboratively in group, to develop partnership relations between teachers and pupils;
to stimulate and enhance the students’ interest of health problems (Food, Bad habits, Stress) to probe further on their own and to reach their own conclusions based on examining the evidence;
to teach students critical thinking skills when searching for information in the Internet, additional literature;
to develop cross-cultural and cross-curricular competence .
Type of the project:
cross-curricular; group; short-term; with coordination.
Result of the project:
presentation of creative and research work.
Equipment:
computer and multimedia projector; tape recorder; self-made posters; illustrations; handouts.
The course of the lesson
I. (teachers) Good afternoon, dear students! Today we are having our final lesson on the topic “Healthy Way of Life”. For three weeks you have been working on the projects. Today you are going to present the result of your joint work. We hope that you will show your speaking skills, cooperative skills, will show your understanding of the proverb ‘Health is above wealth’.
As you remember, at our first lesson of this theme we held a survey among the 10th formers. The children chose the most vital aspects of healthy way of life and picked out the problems concerning their health. Having analyzed their opinion, we found out the following three major points: bad habits, food and stress. As far as we have three groups in our class, each group chose a problem for studying.
Before discussing these problems let’s look around. We see some quotations and sayings on the topic. Let’s read them. (the pupils read and comment on the quotations)
Possible Sayings and Proverbs:
Tomorrow is another day
A change is as good as a rest
A sound mind in a sound body
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
We hope your today’s presentations will prove they are true.
II. Food
2.1. Can you imagine our life without food? I think no. What is food for us? (the pupils give their variants)
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2.2. Do you know the secrets of health and beauty? The secrets are in our food. The proverb says: “We are what we eat ” In this cosmic world which we live in, the thing we neglect all to off is nutrition. Food supplies three fundamental body needs: need for energy, need for new tissue growth and tissue repair, need to regulate metabolic function.
In particular, the types of food that we eat can influence our moods. Eating food like bread, cereal, rice makes us feel calm. Chocolate can lift our spirits and make us feel happier. Other foods, such as coffee, eggs, sugar, can have a negative effect on us. When you feel stressed, try a little bread and a glass of milk and you will feel relaxed.
Have you ever heard anything about junk food? I shall try to convince you that it is harmful for our health and stomach. In today’s fast-moving world, people have less and less time to spend eating, let alone cooking. It is probably for this reason that junk food is so popular.
Recent researches have shown that people who prefer junk food gain excess weight. This is true because you tend to eat more, as junk food is less satisfying and lower in vital nutrients.
I don’t think that you will never eat hamburgers or fried potatoes. I’m sure you will! But always remember about the consequences.
2.3. The problem of food is closely connected with dieting. We all want to be slim. We’ve got some information about dieting: whether it is a good thing or not.
The term dieting most often refers to the revision of food intake in order to lose weight. Diets are also observed for a wide range of medical reasons.
What do 100 calories a day correspond to? It’s easy to feed 100 calories to the body but difficult to burn them, as the drawings illustrate.
Variants of burning calories are:
1) 2 km walk;
2) 5 min of skiing at competition speed;
3) 4 km of cycling;
4) 15 min of tennis (easy pace);
5) 30 min of gardening.
You should count your calories if you want to have a good figure.
There are a number of problems connected with dieting. Low diets, for example, restrict the amount of bread, sugar, and grains while maintaining a normal amount of proteins and fats. Most people experience low blood pressure after only a few days on such diets.
Diets high in fats are harmful for people with heart disease.
High proteins diets can be kept for only a short period of time and are dangerous for anyone with diabetes and other medical problems.
There is a serious problem of starvation, because it can lead to coma. It can be practiced only under strict medical supervision.
2.4. Now we’d like to acquaint you with such a disease as anorexia.
Anorexia is a new illness and seems to be caused by the society we live in, which judges us on our appearance. The media encourage us to try to be slim and beautiful. Each year there are to be at least 2000 new cases of anorexia. Most anorexics are females in their teens and twenties who suffer from a distorted self image: either slim or attractive they may appear to others. Though hungry, anorexics attempt to gain control of their lives by denying eating.
2.5. We are sure you know such term as vegetarianism. We’ll tell you the history of it and reveal the advantages and disadvantages of it.
Vegetarianism is an ancient custom. During the 19th century the movement began to produce results even among non-vegetarians. By the early 20th century it was non-vegetarian's diet - especially in English-speaking countries; such foods as peanut butter and corn flakes were invented by vegetarians in the United States.
The vegetarian movement as a whole was carried forward by individuals, such as Leo Tolstoy and George Bernard Show, and by certain religious sects.
Humanitarian vegetarians refuse meat because they believe that killing of animals is unnecessary or cruel. People who are keen on vegetarianism for health reasons believe that meat is harmful to the human body and that vegetable diet is more effective.
Purist vegetarians reject all foods that are derived from animals, including dairy products such as eggs, milk, cheese and butter.
2.6. Competition 1: You’ve got a lot of information about food: junk food, healthy food, dieting. Now we’ll check how well you remember it. We’ll see which of the two groups can choose healthy food and junk food from the pictures on the table. (comments of the expert)
Competition 2: Now I offer you a list of different ingredients. Imagine that you are waiting for a friend; you are to prepare meal as quickly as possible. I shall give you a minute… Now we shall see whose dish is the tastiest and healthiest. (comments of the expert)
2.7. I hope you will follow our advice and choose healthy food. I wish you good meal! And we present you with some general advice on healthy food.