七年级英语上册 Unit 5 Let’s celebrate Welcome to the Unit教案 （新版）牛津版-（新版）牛津版初中七年级上册英语教案.doc

Let’s celebrate
Teaching aims and demands:
1. To understand clues about a crime
2. To read notes on four suspects and decide which suspect is most likely to be guilty
Important points：
To know the meanings of the words related to a detective story, such as murder, evidence, suspect…
Difficult points:
To learn to describe a person
Teaching procedures：
StepⅠ Lead-in
1. Show a flash about the happy scene of Chinese New Year.
2. Say: The flash is about a festival. What festival is it about?
Present Chinese New Year/ the Spring Festival.
3. Say: In Spring Festival, we usually have many activities to celebrate it. Let students watch another flash about Chinese New Year celebrations.
Present the word ‘celebrate’ and lead students to read together.
StepⅡ Presentation.
1. Show some pictures related to the festival and get the students to talk about what we usually do at Chinese New Year.
Such as: What do we usually wear /get /eat?
Present wear new clothes / get red packets / eat delicious food
2. Lead the students to read.
StepⅢ Free talk
1. Get students to talk freely about what other Chinese festivals we usually celebrate.
2. Then let students speak them out themselves. (If they can’t say them in English, they can say them in Chinese.)
3. Say: All of you do a good job, now let’s learn about some Chinese festivals.
StepⅣ Presentation
1. Show pictures about Dragon Boat Festival and talk about them with students together.
What do we usually eat /do at Dragon Boat Festival?
2. Present rice dumplings/ have a dragon boat race
3. Get the students to talk about the pictures about Mid-Autumn Festival and present new words and phrases.
StepⅤ Free talk
1. Say: We have many festivals in our country, but in western countries, they also have their own festivals.
2. Get the students to talk with each other and name the western festivals out.
StepⅥ Presentation
1. Let’s learn some western festivals.
2. Show Christmas pictures and ask what they usually have in their home at Christmas.
3. Present Christmas tree / get cards and presents with the help of the pictures.
4. Do the same with other western festivals
Present on Thanksgiving Day turkey/ have a big dinner with the family
at Halloween pumpkin lanterns/ dress up as a ghost
StepⅦ Doing a match
1. Let students match the pictures related to the different learned festivals with the names of the festivals.

Chinese New Year

Christmas

Dragon Boat Festival

Thanksgiving Day

Halloween

Mid- Autumn Festival

2. Read them together.
StepⅧ Playing a guessing game
1. I have prepared six gift boxes, and there is a riddle about a certain kind of festival in each one. Let the students choose one as they like. If they can guess what festival it is about, they will get a little gift related to the festival.
2.The riddles include two songs about Christmas and Halloween respectively, two pictures about Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival which are shown bit by bit, and two introductions about Chinese New Year and Thanks Giving Day.
Step IX. Practice
1. Say: I would like you to make a dialogue about your favourite festivals. Before it, I will show you a summary, please go through it and read them aloud by yourselves.
get red packets
wear new clothes
eat delicious food

at
eat rice dumplings
have dragon boat races

watch/enjoy the full moon
eat mooncakes

have a Christmas tree
get cards and presents

have a Christmas tree
get cards and presents

eat turkey
have a big dinner with the family

Chinese New Year
Mid-Autumn Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Christmas
Halloween

on Thanksgiving Day

2. Let students to work in pairs like this:
A: Which is your favourite festival?
B: My favourite festival is_________.
A: Why do you like______________?
B: Because . What festival do you like?
A: I like ______________________________.
B: What do you usually do at/on ______________?
A: __________________________________________________.
In addition, some related pictures are shown to help students complete the task well.
Step X Watching, reading and answering
1. Say: My favourite festival is Chinese. What about Eddie and Hobo’s? Let’s watch a video and find out what festival they are celebrating.
2. Get one of them to give the answer.
3. Let students read the dialogue freely, and answer the following questions:
What is Hobo dressing up as?
What will he dress up as then?
4. Read the dialogue after the recording together.
Step X. Role-play
1. Give students some minutes to practice the dialogue.
2. Get some pairs to give their performance. (Some masks are prepared to help students perform well.)
Step XI. Sublimation
1. Say: Different people like different festivals. As we Chinese, we should enjoy our festival, appreciate our festival and love our festival.
2. Call on the students appreciate our festival, love our festival and love our country.
Step XII Homework
1. Finish some exercises.
2. Prepare a short talk about my favourite festival.