Using LanguageⅠ教学设计

Unit1 Festivals around world 教学目标: 1、语言目标：

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 . 2、重点词汇和短语：

熟记课文中重点词组或短语。

festival, celebrate, celebration, lunar, take place, on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, beauty, harvest, relatives,custom, admire, decorate, origin, separate, dress up, parking lot, luck money,family reunion, get together, Christmas，solar calendar, carnival, parade,Christian, Easter, Lantern Festival, Arbor Day, Pure Brightness Day, Jesus Christ, the Easter Bunny, hot cross buns, the best bands Sentence structures: (句子) 1)、Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year. 2)、Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. 3)、Cara suggests that Li Mei change her shoes to something more comfortable, wear some lighter and cooler clothing and also take a hat.

4)、Easter customs include making and eating hot cross buns, coloring and searching for eggs supposedly hidden by the Easter。 能力目标：

Let students to know how to get the key words from the conversation about the carnival parade, and how to talk about sth. happened. 五、情感目标：

Let students to know and compare Chinese festivals and customs with western festivals and customs. 六、教学重难点：

1、How to talk about the Chinese festivals and social customs at festivals. 2、How to get the key words to understand the conversation about the carnival parade, to talk about sth.happened. 七、教学过程: Step 1 Warming up Step 2 Pre-reading Look at the pictures and discuss in pairs what kind of information you think will Be introduced in the passage. Step 3 Reading and comprehending

1.Ask the students to skim the passage and find out what festivals are mentioned in each paragraph. Paragraph 1:__________________ Paragraph 2:__________________ Paragraph3: __________________ Paragraph4: __________________ Paragraph5: __________________ Suggested answers: Paragraph1: Ancient festivals: celebrate the end of the winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals. Paragraph 2: Day of the Dead;Halloween. Paragraph3: Dragon Boat Festival; Columbus Day; October 2. Paragraph 4: Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals; Mid-Autumn Day. Paragraph5: Spring Festival; Carnival; Easter; Cherry Blossom Festival. 2. Read the passage carefully and answer the true or false questions. ( ) 1)、The ancient people needn't worry about their food. ( ) 2)、Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. ( ) 3)、Mohandas Gandhi helped gain India's independence from the USA.

( ) 4)、Thanksgiving Day is held to celebrate harvest. ( ) 5)、Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. Suggested answers:1)F 2)T 3)F 4)T 5)F 3. Work in pairs. Imagine that some students are celebrating a festival. Use the information given in the text to help them make up a dialogue. Step 4 Language study Dealing with some language problems to help the students to have a better understanding of the text. 1. At that time people would starve if food was difficult to find, especially during the cold winter months. 2.Some festivals are held to honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 3. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. Step 5 Study the text 1. Find out a sentence in the text which has a similar meaning with the following one. As long as the neighbors don't give any sweets, the children will make a fool of them.

2. Translate the following sentence. It’s now a children's festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbors’ homes to ask for sweets. Step 6 Listening, reading aloud and underlining Ask the students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them into the notebook after class as homework. Step 7 Group work 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. Step 8 Retelling Let the students try to retell the passage according to the key words and expressions given on the blackboard.

Step 9 Homework 1. Find out useful words and expressions, beautiful sentences and finish the exercises in Learning about Language accordingly. 2. Write an introduction of the festival your group have created. 八、教学反思：

英语学习是一个全面发展的过程，听、说、读、写每一项技能都是学好英语不可缺少的必备项，每节课适时适量的训练是很有必要的。通过听读让学生在理解课文的基础上学习运用新学词汇；通过学习让学生分析、理解和感悟文章的难句，以达到准确把握句意和文意的目的。通过总结进一步强调本节课的重点，让学生在短暂的时间内有效地回顾和复习。