Unit 1　Festivals around the world

1. Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.

2. Get students to learn different reading skills.

教学难点

1. Develop students’ reading ability.

2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.

三维目标

知识目标

1. 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, agriculture, 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 with

2. Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.

能力目标

1. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.

2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.

情感目标

1. Stimulate students’ love for their own national culture and customs.

2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

 教学过程

1. Make a circle on the blackboard and write the word “FESTIVAL” in it.

2. Ask students, “We have learned ‘festival’. Can you name some festivals? ”

3. Students list as many festivals as possible. Then the teacher adds some students can’t think of, such as Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day.

4. Let students read them aloud and try to learn them by heart.

→Step 2 Warming up by talking about festivals

Work in groups and list three more Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Then tell the group which festival is their favorite and why. 

→Step 3 Predicting by looking and discussing

1. Look at the pictures and title of the reading passage and discuss in pairs what the passage might be about.

2. Two or three students are to give their opinions.

→Step 4 Reading

1. Give students 2 minutes, and ask them to skim the passage for information to tell if the following sentences are True or False.

1)The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. 　(F)

2)Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. 　(T)

3)Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. 　(T)

4)The Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. 　(F)

5)Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. 　(F)

2. Give students 5 minutes to read the passage carefully, and complete the chart according to the passage.

3. Listening and reading aloud

Play the tape of the text for students and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Then ask them to read the text aloud to the tape.

→Step 5 Closing down by spoken practice

1. Have students get prepared in 3 minutes or so and then ask them to talk about festivals and celebrations.

2. Ask as many students as possible to have a try in front of the class.

→Step 6 Homework

1. Go over the text and try to learn all the useful words and expressions in this part by heart.

2. Finish the exercises in Comprehending on Page 3.

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Unit 1　Festivals around the world

Festivals and celebrations