Unit 9 My Merry Christmas! 江苏省扬中中等专业学校 范永霞

Christmas stockings

Christmas garland

Christmas Tree

Christmas hats

Father Christmas

Learning Aims: 1.Talk about Christmas and know something about Christmas 2. Master the reading skills: skimming and scanning 3. Understand the text.

Fast reading: What does each person do on Christmas? (Do the match) Kate Got her promised watch Rose Had his first white Christmas and took many pictures Eric Enjoyed her holiday on the beach

Read the text in details and answer the following questions Let’s play a game!

Paragraph One ---Christmas Gift True or False questions( 每题 5 分） ( ) 1. Rose didn’t get much sleep the night before Christmas day. ( ) 2. Rose saw her promised watch wasn’t there, so he looked under the Christmas tree and saw a gift with name on it. Question: (10 分 ) What was the response ( 反应） of Rose’s father when he saw Rose wearing the watch? Why? He was shocked. Because it was supposed to be a surprise.

Paragraph Two---White Christmas Questions: 1. Why was it called white Christmas?(10 分） 2. What did Joe, Uncle Royce and Eric do on Christmas day? （ 10 分） True or False questions （每题 5 分） ( ) 1. Eric had to stay at home for Christmas because of the heavy snow. ( ) 2. Eric didn’t like white Christmas at all. ( ) 3. This was the first white Christmas Eric had ever seen. Because it has a heavy snow on Christmas. They all ran around taking a bunch of pictures.

Paragraph Three---Christmas in Summer Question: What are Kate’s earliest memories of Christmas? （ 10 分） True or False questions （每题 5 分） ( ) 1. In Australia, Christmas falls in summer. ( ) 2. The school summer holidays start a week after Christmas. Sand. Sand in her hair, in her shoes and in her tomato sandwiches.

Fill in the blanks （ 20 分） Christmas cards almost always show. In Australia, Christmas falls. Most of the time, it is, and temperature over 25 ℃.The school summer holidays start a week, so most of us seem to be on a beach somewhere. My earliest of Christmas are of sand— -sand in my hair, in my shoes and in my tomato sandwiches. scenes in the snow in summer blue skies bright sunshine before Christmas memories

Read the passage again and decide who may say the following words, Rose, Eric or Kate? 1. No snow or log fires for us; it’s never a white Christmas. 2. Candy, fruit…but where’s my watch? Dad said Father Christmas would bring it overnight 3. Snow is still in the air. We might have to change our travel plan. 4. It’s so hot at Christmas. Many people have cold meat or seafood with salads for Christmas dinner. Rose Eric Kate

What’s the most important festival for our Chinese? What do you usually do during the festival?

ChristmasSpring festival Send cards Give presents Watch fireworks Have a big family dinner Eat special food Wear new clothes Visit relatives Drink wine

拓展训练： How do you usually spend the Spring Festival? Please try to write a short passage about 80 words. 参考词汇： 放烟火 let off fireworks 挂灯笼 hang out lanterns 拜访 call on

Homework: 1.Read the text three times and translate it into Chinese 2.Write the composition about Spring Festival