1、Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Listening and speaking & Listening and talking【教材分析】本板块的活动主题是“谈论节日活动”（Talk about festival activities），主要是从贴近学生日常生活的角度来切入“节日”主题。学生会听到发生在三个国家不同节日场景下的简短对话，对话中的人们正在参与或将要亲历不同的庆祝活动。随着全球化的进程加速，国际交流日益频繁，无论是国人走出国门还是外国友人访问中国，都已成为司空见惯的事情。因此，该板块所选取的三个典型节日场景都是属于跨文化交际语境，不仅每组对话中的人
2、物来自不同的文化背景，对话者的身份和关系也不尽相同。【教学目标】1. Master the new words related to holiday: lantern, carnival, costume, dress (sb) up, march, congratulation, congratulate, riddle, ceremony, samba, make-up, after all.2. To understand the origin of major world festivals and the activities held to celebrate them and t
3、he significance of these activities;3. Improve listening comprehension and oral expression of the topic by listening and talking about traditional festivals around the world; 4. Improve students understanding of the topic by watching pictures and videos about different traditional festivals around t
4、he world;5. Review the common assimilation phenomenon in English phonetics, distinguish the assimilated phonemes in the natural language flow, and consciously use the assimilation skill in oral expression.【教学重难点】Importance:1. Guide students to pay attention to the attitude of the speaker in the proc
5、ess of listening, and identify the relationship between the characters;2. Inspire students to use topic words to describe the festival activities based on their background knowledge.Difficulties:In the process of listening to the correct understanding of the speakers attitude, accurately identify th
6、e relationship between the characters.【课前准备】1. To understand the origin of traditional festivals in the world, the celebration activities (customs) of these festivals and the meaning of these activities;2. Talk about holiday celebrations;3. Preview: understand the new words according to the context.
7、【教学过程】Step 1 Lead-inTeachers talk about the worlds traditional festivals, such as the Lantern Festival in China, adults day in foreign countries, carnivals and so on.Step 2 Watching and talkingActivity 11. Teacher lets Ss look at some pictures about festival activities. During talking about these ac
8、tivities, teacher can add some background knowledge about festivals.Questions:What festivals do the pictures show us?In which country do you think people celebrate each festival?How do people celebrate each festival?2. Ask sb to choose some words or phrases from the box to celebrate each festival.3.
9、 Teacher can show students how to use these word blocks and learn to describe holiday activities in groups. For example：On the Coming-of-Age Day, young girls in Japan would wear traditional costumes.One of the most important activities during the Lantern Festival is to guess riddles.During the Rio C
10、arnival, you can watch wonderful samba dances.4. The teacher asks students to report the results of the group lecture. Ask these questions:What do people do to celebrate the Chinese Lantern festival?Who will celebrate Coming-of-Age Day? What do they do to celebrate it?What do you expect to see if yo
11、u go to the Rio Carnival?5. Learn some words and phrases in the box.Step 3 ListeningActivity 21. Teacher asks sb to read “Listen for relationships”, In pairs, discuss how to identify relationships between people based on their tone and content. The teacher can provide the following questions to insp
12、ire students to discuss.What does a tour guide usually say to a tour group? What expressions are frequently used?What questions does an interviewer usually ask during an interview?What would a reporter say or do if he/she wants to interview a tourist?How do friends usually talk?2. Some group represe
13、ntatives are invited to communicate and speak in class.3. Teacher plays the listening tape for students to listen to and write the order of the conversations next to the names of the festivals.4. Play the tape again, students match each conversation with the relationship between the speakers.5. Chec
14、k the answers with class.Activities 3-41. Teacher asks students to look at the tasks and requirements of activity 3. Then read the main ideas of the three dialogues. (Guide the students to guess and fill in the words according to the context. Let the students analyze the English syntactic structure
15、based on the meaning of the sentence and make reasonable inferences.)2. Teacher plays the tape for the second time. After listening to the tape, students discuss the answers in pairs. Then the class communicates and checks the answers.3. Teacher lets students listen to the tape for the third time (B
16、efore the teacher plays the recording for the third time, the teacher should prepare the students to take notes and remind them to catch key words, especially phrasal verbs.).Step 4 SpeakingActivity 51. Lead the dialogue by asking questions. Let students understand how to discuss their favorite fest
17、ivals and give their reasons.E.g.,Conversation 1T: Which of the three festivals do you like best?S1: I think the Coming-of-Age Day is the most interesting.T: Why is it your favourite?S1: Because I like to see women dressed up in their colorful traditional kimonos.Conversation 2T: Which of the three
18、festivals attracts you most?S2: The Chinese Lantern Festival.T: I suppose you like yuanxiao, the sweet dumplings.S2: Not only that. I especially like guessing riddles and Im good at it.2. Follow the example of the conversation in activity 5 and work in pairs to discuss your favorite holiday and expl
19、ain why. After the discussion, the teacher asks some groups to show the dialogue.Step 5 ActingOne student plays the role of a journalist. The other three students play the roles of the characters in the listening dialogue. They are the Japanese girl attending the coming-of-age ceremony, the girl att
20、ending the Rio carnival, and the tourist visiting China. The following questions can be used in the interview:What is the purpose of this festival?How do you usually celebrate this festival?What do you like best about this festival?Step 6 Pronunciation1. Help students recognize speech assimilation.（
21、1）Teacher plays the recording of activity 1 and asks the students to pay attention to the pronunciation changes of bold letters while listening.（2）Teacher organizes students to carry out activities in pairs: the teacher plays the recording, one person in the group reads after the words and phrases i
22、n activity 1, the other person compares the pronunciation of the recording with that of his partner carefully, and points out the pronunciation problem of his/her partner if there is any difference. Then switch roles, listen to the tape again and complete the same task.2. Let students imitate and re
23、ad.（1）Teacher guides students to understand the requirements of activity 2. Before listening to the tape, the teacher asks the question for students to think: “How does your pronunciation change while reading the sentences?”（2）Teacher plays the tape for the first time. The students read after the se
24、ntences in activity 2.（3）Teacher plays the tape for the second time, the students repeat the sentences again, and then discuss with their partners the differences between the pronunciation of the bold consonants in words and the pronunciation in sentences, and describe the phonetic assimilation in t
25、he flow.（4）Teacher asks different students to read the six sentences of activity 2 and report the result of the discussion on phonetic assimilation. The teacher supplements and corrects the students conclusion, explains it appropriately, and writes the assimilation pronunciation in these sentences o
26、n the blackboard or presents it to the students through the courseware.Step 7 Listening and TalkingActivity 61. Learn the new words about the festivals.2. Look at the pictures and predict what festival Song Lin and Max are going to talk about.3. Listen and answer the questions.What festival is Max t
27、alking about?What did Maxs mother cook?What did Max do during the festival?What did Max and his family do during and after the dinner?What was the best part of the festival?4. Listen again and check the answers with class.Answers:Christmas experiences.Roast turkey, mashed potatoes and Christmas pudd
28、ing, He helped decorate the Christmas tree and put presents under it, then helped his mum prepare for the family dinner.During dinner they shared stories and told jokes, afterwards they played games, opened their presents.The best part was opening their presents on Christmas morning.5. Listen again
29、and tick the phrases that Max or Song Lin uses. Then check the answers with class.6. Have a conversation with the help of these questions:What is the recent festival you have had?How did you celebrate it?How do you feel about the festival? Why?Step 8 Homework1）Read the passage again and understand t
30、he food culture from a cross-cultural perspective.2）Remember the new words and learn the usages of them.【教学反思】1、通过本节内容学习，学生能否理解发生在三个国家不同节日场景下的简短对话，对话中的人们正在参与或将要亲历不同的庆祝活动；2、通过本节内容学习，学生能否辨别对话中人物之间的关系；3、通过本节内容学习，学生能否掌握听力训练中的听力策略。Unit 1 Festivals and celebrations Listening and speaking & Listening and t
31、alking 导学案【学习目标】1.掌握与节日相关的新词汇：lantern，Carnival，costume，dress (sb) up，march，congratulation，congratulate，riddle，ceremony，samba，make-up，after all。2.了解世界上重大节日的起源和庆祝这些节日所举行的活动以及举行活动的意义；3.通过听和谈论世界各地传统节日，提高对该话题的听力理解和口语表达水平；4.通过看有关世界各地不同传统节日的图片、视频等，提高对该话题的理解能力；5.复习英语语音里常见的同化现象，能分辨自流中同化的音素，并在口头表达时自觉运用同化技巧。【学
32、习重点】1、引导学生在听的过程中关注说话人的态度，辨别人物之间的关系；2、启发学生结合已有背景知识，运用话题词汇来描述节日活动。【学习难点】在听的过程中正确理解说话人的态度，准确辨别人物之间的关系。【学习过程】一、课前预习1、词汇积累（核心单词+重点短语）A）核心单词 B）重点短语1. dress (sb) up_2. make-up_3. after all_4. Coming-of-Age Day_5. Lantern Festival_6. Rio Carnival_7. guess riddles_8. give performance_9. pay attention to_1. l
33、antern n._2. carnival n._3. costume n._4. march n._5. congratulation n._6. congratulate v._7. riddle n._8. ceremony n._9. samba n._2Brainstorming：There are many different festivals in our country. Which festivals do you like?二、Pronunciation1. The change in the pronunciation of the bold letters.duty,
34、 education use, usually news, newspaper is, issuelast year in bed those shirts as you see2. The change in the pronunciation of the consonants in the sentences.Did you enjoy the holiday?Miss, congratulations on becoming an adult!Itll be too tiring to walk or dance for a long time in those shoes.I was
35、 hoping to hear that you had a great time throughout.Children then take part in Easter egg hunts to find the eggs and win prizes.In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated between October 31st and November 2nd.三、Language points1dress (sb) up 穿上盛装；装扮【例句】Did you dress up for the occasion?是否曾为重大场合而精心
36、打扮？【归纳拓展】dress up as. 装扮成；打扮成dress oneself 自己穿衣be dressed in 穿着（表示穿的状态）【小试牛刀】 She loved to dress _ and she reveled in the attention bestowed up her from the other students.她喜欢精心打扮，陶醉于其他学生对她的注意。I like to dress _ nice clowns and scary ones.我喜欢装扮成善解人意的小丑和胆小的小丑。She is _ snow-white furs today and underne
37、ath _ the rind skirt of brown, the boots in dark.她今天穿着雪白的皮草，下面穿着棕色的皮裙，黑色的长靴。2congratulation n. 祝贺；恭喜【例句】Congratulations! We are pleased to tell you that you have won the high school speaking competition about new Tangshan.恭喜你！我们很高兴地告诉你，你已经赢得了以新唐山为主题的高中组演讲比赛。【归纳拓展】congratulate vt.向(某人)道贺；（因某事）为自己感到自豪
38、receive congratulations from. 接受的祝贺offer/send congratulations to sb on sth 向某人祝贺某事congratulate sb on (doing) sth 就某事向某人祝贺【小试牛刀】单句语法填空_(congratulate) on your 50th wedding anniversary!I congratulate you _what you have achieved.We sent our congratulations to her on passing the exam.We _ passing the exa
39、m.她通过了考试，我们向她表示祝贺。3after all 毕竟，终究【例句】After all, individual strength is limited.个人的力量毕竟是有限的。【归纳拓展】first of all 首先 above all 最重要的是all in all 总的来说 notat all 根本不all the time 始终，一直 all right 行，可以all at once 立刻，马上 for all 尽管【小试牛刀】用含有all的短语填空：_, it is an interesting book.总之，这是一本有趣的书。We must work hard, and
40、 _ we must believe in ourselves.我们应该努力工作，最重要的是我们必须相信自己We will learn Unit 2 today. _, lets have a dictation.今天我们将要学习第二单元，首先我们进行听写。There are 1500 people _.一共有1500人。【课后巩固】单词拼写1. The leader was_（钦佩）for his great talent and sense of responsibility.2. Zhou Xun was _（授予）the best actress for her excellent p
41、erformance in Feng Sheng.3. As is known to all, China is an _（农业的）country for thousands of years.4. He g_ all his strength and prepared himself for a second try.5. I wont forgive him unless he a_ to me first.6. They were trapped in the mountain for many days and everyone was in danger of being s_ to death.7. No one can go out of the yard without the headmasters _（允许）.8. She is a _（虔诚的）Christian and goes to church every week.9. It is _（明显的）that she doesnt care what others think of her.10. People have given up the _（信任，信仰）in his honesty.
