Period1 Speaking and warming up
.learning aims:
Knowledge goal: learn or review the new words and phrases: take place celebrate beauty harvest arival in memory of found dragon relative
Ability goal : Enable the Ss to talk about festivals.
Emotional goal: make the Ss love life and learn to enjoy life.
.learning importance:
Learn about the words or expressions about festivals.
. Learning steps and methods:
Step1Lead in(10′)
Ask the Ss, Do you know any festivals? (Tomb-sweeping Day Lantern Festival Dragon Boat Festival Army Day Double-seventh Day Valentine’s Day Easter)
Say ,Today we’ll talk about some Chinese festivals.
Method: Heuristic teaching
Step2 Warming up (Page1 in Book1) (10′)
Discuss the following questions with your partners:
1.When does the Spring Festival take place?
2.What do people do on the Spring Festival?
3.What does it celebrate?
Have the Ss talk about the three festivals, the Spring Festival Dragon Boat Festival National Day. Then try to finish the chart.
Methods: disscuss in groups and present
Step3 Sum up the important vocabulary. (10′)
festival celebrate take place beauty harvest arival
in memory of found dragon relative
Step4 Homework
1.Remember the keywords and phrases.
2.Preview the reading passage:Festivals and celebrations
教后记:1.备课除了备好教材,更应充分备好教学对象、即学生。
2.上课应充分准备、灵活应对。
Period2 Fast Reading
.Teaching aims:
Knowledge goals:
1.Learn the key words and phrases in the reading passage.
2.Learn about some festivals around the world in the text.
Ability goal : Train the Ss’ ability of skimming , scanning or word-guessing .
.learning important and difficult point:
How to grasp the key information in reading.
Learning steps and ways:
Step1 Review
Write down the key words or expressions from your memory. Then see which student/group will be the best.
Step2 lead in
We know there are many festivals around the world. Well, how many kinds of festivals are mentioned in the text?
Step3 skimming
Find the answer of the above question and finish off the chart of guiding paper 001.
Kinds of Festivals | Names of Festivals | Countries |
Festivals of the Dead | ||
Festivals to Honor People | ||
Harvest Festivals | ||
Spring Festivals |
Remember the important words and sentences.
Period 3 and4Careful Reading
.Teaching aims:
Knowledge goals:
1.Learn the words and phrases in the text.
2.Try to understand the nine long sentences in the text.
Ability goal : Train the Ss’ ability of looking for details and inferring.
Emotional goal: Train the students’ cooperative awareness.
.learning important and difficult points:
Understandings of difficult long sentences
Learning steps and ways:
Step1 Revision
Review the words about the festivals .
Method: asking and answering
Step 2 Careful reading
1.Look up the difficult words in a dictionary and try to understand every sentences.
方法: 群学——展示(分享)——教师指点(每两组解析一段)
2. Read every paragraph one by one,teacher explains the difficult long sentences.
3. Finish off the exercises in guiding paper 001:
1. What can we learn from the first paragraph ?
A. Food was difficult to find in ancient times.
B. All of the celebrations were held because hunters had caught animals.
C. People would hold festivals to celebrate their harvest.
D. Most ancient festivals would celebrate the beginning of the cold weather.
2. Which of the following has now become a children’s festival in the Western
countries ?
A. Thanksgiving. B. Halloween.
C. Christmas. D. Easter.
3. What do we know about Easter ?
A. It is a religious holiday celebrated in European countries.
B. It is a harvest festival to celebrate autumn.
C. It is meant to honour the dead people.
D. It is a religious and social festival.
4. Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival belongs to _______ .
A. festivals of the dead B. festivals to honor people
C. harvest festivals D. spring festivals
5. From the passage we can know that people love festivals and celebrations because they can ________ .
A. eat good food
B. be dressed in beautiful clothes
C. get lucky money in red paper
D. enjoy themselves and relieve(释放)stress
2. True or False:
1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food.
2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead.
3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honour a lot in China.
4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.
5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.
Notice: remind Ss to choose according to the text.
Step3 Reading
Read after the tape aloud.
注意:整体理解语篇
Step4 Summary
Sum up the key language points in this class.
Step5 Homework
Review all the key words and phrases . 下载本文