Lead in

1. Have a health test.

2. Show the survey results conducted before class.

Pre-reading

1. Lead students to think about what the title “ A Great Cure, Sadly Long Ignored” means and find out original sentences in the passage.

2. Reading strategy: Skimming and Scanning

You should pay more attention to the main idea of the passage or paragraphs than to the details when reading at first.

While-reading

1. Skimming and scanning

(1) Read the passage quickly and find out the writing purpose.

(2) Underline the topic sentence of every paragraph and summarize the main idea.

2. Careful reading

Listen to the material and finish the mind map.

(1) Finish True or False and correct the false one.

Many people are burning off more energy because their life is busier than before.  (F)

Modern health problems may include being overweight,   moving around less and having too much work pressure.  (T)

Exercise is one of the best ways to keep people away from modern health problems.  (T)

(2) Read the passage together.

Reorder sentences without referring to the passage.

Post-reading

1. Discussion: Students discuss in groups and share their favourite sports.

2. Brainstorming: What should we pay attention to when we exercise?

3. Exercise together: dance with 《本草纲目》