Using LanguageⅠ名师教学设计2

Period 1&2 Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading & Comprehending Teaching Goals:

1. To arouse Ss’ interest in learning about the festivals around the world. 2. To improve Ss’ listening ability.

3. To train Ss’ speaking ability.

Teaching Procedures: Step 1. Leading-in Purpose: To activate Ss and arouse them to express their opinions about a festival. Lead Ss to the content of this unit. Teacher may say, “Do you know what is called the Christmas of China? The Spring Festival. Yes. The oldest and most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. Each country and each nation has its own festivals. Today we are going to learn something about the different festivals.”

Step 2. Warming Up

1. Ask Ss to turn to P1 and work in groups to complete the form on P1. 2. Ask Ss to discuss festivals they have filled in the form and their importance to the society. After that, ask Ss to present their opinions to all classmates. Step 3. Pre-listening Purpose: To help Ss learn about the context of the Listening text. Ask Ss to talk about the following questions to get them prepared to listen to the reading text.

1. How many ancient festivals do you know?

2. Are foreign festivals different from Chinese festivals? In what part? Step 4. Listening

Purpose: To get the main information in the listening part. To develop Ss’ listening ability

To learn some information about the festivals around the world.

Ask Ss to listen to the tape, focus on the subjects mentioned in the passage and then answer the following question. 1.

How many kinds of festivals were mentioned in the text?

Suggested Answer:

Five. 2.

What are they? Suggested Answer:

Ancient Festivals

Festivals of the Dead Festivals to Honor People Harvest Festivals

Spring Festivals Step 5. Pre- reading Divide Ss into groups of four and ask them to discuss the following questions. 1. What’s your favorite 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 6. Fast reading

Ask Ss to read the text quickly and answer the following questions.

1. What are festivals of the dead usually for? 2. What make autumn festivals happy events? 3. What do people usually do at spring festivals? 4. What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations? 5. Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?

Suggested Answers:

1. Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.

2. Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.

3. At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.

4. It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life / be proud of our customs / forget our work for a little while.

5. The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs to honour the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’

graves, and the Mexican offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. However, there are some differences. The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do. Step 7. Intensive reading 1. Ask Ss to read the text carefully and sum up the main idea of each part.

2.

Discuss in pairs which festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun. Then fill in the chart with your ideas.

Type of festival Example of festival

Reasons for your choice

Most important Most fun

Suggested Answer:

Various answers are acceptable. 3. Ask Ss the following question and encourage Ss to give some similarities that they think festivals have, and give their reasons. Then invites Ss to tell the similarities and then ask them to present them before the class. What similarities can you find among these festivals?

Suggested Answer:

They most include food, music or entertainment, like dances, light or fire. They are most together with family and friends. Festivals exist everywhere. Many of them celebrate similar ideas and important cultural events or remember event of people. Human beings need to have things in life to celebrate and have a break from daily struggles and demands.

Step 8. Homework Purpose: To get a further understanding of the text.

1. Ask Ss to continue discussing their opinions about festivals with their partners.

2. Ask Ss to read the text once again and try to retell the text. 3. Ask Ss to discover useful words and expressions in the text.