Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计案例

第一步

作业检查

Ask some students their opinions about the two questions in “Pre-reading”. 第二步

预测文章内容

（个人自由发言）

1. Ask students to read the title “Festivals and celebrations”

and look at the pictures, then guess what the passage may be about. 2. Ask one or two students to give their point of view. 第三步

阅读文章Festivals and celebrations

1. Give students one minute, and ask them to scan the passage, then answer: How many kinds of festivals are mentioned? What are they? 2. Let students read the text again and do the true or false questions.

① The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. (F) ② People celebrate Halloween with a different purpose from the past. (T) ③ Gandhi was a great leader who Indian people honor a lot. (T) ④ China and Japan share the same custom of celebrating mid-autumn festival. (T) ⑤ Easter just celebrates the rebirth of Jesus. (F) 3. Let students have an intensive reading and finish the form.

Festivals and celebrations

Festivals Aims/reasons Ways of celebrations

to celebrate the end lit fires,

Ancient festivals of winter, planting in made music

spring & harvest in autumn. to honor the dead, or clean

graves, light incense

& lamps, play satisfy & please the music, Festivals of ancestors

the Dead eat food in the shape of skulls & cakes with “bones”

on them, offer a lot to the dead, go to neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up to frighten people, play tricks

Festivals to to honor people to be grateful for decorate churches & town halls,

Harvest festivals harvest & the get together to have meals, win awards

honor famous hold dragon boating race; eat Zongzi people or the gods

agricultural

work is over admire the moon, give gifts of mooncakes

to look forward to the eat dumplings, give children lucky money

Spring end of winter

& the have exciting carnivals

festivals coming of spring

第四步

讨论（双人或四人小组活动）

1. Ask students to do Exercise 2 & 3 on page 3 individually.

2. Let students exchange their information in pairs. 3. Get students to discuss their results in groups of four. 第五步

各抒己见

Ask students the following question and let them state their point of view. Who do you think should have a festival to honor him/them? Why? 第六步

作业布置

1. Read the text again and try to find out some important or difficult words and expressions. 2. Preview “Learning about language—Discovering useful words and expressions”