3Weddings.doc

PAGE  PAGE 5 Unit3 Celebration Lesson3 Weddings Teaching aims and demands: Cognitive aims: Word：bride bridegroom entrance invitation ceremony contribute link Phrases: even if contribute oneself to at the entrance to Sentences pattern: 1.If a friend gets an invitation to a wedding, you can go with him/her,even if you don’t receive an invitation yourself. 2.The bridegroom’s best man then goes with the couple to the church, to be married. 2. Intelligence aims: Improve students’ abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. Develop students’ abilities of cooperation and creativeness. 3. Emotional aims: Stimulate students’ interest of learning English. Enable students to value the chance of learning English. Teaching Important points: 1. To read a text for specific information and new information. 2. To practise using modals : have to/not have to, can/can’t, ought to/ought not to. 3. To discuss the customs about wedding in China and America. 4. To write an account of a typical wedding. Teaching methods: the feeling teaching method, the task-based teaching method, the inductive method Teaching tools: Multi-media, the blackboard Possible problems 1. If you are short of time, set some of the exercises for homework or omit Exercise 10.2. If you have time, ask students to bring in photos of weddings they have attended or articles/pictures of weddings in other cultures to talk about after doing Exercise 9. Background The first text has been adapted from a website giving advice to English-speaking people working in Indonesia. Indonesia is the world’s biggest island chain. It has more than 17,000 islands. The large population (180 million) is mainly Muslim.  Greece is situated in the south of Europe and is surrounded by three seas: the Aegean, the Ionian and the Mediterranean. With a rich heritage of cultural traditions, the Greeks are fiercely proud of their history and festivals. There are many important festivals in the Greek year ― some cultura