一、Teaching materials:
Unit 3 Language in use (Module 3 Spring Festival)
二、Targets for this period:
To consolidate Present continuous questions and short answers
To learn new words by using word map and pictures
To write a letter about the Spring Festival
三、Key points:
Key structures-Are you learning a dragon dance? No, I’m not. I’m making lanterns.
Is your mother cooking? Yes, she is.
四、Teaching methods:
Formal and interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Blackboard, handouts
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Warming-up (Around the world)
1. Students find more information about Christmas by answering the questions
1) What is the most important festival in the western countries? Christmas.
2) What is it to celebrate? The birth of Jesus Christ
3) What is Father Christmas like? A fat man with a long white beard and wears a red suit
4) What does Father Christmas give to the children? Presents
2. Language points
1) celebrate
e.g. How does she celebrate her birthday?
2) be interested in
e.g. He isn’t interested in Mothers’ Day.
3) wear, put on, dress
Wear sth 穿著 / 戴著某物 （強調狀態）
Put on sth 穿上 / 戴上某物 （強調動作）
Dress sb 給某人穿衣服
Step Two Vocabulary learning (Activity 4)
Students use the word map to write the words and phrases in Units 1&2 under the headings.
Getting ready: clean the house, sweep the floor, paint the doors and windows red, buy clothes, have a haircut, cook the meal, learn the dance, make the lanterns
Decorations: paper cut, lanterns
Food: cake, jiaozi(dumpling), niangao(sweet rice pudding), yuanxiao(rice dumpling)
Presents: new clothes
Traditions: watch fireworks at midnight, visit family and friend, watch dragon and lion dancing
Step Three To write short answers according to the example (Activity 1)
Step Four To write questions and short answers (Activity 2)
1. Is Lingling’s mother cleaning the house? Yes, she is.
2. Is Lingling’s father making lanterns? No, he isn’t.
3. Is Lingling’s aunt cooking the meal? No, she isn’t
4. Is Lingling’s grandmother sweeping the floor? No, she isn’t.
5. Are the boys learning a dragon dance? Yes, they are.
6. Are Lingling and her family getting ready for the spring Festival? Yes, they are.
Step Five Comparison: 一般現在時和現在進行時的幾點不同
一、基本用法不同
1. 一般現在時用來表示習慣性的動作或狀態。
如： She goes to school by bike every day.
2. 現在進行時用來表示現在(說話的瞬間)正在發生或進行的動作或者用來表示現階段正在進行或存在的狀態。
如： Look ! She is reading under the tree.
二、謂語動詞的形式不同
1. 一般現在時的謂語動詞：1) be動詞用am/is/are這三種形式；2)實義動詞用動詞原形或第三人稱單數形式(根據主語數的變化而變化)。
如：We go to school at seven in the morning.
2. 現在進行時謂語動詞的形式為： am / is / are+動詞-ing 形式。
如： I am reading English now. 我現在正在讀英語
三、時間狀語不同
1. 一般現在時常與often, sometimes, always, usually等頻率副詞連用，還與 every morning /day / week..., on Wednesday, in the morning / afternoon / evening等時間狀語連用。
2. 現在進行時常與now, these days, these weeks等時間狀語連用。句首有 Look ! / Listen !等提示語時，后面的句子中動詞一般用現在進行時。
四、特殊用法不同
1. 一般現在時的特殊用法： 表示客觀真理、自然現象往往要用一般現在時表示。
如： The moon goes round the earth.月亮繞著地球轉。
2. 現在進行時的特殊用法： 現在進行時與always 連用時，往往含有贊揚、厭惡、責備等感情色彩。
如： He is always working hard.他總是非常努力地工作。(表示贊揚)
come, go, begin, start, leave 等動詞常用現在進行時表示將要發生的動作。
如： I'm coming. 我就來。
Step Six 用所給詞的適當形式填空。
1. It’s six o’clock in the morning. I am getting (get) dressed.
2. Look! Daming is lying (lie) in the sun.
3. Listen! Betty and Lily are singing (sing) an English song.
4. Tony isn’t reading. He is writing (write).
5. What is Wang Hui doing (do) at the moment?
6. Betty’s mother is visiting (visit) Hollywood now.
7. ---Where is Lucy?
---She is shopping (shop) with her mum.
8. We often have (have) lunch at home.
9. He goes (go) to the opera every Sunday.
10.Thank you for sending (send) me a post card.
11.Look! Tom with his classmates is playing (play) football over there.
12.It’s 8:30 in the morning. Is Jim having (have) a Chinese class?
13.Little Bob has (have) a toy boy now.
14.John doesn’t live (not live) with his parents. He shares a room with his friend.
15.Who usually does (do) shopping in your family?
16.-- Does Lily bring (bring) her dictionary every day? –Yes, she’s cooking (cook) now.
17.Don’t drink (drink) too much coke. It’s not good for you.
18.My grandma watches (watch) TV every day. But she isn’t watching (watch) now.
19.Does Betty write (write) to you very often? –No. But I think she is going to write to me soon.
20.-Where does Harry often buy (buy) his train tickets?
Step seven To translate into English
1. 你們正在為春節作準備嗎？
Are you getting ready for the Spring Festival?
2. 我們經常用剪紙來裝飾門窗。
We often decorate doors and windows with paper cuts.
3. 連續幾天，我們不打掃房間，因為我們不想把好運掃走。
We don’t clean the house for a few days, because we don’t want to sweep away good luck.
4. 在新年那一天，我們穿上新衣服去給親戚朋友拜年。
On New Year’s Day, we put on new clothes and visit our family and friends.
5. 他們給我們一年四季帶來好運氣。
They bring us good luck all the year round.
6. 紅色代表幸運，所以我們把門窗涂成紅色。
Red means good luck, so we paint our doors and windows red.
7. 他們經常去購買禮物和準備大量的食物。
They usually go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
8. 在西方國家，圣誕節是最重要的節日。
Christmas is the most important festival in the western countries.
9. 圣誕老人是一個留著又白又長的胡須，穿著紅外套的肥大的老人。
Father Christmas is an old fat man with long and white beard and wears a red suit.
10. 春節你們有什么傳統習俗？
What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
Homework:
1. To review Module 2 and copy all the words and expressions in P154-155
2. To finish Module2, 點中典 & 輕巧奪冠
Blackboard designing
Unit 3 Language in use
1) celebrate
e.g. How does she celebrate her birthday?
2) be interested in
e.g. He isn’t interested in Mothers’ Day.
3) wear, put on, dress
Wear sth 穿著 / 戴著某物 （強調狀態）
Put on sth 穿上 / 戴上某物 （強調動作）
Dress sb 給某人穿衣服
Word map:
clean the house make the lanterns paper cut
sweep the floor
buy clothes
have a haircut
learn the dance
paint the doors and windows red cook the meal lanterns
new clothes
niangao(sweet rice pudding)
cake
jiaozi(dumpling)
yuanxiao(rice dumpling)
watch fireworks at midnight
visit family and friend
watch dragon and lion dancing
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