Unit 7 Days and Months

period 5 speaking and listening
target language 目標語言
1. words and phrases 生詞和短語
  during, western, new year’s day, spring festival, international workers’day, children’s day, teachers’ day, national day
2. key sentences 重點句子
happy new year!
when is new year’s day?   
it is in january or february
ability goals 能力目標
enable students to learn about some festivals.
learning ability goals 學能目標
help students learn about some festivals.
teaching important and difficult points 教學重難點
learn some chinese important festivals and their dates.
teaching methods 教學方法
speaking and listening.
teaching aids 教具準備
cards, calendar, tape recorder and a projector.
teaching procedures & ways 教學過程與方式

step i revision
t: have you finished the short passage i gave you yesterday? would you like to share it with the whole class?
ask several students to read to the whole class.    

step ii lead-in
make up conversations with your calendar.
t: what’s the date?
ss: it’s january 1st.
t: it’s new year’s day. (let ss guess the chinese meaning. then another date.) what’s the date?
ss: it’s june 1st.
t: it’s children’s day…
the same way with other festivals “spring festival, international workers’ day, teachers’ day, national day, women’s day, christmas”. show them on the screen and have ss read them a few times.
show pictures of each festival. let ss practise them according to them.
t: what can you see in the picture?
ss: it’s teachers’ day.
t: what’s the date?
ss: it’s september 10th.
t: …
then show the following on the screen:
new year’s day — january 1st
children’s day — june 1st
spring festival — january or february
international workers’ day — may 1st
teachers’ day—september 10th
national day—october 1st
women’s day—march 8th
christmas day—december 25th
april fools’ day—april 1st
ask ss to practise like this:
new year’s day is january 1st.
the spring festival is in january or february.
women’s day is march 8th.

step iii game
what’s missing?
put up the cards for each festival at the front of the classroom. tell ss to look at the cards for one minute and then close their eyes. remove a picture.
ask ss to open their eyes and try to figure out which card you have removed. call on individual ss to answer with the name of the card until one answers correctly.

step iv sentence dragon
t: we will play a game named sentence dragon. first i will give every one of you three cards. on each card, write one of the following:
1. who