外研社英语七年级上册英语Module 10 Spring Festival教案

Module 10 Spring Festival

I. Teaching Objectives and Requirements

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to

➢ understand the conversation about Spring Festival.

➢ ask what people are doing at the moment.

➢ write paragraphs about what people are doing for Spring Festival at the

moment.

II. Teaching Focuses

Present continuous questions and short answers.

III. Teaching Difficulties

Present continuous questions and short answers.

IV. Teaching Methods and Teaching Aids

➢ Teaching method: Interactive method.

➢ Teaching aids: ppt.

V. Teaching Procedures

Step1 Review

1. Changing rules of present participle.

2. Ing form of some verbs: work, watch, clean, go, sleep, have, leave, take, make, get,

swim, run.etc.

Step2 Warming up

1. Match the picture with expressions.

2. Listen and number the pictures.

Step 3 Listen and read

1. Listen the conversation on the page 61 and choose the correct answers.

1) Are they getting ready for Spring Festival? Yes, they are. / No, they aren`t.

2) Are Daming and Betty making lanterns? Yes, they are. / No, they aren`t.

3) Is Lingling`s mother sweeping the floor? Yes, she is. / No, she isn`t.

4) Is Lingling`s aunt cooking the meal？ Yes, she is. / No, she isn`t.

5) Is Lingling`s grandma cooking the meal？ Yes, she is. / No, she isn`t.

6) Is Lingling`s father working？ Yes, she is. / No, she isn`t.

2. Read the conversation and answer the questions.

1) What is Lingling doing?

2) Who is working?

3) What is Lingling`s aunt doing?

4) What is Lingling`s grandma doing?

5) What are Daming and Betty doing？

3. Work in pairs. Ask and answer about what people in the pictures are doing.

e.g. —Is the girl making lanterns? —Yes, she is. / No, she isn`t.

Step 4 Reading

➢ Pre-reading

Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and talk about what`s happening.

e.g.—What`s Li Shan`s mother doing?

—She`s cleaning the house.

➢ While-reading

1. Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in above activity.

2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions.

We _____ Spring Festival in January or February. A _____ days before Spring

Festival we clean our homes and _____ all the bad _____. On the evening before

Spring Festival we have a big family dinner. We eat lots of _____ food, such as jiaozi

--a kind of _____. We usually watch a special _____ on television, and parents

usually give their children a hongbao. It _____ lucky money.

3. Writing

1) Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain. Match the notes with the

headings.

 getting ready

 Presents

 Traditional things on Christmas Day

a) go shopping for present

b) have a traditional family dinner

c) open present on Christmas Day

d) put the present next to the Christmas tree

e) get lots of food ready

f) sing Christmas songs

g) say Merry Christmas to family and friends

h) have a Christmas tree

2) Write sentences with the notes in Activity 1).

Join two notes and write one sentences with and.

go shopping for presents; get lots of food ready.

e.g. They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready.

You can leave out the second they.

e.g. They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.

➢ Post-reading

Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in

brackets.

At the moment, we _____ (get ready) for Spring Festival. We _____ (clean) the

house and we _____ (sweep) the floor. My mother _____ (cook) a meal. My

father doesn`t _____(work) today. We always _____(buy) presents from our celebrate dumpling few luck mean programme sweep away

Learning to learn

When you write new

words, write them

under headings, in

groups or in a word

map. Use pictures and

drawings. family and friends. Spring Festival finishes at Lantern Festival, and we often

_____ (eat) yuanxiao on that day.

Step 5 language in use

1. Work in pairs

Student A: Choose a picture. Say what the people are doing.

Student B: Guess which picture Student A is describing.

e.g.

A: They are watching TV.

B: Is it Picture4?

A: Yes, it is. / No, it isn`t.

2. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about what you and your family are

doing for Spring Festival at the moment.

e.g. —What are you and your family doing for Spring Festival at the moment?

—My mother is cooking.

VI. Assignments

Write a letter about Spring Festival to a foreign student

Write a letter to a friend saying:

 what you are doing for Spring Festival at the moment.

 what you usually do.

You can use:

Dear …

Here in China it`s Spring Festival and we`re getting ready.

Usually we… and we…

Tell me about a festival in your country.