1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world Period 1 Vocabulary I、Teaching aims 1. To remember the new words and phrases using the method of scanning . starve, plenty, satisfy, ancestor, lamp, lead, feast, bone, origin, trick, poet, arrival, national, gain, independence, gather, agricultural, Eu
2、ropean, custom, award, award, watermelon, handsome, rooster, admire, energetic, forward, Easter, clothing, religious, social, Christian, daily, permission, possibility, fool, apologize, drown, sadness, obvious, wipe, lovely, couple, weep, announcer, forgive take place, in memory of, dress up, play
3、 a trick, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath starve, satisfy, lead, gather, admire, apologize, drown, wipe, weep, forgive 2.To master the spellings and meanings of the new words and phrases . 3.To read and master the above new wo
4、rds and phrases according to the phonetics(音标) and Rapid glance method II、Teaching procedure 1. Show learning aims 2. Show Guide One Try to read the following new words and phrases according to the phonetics ,then four students a group to read . starve, plenty, satisfy, ancestor, lamp, lead,
5、feast, bone, origin, trick, poet, arrival, national, gain, independence, gather, agricultural, European, custom, award, award, watermelon, handsome, rooster, admire, energetic, forward, Easter, clothing, religious, social, Christian, daily, permission, possibility, fool, apologize, drown, sadness, o
6、bvious, wipe, lovely, couple, weep, announcer, forgive take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath starve, satisfy, lead, gather, admire, apologize, drown, wipe, weep, forgive 3.Show Guide
7、 Two To read and recite the following new words and phrases loudly. starve, plenty, satisfy, ancestor, lamp, lead, feast, bone, origin, trick, poet, arrival, national, gain, independence, gather, agricultural, European, custom, award, award, watermelon, handsome, rooster, admire, energetic, forwar
8、d, Easter, clothing, religious, social, Christian, daily, permission, possibility, fool, apologize, drown, sadness, obvious, wipe, lovely, couple, weep, announcer, forgive take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, turn up, keep one’s
9、word, hold one’s breath starve, satisfy, lead, gather, admire, apologize, drown, wipe, weep, forgive III、Exercises in class 1、给每个词组选择正确的汉语意思。 take place, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath in memory of, dress up,
10、 play a trick, (Then showing the right answers.) 2、根据汉语提示,在10分钟之内独立完成下列各题。 3、根据所给图片,完成下列各句。 1).The girl was the only survivor(幸存者)who could_______ the strong earthquake. 2).The dog likes_______ clothes. 3).We will ______________ the house with flowers and socks for Christmas. 4).Taj Maha
11、l is a _____________. 5).This is a French_____________skirt. 6).What__________words did you say? 7).She is a famous_______. IV、Homework Finish the Ex1 on page 3. V、Teaching reflection In this class ,I let the students learn the new words and phrases according to the phonetics,and ask th
12、em to master the new words and phrases by using the Rapid glance method,I had the students have a group competition,a words competition and an activity--- Challenge yourself, by looking at the pictures and completing the sentences. By learning and mastering the new words and phrases according to the
13、 phonetics the Rapid glance method in this class,I helped the students master the new words and phrases.Through competitions and activities ,I had the students keep the new words and phrasing their hearts. Period 2 Warming up and fast reading I、Teaching aims 1.Enable the students to t
14、alk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to 2.Enable the students to learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs. 3.know some information about foreign festivalsby usingthe following Expressions Express one’s opinion: In my opinion, ... I believe ... I think that
15、 Would you like...? Could I have...? Might I offer help...? May I see...? You should try...? Could we look at...? Can you suggest...? We might take...? II、Teaching procedure 1.Show learning aims 2.Show Guide One Enable the students to name some festivals about
16、Chinese and learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals. Name some festivals First ask students to name some festivals about Chinese. Spring Festival Dragon Boat Festival Lantam Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Army Day M
17、ay Day Teachers’ Day New Year National Day Mother’s Day Children’s Day Father’s Day Christmas Day Halloween carnival Easter Valentine Day Oben III、Exercises in class 1、What can you get from the table and the pictures? Chinese festivals. T: Open your books and turn
18、 to page one. Work in pairs and discuss another four Chinese festivals: what people celebrate and what people do. The first one is given to you as an example. Festivals Date What does it celebrate? What do people do? the Spring Festival The 1st day of the 1st Lunar month The coming of spring
19、 Visit relatives; have a big meal; display Spring Festival couplets and pictures International Labor Day May 1st The hard-working people all over the world Taking a week off work; visit scenic spots; go shopping Lantern Festival the fifteenth day of the first lunar month The first full moo
20、n after Lunar New Year Eat special sweet dumplings-yuanxiao enjoy lanterns& fireworks The Dragon Boat Festival the 5th day of the 5th lunar month in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet Dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine; put herbs on doorways for good health Show Guide
21、Two Pre-reading 1) What’s your favourite holiday of the year? Why? 2) What festivals or celebration do you enjoy in your city or town? Do you like spending festivals with your family or with friends? What part of a festival do you like best—the music, the things to see, the visits or the food?
22、 Show Guide Three Fast reading and find the answers to the following questions. 2、根据提示,在10分钟之内独立完成下列各题。 Ask the students to read the passage on Page and answer the following questions. A.What did ancient festivals celebrate? B.What are festivals of the dead for ? C.Why are autumn festiva
23、ls happy events ? D.Name three things people do at spring festival ? IV、Homework Try to read the passage on 3times and find out the main idea of each paragraph. V、Teaching reflection In this class ,I let the students learn the new words and phrases according to the phonetics,and ask them
24、 to master the new words and phrases by using the Rapid glance method,I had the students have a group competition,a words competition and an activity--- Challenge yourself, by looking at the pictures and completing the sentences. By learning and mastering the new words and phrases according to the p
25、honetics the Rapid glance method in this class,I helped the students master the new words and phrases.Through competitions and activities ,I had the students keep the new words and phrasing their hearts. Period 2-3 Intensive reading I、Teaching aims 1. Enable the students to talk about Chinese fe
26、stivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals. 2 II、Teaching procedure 1.Show learning aims 2.Show Guide One 1.Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and find the main ideas of each paragraph Paragraph 1: All kinds of celebration in ancient time.
27、Paragraph 2: The purpose to honour the dead and three examples Festivals Time Things people do Oben Day of the Dead Halloween Paragraph 3: The reasons Why we honour people Festivals Who does it celebrate ? Dragon Boat Festivals Clumbus Day Indian National Festival Paragraph 4
28、 Autumn festivals are happy events Paragraph 5: How people celebrate in spring festivals II、Exercises in class Show Guide Two Show Guide Three V、Teaching reflection IV、Homework 2.Language points a.They would starve if food was difficult to find… starve (v.) 饿死;挨饿 eg. Millions of pe
29、ople starved to death during the war. Starve for sth 渴望… Eg. The homeless children starve for love. Starvation (n.) 饿死 Eg. Die of starvation Starvation wages 不够维持基本生活的工资 b.The most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
30、Celebrate (vt./vi.) 庆祝,赞颂,赞美,举行(仪式) Eg.We celebrate the new year with a party. Their courage was celebrated in all the newspaper. Celebrated (adj.) = famous 著名的,驰名的 c. …because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. days/years/…of plenty :富裕(尤指事物和钱)的日子,年月,生活等。 Eg.You
31、have a life of plenty, what would you be worried about ? d.Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm. 1)Honour (v.) “尊敬,给…增光” honour sb. (sth.) with sth. (n.) “荣誉,光荣,敬意,面子” Win honour for… 为…争光 Show honour
32、 to sb. 尊敬某人 in honour of sb.(sth.) = in sb.’s /sth’s honour出于对某人的敬意 eg.There will be a party in honour of his success. 为庆祝他的成功将会举行一个晚会。 We have a party in honour of the famous artist. 为纪念这位著名艺术家我们举办了这场晚会。 2)satisfy (vt.)使满意,令人满意 Eg.That answer won’t satisfy her. 那个答案不会使她满意。 Satisf
33、ied (adj.) 满意的(主语是人) Satisfactory (adj.) 令人满意的(主语是事而不是人) Satisfying (adj.) 令人满意的(主语是事) Satisfaction (n.) 满意 Eg. She’s satisfied with her son’s progress. 对于儿子的进步她感到很满意。 Do you think what he said is satisfying? 你认为他所见的令人满意吗? 3)harm (n.) (U) 伤害 Eg. Don’t be too serious , he meant no h
34、arm. (v.) harm sb./sth.=do harm to sb./sth. Eg. Don’t be afraid, the dog won’t harm you. What you do should do more good than harm. 你所做的应该利大于弊。 e.The festival of Halloween had its origin as an event in memory of the dead. In memory of / to the memory of sb. 最为对某人的纪念,纪念某人 Eg.The museu
35、m was built in memory of the famous scientist. f.They dress up and try to frightened people. Dress n. 连衣裙/ v. dress sb./oneself 给…穿上衣服 Eg. The first thing she does every morning after getting up is to dress her son. 她每天起来第一件事就是帮儿子穿衣服。 Dress up 盛妆打扮,乔装打扮 Eg. Ladies loves dressing up mor
36、e than anything else. g.If they are not fiven anything, the children might play a trick. Play a trick on sb. 玩弄某人 Eg. That naughty boy likes to play a trick on others. h. in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columber in America. Arrival n. 到达 Eg.We are pleased for their arrival. i.
37、In India there is a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi,the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britan. Gain n.获得物,收获,增加 Eg.The baby has a gain of half a pound. v.获得,得到,增加 eg.He had gained himself a reputation for unfairness. 他是自己得到了一个不公平的名声。 比较: get 得到,
38、获得 应用最广的词 Aquire 获得,取得 指通过漫长的过程而逐渐获得 Gain 得到,获得 往往指通过努力而获得某种有益或有利的东西 Eg.I got a favorite answer. How did she acquire her skill? I hope you will gain still greater success. j. gather 收集,积累 eg. The police have gathered information about the murderer. k. …Some people might win awards fo
39、r their animals… award n.奖品,奖金,助学金 win the second award 获得第二等奖 win the award of ten thousand dolar. 获得一万美元奖金 Vt.奖励,授予 award sb. Sth./sth to sb. Medals are awarded to the best speakers on the debating team. 奖章授给辩论队中最佳的演说者。 比较: award n./vt. 对鼓励工作突出所进行的鼓励,往往强调荣誉 Prize n. 多指在各类竞赛或抽彩中所赢
40、得的奖。这种将有的凭靠能力,有的凭靠运气获得。 Reward n./v 指对某人的工作或服务等的报答。 Eg. He won the award for the best student of the year. A prize was given to the person who had the winning number. The waitress was given two more extra dolar for her good serves. l. …when people admire the moon and give gifts of mooncake
41、s. Admire vt. 钦慕,羡慕,赞美 Admire sb. for sth. 因谋事而赞美/仰慕某人 Admire to do sth. 喜欢干谋事 Eg.Don’t forget to admire the students. 别忘了夸奖学生 Everybody admires him for his fine sense of humour. 人人羡慕他那极好的幽默感。 I just admire to get letter, but I don’t admire to answer it. 我只是喜欢收信件,而不喜欢回信。 m. …that
42、 looking forward to the end of winter and to the coming of sping. Look forward to doing sth. Eg. I am looking forward to seeing you again. The children are looking forward to visiting the Great Wall. n.The country is covered with cherry tree flowers so that it looks as though it might be c
43、overed with pink snow as though =as if 引导状语从句,常常放在act, look, sound, feel, smell 等动词后面;引导表语从句常用虚拟语气。 Eg. He behaves as though nothing has happened. It looks as if it were summer already. Period 4 Using language --- Reading Step 1. Greetings Step 2. Lead-in: 1. Introduction of Qiqiao Ji
44、e (Why called Qiqiao Jie and some customs of the very day and the sad love story.) 2.The following story is a modern sad love story. Step 3. Ss read the questions given and read the story to find the answers. Step 4. words and phrases. 1.But she didn’t turn up. Turn up 1) 出席,来 For severa
45、l reasons, she didn’t turn up. 2) 出现,找到The book you have lost will turn up one day. 3) 开大音量 (反义词)turn down Turn up the radio a little, I can hardly hear the program. 2.to hold one’s breath: to wait without much hope eg.The girl held her breath at the sight of the snake. 3.to drown one’s
46、sadness: To drink in order to forget to drown one’s sorrows: 借酒消愁 4.to keep one’s word 守信用(反) to break one’s word 失信 Eg.He is a man who always keeps his word. Don’t believe him, he always breaks his word. 5.set off 1)动身,出发 Tomorrow we’ll set off for home. 2)使…爆炸 The human body bomb set o
47、ff among the crowd. 6.I don’t want them to remind me of her. Remind sb.of sth. 提醒某人某事 Remind sb. to do sth. 提醒某人做某事 Remind sb. That Eg.The pictures remind me of my school days. Remind me to buy her a gift. I reminded him that he must go home before dark. 7.forgive …for Eg.Please fo
48、rgive me for my being rude. Step 5.Ss work in groups of four to summarize the story and ask some of Them to tell the story in their own words. Sample: The story took place in an coffee shop where the hero, Li Fang, is Waiting for his girl friend, Hu Jin’s coming. To his appointment, she Di
49、dn’t turn up. Then there is a show on TV, which talked about the sad Love story Of Qiqiao Jie. Being heart-broken, Li Fang threw away his Valentine’s gift to Hu Jin. Then he met Hu Jin on his way back home, Who had been waiting for him at a tea shop. What should he do? Period 5-6 Discoveri
50、ng Useful Stuctures: Modal verbs 1. 情态动词的各种语气 1) can and could Jin can speak English well.(ability) No one could finish the test last week.(ability) The teacher said that we could not leave early.(permission) The hunters are lost. They could starve.(possibility) Could you please show me






