Unit 1Festivals around the world单元要览类别课程标准要求掌握的项目话题Festivals; how festivals begin; how to celebrate festivals词汇beauty n. 美; 美人award n. 奖; 奖品vt. 授予harvest n. & vt. & vi. 收获; 收割rooster n. 雄鸡; 公鸡celebration n. 庆祝; 祝贺admire vt. 赞美; 钦佩; 羡慕starve vt. & vi. (使)饿死; 饿得要死energetic adj. 充满活力的; 积极的origin n. 起源; 由来; 起因custom n. 习惯; 风俗religious adj. 虔诚的; 宗教上的clothing n. 衣服ancestor n. 祖先; 祖宗worldwide adj. 遍及全世界的feast n. 节日; 盛宴permission n. 许可; 允许belief n. 信任; 信心; 信仰fool n. 愚人vt. 愚弄vi. 干傻事trick n. 诡计; 恶作剧; 窍门apologize vi. 道歉; 辩白arrival n. 到来; 到达; 到达者drown vt. & vi. 溺死; 淹死gain vt. 得到; 获得obvious adj. 明显的; 显而易见的independence n. 独立; 自主remind vt. 提醒; 使想起gather vt. , vi. & n. 集合; 聚集weep n. 哭vi. 哭泣; 流泪agriculture n. 农业; 农艺; 农学forgive vt. 原谅; 饶恕短语take place发生turn up出现; 到场in memory of纪念; 追念keep one’s word守信用; 履行诺言dress up盛装; 打扮; 装饰hold one’s breath屏息; 屏气play a trick on搞恶作剧; 诈骗; 开玩笑set off出发; 动身; 使爆炸look forward to期待; 期望; 盼望remind. . . of. . . 使……想起……day and night日夜; 昼夜; 整天be proud of以……而自豪as though好像in the shape of以/呈现……的形式/形状have fun with玩得开心be covered with被……所覆盖重要句型1. . . . people would starve if food was difficult to find. (the subjunctive mood)2. The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. (as though. . . )3. Finding that. . . , her grandmother finally decided. . . (the present participle used as adverbial. )4. It was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting. . . (It is+adj. +that. . . )5. “. . . I don’t want them to remind me of her. ” So he did. (So+S. +do/does/did. )6. There was Hu Jin waving at him and calling, . . . (Inversion)功能 1. Making phone callsMay I speak to. . . ?Can I ring/call back later?Hold/Hang on, please.I’ll ring him/her up again.Just a moment, please.Sorry, he/she isn’t here right now.2. InvitationsI wonder if you are interested in. . . .I’d like to invite you to. . . .Would you like. . . ?Could/Would you please. . . ?I’m looking forward to. . . .I’d love to, but. . . .3. ThanksThank you so much.Thanks a lot.That’s very kind of you.You’re most welcome.Don’t mention it.It’s a pleasure.语法The use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, can’t1. can and couldJin can speak English well. (ability)Could you please show me the way to Beihai Park? (request)2. may and mightMay we see the awards for the teams? (permission; request)She might give you some new clothing. (possibility)3. will and wouldThe Spring Festival is the most fun. The whole family will come for dinner. (promise; agreement) Often he would dress up like a rich man. (past habit; custom)4. shall and shouldThe harvest festival begins on Sunday. We shall be there with our friends. (promise; agreement) You should arrive at the airport two hours before he goes. (advice)5. must and can’tWang Feng wins an award every year. He must be very strong. (speculation)You must be joking. That can’t be true. (guessing)教学重点1. Get students to know about festivals around the world.2. Have students learn some useful new words and expressions about festivals and customs and let them learn effective ways to remember English vocabulary.3. Enable students to grasp and use the expressions of request and thanks.4. Let students learn the new grammar item: the use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and can’t.5. Develop students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities.教学难点1. Enable students to master the use of can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must and can’t.2. Let students learn to write a different ending of a story.3. Develop students’ integrative skills.课时安排Periods needed: 7Period 1 Warming up and readingPeriod 2 Learning about language: Important language points Period 3 Learning about language: GrammarPeriod 4 Using language: Listening and speakingPeriod 5 Using language: Extensive readingPeriod 6 Using language: Speaking and writingPeriod 7 Revision: Summing up and learning tipPeriod 1Warming up and reading整体设计教材分析This is the first teaching period of this unit. At the beginning of the class, the teacher can lead in the topic of the unit by having a free talk with students about their winter holidays and the Spring Festival.The Warming Up is intended to have students start thinking about the variety of events and festivals that are celebrated in China, and connect them with seasons of the year and reasons for the celebrations. The teacher can use this part to introduce information that Chinese students should have about their country’s cultural events.The Pre-reading is a continuation of the Warming Up and it moves the discussion to a more personal level. It is intended to help students enter imaginatively into a discussion of festivals and their importance to the society. It also directs their attention to the variety of events and activities those festivals include. The teacher should let students discuss the questions and predict what kind of information will be introduced in the Reading.The reading passage titled FESTIV ALS AND CELEBRATIONS briefly describes the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, and then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world. Encourage students to look at the pictures and the heading of each section to guess what the text might be about. Then let them skim for the general idea for each section, and scan for further understanding. Because this passage introduces a lot of useful new words and expressions which are only used for festivals, in order not to let students feel much difficult, the teacher should deal with any language problems while they are reading. After reading, students are required to do the four exercises in the Comprehending to see how much they have understoodthe reading passage. The teacher can first let them work in pairs or in groups to find the answers cooperatively, and then check their answers with the whole class.To consolidate the contents of the reading passage, students should be required to talk about festivals in their own words at the end of the class. In order to arouse students’ interest, the teacher can hold a competition between groups.教学重点1. Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.2. Get students to learn different reading skills.教学难点1. Develop students’ reading ability.2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.三维目标知识目标1. Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, agriculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with2. Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.能力目标1. Develop students’ reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.情感目标1. Stimulate students’ love for their own national culture and customs.2. Develop students’ sense of cooperative learning.教学过程设计方案(一)→Step 1 Leading-inHave a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?(At the Spring Festival. Because it’s the most important festival in our country. . . )→Step 2 Warming up1. Let students brainstorm the other Chinese festivals.(Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year’s Day, Chung Yeung Festival. . . )2. Let students read the information about Chinese festivals below and discuss another three Chinese festivals:When does the festival come?What do people celebrate?What do people do?Festivals Date Festivals DateNew Year January 1st Teachers’ Day September 10thInternational Women’sDayMarch 8th National Day October 1stArbor Day March 12th The Spring Festival Lunar New YearInternational Labor Day May 1st Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth lunar month International Children’sDayJune 1st Mid-Autumn Festival the 15th day of the 8th lunar month Army Day August 1st Lantern Festival the 15th day of the 1st lunar month Chinese Youth Day May 4th Pure Brightness Day April the fifth3. Ask students to fill in the following form and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class. The first one is given as an example.Festivals Time of year/date What it celebrates What people doMid-Autumn Festival autumn/fall the beauty of the fullmoon, harvest, time withfamily and friends give/eat moon cakes and watch the full moon with family and friends4. Talk about some foreign festivals with students.(Christmas, April Fools’ Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, . . . )→Step 3 Pre-reading1. Let students discuss the following questions:What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best—the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?2. Ask students to look at the pictures and title of the passage in Reading. Discuss in pairs what kind of information will be introduced in the passage.→Step 4 Reading1. Fast readingAsk students to skim the reading passage and then fill in the following chart.Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries FestivalsFestivalsHarvestSpring(Let students look through the chart and then read the text silently. Three minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen. )2. Intensive readingAllow students to read carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details, and then finish the following:1)Choose the best answer to each question or to finish each sentence according to the text.(1)Why do Japanese people light lamps during the Festival of the Dead?A. Because they want to make the festival colorful.B. Because they want to light up their rooms.C. Because they want to light up their way.D. Because they want to lead their ancestors to return to earth.(2)Which of the following was not mentioned as a famous person in the text?A. Mohandas Gandi.B. Christopher Columbus.C. Abraham Lincoln.D. Qu Yuan.(3)The place where people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers andfruits is ______________.A. IndiaB. AmericaC. EuropeD. China(4)Easter is held in memory of the return of Jesus for Christians and also celebrates ______________.A. the coming of springB. the autumn harvestC. the Lunar New YearD. the end of a yearSuggested answers: (1)D(2)C(3)C(4)A2)Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following questions.(1)What are festivals of the dead usually for?(2)What makes autumn festivals happy events?(3)What do people usually do at spring festivals?(4)What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?(5)Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?3. Reading and discussionRead the text a third time and then work in pairs to do the following.1)Based on the reading passage, what do most festivals seem to have in common? Why do you think these things might be important to people everywhere? Talk with your partner and fill in the chart below.Three common things Reasons why they are important to people everywhere1.2.3.2)Discuss in pairs which festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun. Then fill in the chart with your ideas.Type of festival Example of festival Reasons for your choice Most importantMost fun(Let students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the questions and charts with their partners. Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences. )4. ExplanationHelp students analyze some difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meanings of some new words. Encourage them to try to deal with the language points in the context.Discuss the following important sentences and phrases in the passage.1)Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.2)in memory of3)India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain.4)People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over.5)The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.6)The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.Suggested explanations:1)The sentence contains a non-restrictive attributive clause who might return either to help or to do harm. It means people hold some festivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.2)in memory of: serving to recall sb. , to keep him fresh in people’s mindsHe wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of: showing great respect or high public regard3)the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain: a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive4)two clauses for reason5)energy n. → energetic adj. : full of or done with energylook forward to: “to” is a preposition here.I’m looking forward to hearing from you.be devoted to; be/get used to; get down to; stick to. . .6)covered with cherry tree flowers: a past participle phrase equal to “which is covered with cherry tree flowers”as though: as ifHe talks as though he knew all about it.He looks as if he had seen a ghost.5. Reading aloud and underliningAsk students to read the passage aloud to the tape and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Tell them to pick out all the useful expressions or collocations from the passage while reading and copy them to the notebook after class as homework.→Step 5 ConsolidationAsk students to talk about festivals in their own words according to the text. Then let them complete the following passage with proper words or phrases.There are all kinds of festivals and ______________ around the world, which are held for different ______________. The ancient festivals were mainly held at three times a year—the end of the cold ______________, planting in spring and ______________ in autumn. Some festivals are held to ______________ the dead or ______________ the ancestors, who might return either to help or ______________, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or to the ______________, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Columbus Day, and so on. Harvest and ______________ festivals are happy events because their food is ______________ for the winter and the ______________ work is over, to which Mid Autumn Festival belongs. And the most ______________ and important festivals are the ones that ______________ the end of winter and to the coming of ______________ such as the Lunar New Year, at which people have a very ______________.Suggested answers: celebrations; reasons; weather; harvest; honor; to satisfy; to do harm; gods; Thanksgiving; gathered; agricultural; energetic; look forward to; spring; good time→Step 6 Homework1. Learn the useful new words and expressions in this part by heart.2. Read the reading passage again and again and try to talk about festivals both in and out of China.设计方案(二)→Step 1 Leading in the topic by learning vocabulary about festivals1. Make a circle on the blackboard and write the word “FESTIV AL” in it.2. Ask students, “We have learned ‘festival’. Can you name some festivals? ”3. Students list as many fest ivals as possible. Then the teacher adds some students can’t think of, such as Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day.4. Let students read them aloud and try to learn them by heart.→Step 2 Warming up by talking about festivalsWork in groups and list three more Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Then tell the group which festival is their favorite and why.Festivals Time of year/date What it celebrates What people doMid-Autumn Festival autumn/fall the beauty of the fullmoon, harvest, time withfamily and friends give/eat moon cakes and watch the full moon with family and friends→Step 3 Predicting by looking and discussing1. Look at the pictures and title of the reading passage and discuss in pairs what the passage might be about.2. Two or three students are to give their opinions.→Step 4 Reading1. Give students 2 minutes, and ask them to skim the passage for information to tell if the following sentences are True or False.1)The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. (F)2)Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. (T)3)Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. (T)4)The Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. (F)5)Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. (F)2. Give students 5 minutes to read the passage carefully, and complete the chart according to the passage.Festivals of the Dead Obon in Japan___________________HalloweenFestivals to Honor People ________________________________A national festival in____________Harvest Festivals _________ in European countries_________ in China and JapanSpring Festivals ________________Carnivals in some Western countries________________________________ in Japan3. Listening and reading aloudPlay the tape of the text for students and let them pay attention to the pronunciation of each new word and the pauses within each sentence. Then ask them to read the text aloud to the tape.→Step 5 Closing down by spoken practice1. Have students get prepared in 3 minutes or so and then ask them to talk about festivals and celebrations.2. Ask as many students as possible to have a try in front of the class.→Step 6 Homework1. Go over the text and try to learn all the useful words and expressions in this part by heart.2. Finish the exercises in Comprehending on Page3.板书设计Unit 1Festivals around the worldFestivals and celebrationsKinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries FestivalsFestivalsHarvestSpring活动与探究Group discussion & speechAs is known from the reading passage, festivals of all kinds are celebrated around the world. Most festivals have celebrations that include food, music, clothing and dances. These events originated from some similar ideas, but they take different forms in different regions and societies. What festivals and celebrations do you know all over the world? Have you ever taken part in them and enjoyed yourself? Discuss festivals in groups and then make speeches.Step 1: The teacher divides the class into four groups and gives the tasks to students in each group. Group 1 will list the festivals around the world as many as possible, and then categorize them according to the origins of these festivals. And they should prepare for a short speech. Group 2 will discuss two traditional Chinese festivals and prepare for their presentation. Group 3 will discuss two Western festivals and prepare for their presentation. Group 4 will discuss the differences between Chinese festivals and Western festivals, then contrast and compare their styles, celebrations, dates and so on. And they should prepare for a short speech.Step 2: Groups 1, 2 and 3 give their speeches on the festivals they have discussed. Group 4 gives their speech on the differences between Chinese festivals and Western festivals.Step 3: The teacher makes proper remarks about students’ speeches and sums up the different cultural practices between China and other countries according to them.。
