Class Proficiency Level Enrolment Date Time Theme Topic Main skill Other skills Teaching aids General

Objective Specific Objective

: Form 4 : Lower and Intermediate : 35 : 21th May 2012 : 10.00 a.m. - 11.20 a.m. (80 Minutes) : Health : Obesity : Speaking : Listening, writing, reading : Handouts, power point slides and projector . : Students should be able to obtain information for different purposes. : By the end of the lesson, students should be able to : 1) Speak and give input on topic based on handout (For low proficiency students) 2) Extract information from teaching aids to prepare a text for debate topic (For intermediate proficiency students) 3) Conduct a debate on the topic given 4) Come up with a Public Service Announcement Poster

Previous knowledge : Students have done research on diabetes before.

Set Induction (8 mins) Teacher show pictures of Public Service Announcement (PSA) Posters and explains what is it. Ask students what health problem it connects to. Highlight on diabetes. Ask the class what is diabetes.

Pre- Speaking (15 mins) Teacher instruct students to pay attention to a video and write down important points gain from the video. Teacher shows a video on obesity. (Link: http://bit.ly/M9CtbE) Teacher asks student what they think about the video. Teacher give handouts to students to help them with their train of thoughts. (Refer to attachment, Handout One)

While- Speaking (45 mins) Teacher gives a topic (Refer to attachment: Is Obesity a disease?) and separate the students into two group. Instruct the students to discuss among their own group about their side of the topic before sending representatives to start the debate. Teacher take down points from either team.

Post- Speaking (10 mins) Conclude the debate session by highlighting important points on either side. Ask students to comment as an overall, see a bigger picture. Instruct the students to draw an Awareness Poster as shown during Induction Session as a take- home exercise.

Closure (2 mins)

Teacher asks students if they enjoyed todays class. Teacher asks students to recall back what they have learnt in todays class.

ATTACHMENT

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Does obesity occur only when one eat fast food and not exercise? What if an individual exercises but does not keep a healthy diet? Or vice versa? Can diabetes be cured? Does having diabetes means you dont have a life anymore? Is diabetes contagious? Do you have a family member that is diabetic? What will you do to make sure you and your family/friends are not going to be diabetic? Whos fault is it?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Does obesity occur only when one eat fast food and not exercise?
What if an individual exercises but does not keep a healthy diet? Or vice versa? Can diabetes be cured? Does having diabetes means you dont have a life anymore? Is diabetes contagious? Do you have a family member that is diabetic?

What will you do to make sure you and your family/friends are not going to be diabetic?
Whos fault is it?

Topic: Is Obesity a Disease?

PROS- Obesity Is a Disease 1. Obesity, like other diseases, impairs the normal functioning of a body. People who are obese have excess adipose (or fat) tissue that causes the overproduction of certain molecules and mediators in the body, which lead to abnormal regulation of food intake and energy expenditure. 2. Obesity decreases a person's life expectancy or can cause death, like other diseases. Obesity in adults can lead to three years loss of life. Extreme obesity can shorten a person's life span by 10 years--comparable to the decrease in years of life from smoking. 3. Some studies have shown that the hereditability of obesity is about the same as that of height. Therefore obesity is not the result of people lacking willpower to exercise or eat less, but is genetically predetermined. 4. Government entities including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have affirmed that obesity is a disease. 5. Diseases have characteristic signs, according to general and medical dictionaries. Obesity has a characteristic sign--excess fat--which is measured by BMI or increased waist circumference measures. 6. Obesity is a risk factor for diabetes, hypertension, some cancers, and other diseases. Other risk factors are also defined as diseases, such as hypertension which is defined as a disease because it is a risk factor for heart failure and stroke.

7. Obesity is not just a recent phenomenon resulting from the modern environment. Physicians from as early as the 17th century have referenced obesity as a disease.

CONS- Obesity Is a Disease 1. Obesity does not necessarily impair the normal functioning of a body as other diseases do. Many people with a BMI in the obesity range are not physically impaired and live normal lives. 2. Unlike other diseases that lead to shortened life expectancy or death, some obese people live long lives and do not develop diseases commonly associated with obesity, such as diabetes. 3. Obesity is a matter of personal responsibility. People become obese because they make bad dietary decisions and do not exercise enough or at all. 4. Obesity is the result of sedentary lifestyles and not illness. For example, compared to 40 years ago, people today spend more time commuting, sitting in front of a computer, watching television, playing video games, and generally exercising less. 5. Obesity does not have characteristic signs or symptoms like diseases typically have. The only characteristic sign of obesity is excess fat, which is the definition of obesity itself. There are also no symptoms for obesity. 6. Obesity is a preventable risk factor for other diseases, like smoking is a preventable risk factor for lung cancer or like drinking is a preventable risk factor for alcoholism. 7. Obesity can, in some cases, have positive health benefits such as increasing bone mass and reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

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