1、 Unit 1 Festivals around the world1. Teaching aims of this unit Talk about festivals and celebrationsTalk about the ways to express request and thanksLearn to use Modal verbsWrite a similar story with a different ending2. Sentence patterns:Request: Could/ Would you please?Could I have?Could we look
2、at?I look forward toMay I see? Thanks: Its very kind of youThank you very much/ Thanks a lot. Id love to. It was a pleasure Dont mention it. You are most welcome.3. Modal verbs:May might, can could will would shall should must can The 1st period Speaking1. Teaching aims: Vocabulary: take place, luna
3、r, festival, Army Day, Christmas, dress up Phrases: Would you like Could I have? Might I offer help? May I see? You should tryCould we like at?Can you suggest? We might takeTeaching ProceduresStep I Leading inT: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to school! Did you have a good time in your winter holida
4、ys?Ss. Yes. Of course!T: When did you feel most happy and excited?Ss: At the Spring Festival.T: Who can tell us why? Any volunteers?S1: Because it is the most important festival in our country.S2: Because I got a lot of lucky money from my parents.S3: Because I neednt study at festivals and there wa
5、s a lot of delicious food to eat. How great.S4: Because I met my cousins and friends who I hadnt seen for a long time.T. Very food! I am glad to hear that. Today we will talk about festivals, which are meant to celebrate important events. Please think about some other festivals. Can you name just a
6、few?Ss: New year, Yuan xiao festival:T: Quite right. Thats called the Lanterns Festival. How about some other festivals?Ss: The Army Day, International Labours Day, National Day, Tomb Sweeping Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn DayT: You have done a good job, boys and girls! .Step Warming up
7、Festivals are meant to celebrate important events. Different countries have different festivals. Work in groups and lost five Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time. The first one is given to you as an example. Fes
8、tivalsTime of year/dateWhat does it celebrateWhat do people doMid-Autumn FestivalAutumn/FallThe beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friendsGive/Eat mooncakes and watch the full moon with family and friendsStep Pre- reading Discuss in groups of four1. Whats your favourite holiday o
9、f 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 Assignment1. Consolidation2. Listening to the mater
10、ial again after class to be familiar with it.3. Homework: Collect as much information about festivals as possible. The 2nd period ReadingTeaching Aims1.Vocabulary: starve, starvation, plenty, satisfy ancestor lamps lead feast bone origin in memory of dress up trick poet arrival national gain indepen
11、dence gather agricultural European custom awards watermelon handsome rooster admire look forward to religious as though have fun with daily 2.To enable the students to know the earliest festivals with reasons for them and four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world3.To en
12、able the students to master some English expressions and phrases about festivals.4. Teach the basic reading skills: skimming and scanning.5. Try to compare and make conclusion s of different festivals.Step Revision1. Greetings.2. Review the new words of this part.3. Check the students homework-festi
13、valsStep Reading1.Scanning T: Open your books and turn to page one. Id like you to do the scanning. Read the text quickly and accurately to get the main idea and answer the 6 questions on Page3.( Ask the student to look through the questions and then read the text silently.)( Four minutes later, che
14、ck the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen.)2.Intensive reading ( Allow the students to read aloud and carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details)T: Read the text loudly for a second time and them try to tell if the
15、se sentences are True or False.1. The ancient people neednt worry about their food. ( F )2.Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. ( T )3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. ( T )4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end ot autumn( F )5.Easter celeb
16、rates the birth of Jesus. ( F )3.Reading and discussion T: Read the text a third time and then work impairs to do Exercise 2 on Page 3.( Let the students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the chart with their partners. Encourage them to expand their answers according to thei
17、r own experiences.)4.Explanation(In this part try to help the students analyse the difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meaning of the new words; ask them to deal with the language points in the context.)T: Now I will discuss some important sentences and phrases in the passage.a. Some
18、 festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.b. In memory ofc. In India there is a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi, the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain.d. People are grateful b
19、ecause their food is gathered for the winter, and because a season of agricultural work is over.e. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.f. The country is covered with cherry flowers so that it looks as though it mi
20、ght be covered with pink snow.The suggested explanation:a. An attributive clause.The sentence means people hold some festivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.b. in memory of serving to recall sb, to keep him fresh in people
21、 minds.He wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of ( showing great respect or high public regard)in hopes/the hope of (hoping)in defence of (defending)c. a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositived. two clauses for reasone. energyenergeti
22、c adj. ( full of or done with energy)look forward to ( to is a preposition here.)devote to, be/get used to, get down to , stick toe.g. Im looking forward to hearing from you.Step Listening T: Now I will play the tape for you. You can just listen with your books closed or look at your books or read i
23、n a low voice together with the tape. Its up to you. After listening, please write down three things that most festivals seem to have in common.( Comprehending Ex.3 on Page 3).The 3rd period Learning about languageTeaching aims: 1. Let the students know the usage of modal verbs.2. Enable the student
24、s to recognize the words and expressions in the reading passage according to what mean the same as them.Step Greeting and Revision ( Ask some students to retell the text we learned .)Step. Practicing the useful words and expressionsT: As we know, there are two important kinds of verbs-transitive ver
25、bs and intransitive verbs. But many intransitive verbs have the structure “verb+preposition+objects ” Can you give me some examples?Ss: Sure. Such as look at the picture, hear from my friends, listen to the radio and so on.T: Ok. Now turn to page 4, Ex. 4. You are to make some sentences of your own,
26、 using the words given.S1. Im looking forward to hearing form my friendS2: We are talking about verbs.S3: Would you like to talk with me?S4: Who can think of an effective solution to the problem?S5: Please think about my proposal.Step Useful StructuresT: Lets come to the next part. This part is abou
27、t modal verbs. You are to read the sentences in Ex. 1 and then to find out and write down different sentences with modal verbs form the reading passage and try to explain their meanings. If you have any difficulty in understanding them you can refer to Grammar in Pages 92-94Step Summing up and home
28、workT: Boys and girls, today we have practiced useful words and phrases of this unit and the usage of modal verbs. I think it is not easy for you to master them, after class you should review them. Homework1. Practice of WBP42EX.1,2,3.2. Please find out10 sentences with modal verbs, and try to get t
29、heir meanings. The 4th period Grammar一、 目标与要求1、学习一般现在时态和现在进行时态。2、一般现在时态和现在进行时态表达将来的动作。3、对比一般现在时态和现在进行时态，掌握它们的用法和区别，进一步强化学生对该语法项目掌握的熟练程度和运用能力。二、 二、语法讲解一般现在时（一）时态构成：一般现在时主要由动词的原形表示，如果主语是第三人称单数，则在动词原形后加-s或-es。（二）时态的用法：1、表示经常发生的动作、存在的状态和现阶段的习惯常用的时间状语有：often, sometimes, usually, always, seldom, in the mo
30、rning, every day, on Sunday 等。如：He is always ready to help others.The students have sports at five every afternoon.Does he work hard?2、表示不受时间限制的事实或普遍真理Three plus two is five.A plane is faster than a car.China is in Asia.Light travels faster than sound.3、在含时间和条件状语从句的复合句中主句用一般将来时，从句则用一般现在时表示将来动作。如：I w
31、ill stay at home if it rains tomorrow.Shell go to see him as soon as she arrives.When they come, theyll tell you something important.4、在含宾语从句的复合句中尽管主句用过去时态，但如果宾语从句所述内容是客观真理，从句谓语动词仍然用一般现在时。如：The teacher told her pupils that the sun rises in the east.5、表示已经安排或计划好将来必定会发生的动作或存在的状态一般用be, come, go, arrive
32、, leave, start等动词。如：My birthday falls on May 2.The meeting is at 2:00 p.m.His ship leaves at 9:00 a.m.6、图片说明、电影说明、解说戏剧内容及场景动词常用一般现在时。如：Scene 1 ( Mary and Miss Green are in the professors room-a large ,pleasant room with many books. There is a big desk near the window. )7、几个由here, there 开头的句子动词用一般现在时
33、表示现在正在进行的动作。如：There goes the bell. Lets hurry.Here comes the teacher.现在进行时：（一）现在进行时的构成现在进行时由助动词be(am, is, are)+现在分词构成。am 用于第一人称单数，is用于第三人称单数， are用于其他各人称。（二）现在进行时的用法1）表示此时此刻正在进行的动作The boys are reading magazines.Are the students dancing?Mr. Green is talking with Jim in the classroom.2）表示目前这段时间内正在进行的动作
34、（尽管此时此刻该动作并不在进行中）-Whats he doing this week?-He is translating a novel.They are learning Chinese in Beijing.Im working for an American company.3）现在进行时常与副词always, constantly 等连用，表示反复出现或习惯性的动作，含有说话者的赞扬、不满、讨厌、遗憾等情绪。如The girl is always smiling happily.Youre always making the same mistake.Shes constantly
35、changing her mind. 她经常改变主意4）用进行时表示过程Its getting cold. 天气变得越来越冷The leaves on the trees are turning brown.Shes finding that chemistry is much more difficult than physics.她渐渐感到化学比物理难学。5）现在进行时可用来表示按计划安排即将发生的动作（见一般将来时有关讲解）注意：英语里有些动词一般不用于进行时，它们在新教材里也被称为静态动词。表示知觉的动词，如see, hear, smell, taste, notice, feel 等
36、；表示态度和感情的动词，如believe, agree, like, hate, want, think 等；一些不表示具体动作而表示某种抽象的关系或概念的动词，如have, depend, seem（似乎）, belong to（属于）, consist（组成）, possess（拥有，占有）等。但当这些动词的词义改变时便可用于进行时。试比较：I feel sick.The doctor is feeling my pulse.I cant see anything in the bowl.Tom is seeing his friend off at the airport.【家庭作业】1
37、. Exercises 2.3.4 of Lesson 1 on Page 54.2. Exercises 1.2.3.4 of Lesson 3 on Page 58.The5th period Listening Teaching aims:1. Vocabulary: go with, the big bands, musicians, over and over again, for sale, get used to, the winners of this years awards for the best costumes2. Enable the students to kno
38、w how to get the key words to understand the conversation about the carnival parade, to talk about sth happened and express request and thanks.Step Revision After checking the WB Ex. 1,2,3 the teacher ask the students to give examples about modal verbs and try to explain them.Step Warming upT: By th
39、e way, whats the topic of this unit?Ss: Festivals around the world.T: Would you like to know something more about festivals around the world?Ss: Of course.T: Now I will show you several pictures. Whats the festival called? Ss: Carnival.T: Yes. This class we will listen to a dialogue about carnivals.
40、 First look through the four questions in listening part to find out the listening points.Step ListeningT: I will play the tape for you twice. Please listen carefully and pay much attention to the important points. For the first time you are to make notes beside the questions. For the second time, y
41、ou should write down the answers and then check them with your partners.( Its important to encourage the students to adapt their present knowledge any skill to a variety of situations wherever they can. Make sure to allow various expressions of the answers. Do not demand the same words form all stud
42、ents.)Step Speaking This part is intended to give the students the opportunity to practice a telephone conversation using the functional items for requests and thanks. The polite form of English are important and should be practiced in a variety of situations.Step Listening taskT: There are about 10
43、 minutes left. Lets come to listening task. Turn to page 43 and look at the pictures. They have something in common. Can you find it out?Ss: They are all about festivals bout the dead.T: Thats right. I will play the tape for you. For the first time you should try to write down the name of the countr
44、y where the festival are held. For the next two times you should do Ex2. You can make a brief note first and then complete the chart, according to which you can make a report. The6th period Extensive readingTeaching aims:1. Vocabulary: heart-broken, turn up, keep ones word, hold ones breath, drown o
45、nes sadness in coffee, set off for, remind somebody of something, 2. Learn to compare the festivals in China and in western countries.Step RevisionCheck homeworkStep Reading (1)T: As we know, there are all kinds of festivals around the world. We have talked about two Chinese festivals for the dead.
46、Today we are going ti read a sad story, which is to introduce a cross cultural view of lovers festivalQi Qiao and Valentines Day. Now please read it quickly and find out the sentence below are true or false.The girl Li Fang loved and waited but she didnt turn up. But he didnt lose heart.(F.)Because
47、her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got very angry. .(T.)Zhinv was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, .(F.)Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him. .(T.)T: I think y
