Unit 1  Festivals around the world

5.easter celebrates the birth of jesus.   ( f  )

3.reading and discussion
 t: read the text a third time and then work impairs to do exercise 2 on page 3.
( let the students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the chart with their partners. encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences.)
4.explanation
(in this part try to help the students analyse the difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meaning of the new words; ask them to deal with the language points in the context.)
t: now i will discuss some important sentences and phrases in the passage.
a. some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.
b.  in memory of
c. in india there is a national festival on october 2 to honor mahatma gandhi, the leader who helped gain india’s independence from britain.
d. people are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter, and because a season of agricultural work is over.
e. the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.
f. the country is covered with cherry flowers so that it looks as though it might be covered with pink snow.

the suggested explanation:
a. an attributive clause.
the sentence means people hold some festivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.
b. in memory of … serving to recall sb, to keep him fresh in people’ minds.
he wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.
in honor of   ( showing great respect or high public regard)
in hopes/the hope of   (hoping)
in defence of   (defending)
c. a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive
d. two clauses for reason
e. energy→energetic adj. ( full of or done with energy)
look forward to ( to is a preposition here.)
devote to, be/get used to, get down to , stick to
e.g. i’m looking forward to hearing from you.

step ⅲ listening
t: now i will play the tape for you. you can just listen with your books closed or look at your books or read in a low voice together with the tape. it’s up to you. after listening, please write down three things that most festivals seem to have in common.( comprehending ex.3 on page 3).

the third period  learning about language
teaching aims:
1. let the students know the usage of modal verbs.