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Unit 1 Festivals around the world(人教版)Teaching Aims1. Knowledge aimsTo grasp the useful important word and expressions in this unit;To learn about the festivals and celebrations.2. Ability aimEnable the students to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals.3. Emotion aimEnable the students to learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs.Teaching important pointsTalk about the Chinese festivals and social customs at festivals.Teaching difficult points1. Improve the students reading skill.2. How to talk about all kinds of festivals in English.Teaching methods1. Task-based teaching and learning2. Discussion, listening ,pair workTeaching aidsA computer, a projector and a tape recorderTeaching proceduresStep1 Leading in T: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to school! Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?Ss: Yes. Of course!T: When did you feel most happy and excited?Ss: At the Spring Festival.T; Who can tell us why？ Volunteers！Step2 Warming upS1: Because its one of the most important festivals in our country.S2: Because I got much lucky money from my parents, grandparents and my relatives.S3: Because I neednt study at festivals and there was a lot of delicious food to eat.T: Excellent work! I am glad to hear that. Now lets talk about festivals, which are meant to celebrate important events. Please think about other Chinese festivals.Step 3 Pre-reading1. Let students discuss the following questions.What festivals or celebrations do you have in your town?What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the sights, the food or the people who visit?2. Let students look at the pictures and the title of the reading, encourage them to predict what the reading is talking about.Step 4 While reading1. SkimmingGet the students to read the text quickly to get the main idea of each paragraph and answer these 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? Help the students form a good habit of reading.(此环节通过让学生快速阅读课文，归纳主题，回答问题，这样能够提高学生的阅读理解能力)2. ScanningAsk the students to read the text carefully again to understand the main idea of each paragraph and then try to see if these sentences are True or False.(1) The ancient people neednt worry about their food. ( ) (2) Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. ( )(3) Qu Yuan 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. ( )（此环节通过设计一些判断题，让学生细读课文后回答，使学生对全文有更深刻的理解，培养了学生发现信息、处理信息的能力。）3. Reading carefullyAsk students to look at the exercise2 on page3. Let them understand what they will do. During the reading, underline the new words and phrases which they are familiar with.Step 5 Post-reading1. Learn from the reading passage. The students have learnt something abut festivals. Let them discuss with each other and talk something about their festivals by trying to use the new words and expressions in this unit.2. Language pointsExplain some important or difficult points to the student.(此环节给学生解释一些课文中的难句，让学生更好地理解课文。)3. ListeningAsk the students to listen to the tape, after listening, ask the students to use their own words to retell the text.(利用这个联系来提高学生的听力水平，同时培养他们用英语表达的能力。)Step 6 Summing up and homework.Summing up:Boys and girls you did very well today. We have talk about many festivals around the world. I hope you can listen to the listening materials again after class to be familiar with it.