新人教必修三第一单元教案

人教新课标英语必修三第一单元教案Unit 1Festivals around the World

Reading 教案

Teaching goals

1.To get the students to talk about festivals

2.To learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language

3.To develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details.

4.To arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in China，thus promote their culture awareness.

Important points

prehension of the reading part.

2.Knowledge accumulation of festivals and cultures.

eful words and expressions concerning festivals.

Teaching aids

A computer, a projector, courseware, a tape-recorder

Teaching procedures

Step 1 revision

Revise the festivals.

Step 2 pre-reading

What is your favourite holiday of the year? Why?

Step 3 fast reading

1.How many kinds of festivals are mentioned in the text? What are they?

2. let’s get to know more about these festivals and fill in the form on P

3.Ex1

Step 4 careful reading

Paragraph 1:When did ancient people celebrate ?

•at the end of winter

•When good weather returned

• a good harvest

•animals caught

Paragraph 2: Festivals of the dead

1.What are festivals of the dead for?

2. How do Japanese honour their ancestors?

3. What do the people in Mexico do in memory of the dead?

*Are there any similar festivals in China? What do do? What to eat?

The Qingming Festival

Paragraph 3: Festivals to honour people

Paragraph 4:Harvest Festivals

1) Why are autumn festivals happy events?

Because people are grateful and happy and a season of agricultural work is over.

2) What do people do to celebrate it?

In European countries, it is the custom to decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit; get together to have meals, win awards for their animals, flowers, fruit and vegetables; admire the moon Paragraph 5: Spring Festivals

Paragraph 6: What are the purposes of festivals?

Festivals: To have fun with each other / To let us enjoy life/ To be proud of our custom/ To forget our daily life for a little while/To honour the dead/To honour famous people/To celebrate harvest/To welcome a new year and look forward to the future/To ask people to pay attention to something

Step 5 post reading

Do T or F

(1). The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. F

(2). Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. T

(3). Qu Y uan was a great poet whom people honor a lot in China. T

(4). Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. F

(5). Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F

(6). There is pink snow in spring in Japan. F

Step 6 Group work

Festivals are created. Now you’ve got the chance to create a new festival. Discuss in groups, make a plan:

When the festival takes place