发布者：周宏礼 所属单位：鹿邑县高级中学 发布时间：2018-02-10 浏览数( -) 【举报】
Period 1 Warming up and reading
周宏礼 鹿邑县高级中学
Teaching goals
1. To get the students to talk about festivals
2. To learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language
3. To develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details.
4. To arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in China，thus promote their culture awareness.
Important points
1. Comprehension of the reading part.
2. Knowledge accumulation of festivals and cultures.
3. Useful words and expressions concerning festivals.
Teaching aids
A computer, a projector, courseware, a tape-recorder
Teaching procedures
1. Lead-in
1) Greetings: T: Good morning, girls and boys. Happy New Year.
Ss: Good morning. Happy New Year.
2) Talk about winter vacation:
T: Did you have fun/enjoy yourselves in the winter vacation? What did you do? Who’d like to tell us something about your winter vacation? Let’s share.
S1, S2, …
T: well, girls and boys, most of us seem to be happy during the winter vacation, old or young. The whole country was filled with joy and excitement. Can you tell me why?
Ss: Because of the Spring Festival.
2. Warming-up
1) Show some pictures about the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival. Ask them to talk about what they did during the two festivals.
T: Did you have fun during the Spring Festival/ the Lantern Festival? What do people do? What do people eat? What does it celebrate?
2) Show some more pictures of festivals, ask students to guess what festivals they are.
T: Look at the pictures, can you tell us which festival is it about? When does it take place? What do they celebrate? What do people do? Discuss with your partners.
The Dragon-boat Festival, Mid-autumn Day, and the Double Ninth Festival.
3) Well-done. In fact, there are plenty of festivals throughout the world, and different festivals take place in different cultures. Here you are given a quiz:
Festivals | Time of Year/date | What it celebrate | What people do |
Mid-autumn Festival | autumn / fall | The beauty of the full moon, harvest , time with family and friends. | Give/Eat mooncakes and watch the full moon with family and friends. |
Spring Festival | January / February | The end of winter, arrival of spring, Lunar New Year, reunion with family and relatives. | Give money in red paper to children; see dragon dances; eat fish. prawns and dumplings; visit family members. |
National Day | October 1 | The founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. | Take time off work; travel to visit family or to see other parts of China or the world; go shopping. |
Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival | The fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar | The memory of the beloved poet Qu Yuan who died in 278 BC. | Eat Zongzi; watch dragon boat races; throw rice wrapped in reed leaves into water in memory of Qu Yuan; put herbs on doorways for good health |
3. Reading
1) Fast reading
T: Got it. You seem to know many festivals of China. But do you other festivals in different countries and how these festivals began? What do people do to celebrate? Luckily, the passage provides you much information. Read the passage quickly and find out the festivals mentioned here:
Festivals of the Dead; Festivals to Honour People; Harvest Festivals; Spring Festivals
2) Now, let’s get to know more about these festivals, listen to the tape and find out the information accordingly to fill in the form and answer the questions:
Kinds of Festivals | Names of Festivals | Countries |
Festivals of the dead | Obon Day of the dead Halloween | Japan Mexico some Western countries |
Festivals to Honour People | Dragon Boat Festival Columbus Day Festival to honour Gandhi | China USA India |
Harvest Festivals | harvest/Thanksgiving festivals mid-autumn festivals | European and other countries China and Japan |
Spring Festivals | Spring Festival Easter and related holidays Cherry Blossom Festival | China some Western countries Japan |
Paragraph 1:
*When did ancient people celebrate ?
• at the end of winter
• When good weather returned
• a good harvest
• animals caught
• When they wanted a year of plenty
*What about festivals now?
have many origins, some religious, some seasonal, and some for special people or events
…
Paragraph 2: Festivals of the dead
Festivals | Where | When | What to do | What to eat |
Obon | Japan
| In July or August | Clean the graves Light incense Light lamps Play music
| / |
The Day of the Dead | Mexico
| In early November
| People offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead
| Food in the shape of skulls, and cakes with “bones” on them |
Halloween | The U.S and some other Western countries | October 31
| Go to neighbours’ Dress up and try to frighten people
| / |
*Are there any similar festivals in China? What to do? What to eat?
The Qing Ming Festival
Paragraph 3: Festivals to Honour People
Festivals | Country | People honoured |
The Dragon Boat Festival | China
| Qu Yuan, the famous ancient poet
|
Columbus Day | The USA
| Christopher Columbus
|
National Festival | India
| Mahatma Gandhi
|
Any other festivals which are meant to honour people in China? Who is honoured?
Tree-planting Day -------Sun Zhongshan
Paragraph 4:Harvest Festivals
1) Why are autumn festivals happy events?
Because people are grateful and happy and a season of agricultural work is over.
2) What do people do to celebrate it?
In European countries, it is the custom to decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit; get together to have meals, win awards for their farm produce ; admire the moon, enjoy mooncakes.
Paragraph 5: Spring Festivals
Festivals | Country | What to do |
The Lunar Chinese New Year | China
| Eat dumplings, fish and meat Give lucky money Dragon dances |
Carnivals | Christian countries
| Parades, dancing , loud music , colourful clothing |
The Cherry Blossom Festival | Japan
| Enjoy the cherry tree flowers
|
Paragraph 6: What are the purposes of festivals?
Festivals: To have fun with each other / To let us enjoy life/ To be proud of our customs
/ To forget our daily life for a little while/To honour the dead/To honour famous people/To celebrate harvest/To welcome a new year and look forward to the future/To ask people to pay attention to something
4) Well-done. Since you have got to know the information related to these festivals, I’d like you to have a quiz to check whether you have fully understood the text. Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following questions.
Suggested answers to exercise 2:
(1). Festivals of the Dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.
(2). Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food it ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
(3). At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
(4). It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life/ be proud of our customs/for get our work for a little while.
(5). The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs to honour the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’ graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. However, there are some differences. The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do..
4. Homework
1) Find out useful words and expressions, beautiful sentences and finish the exercises in Learning about Language accordingly.
2) Write an introduction of the festival your group have created.