Unit 1 Festivals around the world
step ⅲ listening
t: i will play the tape for you twice. please listen carefully and pay much attention to the important points. for the first time you are to make notes beside the questions. for the second time, you should write down the answers and then check them with your partners.
( it’s important to encourage the students to adapt their present knowledge any
skill to a variety of situations wherever they can. make sure to allow various
expressions of the answers. do not demand the same words form all students.)
step ⅳ speaking
this part is intended to give the students the opportunity to practice a telephone conversation using the functional items for requests and thanks. the polite form of english are important and should be practiced in a variety of situations.
step ⅴ listening task
t: there are about 10 minutes left. let’s come to listening task. turn to page 43
and look at the pictures. they have something in common. can you find it out?
ss: they are all about festivals bout the dead.
t: that’s right. i will play the tape for you. for the first time you should try to
write down the name of the country where the festival are held. for the next two times you should do ex2. you can make a brief note first and then complete the chart, according to which you can make a report.
the fifth period extensive reading
teaching aims:
1. vocabulary: heart-broken, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath, drown one’s sadness in coffee, set off for, remind somebody of something,
2. learn to compare the festivals in china and in western countries.
step ⅰrevision
check homework
step ⅱreading (1)
t: as we know, there are all kinds of festivals around the world. we have talked about two chinese festivals for the dead. today we are going ti read a sad story, which is to introduce a cross cultural view of lovers’ festival—qi qiao and valentine’s day. now please read it quickly and find out the sentence below are true or false.
the girl li fang loved and waited but she didn’t turn up. but he didn’t lose heart.(f….)
because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the goddess got very angry. .(…t.)
zhinv was made to return to heaven without her husband. they were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, .(f….)
hu jin had been waiting for li fang for a long time with a gift for him. .(…t.)
t: i think you have got the general idea of the passage. now please read the passage once more and answer the questions on page 8.