Unit 1 Festivals around the world

　

The First Period (Warming up & Pre-reading)

Step One: Lead-in

Free Talk: Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?

When did you feel most happy and excited? Why?

( At the Spring Festival. Because it's the most important festival in our country....)

Step Two: Warming up

1. Let the Ss think about the other Chinese festivals.

( Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Day, Chung Yeung Festival....)

2. Discussion One

1)Let the Ss look at the information about Chinese festivals and discuss another four Chinese festivals according to the example in warming up: When does the festival come?

What do people celebrate?

What do people do?

Festivals Date festivals Date

New Year January1st Teachers' Day September 10th

International Women's Day March 8 National Day October 1st

Arbor Day March 12th The Spring Festival Lunar New Year

International labor Day May 1st Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

International Children's Day June 1st Mid-Autumn Festival the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

Army Day August 1st Lantern Festival the 15th day of the 1st lunar month

Chinese Youth Day May 4th Pure Brightness Day April the fifth

2) Let the Ss fill in the form in the warming up and ask some to share their opinions with the whole class.

3 Discussion Two

Talk about some foreign festivals.

( Christmas, April Fools Day, Easter Day, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Obon...)

Step three: Pre-reading

Let students think about the questions:

1) What is your favourate 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 Four: Language Points

1.mean to do 打算做某事

mean doing 意味著….

I never meant him to work for us.

Passing the entrance examination means being admitted into college.

2. celebrate vt.

(1) do sth to show that a day or an event is important 慶祝；祝賀

celebrate Christmas / one’s birthday / a wedding anniversary / a victory

(2) praise and honor 贊揚；稱頌

The names of many heroes are celebrated by the poets.

詞語辨析：celebrate, congratulate

celebrate后常接日期、事情或場合。而congratulate后常接人，多為 congratulate sb. on/upon sth.表示為某事而祝賀某人。如：congratulate you on your marriage. 有時還表示私自慶幸的意思。如：I congratulated myself on my escape from being punished.

3.take place vi.

英語中表示“發生”的詞或短語均為不及物，不用于被動語態。主語為所發生的事。

詞語辨析：take place, happen, occur, come about

take place “發生，舉行”，常用來指按計劃發生的事，帶有“非偶然”的意思。

happen “發生”，普通用詞，含義很廣。常指具體客觀事物或情況的發生，含有“偶然”的意味。當以具體事物、事件作主語時，happen 和 occur 可以換用；但當happen用作“碰巧”之意時，不能用occur代替，但可以與come about 互換。

occur “發生，出現”,較正式用詞，可指事情偶然地、意外地發生或思想突然浮在心頭。occur to 有“想起”的意思。

come about “發生”, 常指偶然發生的事情。且很多時候與how 連用。與happen 用法較接近。

In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China. 1919年，中國爆發了五四運動。

It happened to rain that day. 那天恰好下雨。

The traffic accident occurred on Wednesday.

How does it come about that you were caught by the police? 你怎么會被警察抓去的？

Step Five: Assignment

Collect as much information about festivals as possible.

Preview the words and expressions of the text.

The Second & the Third Period

Step one: Revision

Review the names of the festivals and talk about them.

Step Two: Reading

1.Read the passage quickly and then try to answer the following questions.

1) What's the main idea of the text? This reading briefly introduces the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world.

2) How many parts can the text divide into? (5 parts)

2. Let the Ss look at the pictures and the heading of each section, then ask questions to help them understand what the text might be about.

ancient Festivals:

Why would people celebrate at these three times of the year?

Why do you think music and fire or light are used in festivals?

Festivals of the Dead:

What kind of things are done to honor the dead ?

Why do you think about the Mexican practice of making cakes with skulls and bones?

What do you know about Halloween ?What pictures have you seen?

Festivals to Honor People and Events

What festivals or celebrations can you think of that honor famous people or important events?

Who do you think should have a festival to honor them? Why?

Harvest Festivals

Do you know of any harvest celebrations in China?

Spring Festivals

Why are spring festivals popular? Talk about all the cultural practices you know of any spring festivals？

以下可做選用：Read and finish the chart.

Festivals and celebrations

Ancient Festival Why the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn

How Light fire and make music

Festivals of the dead Why to honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors Obon the Day of the Dead Halloween

How light lamps, play music, eat food in the shapes of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up

Festivals to honor people Why for their great contributions to the society or the country

How Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi

Harvest Festivals Why Food is gathered for the winter,.A season of agricultural work is over

How Decorate churches and town halls,get together to have big meals admire the moon, give and eat mooncakes

Spring Festivals Why to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring

How Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have exciting carnivals

Step Three: Listen to the text and understand it.

Step Four: language points

1.starve (v.) starvation (n.)

1) to cause a person or an animal to suffer severely or die from hunger挨餓,餓死

eg. Millions of people starved to death during the war. 戰爭中數以百萬計的人挨餓至死.

2) to feel very hungry 感覺很餓. (僅用于進行時態)

eg. When will the dinner be ready? I’m starving. 晚飯什么時候做好?我快餓死了.

** Starve for sth; starve sb of sth: (cause sb to )suffer or long for sth greatly needed or wanted (使某人) 得不到某事物而受苦或渴望獲得某事物; 缺乏.通常用被動語態.

eg. The homeless children were starving for love. 這些無家可歸的孩子渴望得到愛.

2． days/years/… of plenty 富裕(尤指食物和錢) 的日子, 年月,生活等.

You have a life of plenty, what would you be worried about? 你豐衣足食,還有什么擔憂?

**Plenty of water 許多 飾不可數名詞

3. satisfy (vt.) 滿足, 使滿意 不用于進行時態

**satisfy sb/sth 使……滿意(滿足)

be satisfied with sb/sth 對……感到滿意

be satisfied to do sth 對做……感到滿意

eg. The girl satisfied her mother by cleaning up the kitchen. 女孩清洗廚房使得母親很滿意.

My English teacher was satisfied with my English study.

4.do harm 損害,危害, 傷害

do more harm than good. 弊大于利 do good 做好事,有好處

do harm to sb (idom )=harm sb

Come to harm :be injured physically, mentally ormorally 身體上,精神上或道義受到損害.常用于否定式.

Any kind of pollution will do you harm. 任何污染都會給你帶來危害.

Smoking does great harm to one’s health. 吸煙對健康危害極大.

5. in memory of / to the memory of sb: serving to remind people of sb/ to the memory of sb, esp as a tribute作為對某人的紀念；紀念某人:

eg. He wrote a long moving poem n memory of his good friend.為紀念他摯友，他寫下了一首感人的長詩。

6. lead to

注意：to 是介詞。后接動詞的－ing形式。

1) 領往,通往

All Roads lead to Rome. 條條大路通羅馬.

You see the path on your right? It leads to the village.

2) 導致, 招致

Careless driving led to this accident.

**Lead sb to+n. 帶領…./通往/到…

Lead sb to do sth 使….做

7.. dress up : to wear one’s best clothes 穿上盛裝

**dress (sb) (in sth/as sb/sth): put on fancy dress,etc. 化裝打扮

Children love dressing up.

We dressed up for the wedding.

8..play a trick /tricks(on sb) 捉弄某人,開某人玩笑

It’s acceptable to play tricks on your friends on April 1st. 4月1日那天,同朋友們開玩笑是可以接受的.

He likes to play a trick on others.

9..look forward to sth/doing sth 期待某事/做某事 expect (usually with pleasure)（通常以愉快的心情）

We’re looking forward to seeing you again. 我們盼望再見到你。

注意：與lead to一樣，這里的to 也是介詞。

I look forward to hearing from you as early as possible.

Boys and girls are looking forward to Childrens Day.

10.award (n.) 獎品,裁定.助學金

(vt.) 授予,判定

award sth (to sb): make an official decision to give sth to sb as a prize, as payment or as a punishment 頒發,授予

The judges awarded both finalists equal points. 裁判員判定決賽雙方分數相同.

11. admire (v.)羨慕 admirer 贊賞者,追求者

1) admire sb/sth (for sth): regard sb/sth with respect, pleasure,satisfaction,etc. 贊賞,羨慕某人(某事物)

They admire our garden.

I admire him for his success. 我佩服他事業有成.

2) express admiration of (sb/sth) 表示贊美,夸獎某人(某事)

Aren’t you going to admire my new house?

12. as though as if 好像；仿佛……似的。（引導從句時從句謂語動詞常用虛擬語氣）

He talks as though he knew all about it. 他說話的口氣好像他全部都知道了。

He looks as though he had seen a ghost. 他看起來好像看見了鬼一樣的。

Step Five: Read the text and fill in the passage.

There are all kinds of festivals and celebrations around the world, which are held for for different reasons. The ancient festivals were mainly held at three times a year---the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Some festivals are held to honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors in case they might do harm, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or to the gods, such as Dragon Boat Festival Columbus Day. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because their food is gathered for the winter and because a season of agricultural work is over, to which Mid autumn festival belongs. And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring, such as the lunar New Year, at which people have a very good time.

Step Six: Work in pairs to do Ex.2 and 3 on page3

Step Seven: Assignment

Do Exercise 1Comprehending

Exercise1 Page42

Try to retell the text.

Preview using language.

Ex1-5 on page 4

The Fourth Period (Discovering Useful Structure)

Teaching Procedures:

Step One: Revision

Read the vocabulary of Unit 1 again

Retell the text.

Check the answers to the homework.

Step Two: Discovering useful structures

Read & find out the usage of modal verbs

Teaching: Modal verbs Page 91-94 Grammar.

Step Three: Practice

1.Find out sentences with modal verbs from the reading passage and try to explain their meaning.教參P10

2. Do Ex2 & Ex3 Page 6

Explanation to the exercises.

Step Four: Assignment

Exercises P43

I．單句改錯

1. Mr. Smith looks pale. He can be ill.

2. You must be joking. That mustn’t be true.

3. Come to take the photos tomorrow morning. It may be ready by then.

4. The fire spread so fast that only one-third of the people could escape the fire.

The Fifth Period ( Reading &Speaking )

Teaching Procedures:

Step One: Revision

Check the answers to the homework

Step Two: Reading

This passage introduces a cross cultural view of lovers’ festival-QiQiao Jie and Valentine’s Da

1. Listen to the passage while reading

Answer the following questions: on page8

Step Three: Language Points

1) turn up 出現,到場 優化設計P12

He finally turned up, but he was several hours later.

2) keep one’s word 遵守諾言 (反義：break one’s word )

Nobody will respect you any more if you don’t keep your word this time. 如果你這次不信守諾言，沒有人會再相信你。

注意：word 表示“諾言，消息”時，總是用單數形式。

比較：a man of few words 言語不多的人 a man of one’s word 說話算數的人

3)hold one’s breath 屏息,屏氣

He held his breath, not daring to make any sound.

4) apologise/apologize vi.道歉 優化設計P13

*apologise for sth/doing sth

apologise to sb for sth/doing sth

5) drown…in 淹沒；浸泡在……里。

He drowned his sorrow in drink every day after her wife’s death. 自妻子死后，他每天借酒澆愁。

6) It was obvious that…..

It為形式主語，真正的主語是that引導的主語從句。在正式文體中that不能省略。如以從句為主語的句子是疑問句，那就只能用it作形式主語。

Is it probable that they will come tomorrow?

2) remind sb of sth 使某人想起…… 提醒某人 ,后跟that賓語從句時,省略介詞of.

remind sb to do 提醒某人做…

This reminded me of the days when I was in the countryside.這使我想起在鄉下的日子.

Thanks for your gift – it will always remind me of you.謝謝你給我的禮物-它將使我常想他.

She reminded me that I hadn’t watered the flowers.她提醒我,我還沒澆花呢.

He reminded me not to forget my promise.他提醒我不要忘了我的偌言.

Step Four Think about the ending of the story.

Step Five Talking, Page 46, workbook

Step Six Assignment

Preview Reading Task (Page 44) and do Ex. 2-3, Page 45.

Ex2-3 on Page42

The Sixth Period (Listening) (自行安排)

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the Seventh period (writing)

Step 1. Check the homework

Step 2.Writing

1. Let the Ss find Quebec and Trinidad on the map.

2. Discussion: suppose you’re going to travel to the Carnival in Quebec, what idears should you have?

1) How can I get there?

2) What’s the weather there like? So I can decide what kind of clothes to take.

3) What’s the language spoken there? So I can talk with people there.

4) Where will I stay after I arrive there?

5) Will I travel along?

3. Make a planning list for a trip to the Carnival in Quebec according to the questions above and try to use the expressions.

3) You may begin like this:

If I could go to the….見教參46頁

Step 7. Homework

Finish the writing task or try to write a festival you like best.

Do some exercises.

●要點精練

I. 用括號中所給的詞或短語翻譯下列句子。

1. 在中國北方，人們穿上古時候的衣服，走上街頭游行，以慶祝新年。(dress up; parade)

2. 4月1號要當心，因為在這一天你的朋友可能會開你的玩笑。(play a trick on)

3. 慶祝“龍舟節”會讓我們想起偉大的詩人屈原。(remind…of…)

4. 孩子們盼望父親的到來已經很久了，所以今天一大早，就望向前面的大馬路。(look forward to)

要點精練

I. 1. In northern China, people celebrate the New Year by dressing up in ancient clothing and going on parades.

2. Be careful on April 1st, because your friends may play a trick on you.

3.Celebrating the Dragon Boat Day will remind us of the great poet Qu Yuan.

4. The children had been looking forward to their father’s arrival for a long time, so early in the morning, they looked forward to the road.