Unit 1　Festivals around the world (Period 3　Learning about language: Grammar)

3. can it be a pen?  (guessing)
4. you will give it to student who can speak english well. (promise; ability)
5. what you guessed can’t be true. (guessing)
→step 3 grammar learning
1. reading and discovering
ask students to turn back to page 1 to read through the passage festivals and celebrations, let them pick out the sentences using modal verbs and translate them into chinese.
suggested answers:
1. the most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
最古老的節日總是慶祝嚴寒的結束、春季的種植和秋天的收獲。
2. some festivals are held to honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.
有些節日, 是為了紀念死者, 或者使祖先得到滿足, 因為祖先們有可能回到世上（給人們）提供幫助, 也有可能帶來危害。
3. for the japanese festival obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.
在日本的盂蘭盆節, 人們要掃墓、燒香, 以緬懷祖先。
4. they also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth.
他們也點起燈籠, 奏響樂曲, 因為他們認為這樣可以把祖先引回到世上。
5. it is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbors’ homes to ask for sweets.
它（萬圣節前夕）現在是兒童們的節日, 他們可以喬裝打扮, 到鄰居家要糖吃。
6. if the neighbors do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.
如果鄰居們不給糖果, 孩子們可能會捉弄他們。
7. festivals can also be held to honor famous people.
有些節日也可以是紀念名人的。
8. harvest and thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events.
收獲節和感恩節是非常喜慶的節日。
9. some people might win awards for their farm produce, like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster.
有些人可能因為他們的農產品（參加評選）而獲獎, 比如最大的西瓜或最帥的公雞。
10. these carnivals might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colorful clothing of all kinds.
狂歡節也許包括街頭游行、晝夜跳舞、鼓噪的音樂和各種艷麗的盛裝。
2. thinking and discussing
let students read the sentences they picked out, think over and discuss with a partner how each of these modal verbs is being used in the situations. if students have some difficulty, give them a hand.
3. summing up: the use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and can’t.
情態動詞 (modal verbs)
情態動詞主要用來表示說話人的看法、意愿、態度等。從用法上來說, 它有如下幾個特點:
1)情態動詞本身都有一定的詞義;
2)情態動詞單獨不能在句子中充當謂語;
3)情態動詞沒有人稱和數的變化;