Unit 1 Festivals around the world 教案

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.
some language points:
1. turn up: appear
2.keep her word: keep her promise
3.hold his breath: wait without much hope
4.drown one’s sadness/sorrow in coffee: drink coffee in order to forget the sadness/ sorrow
5.remind sb of sth: make sb think of sth
step ⅲ discussion and writing
t: that’s for the reading part of the passage. please think about the ending of the story. are you satisfied with the ending? different people have different opinions to a matter. now any one of you have an opportunity to make up an ending to the story. please engage imaginatively in the story and use your own ideas. try to use the vocabulary and structures you have learned of you like.
step ⅳ reading(2)
t: let’s come to another passage about carnival in quebec. please turn to page 44, read it quickly and answer the questions in page 45. five minutes for you.