广东省佛山市顺德区大良顺峰初级中学八年级英语下册 Module 8 Public holidays教案 外研版

广东省佛山市顺德区大良顺峰初级中学八年级英语下册 Module 8
Public holidays教案外研版
I. Teaching goals 模块教学目标
II. Teaching materials analyzing 教材分析
本模块以“Public holidays”为话题，以学习谈论各国的节日为主线，介绍了节日在人们生活当中的重要意义。

通过模块学习，学生将重点掌握5个主要连接副词或词组的用法，并能在写作过程中运用这些副词或词组。

Unit 1 通过听、读、说训练，初步学习读写日期的方法和初步谈论节日。

其中活动1要求听录音、看图说话。

活动2要求用所给的词汇来回答问题。

活动3-5 听读Tony, Betty, Daming和Lingling谈论劳动节的录音，完成填写表格、选择填空的任务。

活动6学习日期的读法。

活动7要求两个人一组讨论中国节日。

Unit 2 通过读、写训练，学习描述节日。

该单元共设计了5个活动。

其中活动1要求学生从所给出的词汇中选出可以描述所给图片的词。

活动2—4要求学生阅读介绍新年的短文，完成回答问题和选词填空两个练习。

活动5要求根据范文写出自己的新年计划。

Unit 3 通过多种练习来帮助学生掌握5个连接副词或词组的用法。

其中活动1 要求学生用所给的5个连接副词或词组来补全句子。

活动2 要求用所给的从句来补全对话。

活动3要求展开小组活动进行问答练习。

活动4要求用所给的词和词组补全短文。

活动5 要求听短文并按要求填写表格。

活动6 要求听短文并判断句子正误。

活动7要求两个人一组进行问答练习来讨论假日安排。

活动8要求用所给词组的正确形式完成短文。

Around the world介绍了苏格兰和爱尔兰的两个节日。

Module task要求学生制作介绍中国节日的海报。

9要求学生小组活动，以一个中国节日为中心，根据提示进行问答练习。

活动10要求学生使用5个连接副词或词组，写一篇关于节日的文章。

活动11要求学生找一些图片来衬托活动10的描述并制作海报。

活动12要求在教室里面展览自己的海报并参观其他同学的海报。

III．Class types and periods 课型设计与课时分配
Period 1 Listening and speaking (Unit 1)
Period 2 Reading and writing (Unit 2)
Period 3 Integrated skills (Unit 3)
IV. Teaching plans for each period分课时教案
Period 1 Listening and speaking
Language goals 语言目标
1.Key vocabulary 重点词汇
celebrate labour season vacation while depend
2.Key structures 重点句式
And while we’re staying with them, we’re going to spend a few days in Qingdao. So let’s enjoy ourselves until we go back to school.
Ability goals 能力目标
Enable students to listen to and talk about public holidays and read dates correctly. Teaching important an d difficult points教学重难点
How to talk about public holidays and read dates.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Listening and speaking.
Teaching aids 教具准备
Tape recorder and a projector or computer
Teaching procedures and ways 教学过程与方式
StepⅠWarming up and lead-in
In this procedure, try to make students master the new words and talk about what they know about Labour Day.
(1) Ask students to read the new words and phrases in Unit 1 twice and then work in pairs to remember the new words and phrases. Give some pictures on the projector and ask students to say the related words or phrases. Such as the following:
(fireworks)
(parade)
Ask students t o look at the picture and talk about the holiday.
T: Festivals and holidays are the reflections of traditional culture of a country and also could reflect the history and customs of that country. So getting an idea about the festivals and holidays of a country, especially a country that we are not familiar with, not only expand our mind, improve our knowledge, but guide us to strange lands and experience different cultures by ourselves. In this module we are going to learn about festivals and holidays in the world. First look at the photo on page 64 and talk about it.
StepⅡListening and speaking
Ask students to ask and answer the questions in activity 2 and then listen and check the answers.
Then ask students to listen to the conversation and complete the table in activity 4.
T: From north to south, east to west, Chinese people all over spend the May Day Holiday with various forms of entertainment and celebrations. But it is not always on the same day for the May Day holiday in other countries. Now listen to Tony, Betty, Daming and Lingling talking about it and complete the table in activity 4. Check the answers with the class.
After this, ask students to read the conversation and finish activity 5. Explain the difficult and important points in the passage.
T: Adverbial clauses introduced by “while, when, before, as soon as, until” etc are adverbial clauses of time. Now read the text again and find sentences with these conjunctions.
Show the following and ask students to read the sentences loudly.
before在……之前; while当……时候; as soon as 一……就……; until 直到……时 when 当……时.
Sample sentences:
And while we’re staying with them, we’re going to spend a few days in Qingdao.
We’ll stay there until May 5th.
And it’s the last day before the new school year begins.
When September comes, it starts to get cooler, so after Labour Day we start classes.
We also go back to school as soon as the May Day holiday is over.
True, but our weather gets better, and then we only have a few weeks before the start of the summer holidays.
So let’s enjoy ourselves until we go back to school.
Step Ⅲ Pronunciation and speaking
Give some examples of dates and ask students to read and write the dates as follows. 10th, October: the tenth of October or October the tenth
11th, July: the eleventh of July or July the eleventh
8th, May: the eighth of May or May the eighth
…
Ask students to try to say the dates given in activity 6 and then listen to check the answers.
After this, ask students to work in pairs to talk about Chinese festivals in activity 7.
Sample sentences:
Spring Festival is at the end of January or the beginning of February. We clean the house and put up decorations. We eat special food and wear new clothes. We visit our friends and relatives and we also invite them to our house to play and dinner.
Step Ⅳ Homework
1.Ask students to learn the vocabulary of this module by heart.
2.Ask students to finish activities 1-4 on page 124 in the workbook.
Period 2 Reading and writing
Language goals语言目标
1. Key vocabulary重点词汇
ending beginning
2. Key sentences重点句子
While they’re waiting for the New Year, they listen to music, sing traditional songs and have fun.
As soon as it’s 12 o’clock, everyone shouts very loudly, “Happy New Year!”When they have made their list, they read it to their family or friends.
Ability goals能力目标
Enable students to write New Year’s resolutions.
Teaching important and difficu lt points教学重难点
Learn to write New Year’s resolutions.
Teaching methods 教学方法
Listening, reading and writing.
Teaching aids教具准备
A tape recorder, a computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式
Step Ⅰ Revision and lead-in
Check the homework and then ask students to do the following.
Match the words and their meanings.
count down 帮助（某人）解决困难
get together 遍布
resolution 倒数
help out 聚会
all over 决心
Ask students to write down the related words or phrases according to the pictures, such as the following.
(count down) (get together)
StepⅡReading and listening
Ask students to talk about the picture on page 66 and finish activity 1.
T: The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first celebrated in ancient Babylon about 4,000 years ago. Now look at the picture on page 66. Can you say something a bout it?
S: It is a noisy night with bright lights and fireworks.
S: People are celebrating the festival.
S: The whole city is in excitement.
…
Ask students to listen to the passage and answer the questions in activity 3 on page 67.
Check the answers.
Sample answers:
1. Yes, they do.
2. In Times Square.
3. People sing Auld Lang Syne at the New Year.
4. Everyone shouts loudly, “Happy New Year!”and they say, “Out with the old year and in with the new!”
5. Some people relax at home, some families get together for a special meal with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
6. Students often make resolutions like: I will help out more at home. I will work harder at school. I won’t spend so much time playing video games.
After this, ask students to read the passage and match the topics with the paragraphs and then finish activity 4.
Check the answers with the class.
Step III Writing
Ask students to work in pairs and talk about each other’s New Year’s resolutions and then write them down.
T: The beginning of spring is a time to start a new year. After all, it is the season of rebirth, of planting new crops, and of planning new things. Next please write your own resolutions.
Sample version:
I will study hard in the new year to make parents happy.
I made parents angry for doing wrong but this year I won’t.
I miss my grandparents very much. In the new year, I will go to see them often.
Step IV Homework
Ask students to finish activities 5-8 in the workbook.
Period 3 Integrated skills
Language goals语言目标
1. Key vocabulary重点词汇
Mother’s Day
2. Key sentences重点句子
They eat a special meal while a Scottish band plays music.
In New York there are many people who came from Ireland, so St Patrick’s Day is celebrated there, too.
Teaching important and difficult points教学重难点
Learn how to use adverbial clauses of time and write about a Chinese holiday. Ability goals能力目标
Enable students to use adverbial clauses of time and write about a Chinese holiday. Teaching methods 教学方法
Writing, speaking and listening.
Teaching aids教具准备
A computer and a projector.
Teaching procedures and ways教学过程与方式
StepⅠRevision and language practice
Do some revision by asking students to do the following exercises.
Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 一到12点，每个人都非常大声地喊“新年好！”
2. 劳动节是在9月的第一个星期一，也是新学年开始的前一天。

3. 当他们做好他们的清单之后，他们就读给家人和朋友听。

4. 在我们回到学校前痛痛快快地玩吧！
5. 他们边听音乐、唱传统歌曲、尽情享乐，边等待新年的到来。

Ask students to check the answers by reading the passage in Unit 2 again.
Help students identify the different uses of the conjunctions.
1. These conjunctions can all lead sentences but only 2 can lead noun phrases: before and until.
2. The difference between “when”and “while”: “while”usually leads a sentence
containing a present continuous tense but “when” doesn’t.
Then ask students to do activities 1-8 and then check the answers with the class.
Step II Around the world
Ask students to read Around the world and answer the following questions.
Show the following.
1. When is Robert Burns’ birthday?
2. How did people celebrate the day?
3. What did people do on St Patrick’s Day?
Sample answers:
1.His birthday is on January 25th.
2.People wear traditional dress and read Burns’ poetry and sing his songs. They
eat a special meal while a Scottish band plays music.
3.People wear green and carry little green leaves. Some even color their hair green
for the celebration.
Step III Module task
Ask students to work in groups and choose a Chinese festival and ask and answer the questions in activity 9 and then write about the festival using the answers to the questions. And the students should join the sentences using the expressions as soon as, while, etc.
Festival of Lanterns is only celebrated in China. It isn’t on the same day every year. It is the 15th Day of the New Year according to the lunar calendar. It
is a Chinese traditional festival. People usually make lanterns in silk or paper and cook rice glue ball to celebrate it. After they have rice glue balls, they go to appreciate lanterns. There are usually puzzles on the lanterns and people enjoy solving puzzles while children enjoy their favorite animal lanterns. People don’t wear special clothes in this festival.
Step IV Homework
Ask the students to summarize what they have learned in this module and preview the next.
Teaching resources教学资源库
I. Chinese Lant ern Festival
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.
This day’s important activity is watching lanterns. Throughout the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the cremation of Buddha’s body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later, the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China.
Till today, the lantern festival is still held each year around the country. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self-made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited.
“Guessing lantern riddles” is an essential part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern
owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. The activity emerged during people’s enjoyment of lanterns in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular among all social strata.
People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the “Yuanxiao Festival.”Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour wit h rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube p aste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What’s more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with “tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.
In the daytime of the Festival, performa nces such as a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a land boat dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. On the night, except for magnificent lanterns, fireworks form a beautiful scene. Most families spare some fireworks from the Spring Festival and let them off in the Lantern Festival. Some local governments will even organize a fireworks party. On the night when the first full moon enters the New Year, people become really intoxicated by the imposing fireworks and bright moon in the sky.
II. Western and Chinese festivals
As we know, there are thousands of festivals in the world, but not every one is familiar with people in different countries. Nevertheless some western festivals, such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day and so on, have become international festivals, which have been celebrated by almost everyone in the world. Also, in China, the youth have followed the tide. When Christmas is coming, the streets are crowned by people. They go shopping to prepare their Christmas party; On Valentine’s Day, millions of roses are sold out and lovers have dates. Those phenomena imply that western festivals have become a part of our daily life.
Compared with western festivals, Chinese traditional festivals have been ignored by some people. Middle Autumn Day and Spring Festival demand every family members to get together to have a dinner. But there are still a lot of people
who don’t participate in the reunion. Perhaps some of them have no time to go back , for there are no holidays on some Chinese festivals. To solve this problem, nowadays the government has passed the laws about holidays on QingMing Festival and Middle Autumn Day. Another reason why people would like to celebrate western festivals is maybe that some Chinese festivals are not popular with Chinese, such as Double Seven Day and Double Nine Day , which have been taken place by Valentine’s Day , Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, for th ose western festivals can promote people to express their emotion to their lovers and parents. Whereas western festivals like Christmas, I think, it is not necessary for Chinese to celebrate, b ecause the westerner’s culture is different from ours. Christmas Day is to celebrate the birth of Christ. However, in our country, most of people don’t believe the Christ and many of them couldn’t understand the real meaning of the Christmas. They just follow the tide to go shopping and send presents. That’s foolish.
Besides, someone holds the view that many festivals have been created just to encourage people to spend money. I agree with that in a way. For example, on Spring Festival, we have to store a lot of food to treat guests and spend a lot of money on it, for people often eat more and better on Spring Festival than usual. In my opinion, that’s not necessary. We should just buy things we need and keep a healthy diet. That’s enough.。