Unit1FestivalsaroundtheworldReading学案高一英语人教新课标必修三.docxVIP

Book3 Unit1 Reading Teaching aims Knowledge aims: Learn how festivals began and how festivals celebrated. Learn more background knowledge about foreign cultures. Guide the students to classify the festivals. Ability aims: Train the ability of reading: skimming, scanning, summarizing, comparing. Develop the ability of word-guessing and learning vocabulary in the context. Emotional aims: Promote the students interest in our traditional culture. Encourage the students to introduce our tradition and custom to the world. Teaching important and difficult points Enable the students to talk and write about festivals. Master the basic reading ability. Teaching methods Task-based teaching, cooperative learning, brainstorming Teaching aids Blackboard, a computer and projector Teaching procedures Step1. Warming up Task1. Brainstorming Invite two groups of the students to list the festivals they know on the blackboard. Step2. Pre-reading Task2. Discussion Which is the most important/fun/impressive… festivals in your opinion? Try to describe it. (Take Spring Festival as an example.) Step3. Reading and comprehending Task3. The structure map Skim the passage and try to draw the structure map: 1 ---------- An introduction 2 3 4 5 ---------- Detailed description 6 ---------- A conclusion Task4. Multiple choices Scanning for detailed information: According to Para.1, most ancient festivals were celebrated at the following time EXCEPT _________. at the end of cold weather in spring when planting in autumn while harvesting the time when people had nothing to do Today’s festivals have many origins, ________ of which are mainly mentioned in Para.1. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 About festivals of the dead, which of the following statements is TRUE? The main purpose of this kind of festival is to honor the dead. In the Japanese festival Obon, playing music will surely lead the ancestors back to eart