1、1Unit 1 Festivals around the world Festivals and celebrationsGood 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 5
2、parts, Part 1.My understanding 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 ke
3、y points and teaching difficult 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 al
4、so includes many useful words ,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 tra
5、in the students reading ability 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
6、 reading ability 2. To help 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 ,the
7、yve learnt English for years, 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 coope
8、rative learning abilityPart 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 rea
9、l masters in class while I, the teacher acts as director2And 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 discussio
10、n method to make the students 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 -jinglebe
11、ll, followed by questions :1.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 an
12、d lean in step 2.Step 2 Fast 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 predic
13、tion and to encourage the students to express their thoughts in EnglishTask 2 Answer the question and then sort the festivalsQuestion :What festivals are mentioned in the passage?countriesNames of FestivalsKinds of festivalsFestivals ofthe DeadFestivals to HonourPeopleHarvest FestivalsSpring Festiva
14、lsObon JapanDay of the Dead MexicoHalloween some western countriesDragon Boat Festival ChinaColumbus Day USAFestival to honorGandhi IndiaThanksgiving festivals European and other countriesMid-AutumnFestivals China and JapanThe Spring Festival ChinaEaster some western countriesCherry BlossomFestival
15、JapanMethods: self-dependent learning method , Question-and-answer Method, task-based language teachingPurpose :To train the students self-dependent learning ability and have a brief 3understanding of the passage.Step 3. Careful Reading Read the passage carefully, and then finish Exercise 2 and Exer
16、cise 3 on page 3.Methods :cooperative learning method , task-based language teachingPurpose : To train the students to grasp the detailed information and have a better understanding of the text. It can also help the students improve the cooperative learning ability.Step 4 Discussion1. Finish Exercis
17、e 42. Now foreign festivals seem to become more and more popular among young people ,while some Chinese traditional festivals seem less popular than before.Questions:1. Should we keep our traditional festivals alive ?why?How?2. Should we celebrate foreign festivals ?Methods: cooperative learning met
18、hod , task-based language teachingPurpose : to train their thinking ,speaking and communication abilities and get the students to have a better understanding of the meaning of the festivals so that they can treat the festival celebrations properly.Step 5 .Summary and homework1. Get the students to r
19、etell 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 students have learnt ,develop their self-dependent learning ability and creative thinking ability.Part 5.Blackboard design Festivals and celebratio
20、nsWhats the passage about ?What festivals are metioned in the passage?Sort them.1. Festivals of the Dead 2. Festivals to Honour People 3. Harvest Festivals 4. Spring Festivals DiscussionQuestions:3.Should we keep our traditional festivals alive ?why?How?4.Should we celebrate foreign festivals ?Purpose :to get the students to have a clear idea to get the main content of this lesson.
