1、 unit 3 lesson 12 Christmas教学指导Objectives To read a narrative text and understand the story. To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas. To develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions. To practise collocations with have, do and play. To talk about childhood memori
2、es. Resources used Pictures/photos you have showing Christmas activities in the UK and any Christmas cards you have received from Englishspeaking friends. Possible problems Students may find some of the vocabulary in the text a little difficult and be unwilling to read it quickly the first time, whe
3、n they are only required to extract the Christmas vocabulary. Background A traditional British Christmas includes: in the morning looking into the stockings hung the night before to find out what presents Father Christmas has left; at lunchtime a big meal with turkey, Christmas pudding (a heavy, swe
4、et pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy or brandy butter) served hot. Paper crackers containing paper hats, novelties and jokes are pulled after the meal. Most families decorate the house with paper garlands, balloons, holly and mistletoe and have a real or a
5、rtificial fir tree decorated with lights. Routes through the material If you are short of time, set some of the exercises for homework and omit Exercise 8. If you have time, students can develop Exercise 7 into a letter to an English friend describing an important festival in China. Language Power:
6、pages 84?C85. Reading Before you start Exercise 1 Key Words balloons, Christmas carols, Christmas pudding, Christmas tree, snow, snowmen, Christmas stockings, presents Students read the Key Words and find the objects in the pictures. Students then discuss which of these things they have at Christmas
7、 and what different things they have. Read to learn Exercise 2 Useful vocabulary: calendar, (play) cards, carol service, Christmas Eve, decorations, jokes, polar bears, speech, windy. Encourage students to guess the meaning of the other words when they have done Exercise 3. If you wish, divide the c
8、lass into groups and ask each group to read one paragraph and note down the Christmas words. The groups then report back to the class and all the students read the whole text and find the Christmas words. If students include words associated with winter (e.g. snow, igloo) rather than Christmas speci
9、fically, discuss with the students if these should be included in the Christmas words. Answers Father Christmas; calendar; Christmas cards; Christmas lights ;carol service; Christmas tree; decorations ;balloons; stockings; presents; sweets ;turkey ;Christmas pudding; paper hats ;Queens speech ;Chris
10、tmas cake Exercise 3 Students read the whole text carefully matching the people and the actions. When you have checked the answers, ask students to cover the text and retell the story, using these seven expressions (a?Cg) but adding more details between the sentences. Answers 2 a 3 c 4 e 5 b 6 f 7 g
11、 Exercise 4 Ask students if they like doing multiple-choice questions ?C how do they tackle them? What do they find difficult about them? Read the Strategies with the students. Ask students if this is what they do. If not, do they think it is a good strategy? Ask them to use this strategy to answer
12、the multiple-choice questions in this exercise. Students do the exercise individually, then compare answers with their partner before checking answers as a class. When checking answers, ask students to read out the section of the text which contains the answers and to say why the other two answers must be wrong. Answers 1 b 2 a 3 b 4 c 5 c
