Unit1Festivalsaroundtheworld全英文教案(1)

Unit 1 Festivals around the world

The First Period (Warming up & Pre-reading)

Step One: Lead-in

Free T alk: Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?

When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?

( At the Spring Festival. Because it's the most important festival in our country....)

Step Two: Warming up

1. Let the Ss think about the other Chinese festivals.

( Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day, Chung Yeung Festival....)

2. Discussion One

1)Let the Ss look at the information about Chinese festivals and discuss another four Chinese festivals according to the example in warming up: When does the festival come?

What do people celebrate?

What do people do?

Festivals Date festivals Date

New Year January1st Teachers' Day September 10th

International Women's Day March 8 National Day October 1st

Arbor Day March 12th The Spring Festival Lunar New Year

International labor Day May 1st Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth lunar month International Children's Day June 1st Mid-Autumn Festival the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

Army Day August 1st Lantern Festival the 15th day of the 1st lunar month

Chinese Youth Day May 4th Pure Brightness Day April the fifth

2) Let the Ss fill in the form in the warming up and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class.

3 Discussion Two

T alk about some foreign festivals.

( Christmas, April Fools Day, Easter Day, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Obon...)

Step three: Pre-reading

Let students think about the questions:

1) What is your favourate holiday of the year? Why?

2)What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town? Do you like spending festivals with your family or with friends? What part of a festival do you like best- the music, the things to see, the visits or the food?

Step Four: Language Points

1.mean to do 打算做某事

mean doing 意味着….

I never meant him to work for us.

Passing the entrance examination means being admitted into college.

2. celebrate vt.

do sth to show that a day or an event is important 庆祝；祝贺

celebrate Christmas / one’s birthday / a wedding anniversary / a victory

praise and honor 赞扬；称颂

The names of many heroes are celebrated by the poets.

词语辨析：celebrate, congratulate

celebrate后常接日期、事情或场合。而congratulate后常接人，多为congratulate sb. on/upon sth.表示为某事而祝贺某人。如：congratulate you on your marriage. 有时还表示私自庆幸的意思。如：I congratulated myself on my escape from being punished.

3.take place vi.

英语中表示“发生”的词或短语均为不及物，不用于被动语态。主语为所发生的事。

词语辨析：take place, happen, occur, come about

take place “发生，举行”，常用来指按计划发生的事，带有“非偶然”的意思。

happen ，普通用词，含义很广。常指具体客观事物或情况的发生，含有“偶然”的意味。当以具体事物、事件作主语时，happen 和occur 可以换用；但当happen用作“碰巧”之意时，不能用occur代替，但可以与come about 互换。occu，出现”,较正式用词，可指事情偶然地、意外地发生或思想突然浮在心头。occur to 有“想起”的意思。

come about “发生”, 常指偶然发生的事情。且很多时候与how 连用。与happen 用法较接近。

In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China. 1919年，中国爆发了五四运动。

It happened to rain that day. 那天恰好下雨。

The traffic accident occurred on Wednesday.

How does it come about that you were caught by the police? 你怎么会被警察抓去的？

Step Five: Assignment

Collect as much information about festivals as possible.

Preview the words and expressions of the text.

The Second & the Third Period

Step one: Revision

Review the names of the festivals and talk about them.

Step Two: Reading

1.Read the passage quickly and then try to answer the following questions.

1) What's the main idea of the text? This reading briefly introduces the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world.

2) How many parts can the text divide into? (5 parts)

2. Let the Ss look at the pictures and the heading of each section, then ask questions to help them understand what the text might be about.

ancient Festivals:

Why would people celebrate at these three times of the year?

Why do you think music and fire or light are used in festivals?

Festivals of the Dead:

What kind of things are done to honor the dead ?

Why do you think about the Mexican practice of making cakes with skulls and bones?

What do you know about Halloween ?What pictures have you seen?

Festivals to Honor People and Events

What festivals or celebrations can you think of that honor famous people or important events?

Who do you think should have a festival to honor them? Why?

Harvest Festivals

Do you know of any harvest celebrations in China?