1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world单元要览类别 课程标准要求掌握的项目话题 Festivals; how festivals begin; how to celebrate festivalsbeauty n. 美; 美人 award n. 奖; 奖品 vt. 授予harvest n. 收割 rooster n. 雄鸡; 公鸡celebration n. 庆祝; 祝贺 admire vt. 赞美; 钦佩; 羡慕starve vt. 饿得要死 energetic adj. 充满活力的; 积极的origin n. 起源; 由来; 起因 custom n. 习惯; 风
2、俗religious adj. 虔诚的; 宗教上的 clothing n. 衣服ancestor n. 祖先; 祖宗 worldwide adj. 遍及全世界的feast n. 节日; 盛宴 permission n. 许可; 允许belief n. 信任; 信心; 信仰 fool n. 愚人 vt. 愚弄 vi. 干傻事trick n. 诡计; 恶作剧; 窍门 apologize vi. 道歉; 辩白arrival n. 到来; 到达; 到达者 drown vt. 淹死gain vt. 得到; 获得 obvious adj. 明显的; 显而易见的independence n. 独立; 自主
3、remind vt. 提醒; 使想起gather vt. , vi. 聚集 weep n. 哭 vi. 哭泣; 流泪词汇agriculture n. 农业; 农艺; 农学 forgive vt. 原谅; 饶恕take place 发生 turn up 出现; 到场in memory of 纪念; 追念 keep ones word 守信用; 履行诺言dress up 盛装; 打扮; 装饰 hold ones breath 屏息; 屏气play a trick on 搞恶作剧; 诈骗; 开玩笑 set off 出发 ; 动身; 使爆炸look forward to 期待; 期望; 盼望 remi
4、nd. . . of. . . 使想起day and night 日夜; 昼夜; 整天 be proud of 以而自豪as though 好像 in the shape of 以/呈现的形式 /形状短语have fun with 玩得开心 be covered with 被所覆盖1. . . . people would starve if food was difficult to find. (the subjunctive mood)2. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is cover
5、ed with pink snow. (as though. . . )3. Finding that. . . , her grandmother finally decided. . . (the present participle used as adverbial. )4. It was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting. . . (It is+adj. +that. . . )5. “. . . I dont want them to remind me of her. ” So he did. (So+
6、S. +do/does/did. )重要句型6. There was Hu Jin waving at him and calling, . . . (Inversion)功能 1. Making phone callsMay I speak to. . . ?Can I ring/call back later?Hold/Hang on, please.Ill ring him/her up again.Just a moment, please.Sorry, he/she isnt here right now.2. InvitationsI wonder if you are inter
7、ested in. . . .Id like to invite you to. . . .Would you like. . . ?Could/Would you please. . . ?Im looking forward to. . . .Id love to, but. . . .3. ThanksThank you so much.Thanks a lot.Thats very kind of you.Youre most welcome.Dont mention it.Its a pleasure.语法 The use of can, could, may, might, wil
8、l, would, shall, should, must, cant1. can and couldJin can speak English well. (ability)Could you please show me the way to Beihai Park? (request)2. may and mightMay we see the awards for the teams? (permission; request)She might give you some new clothing. (possibility)3. will and wouldThe Spring F
9、estival is the most fun. The whole family will come for dinner. (promise; agreement)Often he would dress up like a rich man. (past habit; custom)4. shall and shouldThe harvest festival begins on Sunday. We shall be there with our friends. (promise; agreement)You should arrive at the airport two hour
10、s before he goes. (advice)5. must and cantWang Feng wins an award every year. He must be very strong. (speculation)You must be joking. That cant be true. (guessing)教学重点1. Get students to know about festivals around the world.2. Have students learn some useful new words and expressions about festival
11、s and customs and let them learn effective ways to remember English vocabulary.3. Enable students to grasp and use the expressions of request and thanks.4. Let students learn the new grammar item: the use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and cant.5. Develop students listen
12、ing, speaking, reading and writing abilities.教学难点1. Enable students to master the use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and cant.2. Let students learn to write a different ending of a story.3. Develop students integrative skills.课时安排Periods needed: 7Period 1 Warming up and
13、readingPeriod 2 Learning about language: Important language pointsPeriod 3 Learning about language: GrammarPeriod 4 Using language: Listening and speakingPeriod 5 Using language: Extensive readingPeriod 6 Using language: Speaking and writingPeriod 7 Revision: Summing up and learning tipPeriod 1 Warm
14、ing up and reading整体设计教材分析This is the first teaching period of this unit. At the beginning of the class, the teacher can lead in the topic of the unit by having a free talk with students about their winter holidays and the Spring Festival.The Warming Up is intended to have students start thinking ab
15、out the variety of events and festivals that are celebrated in China, and connect them with seasons of the year and reasons for the celebrations. The teacher can use this part to introduce information that Chinese students should have about their countrys cultural events.The Pre-reading is a continu
16、ation of the Warming Up and it moves the discussion to a more personal level. It is intended to help students enter imaginatively into a discussion of festivals and their importance to the society. It also directs their attention to the variety of events and activities those festivals include. The t
17、eacher should let students discuss the questions and predict what kind of information will be introduced in the Reading.The reading passage titled FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS briefly describes the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, and then four different kinds of festivals that o
18、ccur in most parts of the world. Encourage students to look at the pictures and the heading of each section to guess what the text might be about. Then let them skim for the general idea for each section, and scan for further understanding. Because this passage introduces a lot of useful new words a
19、nd expressions which are only used for festivals, in order not to let students feel much difficult, the teacher should deal with any language problems while they are reading. After reading, students are required to do the four exercises in the Comprehending to see how much they have understood the r
20、eading passage. The teacher can first let them work in pairs or in groups to find the answers cooperatively, and then check their answers with the whole class.To consolidate the contents of the reading passage, students should be required to talk about festivals in their own words at the end of the
21、class. In order to arouse students interest, the teacher can hold a competition between groups.教学重点1. Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.2. Get students to learn different reading skills.教学难点1. Develop students reading ability.2. Enable students to talk about fest
22、ivals and celebrations.三维目标知识目标1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, agriculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, C
23、hristian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with2. Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.能力目标1. Develop students reading ability and let them learn different reading sk
24、ills.2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.情感目标1. Stimulate students love for their own national culture and customs.2. Develop students sense of cooperative learning.教学过程设计方案(一)Step 1 Leading-inHave a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:Did you have a goo
25、d time in your winter holidays?When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?(At the Spring Festival. Because its the most important festival in our country. . . )Step 2 Warming up1. Let students brainstorm the other Chinese festivals.(Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival
26、, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Years Day, Chung Yeung Festival. . . )2. Let students read the information about Chinese festivals below and discuss another three Chinese festivals:When does the festival come?What do people celebrate?What do people do?Festivals Date Festivals DateNew Year January 1st Tea
27、chers Day September 10thInternational Womens DayMarch 8th National Day October 1stArbor Day March 12th The Spring Festival Lunar New YearInternational Labor Day May 1st Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth lunar monthInternational Childrens DayJune 1st Mid-Autumn Festival the 15th day of
28、the 8th lunar monthArmy Day August 1st Lantern Festival the 15th day of the 1st lunar monthChinese Youth Day May 4th Pure Brightness Day April the fifth3. Ask students to fill in the following form and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class. The first one is given as an example.Festiv
29、als Time of year/date What it celebrates What people doMid-Autumn Festival autumn/fall the beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friendsgive/eat moon cakes and watch the full moon with family and friends4. Talk about some foreign festivals with students.(Christmas, April Fools Day,
30、Easter, Halloween, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving Day, . . . )Step 3 Pre-reading1. Let students discuss the following questions:What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like bestthe activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who vis
31、it?2. Ask students to look at the pictures and title of the passage in Reading. Discuss in pairs what kind of information will be introduced in the passage.Step 4 Reading1. Fast readingAsk students to skim the reading passage and then fill in the following chart.Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals
32、 CountriesFestivalsFestivalsHarvestSpring(Let students look through the chart and then read the text silently. Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen. )2. Intensive readingAllow students to read carefully this time to understand the main
33、 ideas of each paragraph and the important details, and then finish the following:1)Choose the best answer to each question or to finish each sentence according to the text.(1)Why do Japanese people light lamps during the Festival of the Dead?A. Because they want to make the festival colorful.B. Bec
34、ause they want to light up their rooms.C. Because they want to light up their way.D. Because they want to lead their ancestors to return to earth.(2)Which of the following was not mentioned as a famous person in the text?A. Mohandas Gandi.B. Christopher Columbus.C. Abraham Lincoln.D. Qu Yuan.(3)The
35、place where people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruits is _.A. IndiaB. AmericaC. EuropeD. China(4)Easter is held in memory of the return of Jesus for Christians and also celebrates _.A. the coming of springB. the autumn harvestC. the Lunar New YearD. the end of a ye
36、arSuggested answers: (1)D (2)C (3)C (4)A2)Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following questions.(1)What are festivals of the dead usually for?(2)What makes autumn festivals happy events?(3)What do people usually do at spring festivals?(4)What is one important reason to have
37、festivals and celebrations?(5)Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?3. Reading and discussionRead the text a third time and then work in pairs to do the following.1)Based on the reading passage, what do most festivals seem to
38、 have in common? Why do you think these things might be important to people everywhere? Talk with your partner and fill in the chart below.Three common things Reasons why they are important to people everywhere1.2.3.2)Discuss in pairs which festivals you think are the most important and which are th
39、e most fun. Then fill in the chart with your ideas.Type of festival Example of festival Reasons for your choiceMost importantMost fun(Let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions and charts with their partners. Encourage them to expand their answers according
40、 to their own experiences. )4. ExplanationHelp students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meanings of some new words. Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context.Discuss the following important sentences and phrases in the passage.1)Some festi
41、vals are held to honour the dead, or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.2)in memory of3)India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain.4)People are grateful because their food is g
42、athered for the winter and the agricultural work is over.5)The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.6)The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.Suggested explanations:1
43、)The sentence contains a non-restrictive attributive clause who might return either to help or to do harm. It 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.2)in memory of: serving to recall sb. , to keep h
44、im fresh in peoples mindsHe wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of: showing great respect or high public regard3)the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain: a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive4)two clauses for re
45、ason5)energy n. energetic adj. : full of or done with energylook forward to: “to” is a preposition here.Im looking forward to hearing from you.be devoted to; be/get used to; get down to; stick to. . .6)covered with cherry tree flowers: a past participle phrase equal to “which is covered with cherry
46、tree flowers”as though: as ifHe talks as though he knew all about it.He looks as if he had seen a ghost.5. Reading aloud and underliningAsk students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them t
47、o pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework.Step 5 ConsolidationAsk students to talk about festivals in their own words according to the text. Then let them complete the following passage with proper words
48、 or phrases.There are all kinds of festivals and _ around the world, which are held for different _. The ancient festivals were mainly held at three times a yearthe end of the cold _, planting in spring and _ in autumn. Some festivals are held to _ the dead or _ the ancestors, who might return eithe
49、r to help or _, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or to the _, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Columbus Day, and so on. Harvest and _ festivals are happy events because their food is _ for the winter and the _ work is over, to which Mid Autumn Festival belongs. And the most _ and important festivals are the ones that _
