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Unit 1 Festivals around the worldThe First Period Teaching Aims: 1. Learn the following words and phrases: dress up, in memory of , arrival ,.2. Train the students speaking and listening abilities.3. Learn to talk about festivals, customs and habits.Teaching Important Point: Improve the students speaking and listening skills by talking about and listening to something about festivals.Teaching Difficult Point: How to further develop the students speaking and listening skills.Teaching Methods:1. Pair work and group work to train the students speaking ability.2. Listening and choosing activity to train the students listening ability.Teaching Aids:1. Pictures2. a projector3. a tape recorderTeaching Procedures: Step . Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step. Free Talk and Lead-in1. Ask the students to talk about the Spring Festival in China.2. Ask about some other festivals, such as: Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Harvest Festivals, Mid-Autumn Day, New Years Day3. Ask about some foreign festivals, such as: Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, Mothers Day, April Fools Day, Valentines DayStep. Warming up1. Look at the pictures and discuss the three questions.1. Do you know the names of the festivals?2. Do you know which countries the festivals come from?3. What are the people in the pictures doing? Why are they doing this?2. Ask the students to think of a Chinese festival and a foreign festival, and then work in pairs to compare them. Step. Listening1. Do a listening and choosing exercise about the following three festivals: Mardi Gras, Ramadan and Easter. 2. Ask the students to work together to describe one of their favourite festivals. Step. Speaking1. Ask the students if they would like a new holiday, and ask them to decide what a new holiday should be about.2. After the students prepare for a while, teacher asks some students to talk about their new holiday separately.Step . Summary and Homework1. Ask the students to remember the festival and learn to use them. 2. Try to collect more information about festivals and prepare for next part.The Second Period Teaching Aims: 1. Learn and master the following words: feast, ancestor, awards, gathered, look forward to 2. Train the students reading ability.3. Let the students learn about the relation between festivals and history and culture.Teaching Important Points:1. Improve the students reading ability.2. Help the students learn about foreign history and culture by reading about festivals.Teaching Difficult Point: How to help the students understand the passage exactly.Teaching Methods:1. Discussions before reading and after reading to make the students interested in what they will read and further understand what they have read.2. Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage correctly.3. Pair or group work to make the students take an active part in the activities in class.Teaching Aids:1. a TV set and a VCD2. a projector3. a recorderTeaching Procedures:Step. Greetings Greet the students as usual.Step. Discussion and Lead-in1. Watch a program about a festival.2. Ask the students to talk about the program.3. Ask the students to discuss the questions below.four questions4. Learn the new words in the passage.Step. Reading1. Ask the students to read the passage silently and quickly to get the general idea.2. Ask the students to answer some questions.three questions3. Re-read the passage carefully to further understand it. Then work in groups of four to discuss some questions.4. Read aloud the passage and try to understand it better.Step. Listening and Consolidation Ask the students to listen to the tape and finish the “true” or “false” exercise on Page11.Step. Summary and Homework Preview next part Language study.The Third Period Teaching Aims : 1. Review the new words appearing in the last two periods.2. Learn to use the modal verbs must, have to, have got to.Teaching Important Points:1. Learn to guess the missing word according to the given sentence.2. Master the modal verbs correctly.Teaching Difficult Point: How to use “must”, “have to”, “have got to” properly and how to use their negative forms correctly.Teaching Methods:1. Practice and consolidate the words learned in the last two periods.2. Giving examples to explain the difference between “must” and “have to” and the difference between “mustnt” and “dont have to”.3. Making sentences to consolidate the usages of the modal verbs.Teaching Aids:1. a projector2. some slides3. some picturesTeaching Procedures:Step. Greetings Greet the whole class as usual.Step. Revision1. Ask the students to review something about Kwanzaa, such as the birth of it, the purpose of it, the way of celebrating it, and the seven principles of it.2. Ask students some questions about the passage.3. Find the right explanation for each of the words.nation, faith, determination, purpose, generation, ancestor, peace trick4. Word Study. Ask the students to choose the best word to fill in each blank.Step. Grammar1. Modal Verbs: must, have to, have got to.2. The negative forms of the modal verbs.3. Do the exercises 4.Step. PracticeDo the exercises Step. Summary and Homework1. Review the contents in this class, paying attention to the differences between “must” and “have to” and the difference between “mustnt” and “dont have to”.2. Do more exercises to learn to use them properly. The Fourth Period Teaching Aims: 1. Learn the following words and phrases: reminder, care about, respect, cycle, fool, play tricks on, take in, invitation2. Review the language points and modal verbs in this unit.3. Train the students integrating skills, especially writing skill.Teaching Important Points:1. Useful expressions: care about, play tricks on, take in2. Practice expressing and supporting an opinion.3. Write an invitation.Teaching Difficult Points:1. How to create a festival and describe it.2. How to write an invitation.Teaching Methods:1. Review method to consolidate the language points of this unit.2. Individual, pair or group work to finish the reading and writing tasks.Teaching Aids:1. a projector2. some slides3.Teaching Procedures: Step. Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step. Revision1. Review the usages of the modal verbs learned before.2. Read about some other festivals. Besides, ask the students to create a festival and then write an invitation to invite their guests to their festival. Step. Reading1. Read some information about each festival .2. Ask the students some questions about the festivals in the passage.four questions3. Learn some useful expression in the passage.care about, play tricks on / play a trick on, take in4. Give the students some more time to re-read the passage and discuss the questions after the passage with their partners, and then check them out. Step. Writing1. Ask the students to finish the contents mentioned on Page 8. Then write a short description of their own festival. At the end, tell their classmates about their festival.Step. Summary and Homework1. Practice reading and writing about festival.2. Learn more about festivals, customs and habits of foreign countries