festivals around the world

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Period 1 W arming up
I. Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
b. some useful expressions about festivals and celebrations.
2. 能力目标
Enable the students to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals and learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs.
II. Teaching important points
How to talk about the Chinese festivals and social customs at festivals.
III. Teaching methods
Elicitation, discussion, listening, pair work.
V. Teaching aid
A computer, a projector and a tape recorder
VI. Teaching procedures & ways
Step I Lead-in
T: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to school! Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?
—— When did you feel happiest and most excited? (At the Spring Festival.)
——Why ? (Because it’s the most important festival in our country.
…I got much lucky money from my parents, grandparents and my relatives.
…I needn’t study at festivals and there was lots of delicious food to eat. How great!
…. I met my cousins and old friends who I hadn’t seen for a long time and we had a very good time together.)
T: Excellent work! I am glad to hear that. Now let’s talk about FESTIVALS, which are meant to celebrate important events. Now please predict what might the unit be about. As to festivals, how many festivals do you know? Please list them.
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. . . )
Step II W arming up
1. Discussion One:
Look at the table below and tell the date of each festival. Then choose one of them and talk something about it briefly to introduce one kind of festival in your local area like the table on page 1.
—— When does the festival come?
What do people celebrate?
What do people do?
Useful expressions:
? F estivals are meant to celebrate…
? I t takes place on /in…// It falls/comes in / on ….// It is held in/ on …
? O n this important feast day, people…
? W e offer…to…
2. D iscussion Two
T alk about some foreign festivals.
( Christmas, April Fools’ Day, Easter Day, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Father’s Day, Mother’s Day...)
Step III Language Points
1. mean to do 打算做某事b e meant to do 被要求做…m ean doing 意味着….
Eg. I never meant him to work for us.
Passing the entrance examination means being admitted into college.
2. take place v i.
英语中表示“发生”的词或短语均为不及物,不用于被动语态。

主语为所发生的事。

词语辨析:take place, happen, occur, come about
1) take place “发生,举行”,常用来指按计划发生的事。

2) happen “发生”,常指具体客观事物或情况的发生,含有“偶然”的意味。

当以具体事物、事件作主语时,happen 和occur 可以换用;但当happen用作“碰巧”之意时,不能用occur代替,但可以与come about 互换。

3) occur “发生,出现”,较正式用词,可指事情偶然地、意外地发生或思想突然浮在心头。

occur to 有“想起”的意思。

4) come about “发生”, 常指偶然发生的事情。

且很多时候与how 连用。

与happen 用法较接近。

In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China. 1919年,中国爆发了五四运动。

It happened to rain that day. 那天恰好下雨。

The traffic accident occurred on Wednesday.
How does it come about that you were caught by the police? 你怎么会被警察抓去的?
Step IV A ssignment
1.Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Then choose one of them and write them down in about ten sentences.
2.Preview the words and expressions of the text.。