christmas教案

Unit 3 Lesson 4 Christmas
新安中学储芳芳
Teaching Objectives:
1.To understand the structure of narrative text
2.To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas
3.To compare Christmas and Spring Festival
4.To develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions
Teaching Important & Difficult Points:
1.To get the structure of narrative text and understand the story
2.To compare Christmas and Spring Festival
Teaching Aid:
Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
Ste pⅠ: Review
the three Chinese traditional festivals:
the Mid-Autumn Festival
the Dragon Boat Festival
the Lantern Festival
StepⅡ: Lead-in
1.Show students a piece of music about Christmas
2.Make Ss guess what the music is about
StepⅢ: Pre-reading
1.Introduce the background knowledge:
the origin of Christmas:
Christmas is the day to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ
2.Make Ss familiar with some Christmas vocabulary:
(1)divide Ss into four groups
(2)show Ss 12 pictures related to Christmas
(3)ask Ss to speak out which words these pictures stand for group by group
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
balloons presents snowmen Christmas tree Christmas stockings Christmas carols Father Christmas Christmas cakes
Christmas pudding turkey Christmas hat Christmas candies StepⅣ: Reading:
1.Fast Reading:
(1)Ss skim the text and think about the following questions:
1)What kind of order does the writer use in the text? Time, space or logic
order?
2)How many parts can the text be divided into? And how?
(2)Choose some Ss to voice their opinions about the above two questions;
(3)Guide Ss to clarify the structure of the text:
Part 1(Para.1-Para.2) before Christmas
Part 3(Para.4-Para.5) on Christmas Day
2.Intensive Reading:
(4)Part 1:
1)choose two groups of Ss to read Para.1 and Para.2 and try to finish the
table on the screen
2)let the other two groups finish the following table
(5)Part 2:
1)Ss prepare for the questions on the screen while teacher reading Para.3
2)Ss answer the questions group by group:
1. On Christmas Eve, what did the whole family do?
A. didn’t go to bed
B. watched TV
C. decorated the house and put up the Christmas
tree
2. Where did the people put their stockings?
A. on the desk
B. under the bed
C. at the end of the bed
3. What happened on Christmas Eve?
A. the writer stayed awake all night
B. someone put presents in the stockings
C. the writer saw Father Christmas
4. Which do you think is the main idea of Para.2?
A. The whole family decorate the house
B. We children look forward to Father Christmas
C. Activities on Christmas Eve
(3) Part 3:
1) Ss listen to the tape of Para.4&5 and try to fill in the table on the screen
2) Hold a competition among groups to finish the table:
3.Consolidation:
(1)Look at Ex.3 in the book
(2)Finish the diagram by putting the sentences in right order.
StepⅤ: Post-reading----Speaking
1.Ss discuss in pair to prepare for a dialogue about Christmas and the Spring Festival.
2.Show students some pictures about the Spring Festival words.
3.Ask some students to present their dialogue.
StepⅥ: Summary
We go further to learn more about an important western festival —Christmas.
Compare Christmas with Spring Festival.
We can feel the atmosphere of Christmas in advance.
StepⅦ: Homework
A composition: change speaking into writing
Topic: Our Spring Festival
Requirement: 80∽120 words
Blackboard Design:
Lesson 4 Christmas
G1 G2 G3 G4。