Unit 12 The Spring Festival

Teaching aim and demands:  Grasp the key words and key structures: be +v.-ing ( 重点 )  Listening skill: To understand conversations about festivals and Grasp the phonemes / l/, / w/, / j/ in the listening. ( 难点 )  Affection and attitudes: We should be interested in the festivals in the world.

Festivals around us:  Spring Festival  Lantern Festival  Father’s Day  Mother’s Day  May Day  Children’s Day  Teacher’s Day  Mid-autumn Day  National Day …  New Year  Valentine’s Day  Father’s Day  Mother’s Day  April Fool’s Day  Children’s Day  Halloween  Thanks-giving Day  Christmas … Chinese festivalsWestern festivals

What is the biggest festival in China?

clean the house cook the meal learn a dragon dance make lanterns sweep the floor What do people usually do to get ready for ( 为 … 作准备） Spring Festival?

Listen and repeat:  / l/ learn lantern meal let yellow careful  / w/ what work way wash weekend  / j/ yes you your year yellow

A test: Write the sentences 1.Lingling ’ s mother/ get ready ? 2.they/ have/a good time ? 3.Her friends/ buy /fireworks? 4.Her dad/ work/ this week? 5.her mother /wrap/ present? Is Lingling ’ s mother getting ready? Are they having a good time ? Is her friends buying fireworks? Is her dad working this week? Is her mother wrapping present?

Teaching aim and demands:  Grasp the key words and key structure: be +v.-ing  Reading skill: To understand the text.  Affection and attitudes: We should be interested in festivals in the world.

Answer the questions:  What colour means good luck?  Where are the doors and windows in your classroom?  What are paper cuts/fireworks ?  What does decorate/dumpling/sweet rice pudding mean?  What is a haircut?  When is midnight?

Speaking: 1.Say what people are doing at the moment. Sb.+ be +doing 2.Ask and answer the questions about the pictures. Is he/ … ? Are they/ … ?

 They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready.  They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.  They open their presents on Christmas day and say “happy Christmas” to family and friends.  They decorate homes and sing Christmas songs.

 mothers shop----buy clothes  Fathers decorate windows---paint doors  Everyone eat dumplings---sweet rice pudding  Children wear new clothes---do dragon dances  Young people get presents---go to parties

Write short answers:  Is Father Christmas giving presents?  Are they getting ready for the Spring Festival?  Is he learning a dragon dance?  Is she cooking the meal?  Is he working?  Are they decorating the house?  Is Lingling making lantern? Yes, they are. Yes, he is. No, he isn’t. No, she isn’t. No, they aren’t. Yes, she is.