1、U1 Festivals and Celebrations -Listening and Talking By the end of this period, you will be able to 1. know different festival experience in different cultures. 2. practise the skill of prediction predicting according to relative pictures. 3. know how to express feelings and emotions in conversation
2、s. 4. talk about their own festival experiences and their feelings. Learning Aims pumpkin piemashed potatoesroast turkeypuddingapple pie What Chinese food names do you know? Make a list of them. steambread; dumpling; rice dumpling; sweet dumpling; glutinous rice cake; sticky rice balls with meat and
3、 lotus root; steamed fish; spring rolls. Activity 1 First Listening Listen to the conversation for the first time and try to find out the answers to the following questions. 1. What festival are they talking about? _ 2. What is the relationship between the two speakers? _ They are talking about Chri
4、stmas. The two speakers are friends. Activity 2 Second listening Listen to the conversation again and try to fill in the blanks. 1. Well, first I helped _and _under it. Then I helped my mum _on Christmas Eve. 2. We cooked so much delicious food, like _, _, and_. She even taught me _, which is my fav
5、ourite dessert. 3. During dinner, we _.We also _ afterwards. It was great fun! 4. The best part, though, was _. decorate the Christmas tree put presents prepare for the family dinner roast turkey mashed potatoesChristmas pudding how to make apple pie shared stories and told jokes played games with t
6、he kids opening our presents on Christmas morning Activity 3 Third listening Listen again and tick the phrases that Max or Song Lin uses. Expressing feelings and emotions It was fantastic! How wonderful! How exciting! Thats amazing! It was great fun! Its very exciting. It was great to. Im really hap
7、py that. Im pleased to. Speaking Activity 1 Activity3 on Page 7 Read the conversation below and underline the phrases that express feelings about festivals. Role-play the conversation with your partner. Joe: Did you enjoy the holiday, Song Lin? Song Lin: Oh yes, it was great, thanks! The food, the p
8、arades, and the beautiful fireworks-its always exciting for me. Its good to spend time with my family, too, although it can get a bit boring in my hometown after a while. How about you? Joe: Well, this was my first Chinese New Year. I loved watching the traditional performances, and I was invited to
9、 lots of delicious meals. But, to be frank, the fireworks going off throughout the night were really annoying. Song Lin: Oh, well, yes, I can see your point there! But its all part of the tradition to frighten away the evil spirits. Joe: Yes, well, there seemed to be a lot of them in my area! Anyway, except for that, everything was fine. Im really looking forward to the next festival. Activity 2 Activity 4 on Page 7 Share a recent festival experience with your partner and tell him/her how you felt about the festival and why. Homework Write down your sharing experience in your notebook.
