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Unit 1 Festivals around the world Period 6 Reading and speaking Teaching aims: 1. Learn to compare the festivals in China and in western countries. 2.To improve Ss’ reading ability. Teaching important points: Different festivals about a love story and then write a different ending for the story. Teaching difficult points: 1. How to improve Ss writing ability 2. How to improve Ss’ reading ability Teaching methods: Fast-reading Discussion, explanation Teaching aids: A multiple-media computer and a blackboard. Teaching procedures: Step I Revision Check homework Step II Reading 1. Warming Up (1) Ask Ss to make a list of Chinese and Foreign Festivals. Chinese Festivals Foreign Festivals Lantern Festival Christmas Day The Dragon Boat Festival Thanksgiving Day Tomb Sweeping Day Mothers Day Mid-Autumn Day April Fools Day New Years Day Valentines Day Double-ninth Mardi Gras National Day Ramadan May 1st Easter (2) Lead Ss to the topic. Teacher may say, “As we know, there are so many kinds of festivals around the world that we can’t list out all of them. We have talked about two Chinese festivals for the dead. Today we are going to read a sad story, which is to introduce a cross-cultural view of lovers’ festival — Qiqiaojie and Valentine’s Day.” 2. Fast reading Ask Ss to read the text in five minutes and find out the sentence below are true or false. (1) The girl Li Fang loved and waited but she didn’t turn up. But he didn’t lose heart. (2) Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got very angry. (3) Zhinv was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month. (4) Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him. Suggested Answers: (1) F (2) T (3) F (4) T 3.