Unit3《Celebration》Lesson4 Chrismas教案4（北师大版必修1）.docVIP

《4 Christmas》教学指导Objectives ■ To read a narrative text and understand the story. ■ To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas. ■ To develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions. ■ To practise collocations with have, do and play. ■ To talk about childhood memories. Resources used Pictures/photos you have showing Christmas activities in the UK and any Christmas cards you have received from Englishspeaking friends. Possible problems Students may find some of the vocabulary in the text a little difficult and be unwilling to read it quickly the first time, when they are only required to extract the Christmas vocabulary. Background A traditional British Christmas includes: in the morning looking into the stockings hung the night before to find out what presents Father Christmas has left; at lunchtime a big meal with turkey, Christmas pudding (a heavy, sweet pudding containing a lot of dried fruit and often covered with burning brandy or brandy butter) served hot. Paper crackers containing paper hats, novelties and jokes are pulled after the meal. Most families decorate the house with paper garlands, balloons, holly and mistletoe and have a real or artificial fir tree decorated with lights. Routes through the material ■ If you are short of time, set some of the exercises for homework and omit Exercise 8. ■ If you have time, students can develop Exercise 7 into a letter to an English friend describing an important festival in China. Language Power: pages 84?C85. Reading Before you start Exercise 1 Key Words balloons, Christmas carols, Christmas pudding, Christmas tree, snow, snowmen, Christmas stockings, presents ■ Students read the Key Words and find the objects in the pictures. ■ Students then discuss which of these things they have at Christmas and what different things they have. Read to learn Exercise 2 Useful vocabulary: calendar, (play) cards, carol service, Christmas Eve, decorations, jokes, polar bears, s