写作专题（一）：关于健康话题的求助信
课标解读
纵观近几年的高考，写作题都在课标或考试说明中列的24个话题之内。
中学英语课程标准24个话题项目中的第13个话题为Health（健康），其内容包括以下九个方面：（1）Eating habits饮食习惯；（2）Physical fitness and exercise健身与锻炼；（3）Personal hygiene个人卫生；（4）Illnesses（stomachache, headache, flu, cold, etc.）疾病（胃痛、头疼、流感、感冒等等）；（5）Medication药物；（6）Accidents意外事故；（7）Doctors, nurses & hospitals医生、护士和医院；（8）Describing problems（parts of the body, pains, etc.）描述问题（身体部位、疼痛等等）；（9）Medical insurance医疗保险。
命题预测
有关健康方面的写作可能会出现：中西饮食对比；养成健康饮食习惯之前与之后的对比；心理健康的重要性；怎样实施急救；学生对体重的看法；学生近视或肥胖的现状、成因与预防；早餐的重要性；锻炼与健康；对如何保持健康的求助、建议；等等。
导入：
用Michael Jackson的歌词“Heal the world,Make it a better place，Foryou and for me and the entire human being.”导入单词heal，health，healthy，wealthy，以及unhealthy，wreath，引出有关健康重要的话题。
第一部分：有关健康的话题
I、阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Everyone wantsto stay healthy and believes that health is better than wealth. It is true 1.__________health is the first step to success. It’s almost impossible to imagine a personchasing his dream without good health. Since health is so important for us, howcan we maintain good health? Here are some useful 2.__________(suggest):
First of all, weshould lead 3.__________ healthy life. Some people love to play cell phones 4.__________read electronic-books before sleep, 5.__________ is absolutely bad for theirhealth. We should remember to turn off the phones 6.__________ sleep.
Besides, we’d beserious about what we eat. We should eat more fruit and vegetables and 7.__________(little) sugar or fat. When we want to eat chocolate or ice-cream, we can havean apple instead. We shouldn’t eat too much meat in one week. What’s more, weshould do exercise every day. There are many exercises for us to choose, suchas swimming, jogging, playing badminton and so on. 8.__________ (do) exercisecan increase the circulation of blood and improve our immune system.
Inconclusion, if we pay close attention to our health, we can avoid 9.__________ (get)sick. We’d try to sleep earlier, eat more fruit and vegetable, drink morewater, and do exercise 10.__________(regular), and then we’ll realize that it’s not that hard to stay in good health.
Keys：1. that 2. suggestions 3. a 4. or 5. which 6. before 7.less 8.Doing 9.getting 10. regularly
II、短文改错
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词用斜线(划掉。
修改:在错的词下画一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处,多者(从第11处起)不计分。
III、根据语法填空及短文改错内容，写出以下短语：
1、保持健康______________________
2、过着健康的生活______________________
3、 对健康有害______________________
4、认真对待吃的东西______________________
5、多吃蔬菜水果______________________
6、每天锻炼______________________
7、游泳_________________
8、慢跑___________________
9、打羽毛球______________________
10、加速血液循环______________________
11、增强免疫系统______________________
12、病得很严重______________________
13、看病______________________
14、照顾自己______________________
15、饭后百步走______________________
Keys:
（附： “饭后百步走”的翻译个别学生会说成a hundred steps,需解释此处“百步”为虚数。汉语里面很多数字，比如“三三两两”，可以翻译成a couple of，具体的数字不一定要具体翻译。再比如最近流行的“三生三世，十里桃花”，就可翻译成Life after life, blooms over blooms.）
IV、补充：写作必会的有关健康的单词、短语、句子
超重overweight
近视、远视的near/far sighted
精力旺盛/充沛befull of energy
减肥lose weight
定期锻炼take regular exercise
对……有好处be good to
养成好习惯form / develop a good habit
足够的睡眠enough sleep
自我放松release / relax oneself
缓解压力reduce pressure
对…采取积极的态度take apositive attitude to
保持均衡饮食keep a balanced diet
垃圾食品junk food
(不)健康的饮食习惯(un)healthy eating habit
be high/rich/low in ...……含量高/丰富/低
physical and mental condition生理和心理状况
feel weak(well, terrible)感觉虚弱(健康/很糟)
build up one’sbody /strength增强体质
facedifficulty with courage勇于面对困难
积极参加体育锻炼takean active part in sports
没有什么比保持健康更珍贵的了。Nothing is more precious than to keephealthy.
与健康有关的谚语
An apple aday keeps the doctor away.一天一苹果，医生不找我。
Early tobed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.睡得早，起得早，聪明富裕身体好。
第二部分：
求助信写作必会的好句型
开头句
1. I am a middle school student and I am writing totell you my problem which has troubled me.
2. I am writing to you to ask whether you could dome a favor.
3. My name is Li Hua and I’m writing this letter toseek your help.
4.、我给你写信的原因是我有急事要求助。
The reason why I’m writing to you is that I have something urgent forhelp.
5、我在……方面有困难，这很困扰我。所以我别无选择只能向你求助。
I have difficulty in doing…,which bothers me a lot. I have no choice butto turn to you.
中句
1. I long to do …… well, but I don’t know how, whichmakes me upset.
2. I can’t ……, which worries me a lot.
3. I often feel ……, and I don’t know how it has comeabout.
4. Facing / Faced with so many difficulties, I haveto turn to you for help.
结尾句
1. I will be very grateful if you could help me…/Iwould appreciate it if you could do me a favor and…
2. I would be grateful if you really give me a hand.
3、如果你能考虑我的请求，我将不胜感激。
I would appreciate it if you could take my request into consideration.
写作实战：
假定你是李华，是深圳市第二实验学校的高二学生，你注意到学校近来出现了一些有损健康的现象：一些学生花在学习上的时间过多，缺乏锻炼，眼睛近视；一些学生过多地吃垃圾食品，变成了胖子；还有个别学生抽烟；等等。你从网上得知Mike Smith是一位健康方面的专家，请给Mike Smith写一封email，描述你观察到的现象，并请求他给你们提出一些关于如何保持健康的建议。
注意：1、字数100左右；2、可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear Mr. Mike Smith,
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Sincerely yours,
Li Hua
