IMPORTANT
NOTE:
My school has asked me to use ten minutes of each lesson for five
students to give two minute presentations which will be evaluated as
their exam. I question the value of this for many reasons that I'll
go into elsewhere but the result is that this lesson plan is for a 30
minute lesson only.
I also question the value of that but the decision isn't mine to
make.
Lesson
Level:
S2 Duration:
30
Lesson
Title:
Healthy Living (30 Minute Version)
Grammar
and Vocabulary
Lesson
Objectives
Students
will identify and discuss various elements of a healthy lifestyle.
Students will be able to use should, must and can when offering
suggestions or advice.
(Note:
text books invariably make the distinction that “should” is a
suggestion, “must” is a command and “can” is a possibility.
This is not the normal spoken usage of the words. All of them can be
used to offer advice or suggestions.)
Materials
Required
A set of descriptions of
various people's lifestyles.1
Preparation
Prepare
the the descriptions on cards to hand out to students for discussion.
Procedure
1
Put
the title, “Healthy Living” on the board.
Relate
the title to previous lessons about food.
2
Put
students into groups.
Ask
students to make two lists – one of things that are good for our
health, one of things that are bad for our health. Make sure that we
are not JUST talking about food. Give examples “do more exercise”
as a good thing and “smoking” as something that is bad.
3
Feedback
and create lists on the board.
4
Ask
students for examples of sentences giving advice.
Put
examples on the board using each of “should/must/can”. Explain
that while they are usually used in the senses of
advice/order/possibility they are all informally used to offer
advice.
5.
Give
each group a card containing details of a person's lifestyle details.
Groups must think of advice for this person.
Give
five minutes to discuss.
Monitor
and assist as required.
6
Get
feedback from groups. Each group to read out the description and then
say what advice they would like to offer.
7
Extension
task.
Get
groups to ask questions about the teacher's lifestyle and then offer
some advice.
Notes
- Descriptions of people.
Name: Alice
Sex: F
Age:14
Height: 1.58 m
Weight: 50 kg
Job: Student
Smokes: No
Drinks: No
Food: Rice, Potatoes,
Apples
Exercise: Plays ping-pong
once a week, runs every day
Hobbies: Listening to
music
Name: Brian
Sex: M
Age: 19
Height: 1.6m
Weight: 70 kg
Job: Driver
Smokes: 10 cigarettes a
day
Drinks: Beer 3 times a
week
Food: Hamburgers,
dumplings, chips, sandwiches
Exercise: Walks to and
from work
Hobbies: Watching TV
Name: Cathy
Sex: F
Age: 25
Height: 1.50 m
Weight: 52 kg
Job: Teacher
Smokes: No
Drinks: Wine, most
evenings
Food: Noodles,
vegetables, lots of meat
Exercise: None
Hobbies: Making Clothes
Name: David
Sex: M
Age: 29
Height: 1.6 m
Weight: 40 kg
Job: Worker
Smokes: 40 cigarettes a
day
Drinks: Beer every day,
Baijiu sometomes
Food: Vegetables, Rice,
Pizza,
Exercise: Badminton once
each week
Hobbies: Watching sport
on TV, reading
Name: Eve
Sex: F
Age: 33
Height: 1.54
Weight: 70 kg
Job: Works in shop
Smokes: Occasionally
Drinks: No
Food: Chocolate, cake,
biscuits
Exercise: None
Hobbies: Computer games
Name: Felix
Sex: M
Age: 37
Height: 1.7 m
Weight: 66 Kg
Job: Doctor
Smokes: 5 Cigarettes a
day
Drinks: Occasionally
drinks beer
Food: Vegetables, rice,
curry
Exercise: Walking and
running
Hobbies: Reading
Name: Gina
Sex: F
Age: 41
Height: 1.58 m
Weight: 45 Kg
Job: Cook
Smokes: No
Drinks: Wine at weekends
only
Food: Rice, salad, fruit
Exercise: Plays tennis in
summer. None in winter
Hobbies: Dancing
Name: Henry
Sex: M
Age: 48
Height: 1.75 m
Weight: 80 Kg
Job: Gardener
Smokes: 20 cigarettes a
day
Drinks: two beers every
day
Food: Hamburgers, curry,
English breakfast (every day)
Exercise: None
Hobbies: Reading the
newspaper
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