Learning about Language教案1

Using language 教学课题：A Sad Love Story Teaching aims: 1.To introduce a cross-cultural view of lover’s festivals – Qiqiaojie and Valentine’s Day. 2.Train the students’ reading ability. 3.Enable the students to engage imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending. 4.Improve the students’ writing ability. StepI. Lead in Leading-in1.What do people do on Valentine’s Day?2. Have you ever received any gifts on Valentine’s Day? 3. Do you think only lovers send gifts to each other on that day?

Do we have our own Valentine’s Day in China? Qiqiaojie (七巧节)The seventh day of the seventh lunar month（七夕）

七巧节Feb. 14th Chinese Valentine’s Daythe Double Seventh Day

StepII.Go through your text quickly and silently. Then finish the true or false exercises. 1.

Hu Jin failed to meet Li Fang at 7:00.(T) 2.

If it is raining on Qiqiaojie, it means that Zhinv is weeping and the couple will be able to meet.(F) 3.

Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got very angry. (T) 4.

Li Fang thought he could get married to Hu Jin, just like Niu Lang and Zhi Nu.(T) 5.

Zhinu was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month.( T ) 6.

When Li Fang met Hu Jin, he felt very glad.(The story didn’t tell us.)

StepIII Read the passage again and answer the questions on P7. StepIV. Language points: 1. But she didn’t turn up.

1) 来, 出席(某活动) I’m very happy you turned up so early.

2) 把(收音机等)音量开大一些, 其反义短语是turn down. Turn up the radio a little, I can scarcely hear the program. 相关短语: turn down

拒绝

turn off

关掉

turn on

打开

turn out

结果是...... turn to sb. for help

向某人求助

2. She said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word. keep one’s word 意为“守信用”,其反义词是break one’s word, 即“失信”。

He is a man who always keeps his word. Don’t break your word, otherwise, no one will trust you.

注意：keep one’s word和break one’s word中的名词word不能用复数形式。

相关短语：

in a word/in short/to be short

简言之；总之

have a word with sb.

与某人谈话

have words with sb.

与某人发生口角

in other words

换句话说

3. It was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting for Li Fang to leave... obvious adj. 明显的，清楚的

1) obvious+ to + 表示人的名词或代词

Her disappointment was obvious to her friend. 2) It + be + obvious +that-clause It was obvious that she was in danger. 辨析：

obvious/apparent/clear a. obvious 是三者中程度最强的，含有“一目了然” 之意。

It is obvious that you are wrong. b. apparent 指具有某些明显的迹象的，侧重与经历推理才能看出结果。

It was apparent from his face that he was lying. c. clear 作“明白的，清楚的”讲。指不模糊含混，易于观察，了解和识别。

He seems clear about his plans.