1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world Good morning, professors, its my great pleasure to be here sharing my lessons with you. The content of the lesson is New Senior English for China Students Book 3 Unit 1 festivals around the world . Ill begin the lesson from the following 5parts, Part 1.My understand
2、ing of the lessonPart 2.Analysis of the students Part 3.The teaching methods ,the studying methods and teaching aidsPart 4.The teaching procedure Part 5.Blackboard design Part 1.My understanding of the lessonThe part includes teaching material , teaching aims , teaching key points and teaching diffi
3、cult points.Teaching matetialThis unit is about different kinds of festivals around the world, and the reading passage plays an important part in this unit . It not only provides the chance for the students to learn about the culture and festivals in other countries,but also includes many useful wor
4、ds ,expressions and grammar points that students should learn in this unit. Teaching aims 1. Knowledge aims: （1）To help students to understand the words and some useful expressions（2）To get the students to have a better understanding of the text 2. Ability aims: (1) To train the students reading abi
5、lity by fast reading and careful reading ,and get them to learn more reading skills.3. Emotional aims: (1) To get the students to know about some foreign festivals and learn to respect the culture and customs in foreign countries.Teaching key points1. To train the students reading ability 2. To help
6、 the students talk about the festivals all over the world in English.Teaching difficult points 1. To develop the students reading ability 2. To help the students grasp the main idea of each paragraph and the whole passagePart 2.Analysis of the students On the one hand ,theyve learnt English for year
7、s, the students have got the basic abilities of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, they still need many opportunities to practice what they have learned, to express their ideas, feelings, and experience and to develop their self-dependent learning ability and cooperative learning abilityPart
8、 3.The teaching methods ,the studying methods and teaching aidsWhen I deal with this lesson, Ill do my best to carry out the methods, such as self-dependent learning method,cooperative learning method, task-based teaching and learning and so on tp make the students the real masters in class while I,
9、 the teacher acts as directorAnd I will adopt fast reading to get a general idea of the text and careful reading to get the detailed information; pair or group work to get every student to be active in class; question-and-answer activity teaching method and free discussion method to make the student
10、s smooth away the difficulties, and retelling to sum up the whole period.And I will also make good use of the modern equipment,sch as the multimedie .Part 4.The teaching procedure Step 1 Lead-inFirstly ,I will lead in the lesson of the unit with a piece of music -jinglebell, followed by questions :1
11、.Are you familiar with the music ?2.When can we often hear it ?Then Ill show some beautiful pictures of the festivals all over the world in the screen, meanwhile,lead the students to talk about them.Purpose: To increase the students interest and attract their attention and lean in step 2.Step 2 Fast
12、 reading In this step, the students have to finish two tasks , Task 1 General idea The students will be asked to just look at the title and the pictures of the passage, and then guess what the text.is about .Purpose :to develop the students reading skills by making prediction and to encourage the st
13、udents to express their thoughts in EnglishTask 2Answer the question and then sort the festivalsQuestion :What festivals are mentioned in the passage? Methods: self-dependent learning method , Question-and-answer Method, task-based language teachingPurpose :To train the students self-dependent learn
14、ing ability and have a brief understanding of the passage.Step 3. Careful Reading Read the passage carefully, and then finish Exercise 2 and Exercise 3 on page 3.Methods :cooperative learning method , task-based language teachingPurpose : To train the students to grasp the detailed information and h
15、ave a better understanding of the text. It can also help the students improve the cooperative learning ability.Step 4 Discussion1. Finish Exercise 42. Now foreign festivals seem to become more and more popular among young people ,while some Chinese traditional festivals seem less popular than before
16、.Questions:1. Should we keep our traditional festivals alive? Why? How?2. Should we celebrate foreign festivals ?Methods: cooperative learning method , task-based language teachingPurpose : to train their thinking ,speaking and communication abilities and get the students to have a better understand
17、ing of the meaning of the festivals so that they can treat the festival celebrations properly.Step 5 .Summary and homework1. Get the students to retell the story with the help of the information on the blackboard.2.Creat a new festival and write a composition about it .Purpose : To review what the s
18、tudents have learnt ,develop their self-dependent learning ability and creative thinking ability.Part 5.Blackboard design Festivals and celebrationsWhats the passage about ?What festivals are mentioned in the passage? Sort them.1. Festivals of the Dead 2. Festivals to Honor People 3. Harvest Festivals 4. Spring Festivals DiscussionQuestions:1. Should we keep our traditional festivals alive? Why? How?2.Should we celebrate foreign festivals ?Purpose: to get the students to have a clear idea to get the main content of this lesson.
