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英语必修Ⅲ

Unit1 Festivals around the world (Reading)
Festivals and Celebrations

学生姓名：赵倩倩

Unit 1　Festivals around the world
Ⅰ.Analysis of teaching material
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 about 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 country’s cultural events.
The Pre-reading is a continuation 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 teacher 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 occur 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 and 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 reading 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 class. In order to arouse students’ interest, the teacher can hold a competition between groups.

Ⅱ.Teaching aims

1.Knowledge aims
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, Christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with
2). Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.

2.Ability aims
1). Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.
2). Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.

3.Emotional aims
1). Stimulate students’ love for their own national culture and customs.
2). Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.

Ⅲ.Teaching methods:
1. Explanation to get the students to have a clear idea.
2. Discussion to get the students to understand the text easier.

Ⅳ.Teaching Aids:
A computer and a tape recorder

Ⅴ.Teaching important and difficult points
1. Important points
1). Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.
2). Get students to learn different reading skills.

2. Difficult points
1). Develop students’ reading ability.
2). Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.

Ⅵ.Teaching procedure
→Step 1 Leading-in
Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:
Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?
When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?
(At the Spring Festival. Because it’s the most important festival in our country. . . )
→Step 2 Warming up
1. Let students brainstorm the other Chinese festivals.
(Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival New Year’s 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
Date
New Year
January 1st
Teachers’ Day
September 10th
International Women’s Day
March 8th
National Day
October 1st
Arbor Day
March 12th
The Spring Festival
Lunar New Year
International Labor Day
May 1st
Dragon Boat Festival
the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
International Children’s Day
June 1st
Mid-Autumn Festival
the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
Army Day
August 1st
Lantern Festival
the 15th day of the 1st lunar month
Chinese Youth Day
May 4th
Pure Brightness Day
April the fifth

3. 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.
Festivals
Time of year/date
What it celebrates
What people do
Mid-Autumn Festival
autumn/fall
the beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friends
give/eat moon cakes and watch the full moon with family and friends

4. Talk about some foreign festivals with students.
(Christmas, April Fools’ Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, . . . )
→Step 3 Pre-reading
1. 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 best—the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?
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 Reading
1. Fast reading
Ask students to skim the reading passage and then fill in the following chart.
Kinds of Festivals
Names of Festivals
Countries
Festivals

Festivals

Harvest

Spring

(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 reading
Allow students to read carefully this time to understand the main 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. Because 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 place where people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruits is ______________.
A. India
B. America
C. Europe
D. China
(4)Easter is held in memory of the return of Jesus for Christians and also celebrates ______________.
A. the coming of spring
B. the autumn harvest
C. the Lunar New Year
D. the end of a year
Suggested answers: (1)D　(2)C　(3)C　(4)A
2)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 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 discussion
Read 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 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 everywhere
1.

2.

3.

2)Discuss in pairs which festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun. Then fill in the chart with your ideas.

Type of festival
Example of festival
Reasons for your choice
Most important

Most 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 to their own experiences. )
4. Explanation
Help 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 festivals are held to honour the dead, or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.
2) In memory of
3) India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain.
4) People are grateful because their food is gathered 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)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 him fresh in people’s minds
He wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.
in honor of: showing great respect or high public regard
3)The leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain: a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive
4)two clauses for reason
5)energy n. → energetic adj. : full of or done with energy
look forward to: “to” is a preposition here.
I’m 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 tree flowers”
as though: as if
He talks as though he knew all about it.
He looks as if he had seen a ghost.
5. Reading aloud and underlining
Ask 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 to 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 Consolidation
Ask students to talk about festivals in their own words according to the text.
Then let them complete the following passage with proper words 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 year—the end of the cold ______________, planting in spring and ______________ in autumn. Some festivals are held to ______________ the dead or ______________ the ancestors, who might return either 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 ______________ the end of winter and to the coming of ______________ such as the Lunar New Year, at which people have a very ______________.
Suggested answers: celebrations; reasons; weather; harvest; honor; to satisfy; to do harm; gods; Thanksgiving; gathered; agricultural; energetic; look forward to; spring; good time
→Step 6 Homework
1）Preview the next part about reading to get the main idea.
2) Translate these sentences into English:（People usually do at the Spring Festival）
1 大扫除迎新年的到来。（do some cleaning）
2 除夕夜放鞭炮。(set off firecrackers)
3孩子们穿上新衣服。(dress up)
4互相拜访亲戚或朋友。(visit relatives)
5 北方人喜欢吃饺子。(dumpling)
6家长给孩子们压岁钱。(lucky money in red packets)
3) Write a passage:
My favourite festival-the Spring Festival
参考写作内容:
春节是中国最重要的节日, 它不仅是庆祝农历新年的到来, 也是家人团聚的时候。除夕之夜，人们穿着漂亮的新衣服，与家人团聚并一起在家里吃丰盛的年饭。午夜，人们会放鞭炮迎接新年的到来。在春节期间，人们互相拜访亲戚或朋友。大人习惯上要给孩子们压岁钱，祝福孩子们新年好运。在许多地方，人们放炮竹。但是在一些城市，放炮竹已经被禁止了。孩子们非常盼望过新年，因为他们可以吃美味的东西，穿上新衣服，开心地玩耍。更重要的是，他们可以得到父母、亲戚的压岁钱。
→Step 8. Reflection

Ⅶ.Blackboard design

Unit 1　Festivals around the world
Festivals and Celebrations
Kinds of Festivals
Names of Festivals
Countries
Festivals

Festivals

Harvest

Spring