Unit 1  Festivals around the world

unit 1  festivals around the world
  extensive reading and writing
teaching aims:
   to introduce a cross-cultural view of lover’s festivals – qiqiaojie and valentine’s day.
   train the students’ reading ability.
   enable the students to engage imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending.
   improve the students’ writing ability.
teaching procedures
step 1.lead-in
t: in the last period, we have learnt many kinds of festivals. some are set in memory of the dead, some are set in honor of some great people and some are set in celebration of harvest. do you know the festivals set for lovers?
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t: you are familiar with them. look at the screen. can you guess who the two lovers are?
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today, we are going to learn a love story.
step 2 fast reading
the chinese people believe that the star vega（織女星）, east of the milky way, is zhinu and, at the constellation of aquila（天鷹座）, on the western side of the milky way, niulang waits for his wife.
read fast and get the key words.
introduction     zhinu, the _______ girl, the most lovely of the daughters, visited the earth and met niulang, the _______ boy.
development    they f___ ___ _____ , married secretlyand were very happy.
climax
（高潮）    the goddess of heaven got so angry that she forced zhinu back to ________  .  niulang tried to f_________ her but was stopped by the milky way. thus, the c_______ were separated.
ending    the goddess of heaven allowed the couple to meet once a year on the  ______   day of the s_______ l_______ month when magpies made a _________ of their wings.
t: go through your text quickly and silently. then finish the true or false exercises.
1. hu jin failed to meet li fang at 7:00.
2. if it is raining on qiqiaojie, it means that zhinu is weeping and the couple will be able to meet.
3. because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the goddess got more than angry.
4. li fang thought he could get married to hu jin, just like niu lang and zhi nu.
5. when li fang met hu jin, he felt very glad.
step 3 careful reading
t: read the passage again and answer the following questions one by one.
1. what does “this” (l8 para3) mean?
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2. where did li fang and hu jin wait for each other? did they meet on time?