师：“All right, class begins. Good morning.”
生：“Good morning, teacher.”
师：“Thank you. How are you feeling today?”
生：“I feel excited.”
师：“Okay, thank you. I was wondering, have you done your morning exercise yet?”
生：“No.”
师：“Okay, now please stand up and join me. Let's do some sports together. First, please stand up straight, open your shoulders. Then raise your arms, stretch your upper body. Take a deep breath in and out. Feel the flow of blood in your body. Alright, then please try to lift one leg, stand on one leg. Try to keep your balance. Take deep breaths in and out. Keep your balance. And then change to the other foot. Stand on the other foot, keep your balance. All right, now put your foot down. Put one arm down, bend to the left. Very good. Then raise the other arm, bend to the right. Okay, now stand straight again. Try to feel the flow of blood in your body. Okay, take a deep breath in and out. Thank you very much. Sit down please. How do you feel now?”
生：“I feel good.”
师：“Very good. I can see some of you are smiling. So that must mean sports have cheered you up, right? So today, we're going to talk about sports. Here are the goals I want you to achieve by the end of the class. First of all, we will talk about the advantages of sports using some words such as benefit, relief, strengthen, prevent, immune system, etc. Secondly, we can learn some new words with certain strategies, such as word formation, inferring from the context, lexical chunks, and mind maps. Last but not least, hopefully by the end of the class, you can develop a positive attitude to sports and embrace a healthy lifestyle. Okay, are you ready?”
生：“Yes.”
师：“Let's begin our class. Now, speaking of a healthy lifestyle, I want to show you two pictures. Look at the first picture. Can you guess who that is?”
生：（猜测）
师：“It's me. This was me back in 2012. And the second picture, who's this?”
生：（猜测）
师：“Wow, it's also me. It was taken last year. So as you can see, I have changed a lot during these ten years, right? How did I do that? Can you guess?”
生：“By doing sports.”
师：“Okay, so now as you can see, I have become what because of sports? Can you give me some words?”
生：“You have become slimmer.” “You have become more beautiful.” “You have become healthier.” “You have become stronger.” “You have become more confident.”
师：“So I have become fitter, healthier, stronger, and most of all, more confident. So these are the good things that sports have brought to me. Right? So we call these good things the benefits of sports. Benefit means something good that something can bring to you. All right, please read after me: benefit.”
生：“Benefit, benefit, benefit, benefit.”
师：“So as you can see, sports have a lot of benefits. Today we are going to talk about the benefits of sport. Please take out your worksheet and look at this passage. Read through the passage and pay attention to the underlined words. Try to guess the meaning of these five underlined words. Are you clear? Please start.” （学生阅读完毕）“Okay, now let's take the first sentence as an example. Could you please read the sentence for us?”
生：“It is a great sport for beginners. You do not need a membership or any special equipment. Just a pair of running shoes will do.”
师：“So what does ‘equipment’ mean here? What does running shoes mean?”
生：“Running shoes means the shoes that you run with.”
师：“And running shoes is a kind of equipment, right? So equipment here means tools that are needed for a certain purpose or activity. In Chinese, it means 设备、设施. Okay, now let's look at the rest of the sentences. Could you please read the second sentence for us?”
生：“You are also somebody who worries about getting sick. Running will help you get fit and prevent diseases.”
师：“So what does ‘prevent’ mean? How can you know that you are somebody who worries about getting sick? What does ‘get sick’ mean?”
生：“Get sick means get ill.”
师：“When you get ill, running can help you get fit and prevent diseases. So prevent means to stop, right? Yes, to stop something from happening or to stop somebody from doing something. In Chinese, prevent means 预防、阻止. Okay, next one. Could you please read the next sentence for us?”
生：“Besides, anybody who is feeling down can go for a run to cheer themselves up.”
师：“So what does ‘cheer up’ mean here? What does ‘feel down’ mean?”
生：“When you feel sad or unhappy.”
师：“So when you feel sad or unhappy, you can go for a run to cheer yourself up. That means you can feel happier, right? So cheer up means to stop feeling upset and start to feel happier. All right, and let's look at the next sentence. This sentence is a little bit more difficult, so I will read it for you. ‘It also strengthens your immune system and reduces the risk of serious health problems.’ First, answer me, what does ‘reduce’ mean?”
生：“To make less.”
师：“Yes, to reduce the risk of health problems. So we know immune system is something good. It's the system in your body to help protect you. So immune system means the system in your body to help fight against diseases. What does it mean in Chinese?”
生：“免疫系统”
师：“Okay, please read after me: immune system.”
生：“Immune system, immune system, immune system, immune system.”
师：“Okay, now we know running can help us strengthen our immune system. And the last sentence, let's read it together.”
生：（齐读）“Even a 30 - minute run when you start, even a thirty - minute run will provide relief from aches or tension that you may be suffering due to stress.”
师：“So what does ‘relief’ mean? It's also a new word. What does ‘ache’ mean? You have a headache, you have a stomachache. So aches means something hurts in your body, right? And ‘tension’ is a new word. Maybe we don't know the meaning of tension, but we know it's something like aches, something that makes you uncomfortable. So when you feel uncomfortable, you need relief. So relief is good or bad?”
生：“Good.”
师：“Relief is the feeling of happiness and relaxation after something painful or unhappy is no longer happening. So relief means what in Chinese?”
生：“缓解、轻松”
师：“Very good. So you've successfully achieved the first goal. Just now, we came across some new words, but we didn't look them up in the dictionary because we can guess or infer the meaning from the context. Now, let's move on to the next stage. Just now, we talked about that running can help make our heart stronger. Now, please look at this sentence. Let's read this sentence together and try to find other words related to ‘strong’. Are you clear? Try to find three words related to ‘strong’ in this sentence.”