Unit1Festivalsaroundtheworld2

Unit 1 Festivals around the world 1 Teaching aims of this unit Talk about festivals and celebrations Talk about the ways to express request and thanks Learn to use Modal verbs Write a similar story with a different ending 2 Sentence patterns Request Could Would you please Could I have Could we look at I look forward to May I see Thanks It s very kind of you Thank you very much Thanks a lot I d love to It was a pleasure Don t mention it You are most welcome 3 Modal verbs May might can could will would shall should must can The first period warming up 1 Teaching aims Vocabulary take place festival beauty celebrate Phrases take place could you Would you Teaching Procedures Step I 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 Any volunteers S1 Because it is the most important festival in our country S2 Because I got a lot of lucky money from my parents S3 Because I needn t study at festivals and there was a lot of delicious food to eat How great S4 Because I met my cousins and friends who I hadn t seen for a long time T Very food I am glad to hear that Today we will talk about festivals which are meant to celebrate important events Please think about some other festivals Can you name just a few Ss New year Yuan xiao festival T Quite right That s called the Lantern s Festival How about some other festivals Ss The Army Day International Labour s Day National Day Tomb Sweeping Festival Dragon Boat Festival Mid autumn Day T You have done a good job boys and girls Step Warming up Festivals are meant to celebrate important events Different countries have different festivals Work in groups and lost five Chinese festivals that you know Discuss when they take place what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time The first one is given to you as an example FestivalsTime of year date What does it celebrate What do people do Mid Autumn Festival Autumn FallThe beauty of the full moon harvest time with family and friends Give Eat mooncakes and watch the full moon with family and friends Step Pre reading Discuss in groups of four 1 What s your favourite holiday of the year Why 2 What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town Do you like spending festivals with your family or with friends What part of a festival do you like best the music the things to see the visits or the food Step Assignment 1 Consolidation 2 Listening to the material again after class to be familiar with it 3 Homework Collect as much information about festivals as possible The second period Reading Teaching Aims 1 Vocabulary Starve starvation origin religious ancestors plenty Mexico feast in memory of bones beliefs dress up play a trick on poet arrival gain independence gathered agricultural awards rooster admire look forward to Easter energetic day and night clothing Christians as though have fun with customs 2 To enable the students to know the earliest festivals with reasons for them and four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world 3 To enable the students to master some English expressions and phrases about festivals 4 Teach the basic reading skills skimming and scanning 5 Try to compare and make conclusion s of different festivals Step Revision 1 Greetings 2 Review the new words of this part 3 Check the students homework festivals Step Reading 1 Scanning T Open your books and turn to page one I d like you to do the scanning Read the text quickly and accurately to get the main idea and answer the 5 questions on Page3 Ask the student to look through the questions and then read the text silently Four minutes later check the answers with the whole class Show the suggested answers on the screen 2 Intensive reading Allow the students to read aloud and carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details T Read the text loudly for a second time and them try to tell if these 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 Mid autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end ot autumn F 5 Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus F 3 Reading and discussion T Read the text a third time and then work impairs to do Exercise 2 on Page 3 Let the students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the chart with their partners Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences 4 Explanation In this part try to help the students analyse the difficult long and complex sentences and guess the meaning of the new words ask them to deal with the language points in the context T Now I will discuss some important sentences and phrases in the passage a Some festivals are held to honor the dead or satisfy the ancestors who might return either to help or to do harm b In memory of c India has a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi the leader who helped gain India s independence from Britain d People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over e The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring f The country covered with cherry flowers looks as though it is covered with pink snow The suggested explanation a An attributive clause The sentence 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 b in memory of serving to recall sb to keep him fresh in people minds He wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife who died in an accident in honor of showing great respect or high public regard in hopes the hope of hoping in defence of defending c a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositive d two clauses for reason e energy energetic adj full of or done with energy look forward to to is a preposition here devote to be get used to get down to stick to e g I m looking forward to hearing from you Step Listening T Now I will play the tape for you You can just listen with your books closed or look at your books or read in a low voice together with the tape It s up to you After listening please write down three things that most festivals seem to have in common Comprehending Ex 3 on Page 3 The third period Learning about language Teaching aims 1 Let the students know the usage of modal verbs 2 Enable the students to recognize the words and expressions in the reading passage according to what mean the same as them Step Greeting and Revision Ask some students to retell the text we learned Step Practicing the useful words and expressions T As we know there are two important kinds of verbs transitive verbs and intransitive verbs But many intransitive verbs have the structure verb preposition objects Can you give me some examples Ss Sure Such as look at the picture hear from my friends listen to the radio and so on T Ok You are to make some sentences of your own using the words given S1 I m looking forward to hearing form my friend S2 We are talking about verbs S3 Would you like to talk with me S4 Who can think of an effective solution to the problem S5 Please think about my proposal Step Useful Structures T Let s come to the next part This part is about modal verbs You are to read the sentences in Ex 1 and then to find out and write down different sentences with modal verbs form the reading passage and try to explain their meanings If you have any difficulty in understanding them you can refer to Grammar in Pages 89 91 Step Summing up and home work T Boys and girls today we have practiced useful words and phrases of this unit and the usage of modal verbs I think it is not easy for you to master them after class you should review them Homework 1 Practice of WBP42 EX 1 2 3 2 Please find out 10 sentences with modal verbs and try to get their meanings The fourth period Listening Teaching aims 1 Vocabulary go with the best bands music go together 2 Enable the students to know how to get the key words to understand the conversation about the carnival parade to talk about sth happened and express request and thanks Step Revision After checking the WB Ex 1 2 3 the teacher ask the students to give examples about modal verbs and try to explain them Step Warming up T By the way what s the topic of this unit Ss Festivals around the world T Would you like to know something more about festivals around the world Ss Of course T Now I will show you several pictures What s the festival called Ss Carnival T Yes This class we will listen to a dialogue about carnivals First look through the four questions in listening part to find out the listening points Step Listening T I will play the tape for you twice Please listen carefully and pay much attention to the important points For the first time you are to make notes beside the questions For the second time you should write down the answers and then check them with your partners It s important to encourage the students to adapt their present knowledge any skill to a variety of situations wherever they can Make sure to allow various expressions of the answers Do not demand the same words form all students Step Speaking This part is intended to give the students the opportunity to practice a telephone conversation using the functional items for requests and thanks The polite form of English are important and should be practiced in a variety of situations Step Listening task T There are about 10 minutes left Let s come to listening task Turn to page 43 and look at the pictures They have something in common Can you find it out Ss They are all about festivals bout the dead T That s right I will play the tape for you For the first time you should try to write down the name of the country where the festival are held For the next two times you should do Ex2 You can make a brief note first and then complete the chart according to which you can make a report The fifth period Extensive reading Teaching aims 1 Vocabulary turn up keep one s word hold one s breath apologize drown one s sadness in coffee obvious wipe weep set off remind somebody of something forgive 2 Learn the festivals in China Step Revision Check homework Step Reading 1 T As we know there are all kinds of festivals around the world We have talked about two Chinese festivals for the dead Today we are going to read a sad story which is to introduce a cross cultural view of lovers festival Qi Qiao and Valentine s Day Now please read it quickly and find out the sentence below are true or false The girl Li Fang loved and waited but she didn t turn up But he didn t lose heart F Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly the Goddess got very angry T Zhinv was made to return to Heaven without her husband They were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month F Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him T T I think you have got the general idea of the passage Now please read the passage once more and answer the questions on Page 8 Some language points 1 turn up appear 2 keep her word keep her promise 3 hold his breath wait without much hope 4 drown one s sadness sorrow in coffee drink coffee in order to forget the sadness sorrow 5 remind sb of sth make sb think of sth Step Discussion and writing T That s for the reading part of the passage Please think about the ending of the story Are you satisfied with the ending Different people have different opinions to a matter Now any one of you have an opportunity to make up an ending to the story Please engage imaginatively in the story and use your own ideas Try to use the vocabulary and structures you have learned of you like Step Reading 2 T Let s come to another passage about carnival in Quebec Please turn to Page 44 read it quickly and answer the questions in Page 45 Five minutes for you Added material Thanksgiving Day Fourth Thursday in November is celebrated as Thanksgiving Day People thank God for his blessings People can Thank friends foes and anyone for the experiences happiness and sunshine they bring into their lives Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in America during the second winter in the new world The first winter had been bad as nearly half of the people had perished due to lack of food and bad weather But the following year with the help of Indians who showed them how to plant Indian corn the pilgrims had successful harvest Governor William Bradford decided that December 13 1621 be set aside for feasting and prayer The Indians were invited to share the festival Since than Thanksgiving Day is been celebrated in America However it was only in 1941 the Congress in a joint resolution named the fourth Sunday in November as the official Thanksgiving Day Dating back it is known that the Council thought to appoint and set apart the 29th day of June as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for his Goodness and Favour The First Thanksgiving Proclamation was however on June 20 1676 The governing council of Charlestown Massachusetts held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson the clerk to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving It is also known that the Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11 1620 Their first winter was devastating At the beginning of the following fall they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true thanksgiving observance It lasted three days Thanksgiving as we know it today has come a long way from the Pilgrim s harvest festival in 1621 It is an event that seems as each year goes by to reinvent itself and to expand its meaning to larger vistas Maybe this is the real significance of the occasion for as we continue to change and grow as a people there are an increasing number of things for which we can be thankful Halloween The ancient Druids 督伊德教 古代高卢人与不列颠人的一种宗教 的 教徒 who inhabited what we now call Great Britain placed great importance on the passing of one season to the next holding Fire Festivals which were celebrated for three days two days on either side of the day itself One of these festivals was called Samhain pronounced Sha Von and it took place on October 31 through to November 1 During this period it was believed that the boundaries between our world and the world of the dead were weakened allowing spirits of the recently dead to cross over and possess the living In order to make themselves and their homes less inviting to these wayward spirits the ancient Celts 凯尔特人 would douse 插入水中 把弄熄 弄湿 all their fires There was also a secondary purpose to this after extinguishing all their fires they would re light them from a common source the Druidic fire that was kept burning at Usinach in the Middle of Ireland Samhain was considered to be a gateway not only from the land of the dead to the land of the living but also between Summer and Fall Winter For the Druids this was the last gasp 喘息 气喘 of summer it was also the Celtic New Year so therefore they made sure it went out with a bang before they had to button down 把 弄清楚 for the winter ahead They would dress up in bizarre costumes and parade through their villages causing destruction in order to scare off any recently departed souls who might be prowling 巡游 for bodies to inhabit in addition to burning animals and other offerings to the Druidic deities 神 神性 It is also a popular belief that they would burn people who they believed to be possessed but this has largely been debunked 揭穿 拆穿假面 具 暴露 as myth This tradition was later brought to the North American continent by Irish immigrants who were escaping the Potato Famine in their homeland In addition to the festival itself the immigrants brought several customs with them including one of the symbols most commonly associated with Halloween the Jack O Lantern According to Irish folklore there once lived a man named Jack who was known for being a drunk and a prankster 顽皮的人 爱开玩笑的人 One night Jack tricked the devil into climbing a tree and quickly carved an image of a cross on the trunk trapping the devil Jack then made him promise that in exchange for letting him out of the tree the Devil would never tempt him to sin again He reluctantly agreed but was able to exact his revenge upon Jack s death Because of his mischievous ways in life Jack was barred from entering heaven and because of his earlier trick he was also barred from hell So he was doomed to wander the earth until the end of time with only a single ember 灰烬 余烬 carried in a hollowed out turnip 植 芜箐 芜箐甘蓝 to warm him and light his way In Ireland they originally also used turnips for their Jack Lanterns but upon arriving in the new world they discovered that pumpkins were abundant and easier to carve out Easter On Good Friday Jesus Christ was executed by crucifixion His body was taken down from the cross and buried in a cave The tomb was guarded and an enormous stone was put over the entrance so that no one could steal the body On the following Sunday some women visited the grave and found that the stone had been moved and that the tomb was empty Jesus himself was seen that day and for days afterwards by many people His followers realised that God had raised Jesus from the dead Hot Cross Buns Hot Cross buns are still made all over England around Easter time