Unit 1 Book 3 Festivals around the world ----林小海 Published by People’s Educational Publishing House ----林小海

The teaching material of this unit This unit talks about festivals of many kinds in different parts of the world. The first reading briefly describes four different kinds of festivals. Two others, Qiqiao Festival and Carnival , are introduced in the rest of the unit. By studying  this unit, Ss can not only improve their English learning ability but also know more about the  festivals at home and abroad. At the same time,  we should use the opportunity to have the Ss think about the reasons for festivals and the reasons for different ways of celebrations. 2

Teaching aims of this unit 1. Talk about festivals and celebrations. 2. Talk about the ways to express request and thanks. 3. Learn to use Modal verbs. 4. Write a similar story with a different ending.

Sentence patterns of this unit 1. Request: Could/ Would you please…? Could I have…? Could we look at…? I look forward to… May I see…? 4

Sentence patterns of this unit 2. Thanks: It’s very kind of you… Thank you very much. Thanks a lot. I’d love to. It was a pleasure… Don’t mention it. You are most welcome. 5

The key points of this unit Modal verbs: may, might, can, could, will, would, shall, should, must, can

My teaching theories Before dealing with this unit, I’ll do my best to carry out the following theories: 1. Make the Ss the real masters in class  while the teacher himself acts as a director. 2. Combine the language structures with  the language functions. 3. Let the students receive some moral  education while they are learning the  English language.

Teaching methods 1. Double activities  2. Question-and-answer activity  3. Watch-and-listen activity 4. Free discussion 5. Group work or individual work 

Teaching aids 1. A projector 2. A tape recorder 3. Multimedia 4. The blackboard 9

Teaching plan and design of this unit Period 1 Warming up and Pre-reading Period 2 Reading ＆Language Points Period 3 Post-reading＆Using Language Period 4 Listening and speaking Period 5 Grammar Teaching Period 6 Writing 10

Teaching plan for Period 1 1. Brief introduction: In Warming up＆Pre-reading section, different kinds of practice and exercise are intended to have the students start thinking about the variety of events and festivals celebrated not only in China but also in foreign countries, which help the students predict the content of the reading passage. 11

Teaching plan for Period 1 2. Teaching aims: 1) Enable students to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals. 2) Enable students to learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs. 3) Arouse the students’ interest of study and prepare for the new lesson. 12

Teaching plan for Period 1 3. Target language: take place lunar festival Christmas beauty 13

Teaching plan for Period 1 4. Key point: How to talk about the Chinese festivals and social customs at festivals. 14

Teaching plan for Period 1 5. Teaching methods: 1) Question-and-answer activity 2) Watch-and-listen activity 3) Free discussion  4) Group work  15

Teaching plan for Period 1 6. Teaching aids: 1) A projector 2) Multimedia 3) The blackboard 16

Teaching plan for Period 1 7. Teaching steps: Step 1: Leading in (6 minutes) Greet the whole class and ask students to name some festivals home and abroad. Method: Use question-and-answer activity. Purpose: Enable the students to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals. 17

Teaching plan for Period 1 Step 2: Warming–up (12 minutes) Discuss three questions and then perform them: When does it take place? What does it celebrate? What do people do on that day? Method: Use Watch and Listen activity, Free Discussion method and Group work. Purpose: Enable the students to learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs with the new words and expressions like take place, lunar.. etc from Target language of this period . 18

Teaching plan for Period 1 Step 3: Consolidation (12minutes) Ask students to do the exercise by filling in the blanks with the correct form of the words. Purpose: The exercise is intended to enable the students to consolidate what they learned just now and how to use the target language of this period such as “take place, lunar, festival”... etc. 19

The Mid-Autumn Festival festival takes place lunar dinner who Fill in the blanks using the correct form of the words. The Mid-Autumn Festival festival The Mid-Autumn is a very important Chinese . It on the 15th day of August. In the evening there will be a big family . People work far away from their homes will try to come back for the union. After dinner, people will light the which are usually red and round. Children will play with their own toy lanterns happily. At night the is usually round and bright. People can watch the of the full moon while eating which are the special food for this festival. takes place lunar dinner who lanterns moon beauty moon-cakes

Teaching plan for Period 1 Step 4: Pre-reading (16minutes) First ask the students to do the pair-work with the questions and then discuss the information from the pictures in groups. Method: Use Watch and Listen activity, Discussion method and Group work. Purpose: Through this part, arouse the students’ interest of study and prepare for the new lesson.

pair-work 1) What’s your favorite festival of the year? Why? 2) What part of a festival do you like best, the music, the things to see, the visits or the food?

what kind of information can you learn from the pictures? Discussion Festivals And Celebrations what kind of information can you learn from the pictures?

Teaching plan for Period 1 Step 5: Summing up and homework (1 minute) Sum up: I want students to consolidate the  usage of Target language of this period. Train their ability of do-it-yourself and looking up the information by themselves. Homework： 1. Consolidation of some words and phrases. 2. Listening to the text after class to be familiar with it. 3. Collect as much information about festivals as possible. 24

Teaching plan for Period 1 8. Blackboard design： Topic Sentence: The Spring Festival takes place on the 1st day of lunar January. Target language: take place, lunar, festival, Christmas, beauty I write the topic sentence and the target language on the blackboard in order to  tell the students that this is of importance  in this period.  25

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