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1、Unit 1 Festivals around the worldThe First Period (Warming up & Pre-reading)Step One: Lead-inFree 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 its the most important festival in our country.) Step Two: Warmin
2、g up1. Let the Ss think about the other Chinese festivals. ( Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Years Day, Chung Yeung Festival.)2. Discussion One 1)Let the Ss look at the information about Chinese festivals and discuss another four Chinese fes
3、tivals according to the example in warming up: When does the festival come? What do people celebrate? What do people do? FestivalsDatefestivalsDateNew YearJanuary1stTeachers DaySeptember 10thInternational Womens DayMarch 8National DayOctober 1stArbor DayMarch 12thThe Spring FestivalLunar New YearInt
4、ernational labor DayMay 1stDragon Boat Festivalthe fifth day of the fifth lunar monthInternational Childrens DayJune 1stMid-Autumn Festivalthe 15th day of the 8th lunar monthArmy DayAugust 1stLantern Festivalthe 15th day of the 1st lunar monthChinese Youth DayMay 4thPure Brightness DayApril the fift
5、h2) 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, Valentines Day, Thanksgiving Day, Obon.)Step three: Pre-readingLet students think about
6、 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 F
7、our: Language Points1.mean to do 打算做某事 mean doing 意味着.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 庆祝；祝贺celebrate Christmas / ones birthday / a wedding anniversary / a victor
8、y(2) praise and honor 赞扬；称颂The names of many heroes are celebrated by the poets. 词语辨析：celebrate, congratulate celebrate后常接日期、事情或场合。而congratulate后常接人，多为 congratulate sb. on/upon sth.表示为某事而祝贺某人。如：congratulate you on your marriage. 有时还表示私自庆幸的意思。如：I congratulated myself on my escape from being punished.
9、3.take place vi.英语中表示“发生”的词或短语均为不及物，不用于被动语态。主语为所发生的事。词语辨析：take place, happen, occur, come about take place “发生，举行”，常用来指按计划发生的事，带有“非偶然”的意思。happen ，普通用词，含义很广。常指具体客观事物或情况的发生，含有“偶然”的意味。当以具体事物、事件作主语时，happen 和 occur 可以换用；但当happen用作“碰巧”之意时，不能用occur代替，但可以与come about 互换。occu，出现”,较正式用词，可指事情偶然地、意外地发生或思想突然浮在心头。
10、occur to 有“想起”的意思。come about “发生”, 常指偶然发生的事情。且很多时候与how 连用。与happen 用法较接近。In 1919, the May 4th Movement took place in China. 1919年，中国爆发了五四运动。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? 你怎么会被警察抓去的？Step Five:
11、AssignmentCollect as much information about festivals as possible.Preview the words and expressions of the text.The Second & the Third PeriodStep one: Revision Review the names of the festivals and talk about them.Step Two: Reading1.Read the passage quickly and then try to answer the following quest
12、ions. 1) Whats 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 a
13、nd 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 h
14、onor 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 EventsWhat festivals or celebrations can you think of that honor famous people or important events?Who do you t
15、hink should have a festival to honor them? Why?Harvest Festivals Do you know of any harvest celebrations in China?Spring FestivalsWhy are spring festivals popular? Talk about all the cultural practices you know of any spring festivals？以下可做选用：Read and finish the chart. Festivals and celebrationsAncient FestivalWhythe end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumnHowLight fire and make musicFestivals of the de
