Unit2 Word power
Teaching Aims
Learn and master the new words about diseases and the places in the hospital.
Teaching Important Points
Enlarge the knowledge about diseases and the places in the hospital.
Teaching Difficult Points
1.Remember the places in the hospital.
2.Remember names of diseases and medicine.
Teaching Procedures
Step1 Greeting
Ask some Ss to report the uses of some important words and expressions learnt in the last
period.
Step2 Word power
Ask Ss to guess the disease according to the hints.
1.sudden illness with violent beating of heart attack---heart attack
2.the system that controls the blood sugar level goes wrong---diabetes
3.It can develop in any part of people’s body, often causing death. Now no way can be used to
cure this disease. ---cancer
Step3 Read and speak
(1)A: Karen is studying an entry about diseases in the children’s encyclopedia.Read the entry
with her.
Ask Ss to go through the passage to understand the words in blue. And try to find out the
symptoms (症状),ways of preventing and causes of each disease.
(2) B: Karen also found in the encyclopedia a spidergram of the different ways in which
medicines can be used on the human body. Match the words with the pictures.
Step 4 Read and understand
C: After reading the encyclopedia, Karen took some notes for a school project. Use the
information we learnt just now to help Karen complete her notes.
(1)Complete the exercise of Part C.
Answers
1.measles; chickenpox
2.Influenza/Flu
3.Cancer
4.Diabetes
5.heart diseases; heart attack; stroke
6.malaria; cholera; yellow fever; typhoid
7.tablets; pills; capsules; liquid medicine; powders; injections; creams; sprays
(2)Identify the following pictures, and get out the purposes of the places.
Step5 Language points
1.cure: vt. 治愈;治疗;整治 n. 医治;治疗;痊愈;补救方法
be ~d 被治愈
~ sb. of 治愈某人……
辨析:treat / cure
treat: 治疗,着重于过程,不涉及结果;
cure: 治好,医好,纠正,消除(弊病);
2.be caused by over weight: 超重而引起的
cause: vt. 引起,造成
~ sth. 引起 / 造成……
~ sth. to sb.对……造成
~ sb. to do sth. 使……干……
3.leave behind 留下(不带走)、遗忘(没拿)
eg. Don’t leave me behind. 不要留下我。
leave 的相关短语:
~ alone 不管、撇下一个人
~ aside 搁置
~ about(东西)乱放
~ out 漏掉、删除
~ word 留言
Step6 Homework
Learn all the new words by heart.