Warming up、Pre-reading、Reading、Comprehending教学设计及说课稿

Unit 1 Festivals around the world Festivals and celebrations Design for teaching I. Teaching aims (1) Knowledge and skills

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Students can talk about the origin, function and people’s customs of different festivals around the world briefly.

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Students learn to use the new words, expressions and sentence patterns. (2) Process and methods

①

Students learn to cooperate with and learn from each other and develop the team spirit by group discussion as well as asking and answering.

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Students improve their language expressing ability and initially foster their creative learning-applying abilities by communicating between Students and Teacher. (3) Emotion and values

Students understand the diversity of world cultures and strengthen the awareness of preserving native national distinctive culture to improve their cross-cultural communicating abilities.

II. Important and difficult teaching points

①

Learn the names, origins and celebrations of world festivals.

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Learn and master the words and expressions of this lesson.

III. Analysis of Ss situation

The topic of festivals is one that students are not only familiar with but also interested in, which can inspire their learning desire and make them come to a deeper understanding of this lesson. However, students may have a little difficulty in understanding the content because of the mention of western cultures.

IV. Teaching and learning methods 1. Teaching methods

Task-based method: ask and answer; discussion 2. Learning methods

Self-learning---Cooperation---Exploration: Discussion; Loud-reading; Punctuate sketch method

3. Teaching aids

Multi-media and regular teaching aids

V. Teaching process

Step 1 Warming up 1. Greetings: Good afternoon , boys and girls.

2. Talk about the Labour Day.

Intention: Introduce to the Ss the topic by discussing the Labour Day.

Step 2 Leading in

First demonstrate two pictures by projector about festivals to the Ss and ask them to think about and discuss the following questions: 1. What festival does each picture show ? 2. When do they take place ?

Intention: 1. We not only make Ss learn some Chinese customs, arise their patriotic feelings and sense of national pride but also get them to be aware of world cultural customs to improve their cross-cultural consciousness by talking about different native and foreign festivals.

2. Ask Ss to discuss and answer the questions in English in order to practice their oral English.

Step 3 Fast reading

Ask the Ss to read the text fast and get the main idea, then answer the questions: 1. How many types of festivals are introduced in the text? What are they?

2. What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?

In which country are they celebrated? Intention: Let the Ss practice the reading skills and get the main idea by fast reading, laying the foundation for intensive learning.

Step 4 Intensive Reading

Ask the Ss to read the text in detail and answer some questions: 1. What would people celebrate at the three times of a year? 2. What kind of things are done to honour the dead?

3. What do you know about Halloween?

4. What festivals or celebrations can you think of that honour famous people or important events?

5. Do you know any harvest celebrations in China?

Step 5 Consolidation

I. Finish the tasks one by one according to the text. 1. Festivals of the Dead Fill in the blanks.

Purposes

To honor the dead or satisfy the 1________

Names

2______ The Day of the Dead 6_______ 9_________ Countries

Japan Western countries Activities Cleaning Eating cakes with Children 10 3______; 7_____ on them; _______ and ask for lighting offering food, sweets 4_______ and flowers and 8____ to lamps; playing the dead 5______

2. Festivals to Honour People

Match the person with the festival. 1. Qu Yuan

2. Christopher Columbus

3. Mohandas Gandhi a. the Dragon Boat Festival b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2 c. Columbus Day

3. Harvest Festivals Choose the best answer. Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people ___. A. get together to have meals B. decorate houses to admire the moon C. win awards for their farm produce D. enjoy mooncakes

4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks. Meanings

To look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring

Names

1______ ____________

4 ______

7_____

Cherry Blossom Festival

Countries

China Western countries Mainly religious countries 8 _____ Activities Eating 5________; good foods; dancing in the giving streets; loud music; children 6_________________ 2_____ money;

3________

______ and carnivals

II. Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following question. 1). What are festivals of the dead usually for? 2). What makes autumn festivals happy events? 3). What do people usually do at spring festivals? 4). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different? 5). What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?

Step 6 Summary Complete the passage, filling in the blanks. There are all kinds of festivals throughout the world, festivals 1.___________(satisfy) and please the ancestors, to honour some famous people or important events, and to express people’s 2.______ (grateful) to the God for bringing them a year of plenty. For example, Japanese observe Obon, when people go to 3._____the graves and light insense in 4._______of their ancestors. In India, October 2 is a 5._______(nation) festival to honour Mohandas Gandhi who helped India become an 6._________(dependent) country. And in China the Spring Festival, which is celebrated in January or February, is the most 7._________ (energy) and important because it is a festival that looks forward 8.___ the coming of spring. Why are all these festivals everywhere? Because during the festivals, people can get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other, 9._______(forget) all the daily struggle and demands for 10.___ while. Intention: Get the Ss to grasp the key knowledge completely and firmly and learn to use them. Step 6 Homework

Go over the text after class and try to write a summary of the text (about 100 words) and retell the text according to the summary.

VI. Blackboard Design

Unit 1 Festivals around the world Reading : Festivals and celebrations

Kinds of the festivals

Names of the festivals

Countries

Festivals to honor people

Harvest festivals

Spring festivals

VII. Reflection For reading teaching, teachers should encourage Ss to enlarge their reading range and apply their reading skills and abilities.