Unit 1 Festivals around the World（Warming Up, Pre-reading and Reading）

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 breath4. 重點詞匯starve, satisfy, lead, gather, admire, apologize, drown, wipe, weep, forgive語法modal verbs: may/ might, can/ could, will/ would, shall/should, must/ can ▲ they lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. p1▲ some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.  p2▲ festivals can be held as an honor to famous people or the gods.重   點句子1. discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time. p12. they lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. p13. some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm. p24. they light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors to earth. p25. the festival of halloween had its origin as an event in memory of the dead. p26. the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. p27. they might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colorful clothing of all kinds. p28. the teacher said that we could not leave early.(permission) p59. the hunters are lost. they could starve.(possibility) p510. it was valentine’s day and hu jin had said she would meet him at the coffee shop after work. p711. she said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word. p712. "i don’t want them to remind me of her." so he did. p7period 1 warming up and readingteaching goals1.       to get the students to talk about festivals2.       to learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language3.       to develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details.4.       to arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in china，thus promote their culture awareness.important points1.       comprehension of the reading part.