Lesson 29

TASK To learn something about Christmas and learn to decorate before Christmas

Teaching aims:

1. To learn the following words and phrases:

decorate, angel, circle, come true, put up, at the top of…, finish doing, at Christmas time

2. To use the following expressions:

1) What do you mean by …?

2) That sounds / smells /looks….

3) To be here at Christmas time is….

4) Cutting down the Christmas tree at the farm was….

5) A dream that has come true.

Difficult points of teaching:

Verb phrases used as noun form & noun clause

Teaching aids:

A recorder , some different things to decorate the Christmas tree

Teaching procedures :

Step One Warming-up

1. Greeting.

2. Chatting: talk about the Spring Festival with the students then lead in Christmas Day.

3. Competition, discuss in groups of four what you know about Christmas and see which group can list the most things.

4. Demonstrate the real objects that the Ss list.

5. Teach the new words with the objects and body language.

Step Two Listening and speaking

6. Imaging what you will do if you are going to spend Christmas Day with your friend in England.

7. Listen to the tape and answer two questions:

a) Where is Lin Tao? B) What are Jim and he doing?

8. Ask and answer in speaking pairs about the questions in Part Two.

9. Listening and imitating.

10. Act it out with the real objects.

11. Suppose you are Lin Tao and Jim, talk about how you celebrate Christmas Day.

Step Three Designing

12 .Competition.

Design the best way to celebrate Christmas Day in groups of four ( If you are the host and the hostess, how to decorate your house or what to buy. )

13. Report what you have done so far.

Step Four Writing

14. Write the result of the designing.

15. Language focus: pay attention to the important sentences.

Homework

1. Finish the exercises in the workbook.

2. Act out the dialogue.

3. Make a survey, ask your classmates which festival they like better, Spring Festival or Christmas Day. Why?

Extra idea:

Collect as many songs, real objects and information about Christmas, or decorate the classroom.

上海外國語大學附屬浙江宏達學校

初中部英語教研組

2002年8月