Unit 1 Festivals around the world 教学设计5.docVIP

Unit 1 Festivals around the world 教学案5 The First Period Teaching Aims: 1. Learn the following words and phrases: dress up, in memory of, arrival,. 2. Train the students’ speaking and listening abilities. 3. Learn to talk about festivals, customs and habits. Teaching Important Point: Improve the students’ speaking and listening skills by talking about and listening to something about festivals. Teaching Difficult Point: How to further develop the students’ speaking and listening skills. Teaching Methods: 1. Pair work and group work to train the students’ speaking ability. 2. Listening and choosing activity to train the students’ listening ability. Teaching Aids: 1. Pictures 2. a projector 3. a tape recorder Teaching Procedures: Step I. Greetings Greet the whole class as usual. Step II. Free Talk and Lead-in 1. Ask the students to talk about the Spring Festival in China. 2. Ask about some other festivals, such as: Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Harvest Festivals, Mid-Autumn Day, New Year’s Day… 3. Ask about some foreign festivals, such as: Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, Mother’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Valentine’s Day… Step Ⅲ. Warming up Look at the pictures and discuss the three questions. ⑴. Do you know the names of the festivals? ⑵. Do you know which countries the festivals come from? ⑶. What are the people in the pictures doing? Why are they doing this? 2. Ask the students to think of a Chinese festival and a foreign festival, and then work in pairs to compare them.. StepⅣ. Listening 1. Do a listening and choosing exercise about the following three festivals: Mardi Gras, Ramadan and Easter. 2. Ask the students to work together to describe one of their favorite festivals. Step Ⅴ. Speaking 1. Ask the students if they would like a new holiday, and ask them to decide what a new holiday should be about. 2. After the students prepare for a while, teacher asks some students to talk about their new holiday separately. Step Ⅵ. Summary and Homework 1. Ask