Using LanguageⅠ课堂实录【3】

Unit 1 Festivals around the world The First Period (Warming up & Pre-reading) Step One: Lead-in Free Talk: Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?

When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?

( At the Spring Festival. Because it's the most important festival in our country....)

Step Two: Warming up 1. Let the Ss think about the other Chinese festivals.

( Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day, Chung Yeung Festival....) 2. Discussion One

1)Let the Ss look at the information about Chinese festivals and discuss another four Chinese festivals according to the example in warming up: When does the festival come?

What do people celebrate?

What do people do?

Festivals New Year Date January1st festivals Teachers' Day National Day Date September 10th October 1st International Women's March 8 Day Arbor Day International Day International Children's Day Army Day Chinese Youth Day August 1st May 4th June 1st March 12th labor May 1st The Spring Festival Dragon Boat Festival Lunar New Year the fifth day of the fifth lunar month Mid-Autumn Festival the 15th day of the 8th lunar month Lantern Festival Pure Brightness Day the 15th day of the 1st lunar month April the fifth 2) Let the Ss fill in the form in the warming up and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class. 3 Discussion Two

Talk about some foreign festivals.

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( Christmas, April Fools Day, Easter Day, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Obon...) Step three: Pre-reading Let students think about the questions: 1) What is your favourate 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 Four: Language Points 1.mean to do

打算做某事

mean doing

意味着….

I never meant him to work for us. Passing the entrance examination means being admitted into college. 2. celebrate

vt. (1)

do sth to show that a day or an event is important 庆祝；祝贺

celebrate Christmas / one’s birthday / a wedding anniversary / a victory

(2)

praise and honor 赞扬；称颂

The names of many heroes are celebrated by the poets.

词语辨析：celebrate, congratulate

celebrate后常接日期、事情或场合。而congratulate后常接人，多为

congratulate sb. on/upon sth.表示为某事而祝贺某人。如：congratulate you on your marriage. 有时还表示私自庆幸的意思。如：I congratulated myself on my escape from being punished. 3.take place

vi. 英语中表示“发生”的词或短语均为不及物，不用于被动语态。主语为所发生的事。

词语辨析：take place, happen, occur, come about

take place “发生，举行”，常用来指按计划发生的事，带有“非偶然”的意思。

happen ，普通用词，含义很广。常指具体客观事物或情况的发生，含有“偶然”的意味。当以具体事物、事件作主语时，happen 和

occur 可以换用；但当happen用作“碰巧”之意时，不能用occur代替，但可以与come about 互换。

occu，出现”,较正式用词，可指事情偶然地、意外地发生或思想突然浮在心头。occur to 有“想起”的意思。

come about “发生”, 常指偶然发生的事情。且很多时候与how 连用。与happen 用法较接近。

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In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China. 1919年，中国爆发了五四运动。

It happened to rain that day. 那天恰好下雨。

The traffic accident occurred on Wednesday. How does it come about that you were caught by the police? 你怎么会被警察抓去的？

Step Five: Assignment Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Preview the words and expressions of the text.

The Second & the Third Period

Step one: Revision

Review the names of the festivals and talk about them. Step Two: Reading 1.Read the passage quickly and then try to answer the following questions.

1) What's the main idea of the text?

This reading briefly introduces the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world.

2) How many parts can the text divide into? (5 parts) 2. Let the Ss look at the pictures and the heading of each section, then ask questions to help them understand what the text might be about. ancient Festivals: Why would people celebrate at these three times of the year? Why do you think music and fire or light are used in festivals? Festivals of the Dead: What kind of things are done to honor the dead ? Why do you think about the Mexican practice of making cakes with skulls and bones? What do you know about Halloween ?What pictures have you seen? Festivals to Honor People and Events What festivals or celebrations can you think of that honor famous people or important events? Who do you think should have a festival to honor them? Why?

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Harvest Festivals

Do you know of any harvest celebrations in China? Spring Festivals Why are spring festivals popular? Talk about all the cultural practices you know of any spring festivals？

以下可做选用：Read and finish the chart.

Festivals and celebrations Ancient Festival Why How Festivals of the Why dead How the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn Light fire and make music to honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors Obon the Day of the Dead Halloween light lamps, play music, eat food in the shapes of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up Festivals to honor Why people How for their great contributions to the society or the country Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi Food is gathered for the winter,.A season of agricultural work is over Decorate churches and town halls,get together to have big meals admire the moon, give and eat mooncakes Spring Festivals Why How

to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have exciting carnivals Harvest Festivals Why How

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