人教版高中英语必修3 Unit1 Reading 优秀学案

Unit1 Reading 学案
学习目标
1. To understand the reading passage and learn to use some key words and expressions.
2. To be able to describe your favourite festival in English.
课堂探究
Fast reading
Guessing
Predict what will be talked about in the text.
Skimming
Find the main idea of the text.
A. The text mainly tells us the origins of festivals.
B. The text mainly tells us the development of festivals.
C. The text is about different kinds of festivals around the world，and the ways people celebrate them.
D. The text is about the differences of festivals between the east and the west.
Scanning
Scan the text quickly and then fill in the following chart.
Intensive Reading
Task 1 Divide the text into 3 parts and find the main idea of each part.
Part 1. (Para. 1) _______
Part 2. (Para. 2-5) ______
Part 3. (Para. 6) _______
A. Different kinds of festivals around the world.
B. The reason why people celebrate the festivals.
C. The origins of the festivals.
Task 2 Read Part 1. (Para. l)and do the following exercises.
1. What did most ancient festivals celebrate?
A. Seasons.
B. Religion.
C. Special people.
D. Special events.
2. Choose a sentence to replace the following sentence.
In cold winter，people would die because of having no food to eat.
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Task 3 Read Part 2. (Para. 2-5)and do the following exercises.
1. What are festivals of the dead usually for?
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2. What makes autumn festivals happy events?
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3. What do people usually do at the Spring Festival in China?
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Task 4 Learn to analyze the following important sentences and translate them.
1. Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.
2. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.。