Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good

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Unit 3 Looking good, feeling good
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Reading Dying to be thin
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General questions

• Where does Amy come from?
• What kind of pills did Amy take?
• What caused Amys liver to fail?

Canada.
Weight-loss pills called Fat-less.
The weight-loss pills.
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Main points
Subject Main point
Dying to be thin
In order to lose weight, Amy takes weight-loss
pills and becomes slimmer and slimmer.
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Subject Main point

R E C O V E R I N G
Amy was recovering from liver failure thanks to
Li Dong, who donated part of his liver to her.
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Subject Main point

R R E E C O V E R I N G
Zhou Ling was sorry to hear about Amys problems
and hoped that she as well as all the others who
would like to lose weight could value the
importance of health.
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Discussion

• What do you learn from Amys story?

Health is priceless. Nothing is more important
than health.
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Dying to be thin
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Exercises(P44-45)

• C1
• D1
• D2

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C1(P44)

• 1 According to Para 2 in the first
• e-mail, Amy is an actress, _____.
• A. who often exercises
• B. who wanted to lose some weight
• C. who became ill
• D. who ate little

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C1

• 2 Why did Amy decide to take weight-loss pills?
• A. She was overweight.
• B. She was having problems.
• C. Her clothes did not fit.
• D. She wanted to become slimmer.

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C1

• 3 At the hospital, the doctors
• told Amy she would ______.
• A. live for seven days
• B. have to donate her liver
• C. die without a new liver
• D. need her mothers liver

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C1

• 4 Li Dong, a young Chinese, _____.
• A. saved Amys life by donating
• money to her
• B. saved Amys life by giving her
• part of his liver
• C. told Amy never to take
• weight-loss pills again
• D. once worked with Amy

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C1

• 5 Zhou Ling, Amys friend _____.
• A. did not want to read Amys
• e-mails
• B. was sorry to hear about Amys
• problems
• C. thinks Amy should lose weight
• D. thinks diets and weight-loss
• pills are necessary

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C1

• 6 Amys experience is _____.
• A. an interesting one
• B. forgotten by her family
• C. like that of some people in China
• D. a problem only for actresses

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D1 (P44)

• 1 them (L12)
• 2 that (L19)
• problems (L35)

the weight-loss pills
a harmful chemical
liver failure,
the operation and being in hospital
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D1 (P44)
your liver

• 4 yours (L36)
• 5 who (L37)
• 6 they (L44)

a stranger
many people in China who are going on
diets or taking
weight-loss pills.
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D2(P45)
1 work out a body shape
2 figure b becoming well again
3 priceless c exercise
4 recovering d very valuable or important
5 attractive e ashamed
6embarrassed f beautiful or pleasant to look at
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a
d
b
f
e
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E(P45)

• damage (2) two
• (3) failure (4) liver
• (5) actress (6) figure
• (7) pills (8) priceless

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