Festivals教案

Festivals

(Period1 )

Teaching material analysis:

1.本课是Unit 3 Celebration Lesson 1 Festivals第一课时。主要是介绍了中外国家的一些主要

节日，以及人们在一些重要节日的庆祝活动。通过本单元的学习，可以帮助学生理解交际中的文化差异，初步形成跨文化交际意识。

2.课前的内容与本节内容的内在联系：在Warm-up 环节部分，学生已了解一些关于“庆

祝”的内容及相关词汇，为本课的话题作了一些词汇和内容的铺垫

Analysis of students:

学生语言知识和技能：学生对本课话题Chinese Seasonal Festivals 已具备一定的背景知识、经历和经验；况且在Warm-up 环节，学生已了解了一些相关的内容及词汇这些都有助于语言活动的开展。但是要用英语进行思维和表达，还是有一定的难度。

Teaching content

reading text Festivals

Teaching Aims:

1.Knowledge Objectives

Master the phrases and sentences:

Phrases:be celebrated by, fall on , mark, be decorated with, tradition/traditional, serve, take part in, get together

Sentences:The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by Chinese people.The Lantern Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.It marks the beginning of the hottest season of the year.

2.Ability Objectives

To improve extensive reading by understand the main idea of each paragraph

To practise the ss’ reading, listening and speaking ability

Using own words to describe some important Chinese festivals

3.Moral Objectives

To promote students’ qualities of a patriotism by learning the main Chinese festivals and learn their history origin and their meanings.

Teaching important points:

1.Improve the Ss’ reading ability and help them master the useful expressions

2.Help the Ss put what they have learned into practice

Teaching difficult points:

1;learn and grasp the new words and pharses

2:communicate with each other about festivals.

Teaching methods:

the task-based method the situational teaching method group discussion

Teaching aids:

A recorder, a blackboard, a slider

Teaching procedures:

Step 1 Lead-in

【设计意图】以问题的形式引入本课的主题festival. 由此引起学生的学习兴趣，自然导入课题)

T: What is your favorite season? What festivals happen during your favorite season? ( have a discussion)

S1: I liker summer. There are Children’s Day, Dragon-boat Festival and Mother’s Day

S2: My favorite season is winter. They are Spring Festival and Lantern Festival and Christmas Day

S3: ……

T：Well done. Thank you. Now, let’s listen and guess what festival it is

T: 板书：（标题）Festivals

Step2.Pre-reading(6 minutes)

【设计意图】通过问题的设计，培养学生扫读的阅读技能，即训练学生通过扫读的方法快速获取文章中特定信息的能力。

Predict: what is the text about?

Predition : To introduce a traditional Chinese festival , which topics will be talked?A. Date/season B. People C. Mark D. Stories E.Special food F. Clothes G.Tradition

Key: A C D E G

Step 3 While-reading(20 minutes)

（1）Fast Reading

【设计意图】此环节中的问题可以培养学生的快速阅读技巧和获取文章整体信息的能力，达到理解课文表层意思的目的。

Get students to read the text quickly, match the pictures with the festivals

Picture A Lantern Festival Picture B Dragon Boat Festival Picture C Mid-Autumn Festival

(2) Careful Reading.

【设计意图】此类问题可提问一般的学生，增加他们学习英语的信心

Listen to the tape, and answer the T/F questions.

1.The Mid-autumn Festival is celebrated by Chinese people only inChina.

2.Traditional moon cakes are usually made with fruit .

3.In the past, dragon boat races were organised only by Chinese people.

4. The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of over 1000 years ago.

5.At present,lanterns are usually made with light bulbs and batteries.

6.The Lantern Festival marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year celebrations

Key: 1.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.T 6.F

(3)Further reading

【设计意图】细读环节则是对重要的段落进行细读，加大信息量，帮助学生加深对课文的理解。教师选取了文章的第一段，引导学生观察和提取与中秋密切相关的具体事实和信息。找出来重要的词语和表达方式.

1）Ask the students to read the first part carefully and answer 3 questions below.

1.When does the Mid-Autumn Festival fall on?

2. Why is the festival important?

3. How is the festival celebrated? (people, activity)

4. What is the special food for the festival?

2) This time let students read the text carefully and get more detailed information to fill in the