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1、Unit 1Festivals around the worldPeriod 1Warming up and readingI. Teaching aims 1. Knowledge aimsa. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, ag
2、riculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun withb. Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.2. Ability aim
3、s a. Develop students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.b. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.3. Emotional aims 1. Stimulate students love for their own national culture and customs.2. Develop students sense of cooperative learning.II. Key points in te
4、aching1. Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.2. Get students to learn different reading skills.III. Difficult points in teaching1. Develop students reading ability.2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.IV. Teaching methods 1. Communicative App
5、roach 2. Task-based Language Teaching3. Whole Language TeachingV. Teaching aids a tape recorder, multimedia and the blackboardVI. Teaching procedures Step 1 Leading-inHave a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?When did you feel m
6、ost happy and excited? Why?(At the Spring Festival. Because its the most important festival in our country. . . )Step 2 Warming up1. Let students brainstorm the other Chinese festivals.(Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Years Day, Chung Yeung
7、Festival. . . )2. Let students read the information about Chinese festivals below and discuss another three Chinese festivals:When does the festival come?What do people celebrate?What do people do?FestivalsDateFestivalsDateNew YearJanuary 1stTeachers DaySeptember 10thInternational Womens DayMarch 8t
8、hNational DayOctober 1stArbor DayMarch 12thThe Spring FestivalLunar New YearInternational Labor DayMay 1stDragon Boat Festivalthe fifth day of the fifth lunar monthInternational Childrens DayJune 1stMid-Autumn Festivalthe 15th day of the 8th lunar monthArmy DayAugust 1stLantern Festivalthe 15th day
9、of the 1st lunar monthChinese Youth DayMay 4thPure Brightness DayApril the fifth3. Ask students to fill in the following form and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class. The first one is given as an example.FestivalsTime of year/dateWhat it celebratesWhat people doMid-Autumn Festivala
10、utumn/fallthe beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friendsgive/eat moon cakes and watch the full moon with family and friends4. Talk about some foreign festivals with students.(Christmas, April Fools Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving Day, . . . )Step 3 Pre-readin
11、g1. Let students discuss the following questions:What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like bestthe activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?2. Ask students to look at the pictures and title of the passage in Readin
12、g. Discuss in pairs what kind of information will be introduced in the passage.Step 4 Reading1. Fast readingAsk students to skim the reading passage and then fill in the following chart.Kinds of FestivalsNames of FestivalsCountriesFestivalsFestivalsHarvestSpring(Let students look through the chart a
13、nd then read the text silently. Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen. )2. Intensive readingAllow students to read carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details, and then finish the followi
14、ng:1)Choose the best answer to each question or to finish each sentence according to the text.(1)Why do Japanese people light lamps during the Festival of the Dead?A. Because they want to make the festival colorful.B. Because they want to light up their rooms.C. Because they want to light up their w
15、ay.D. Because they want to lead their ancestors to return to earth.(2)Which of the following was not mentioned as a famous person in the text?A. Mohandas Gandi.B. Christopher Columbus.C. Abraham Lincoln.D. Qu Yuan.(3)The place where people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers a
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