人教版英语必修三Unit1全单元教案

第一单元Reading Festivals and celebrations 教案1. 教学设计理念语言的学习离不开文化，英语教学从某种程度上来讲就是文化教学，对英语文化的了解和理解有利于加深本国文化的学习，培养爱国主义精神，也有利于提高人文素养。

因此传授文化知识、培养文化意识和世界意识，是英语教学中一个非常重要的任务。

①运用任务型语言教学模式，训练培养学生对语言的综合运用能力.②课堂以学生为主体，以任务为主线，重视体验参与，教师起到“设计者、研究者、促进者、协调者〞的作用.③在教学中，突出交际性，注重读写的实用性，要进行情感和策略调整，以形成积极的学习态度，促进语言实际运用能力的提高.④正视个体差异，倡导过程鼓励，以多层次、多角度、多主体的结果与过程并重的评价方式鼓励学生进步.2. 教材分析本单元以节日为话题，介绍古今中外节日的种类、由来、意义以及人们的活动和习俗，旨在通过对世界各地的节日名称、由来及庆祝方式的讨论和学习，让学生在多样的东西方节日、文化中进行比拟，并发现节日文化的共性、多样性和民族独特性，从而增进对多种文化节日的理解，进而拓展社会文化背景、增加跨国文化知识.3. 教学目标①帮助学生了解世界各地的节日.②了解节日的分类并进而理解节日庆祝的意义.③通过阅读材料继续训练学生略读,细读,猜想词义,归纳等阅读技巧.4. 重难点①理解节日的起源及意义,增强文化保护意识②通过学生对多样的东西方节日、文化所进行的比拟，发现节日文化的共性、多样性和民族独特性，从而增进对多种文化节日的理解。

5. 教学步骤Unit 1 Festivals around the worldLearning aims : 1.learn about festivals around the world.2. learn about the kinds of festivals and the reason for celebrating them.3. train reading skills such as skimming and summarizing.Difficult points : the reason for peopke’s celebrating festivalsStep 1 Warming up1.What other traditional festivals in China do you know ?______________________________________________________________2.What festivals of foreign countries do you know?______________________________________________________________ Step 2 ReadingII.Careful reading2). Festivals to Honour People (Match the person with the festival.)1. Qu Y uan a. the Dragon Boat Festival2. Christopher Columbus b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 23. Mohandas Gandhi c. Columbus Day3). Harvest Festivals (Choose the best answer.)Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people ___.A. get together to have mealsB. decorate houses to admire the moonC. win awards for their farm produceD. enjoy mooncakesTask 2 True or False1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food.2. Halloween used to be a festival to honor the dead.3. Qu Y uan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China.4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.Task 3 Answer the questions1.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?III. Free talkingWhat do most festivals seem to have in common ?Step 3 Discussing◆What is your favourite festival? Why?◆When is it? What is the festival about?◆How long can we have for holiday? What do we usually do in the festival? Step 4HomeworkWrite a short passage about your favorite festival。

Unit 1 Festivals and CelebrationsListening and speaking & Listening and talking【教材分析】本板块的活动主题是“谈论节日活动”（Talk about festival activities），主要是从贴近学生日常生活的角度来切入“节日”主题。

学生会听到发生在三个国家不同节日场景下的简短对话，对话中的人们正在参与或将要亲历不同的庆祝活动。

随着全球化的进程加速，国际交流日益频繁，无论是国人走出国门还是外国友人访问中国，都已成为司空见惯的事情。

因此，该板块所选取的三个典型节日场景都是属于跨文化交际语境，不仅每组对话中的人物来自不同的文化背景，对话者的身份和关系也不尽相同。

【教学目标】1. Master the new words related to holiday: lantern, carnival, costume, dress (sb) up, march, congratulation, congratulate, riddle, ceremony, samba, make-up, after all.2. To understand the origin of major world festivals and the activities held to celebrate them and the significance of these activities;3. Improve listening comprehension and oral expression of the topic by listening and talking about traditional festivals around the world;4. Improve students’ understanding of the topic by watching pictures and videos about different traditional festivals around the world;5. Review the common assimilation phenomenon in English phonetics, distinguish the assimilated phonemes in the natural language flow, and consciously use the assimilation skill in oral expression.【教学重难点】Importance:1. Guide students to pay attention to the attitude of the speaker in the process of listening, and identify the relationship between the characters;2. Inspire students to use topic words to describe the festival activities based on their background knowledge.Difficulties:In the process of listening to the correct understanding of the speaker’s attitude, accurately identify the relationship between the characters.【课前准备】1. To understand the origin of traditional festivals in the world, the celebration activities (customs) of these festivals and the meaning of these activities;2. Talk about holiday celebrations;3. Preview: understand the new words according to the context.【教学过程】Step 1 Lead-inTeachers talk about the world’s traditional festivals, such as the Lantern Festival in China, adults’ day in foreign countries, carnivals and so on.Step 2 Watching and talkingActivity 11. Teacher lets Ss look at some pictures about festival activities. During talking about these activities, teacher can add some background knowledge about festivals.Questions:①What festivals do the pictures show us?②In which country do you think people celebrate each festival?③How do people celebrate each festival?2. Ask sb to choose some words or phrases from the box to celebrate eachfestival.3. Teacher can show students how to use these word blocks and learn to describeholiday activities in groups. For example：On the Coming-of-Age Day, young girls in Japan would wear traditional costumes.One of the most important activities during the Lantern Festival is to guess riddles.During the Rio Carnival, you can watch wonderful samba dances.4. The teacher asks students to report the results of the group lecture. Ask thesequestions:①What do people do to celebrate the Chinese Lantern festival?②Who will celebrate Coming-of-Age Day? What do they do to celebrate it?③What do you expect to see if you go to the Rio Carnival?5. Learn some words and phrases in the box.Step 3 ListeningActivity 21. Teacher asks sb to read “Listen for relationships”, In pairs, discuss how to identify relationships between people based on their tone and content. The teacher can provide the following questions to inspire students to discuss.①What does a tour guide usually say to a tour group? What expressions arefrequently used?②What questions does an interviewer usually ask during an interview?③What would a reporter say or do if he/she wants to interview a tourist?④How do friends usually talk?2. Some group representatives are invited to communicate and speak in class.3. Teacher plays the listening tape for students to listen to and write the order of the conversations next to the names of the festivals.4. Play the tape again, students match each conversation with the relationship between the speakers.5. Check the answers with class.Activities 3-41. Teacher asks students to look at the tasks and requirements of activity 3. Then read the main ideas of the three dialogues. (Guide the students to guess and fill in the words according to the context. Let the students analyze the English syntactic structure based on the meaning of the sentence and make reasonable inferences.)2. Teacher plays the tape for the second time. After listening to the tape, students discuss the answers in pairs. Then the class communicates and checks the answers.3. Teacher lets students listen to the tape for the third time (Before the teacher plays the recording for the third time, the teacher should prepare the students to takenotes and remind them to catch key words, especially phrasal verbs.).Step 4 SpeakingActivity 51. Lead the dialogue by asking questions. Let students understand how to discuss their favorite festivals and give their reasons.E.g.,Conversation 1T: Which of the three festivals do you like best?S1: I think the Coming-of-Age Day is the most interesting.T: Why is it your favourite?S1: Because I like to see women dressed up in their colorful traditional kimonos.Conversation 2T: Which of the three festivals attracts you most?S2: The Chinese Lantern Festival.T: I suppose you like yuanxiao, the sweet dumplings.S2: Not only that. I especially like guessing riddles and I’m good at it.2. Follow the example of the conversation in activity 5 and work in pairs to discuss your favorite holiday and explain why. After the discussion, the teacher asks some groups to show the dialogue.Step 5 ActingOne student plays the role of a journalist. The other three students play the roles of the characters in the listening dialogue. They are the Japanese girl attending the coming-of-age ceremony, the girl attending the Rio carnival, and the tourist visiting China. The following questions can be used in the interview:①What is the purpose of this festival?②How do you usually celebrate this festival?③What do you like best about this festival?Step 6 Pronunciation1. Help students recognize speech assimilation.（1）Teacher plays the recording of activity 1 and asks the students to pay attention to the pronunciation changes of bold letters while listening.（2）Teacher organizes students to carry out activities in pairs: the teacher plays the recording, one person in the group reads after the words and phrases in activity 1, the other person compares the pronunciation of the recording with that of his partner carefully, and points out the pronunciation problem of his/her partner if there is any difference. Then switch roles, listen to the tape again and complete the same task.2. Let students imitate and read.（1）Teacher guides students to understand the requirements of activity 2. Before listening to the tape, the teacher asks the question for students to think: “How does your pronunciation change while reading the sentences?”（2）Teacher plays the tape for the first time. The students read after the sentences in activity 2.（3）Teacher plays the tape for the second time, the students repeat the sentences again, and then discuss with their partners the differences between the pronunciation of the bold consonants in words and the pronunciation in sentences, and describe the phonetic assimilation in the flow.（4）Teacher asks different students to read the six sentences of activity 2 and report the result of the discussion on phonetic assimilation. The teacher supplements and corrects the students’conclusion, explains it appropriately, and writes the assimilation pronunciation in these sentences on the blackboard or presents it to the students through the courseware.Step 7 Listening and TalkingActivity 61. Learn the new words about the festivals.2. Look at the pictures and predict what festival Song Lin and Max are going to talk about.3. Listen and answer the questions.①What festival is Max talking about?②What did Max’s mother cook?③What did Max do during the festival?④What did Max and his family do during and after the dinner?⑤What was the best part of the festival?4. Listen again and check the answers with class.Answers:①Christmas experiences.②Roast turkey, mashed potatoes and Christmas pudding, …③He helped decorate the Christmas tree and put presents under it, then helped his mum prepare for the family dinner.④During dinner they shared stories and told jokes, afterwards they played games, opened their presents.⑤The best part was opening their presents on Christmas morning.5. Listen again and tick the phrases that Max or Song Lin uses. Then check the answers with class.6. Have a conversation with the help of these questions:①What is the recent festival you have had?②How did you celebrate it?③How do you feel about the festival? Why?Step 8 Homework1）Read the passage again and understand the food culture from a cross-cultural perspective.2）Remember the new words and learn the usages of them.【教学反思】1、通过本节内容学习，学生能否理解发生在三个国家不同节日场景下的简短对话，对话中的人们正在参与或将要亲历不同的庆祝活动；2、通过本节内容学习，学生能否辨别对话中人物之间的关系；3、通过本节内容学习，学生能否掌握听力训练中的听力策略。

高中英语教案英文版【篇一：高中英语必修三教案】unit 1 festivals around the worldＩ．单元教学目标ii．目标语言iii. 教材分析与教材重组1. 教材分析本单元以节日为话题，介绍古今中外节日的种类、由来、意义以及人们的活动和习俗，旨在通过本单元的学习使学生不但了解我国的节日，而且对外国的节日也有所了解，进而拓展社会文化背景、增加跨国文化知识；使学生复习和巩固运用请求和感谢的表达法，掌握情态动词的用法；并尝试根据阅读的文章写一个不同的结局，能表达自己的观点和想法。

1.1 warming up 旨在通过表格引导学生讨论并列举出五个我国节日的日期、庆祝内容和民俗。

可以刚刚过去的春节为话题导入对节日的讨论；使他们由自己的经历谈起，扩展到别的节日以及外国的重要节日，激发学生的兴趣，激活他们关于节日的背景知识，为本单元的学习做准备。

1.2 pre-reading是reading 的热身活动。

主要通过两个问题引导学生思考并讨论自己最喜欢的节日及欢度方式，进而了解学生对节日的认识，以便为阅读作好铺垫。

1.3 reading 的五篇小短文分别介绍古代节日、亡灵节、纪念名人的节日、丰收节、春天的节日等，使学生了解各种节日的由来及其存在的意义。

此部分载有festivals的重要信息，还呈现了大量的词汇和主要的语法---情态动词的用法。

处理时应作为重点、整体处理，通过上下文来教词汇、语法，并引导学生分析长句、难句和复杂句。

1.4 comprehending是考察对阅读内容的进一步理解。

练习一：六个问题让学生对文章内容有浅层理解并考察课文细节，但又不能仅仅拘泥于课文，要引导学生理解课文内容的基础上联系现实生活。

练习二：要求学生讨论哪些节日是最重要的，哪些是最有趣的，以表格的形式检查学生对所读节日的理解，。

练习三：要求学生找出各种节日并训练他们举一反三的归纳和推理能力共有的三件事，然后讨论为什么这些事对各地的人们都很重要。

新人教版（2019）英语必修三Unit 1 Period 1 Listening and Thinking教学设计Video: Brazilian CarnivalStep 8 Listen for relationshipsTo listen for a relationship, you need to payattention to how people talk to each other (e.g.friends usually call each other by first names)and some particular questions in theconversation (e.g. “Could I have the bill,please?” tells us that the speaker is a customerin a restaurant). Students listen tothe tips.-Help students learntips in listeningpractice.-Make studentsmaster the listeningskill better.-Better finish thetesting task.Step 9 DiscussionTeacher shows the topic and gives studentsexamples to discuss.In pairs, discuss which of these festivals attractsyou the most and why.EXAMPLE:A: I think the Rio Carnival would be the mostexciting. After all, as you know, love to dance!B: I love dancing, too, but I'm not sure I'denjoy it in such hot weather.A: So which festival do you like best?B: I like ... Use what theyhave learnt fromthe interview tohelp you anddiscuss in groups.-Voice theiropinions.-Practice their teamspirit.-Practice theirthinking skill andimagination.-Practice theirspeaking andlistening.Step 10 PronunciationListen and read aloud the words or phrasesto your partner. Pay attention to the changein the pronunciation of the bold letters.Listen to the following sentences, payingattention to the consonants in bold. How dotheir pronunciations change when they areread in the sentences?1.Did you enjoy the holiday?2.Miss, congratulations on becoming anadult!3.It’ll be too tiring to w alk or dance for along time in those shoes. Students do theexercises.-Improve thestudents’pronunciation skill.4.I was hoping to hear that you had a greattime throughout.5.Children then take part in Easter egg huntsto find the eggs and win prizes.6.In Mexico, the Day of the Dead iscelebrated between October 31st andNovember 2nd.Discuss the differences with your partner. Then listen and repeat.Step 11 AssimilationVideo: AssimilationPronunciation tipsLetters such as "d", "n", "t", and "s" often takeon a different pronunciation from when they areused as initial sounds than when they are used inthe middle of a word or to link words in asentence.For example:• In a word like education, the "du" will become/dʒə/ or /djʊ/, instead of /d(j) ʊ/ as in duty.• An ending "t" followed by a word beginning Learn the relatedknowledge point.-Help studentsunderstand andmaster relatedknowledge points.。

必修三unit 1 Festivals around the world 适用学科英语适用年级高一适用区域全国课时时长（分钟）2课时知识点1、本单元重点词汇；2、情态动词的用法。

教学目标1、让学生掌握本单元所出现的词汇的用法。

2、通过本单元的学习，要求学生熟练掌握情态动词may/ might，can/could，will/would，shall/should，must/can的各种语用功能。

教学重点通过上下文来教词汇、语法，并引导学生分析长句、难句和复杂句。

教学难点总结语言材料中有关情态动词用法和功能并加以应用。

教学过程一、课堂导入要求学生以小组形式完成一个表格填充，列出中国的五个节日和这些节日的时间、庆祝的内容以及节日里人们的所作所为。

激发学生的阅读兴趣，为本单元Reading部分的世界节日做好铺垫。

二、复习预习以提问学生方式复习上节课所学习知识。

同时以习题形式预习新课。

三、知识讲解考点/易错点1 重点单词与短语学习mean n.意义，意思v. 意味；想要(回归课本P1)Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year.[归纳拓展]mean to do 打算做某事be meant to do 被要求做…mean doing 意味着….eg. I never meant him to work for us.Passing the entrance examination means being admitted into college.take place发生(回归课本P1)Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. [归纳拓展] take place/happen/occur/break out/come about(1)take place 其“发生”是按意图或计划进行，无偶然性，无被动语态。

2019届一轮复习人教版必修三Unit 1 Festivals around the world单元教案Teaching goals1. To help students learn to talk about festivals2. To help students learn to read festivals and celebrations.3. To help students learn to make phone calls, invitations and express “thanks”4. To help students learn to use some important words and expressions5. To help students identify examples of “The modal verbs” in the textTopicFestivals; how festivals began; how festivals are celebratedVocabularybeauty, harvest, celebration, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, trick, poet, arrival, gain, independence, independent, gather, agriculture, agricultural, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, worldwide, fool, permission, parking, apologize, drown, sadness, obvious, wipe, weep, remind, forgiveExpressionstake place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, parking lot, turn up , keep one’s word, hold one’s breath, set off, remind --- of--- Function1.Making phone calls: May 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.Invitations: I wonder if you are inerested in--- I’d like to invite you to --- Would youlike---? Could/ Would you please ---? I’m looking forward to--- I’d love to, but----3.Thanks: Thank you so much. Thanks a lot. That’s very kind of you. You’re mostwelcome. Don’t mention it. It’s a pl easure.GrammarThe modal verbs (can,could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, can’t)Teaching AidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, tape-recorder, photos, diagramsPeriod OneProcedureStep1 Warming up⑴Warming up by Brainstorming holidays around the world.⑵Warming up by guessing which picture matches with which festival.⑶Warming up by discussing and listingStudents are required to work in groups and list three more Chinese festivals that they know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Then tell the group which festival is his/ her favourite and why.Step 2 Pre-readingDiscussing and answeringAsk students to discuss and answer the two questions on P11) It is intended to help students bring their personal experience into the discussion of festivals.2) Students are directed to predict the content of the reading passage, based on the title and pictures.Step 3 Reading1.SkimmingAsk students to read the Ex1 on P3, have them understand four kinds of festivals, and then ask them to skim the reading passage. After reading, ask the whole class to fill the first line of the chart together. Then get them to finish the chart by themselves. At last, have three students tell the class his/ her answers.2. Scanning for the detailed information1) Ask students to Scan the passage and finish the true and false exercise.1.The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. F2.Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead. T3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honour a lot in China. T4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. F5.Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F2)Ask students to scan the passage again to find out the answers to the first three questions of the Ex2 on P3. And then ask one student to answer the questions and check with the whole class. Suggested answers:1.Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancesters ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.2.Auturn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.3. At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.3. Discussion (group work)Ask students to discuss Question 4 and 5 in Ex2 on P3.Question 4Question 5The similarities:①The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs tohonour the dead.②The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’ graves, and the Mexicansoffer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.The Difference:The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do.Step 4. Post reading2. Ex4 on P3Have students discuss in pairs which kinds of festival they think are the most important and which are the most fun.Period Two & Period ThreeLanguage focus1.be meant to : 应该, 得要，必须, 应做You are meant to leave a tip. 你得留下小费。

Unit 1 SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS单元分析单元主题：人与社会-科学精神单元内容分析本单元的话题是人与社会，围绕科学和科学家的主题展开，讲述了几位科学家的生平经历、研究过程和重要贡献，以及近年来中国在科技创新方面取得的伟大成就，还呈现了一些有趣的科学体验、科学现象、研究发明等，并探讨了未来的科学发展趋势、科学与艺术的关系等，旨在激发青少年对科学研究的兴趣和好奇心，引导他们思考科学研究的方法，积极开展科学研究，探究科学家的必备品质和科学精神的基本要素。

以下为教材各部分教学内容的简要分析及教学活动的实施建议：1．Opening Page 主题图中的两位中学生正在做实验，年轻的脸庞上洋溢着对科学研究的专注与热爱。

该主题图旨在唤醒学生的个人体验，激发他们对科学主题的兴趣。

同时，该图也传达了这样的主题内涵：科学的未来在青少年手中，学生应注重培养科学素养，并向伟大的科学家学习，塑造科学精神和科学品质，这样未来才能承担起推动科学进步的光荣使命。

本单元的引言是“To raise new questions，new possibilities，to regard old problems from a new angle，requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”，意思是“要提出新的问题、新的可能性，从一个新的角度审视已存在的问题，这些需要创造性的想象力，并标志着科学的真正进步”。

这句话旨在引导学生思考科学进步的根本动力和标志，从而理解创新与想象的意义。

2．Reading and Thinking 该板块的活动主题为Understand the questioning mind。

教材通过引导学生分析约翰·斯诺探究霍乱病源并切断感染源，从而最终阻止霍乱流行的过程与方法，促使他们思考和梳理科学研究的基本步骤和常见方法，理解质疑精神在科学研究中的重要作用。

必修三第一单元Why do we celebrate festivals?一、文本分析这是一篇说明文，从不同的侧面对节日进行说明。

第一段首先介绍节日的起源有季节、宗教、著名人物、重要事件，接着介绍节日的共性特点:分享快乐、感激、爱、和平等。

第二段举例说明全世界共同庆祝的节日丰收节的庆祝时间、原因和主要活动，同时举例说明古代埃及、现代欧洲和中国庆祝丰收节的情况。

第三段介绍习俗在节日形成中扮演着重要角色，但随着社会的发展，一些习俗逐渐消失，同时也产生些新的习俗，以中国春节为环保而禁止燃放鞭炮和万圣节变成了孩子的娱乐节日为例说明。

第四段介绍节日商业化现象。

最后一段说明节日的重要性和意义。

从节日的起源、共性特点、发展、重要性和意义等方面介绍节日,理解节日的文化内涵,比较节日的异同，让学生了解不同民族文化习俗与传统节日，拓宽国际视野,增强祖国意识和跨文化交际能力。

二、设计理念“问题链·导学”模式是以“为什么要庆祝庆祝节日？”这一问题为中心开展教学。

通过节日情境创设，把学生引导到提出问题、分析问题、感悟问题的活动中来。

让学生基于节日主题语境，通过学习理解、迁移创新等体现综合性、关联性等特点的英语学习活动，围绕标题为什么要庆祝节日展开，提炼庆祝原因，在分析问题和解决问题过程中，促进自身语言知识学习、语言技能发展、文化内涵理解、多元思维发展。

三、本堂课特色1.创设节日情境，激发阅读动机；2.围绕教学目标，借力思维导图，理清语篇思路，使文本信息结构化；3.以问题链为支架，深度阅读，融入语言，优化思维发展，探讨庆祝节日的原因；4.回归标题，针对“festival”首字母，回归课文，再次提炼庆祝节日的意义，升华主题。

四、教学目标1.获取段落大意，梳理节日的起源、共性特点、发展等信息；2.描述中外节日异同，理解不同节日的重要性；3.分析和总结庆祝节日的原因；4.写一篇介绍清明节的应用文。

五、教学步骤Step1:学习理解类活动1. 围绕主题创设情境，铺垫语言以临近的清明节为导入，Why do we celebrate Tomb Sweeping Day? How do we celebrate it?Step2：概括、梳理、整合信息1. 寻找段落大意总结阅读技巧。

人教新课标高中英语必修三Unit 1 Festivals around the world全章教案I．教学内容分析本单元的中心话题是“节日”，主要讲述了不同地区不同种类的节日。

Warming Up部分设计了小组活动，通过图表填写让学生区分中国的传统节日与别国节日的异同，目的在于激活学生已有的节日背景知识，引出主题，为以后几堂课学习热身。

Pre-reading 通过几个问题,调动学生已有的知识和经验，激发学生想了解更多节日的好奇心，让他们主动参与到主题教学活动中，为下面学习阅读文章作铺垫。

Reading 部分先简要介绍了一下早期各种节日的起源以及存在的原因，然后又分别介绍了几种世界各地的节日，依次的顺序是亡灵节、纪念名人的节日、丰收节、春天的节日等。

Comprehending由四个部分组成。

第一、三、四部分通过表格形式，第二部分通过让学生回答问题的方式，鼓励学生积极思考，加深对课文的理解。

Learning about Language 部分主要突出了本单元的语法项目——情态动词的用法。

这些情态动词主要有：can，could，may，might，will，would，shall，should，must，can’t 等的用法。

Using Language 部分中包括了听、说、读、写几个部分的内容。

学生可通过对Trinidad Carnival、情人节等一些节日的学习，分析问题，锻炼自己的思维能力。

阅读后的习题及讨论不仅帮助学生理解文章的主旨大意，更重要的是让学生寻找解决问题的方法。

Learning Tip部分主要建议学生搜集各种资料，查询与世界各地节日有关的信息，了解各种节日的来源与内涵。

II．教学重点和难点1. 教学重点(1) 本单元的生词和短语；(2) 掌握一些情态动词的基本用法；(3) 了解有关节日和民俗，掌握有关词汇，如custom,religious等。

2. 教学难点(1) 增进学生对中国节日的理解，了解和感悟外国的节日；(2) 提高学生的社会文化素质，加强跨国文化素质；(3) 培养学生运用资源策略。