Unit 1 Festivals around the world(Period 2 Learning about language: Important language points)
能力目標
1. get students to use some useful new words and expressions correctly.
2. enable students to make sentences after the useful sentence patterns.
情感目標
1. stimulate students’ interest in learning english.
2. develop students’ spirit of cooperation and teamwork.
教學過程
設計方案(一)
→step 1 revision
1. check the homework exercises.
2. ask some students to talk about festivals and celebrations.
→step 2 reading and finding
get students to read through warming up, pre-reading, reading and comprehending to underline all the new words and useful expressions or collocations in these parts.
read them aloud and copy them down in the exercise book after class.
→step 3 practice for useful words and expressions
1. turn to page 4. go through the exercises in discovering useful words and expressions with students and make sure they know what to do.
2. give them several minutes to finish the exercises. they first do them individually, then discuss and check them with their partner.
3. check the answers with the whole class and explain the problems they meet where necessary.
→step 4 studying important language points
1. discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time.
討論它們（中國節日）是什么時間舉行, 慶祝的是什么事件, 人們在當時做什么事。
take place: occur; happen 發生; 舉行
when does the ceremony take place? 儀式什么時間舉行？
we have never discovered what took place that night.
我們從沒發覺那天晚上發生了什么事情。
【辨析】 take place, happen, occur, come about & break out
take place, happen, occur, come about和break out是同義詞, 都含“發生”的意思。英語中表示“發生”的詞或短語均為不及物動詞或短語, 不用于被動語態。主語為所發生的事。
※take place側重安排或按計劃而發生的事, 帶有“非偶然”的意思。例如:
the wedding will take place tomorrow. 婚禮明天舉行。
in 1919, the may 4th movement took place in china.
1919年, 中國發生了五四運動。
※happen普通用詞, 含義很廣。常指具體客觀事物或情況的發生, 含有“偶然”的意味。當以具體事物、事件作主語時, happen 和 occur可以換用; 但當happen用作“碰巧”之意時, 不能用occur代替, 但可以與come about 互換。例如:
what has happened to her? 她出了什么事？
it happened to rain that day. 那天碰巧下雨。
※occur較正式用詞, 指事情偶然地、意外地發生。occur to有“想起”的意思, 指思想突然浮在心頭。
the traffic accident occurred on wednesday.
那場交通事故發生在星期三。
※come about常指偶然發生的事情（很多時候與how 連用）, 與happen 用法較接近。例如:
how does it come about that you were caught by the police?
你被警察抓住是怎么發生的？