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Unit 5 Let’s celebrate Comic Strip & welcome to the Unit
Teaching aims
1. Learn famous Chinese festivals and western festivals and learn how to celebrate them.
2. Guess the meaning of the words according to the pictures.
3. Discuss favourite festivals.
Important words, phrases and sentences
words: festival, Christmas, interesting, dress
phrases: Chinese New Year Mid-Autumn Festival
sentences: 1. Why do you like the Mid-Autumn Festival?
2. Because I like to eat mooncakes.
Teaching preparation:
1 look for the information about six festivals before class
2 radio
3 multi-media
Teaching procedure:
Step1 Free talk :Talk about the festivals
1 show the students some objects and pictures, such as a mooncake, a red packet…
T: What’s this?
S: It’s a mooncake.
T: When do you eat mooncakes?
S: At Mid-Autumn Festival.
T: When is Mid-Autumn Festival?
S: On August 15th (lunar). (find the date from the calenda)
(T: When there is a festival in the calenda, we can see the Chinese characters. Read ‘festival’ after me, please.)
Ask information about other festivals like this.
Step2 presentation
1. show the pictures of Halloween, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year’s Day, Christmas, Dragon Boat Festival and Thanksgiving Day, let the student tell the name of these festivals.
2. divide students in groups of four, discuss how to celebrate them , at the same time, teach the new words.
3 show the description of these festivals at the same time, let the students use the name of these festivals to complete the sentences.
4 let the students look at the six pictures and discuss:
Which is your favourite festival?
Why do you like it?
5 discuss other festivals:
A: Which is your favourite festival?
B: My favourite festival is _____.
A: When is _______?
B: It is on __________.
A: What do you usually do at\on ___?
B: I usually __________________.
A: Why do you like_____?
B: Because __________________.
6.Exercises
Step3 Comprehension:
1. listen to the tape and answer these questions:
1)What festivals are Eddie and Hobo celebrating? Halloween
2)Are they happy? Yes, they are.
3)What is Hobo dressing up as? He is dressing up as a ghost.
4)What will he dress up then? He will dress up as Monkey King.
2. Students read it together.
3. practice in pairs and act it in the front of the classroom.
Step 5 Summary
Today, we have learned different festivals from China and western countries. China has a long history, we should protect our traditional festivals.
Step 6.Homework:
1. Recite new words and the dialogue.
2. Look for more information about Halloween.
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