Unit 1　Festivals around the world (Period 5　Using language: Extensive reading)

2. enable students to tell about qiqiao festival and valentine’s day.
3. let students tell about the quebec carnival with their own words.
情感目標(biāo)
1. stimulate students’ love of chinese festivals and culture by learning foreign culture and custom.
2. develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork.

教學(xué)過程
設(shè)計(jì)方案(一)
→step 1 revision
1. check the homework exercises.
2. ask some pairs of students to come to the front and act out their dialogues to review and practice the expressions for requests and thanks.
→step 2 warming up by brainstorming
can you tell something about chinese qiqiao festival?
can you tell something about valentine’s day?
have you read any love stories?  what are they?
→step 3 reading
1. reading and judging
ask students to read the passage fast and then decide whether each of the following statements is true or false.
1)the girl li fang loved and waited for didn’t turn up, but he didn’t lose heart.
2)because her granddaughter got married to a human, the goddess of heaven got very angry.
3)zhinu was made to return to heaven without her husband. they were not allowed to meet forever.
4)hu jin had been waiting for li fang for a long time with a gift for him.
keys for reference: 1)f　2)t　3)f　4)t
2. reading and answering
ask students to read the passage carefully, and answer the following questions.
1)why did li fang feel like a fool?
2)what was li fang afraid that hu jin was doing?
3)how did li fang know the manager wanted to shut the coffee shop?
4)what is the reason why li fang and hu jin did not meet on time?
5)why was li fang so worried at the end of the story?
3. check the answers with the whole class and deal with any language problems.
keys for reference:
1)li fang felt like a fool because he thought that he was waiting without any hope. /hu jin wouldn’t come to meet him.
2)he was afraid that she was with her friends laughing at him.
3)the manager wiped the tables, then sat down and turned on the tv.
4)they didn’t meet on time because li fang waited in the coffee shop while hu jin in the tea shop.
5)he was worried because he had thrown away the roses and chocolates/presents/gifts for hu jin and he had nothing to give her and he thought she would not forgive him.
4. reading and finding
ask students to read the passage aloud to the tape and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. let students read them aloud and copy them down in their exercise book after class as homework.
collocations: be heart-broken, valentine’s day, a coffee shop, after work, turn up, laugh at, keep one’s word, look forward to, hold one’s breath, drown one’s sadness in coffee, the goddess of heaven, the weaving girl, on earth, the herd boy, fall in love, get married, be married to, the milk way, once a year, be able to, set off, throw. . . away, remind. . . of, . . .