Unit4HolidaysandFestivals (2).doc

Reading taskTeaching aims: 1. Enable students to learn expressions and activities about spring festival.2. Enable students to practice reading and speaking skills3. Enlarge their knowledge and vocabulary about the topic of spring festival.4. Let students be more familiar with the Chinese tradition.Important and difficult teaching point:How to describe spring festival freely by using the knowledge just learnt.Lead-in and warming-upQ: How do you describe our hometownChina? A: China is (large/big/great/powerful etc.) China has (culture/attractions/population etc.)Let students to discuss in pairs the questions:“Where is your hometown and what do you usually do at Spring Festival?”_Task 11. Match the verbs with phrases. Work with the partner beside you.Verbs phrases1. Set off A. a big meal2. Have B. friends to dine 3. Write C. fireworks4. Give D. calligraphy5. Invite E. red envelopes6. Watch F. dragon and lion dance7. Walk G. New Years greeting to others 8. Hang H. spring couplets on the door9. Make I. Spring Festival celebrations10. Put J. lanterns11. Hold K. on stilt12. Send L. dumplings13.Do M. the Spring Festival GalaReadingBeijing-Fourteen-year-old Chen Yue, who is half-Chinese, half-French, has always enjoyed the atmosphere of a Chinese Spring Festival celebration . In Bei Jing, Chen Yue and her family invited friends to dine with them during that festival and give red envelopes. Chen Yues father immediately fell in love with the festival when they started celebrating it about 10 years ago, and actively joins in the preparations each year.The tradition of the Spring Festival, such as cleaning the house, having a big meal, setting off fireworks, and making dumplings can be found across different cultures.In USA, Chinese people always hang red lanterns, and put Spring couplets on the door annually as well as do dragon and lion dances in Chinatown in San Francisco. In Canada, Chinese people usually hold Spring Festival celebrations in a local shopping center, which attracts many local people to see. In France, people watch a video celebration on the screen at Times Square on Sunday, the Chinese New Years eve.Thousands of miles away, London planned a variety of traditional Chinese celebrations at the citys largest shopping mall Westfield London including dragon and lion dances, painting, writing calligraphy and walking on stilts. Prime Minister of British, Prime Minister of Australia and a lot of other political leaders have sent New Years greetings to the Chinese people worldwide as well.Both traveling agencies and business tycoons worldwide have already begun to understand the importance of this spirit.Task2:What is the best title about this passage?_.Task 3: Find out spring celebrations in different countries. Fill in the chart. celebrationscountriesChinaUSACanadaFranceBritishAustraliaTask4: If you are an editor, put these pictures into correct paragraphs.Para_ Para_Para_ Para_Post reading: 1. Read these four paragraphs carefully, and think “Which spirits can you feel in the each paragraph?” Write them under the pictures.open hopeful traditionalwarm positive harmoniousworldwide united comprehensive 2. Role-p