浙江省嘉兴市第三中学高中英语《Unit1 Festivals around the world》Reading教案 新人教版必修3

Unit 1 Festivals around the worldReadingAnalysis of the teaching materialThis is the first teaching period of this unit. At the beginning of the class, the teacher can play an April Fools joke on the students to lead in the topic “festival”.The Warming Up is intended to brainstorm students background knowledge of festival. Through brainstorming the teacher can roughly know how much the students know about festivals at home and abroad. Students can start thinking about the variety of events and festivals that are celebrated in and out of China.The teacher can use this part to introduce information that Chinese students should have about their countrys cultural events.The passage FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS briefly introduced the earliest kinds of festivals and four different kinds of festivals in the world, including their names, dates, countries, purposes and activities. Encourage students to look at the pictures and the heading of each section to guess what the text might be about. Then let them skim for the general idea for each section, and scan for further understanding. Because this passage introduces a lot of useful new words and expressions which are only used for festivals, in order not to let students feel much difficult, the teacher should deal with any language problems while they are reading. After reading, students are required to deal with some questions to see how much they have understood the reading passage. The teacher can first let them work in pairs or in groups to find the answers cooperatively, and then check their answers with the whole class.Teaching goals:1. Knowledge goals:（1） Get students to learn the useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, agriculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with(2） Let students learn about history and basic knowledge of festivals both in and out of China.2. Ability goals:(1) Develop students reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.(2) Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.3. Emotional goals:(1) Stimulate students love for their own national culture and customs.(2) Develop students sense of cooperative learning.(3) Get students to know the origins of different festivalsTeaching important points:1. Let students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.2. Get students to learn different reading skills.Teaching difficult points:1. Develop students reading ability.2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.Teaching aids:PPT, blackboard, chalk, picturesTeaching methods:Discussion, cooperative learningTeaching procedures:Step 1 Lead-inGreet the students and play a joke on them.I will be their new English teacher, do you believe it ?What if I tell you this news on April, 1st, will you believe it? Why?(Lead the students to say out the April Fools Day.)Step 2 Warming up1. Let students brainstorm other festivals they know.(Lantern Festival, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving Day. . . )2. What do people do at festivals? List the activities they do. Teacher shows the pictures of Spring Festival, Mid-autumn Festival and the Valentines Day as examples.Step 3 Fast Reading1. Read the passage quickly to find out what kinds of festivals are mentioned in this passage.2. Read it again quickly and try to finish the chart in EX.1 on page 3. Fill in the chart with the names of festivals and the names of the countries which celebrate these festivals.(Check the answers together)Step 4 Careful readingLearn each kind of festival one by one, and do some exercise to get a more detailed knowledge of these festivals.1. Festivals of the DeadWhy do people hold festivals of the Dead? (To honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors.)What do people do at these festivals? Match the activities with each festival.Obon in Japan: clean graves, light incense, light lamps, play music.The Day of the Dead in Mexico: Eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with “bones”; Offer food, flowers and gifts to the deadHalloween in some western countries: dress up; go to their neighbours to ask for sweets, play tricks2. Festivals to Honour People:Read this part and then do a match job. Match the names of festivals with the pictures of the people.3. Harvest Festivals(1) Why are harvest festivals happy events?(Because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over.)(2) What kind of activities do people do in harvest festivals?Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people _B_.A. get together to have mealsB. decorate houses to admire the moonC. win awards for their farm produceD. enjoy mooncakes4. Spring FestivalsRead and find out how people in different countries celebrate spring festivals.(1) Chinese Spring FestivalChinese People usually eat dumplings, fish and meat, and give children lucky money in red paper.There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together.(2) EasterEaster celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life.Step 5 ConclusionAfter the whole passage learning, ask students to draw the main idea of the text.Main idea: The passage is mainly about different festivals and why people celebrate them and how people celebrate them.Step 6 DiscussionNowadays more and more Chinese people, es