Teaching Plan  Unit 3 Lesson 4 Christmas

Part 1 Teaching Material

    In this part, there is a passage about Christmas in which the author presents his memories about the festival. Expressions about Christmas, the structure of describing a past event as well as the reading strategies about multiple-choices should be the focus.

Part 2 Teaching Aims

1. After class, students should build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas.

2. After class, students should be able to develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions.
    3. After class, students should be able to write about memories about a traditional festival, especially the Spring Festival.

Part 3 Important and Difficult Teaching Points

Words related to Christmas: Christmas carols, stocking, the North Pole, the New Year calendar, decoration, Christmas pudding, turkey breast, Christmas cards, Christmas lights, Christmas tree, Father Christmas, the Queen’s speech, presents, Christmas cake

Other expressions: seriously, cold, windy month, put up, envelope, put up, swallow, after church, adult, carry on, merry Christmas, as...as possible, in the middle of..., fall into, at the end of, at the bottom of

Part 4 Teaching Aids

    multi-media, blackboard   

Part 5 Teaching Method

PWP, Task-based Teaching Method

Part 6 Teaching procedure

Step 1 Lead-in

Ask students to listen to a Christmas carol named Here comes Santa Claus and guess the name of the song.

Step 2 Pre-reading

1. Show the pictures about things related to Christmas while dividing them into three parts including What Christmas is about, what do people eat on the day of Christmas and what people do during Christmas.

2. See the pictures and guess when the memories happen.

Step 3 While-reading

1. Ask the students to read the passage and check the prediction.

2. Ask the students to read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.

3. Present the strategies of doing multiple-choice questions.

4. Ask the students to finish activity 4 in this lesson.

5. Ask the students to read the passage paragraph by paragraph and fill in the blanks.

Step 3 Post-reading

1. Ask students what they feel about the festival to introduce the Spring Festival and present some articles about the festival.

2. Ask the students to work in a group of three to fill in a chart about the Spring Festival, coming up with different activities they did from the beginning of the festival, the New Year Eve and the day of the New Year. Each student deals with a part.

3. Ask the students to make it a passage named Memories of the Spring Festival and invite a group to write it on the blackboard.

4. Make a conclusion of the lesson by mentioning that both Christmas and the Spring Festival are special occasions for families and we should cherish the beautiful memories.

5. End the lesson with a Christmas carol named We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Step 4 Homework

Write a passage named Memories of the Spring Festival.

                           Blackboard Design

Christmas carol

Father Christmas

the new year calendar

Christmas decorations

the Queen’s speech

stocking

turkey breast

Christmas pudding

Christmas cake 

decorate the Christmas  tree

sing Christmas carols

put on silly paper hats

listen to the Queen’s speech