1、Period ThreeTeaching aims: 1. To learn more about carnival.2. To teach them how to write an e-mail.3. To develop the students reading skills.Difficult and important points:1. Get the students to learn to write an e-mail.2. Get the students to understand some important sentences.Teaching procedures:
2、Step 1. RevisionRead the words and have a dictation.Step 2. Lead-inWhat do you remember about carnival?Where did it start first?Step 3. Fast-reading:Read and underline the topic sentences ( use your own words ) about every paragraph.Paragraph1: We can understand what carnival is all about by reading
3、 the history of America and the meeting of two cultures.Paragraph2: The slave trade brought millions of black people to the new world.Paragraph3: The slaves were forced to watch their European masters to celebrate carnival and then they began to hold carnival with their own features.Paragraph4: Carn
4、ival became a celebration of freedom.Paragraph5: As time went on, carnival became a way of uniting different communities and now it has become a celebration of life itself.Step 4. Further reading1. What did marked the beginning of the slave trade?2. How were millions of people taken to work as slave
5、s?3. How did the slaves begin to hold their own carnival in Trinidad?4. When was the slave trade abolished?5. How was carnival changed when the slave trade was abolished?6. When did carnival become a way to unite different communities?(Answers: 1 That the arrival of European in America, and the open
6、ing of huge farms and plantations to grow cotton, fruit and vegetables, meant there was an immediate need to people to work on them marked the beginning of the slave trades. 2 Millions of people were taken by force from their homes in America and transported to the New World to work as slaves? 3. Th
7、ey painted their faces white, imitating their masters and making fun of them. 4. The slave trade was abolished in 1838. 5. It became more colourful and more exciting than it had been before. 6. As people forgot their everyday problems and enjoyed themselves eating, drinking, and dancing.)Step 5. Sev
8、eral phrases(1) by force (2) be forced to do (3)make fun of sb. (4) bring good luck (5) take over (6) take part in (7) become a celebration of freedom (8) with the time passingStep 6. Discussion1. What is the meaning of carnival?2. Which Chinese festival is most like carnival?Step 7. Reading and wri
9、tingActivity1. Read the email and number the things in the order you read them1. Read through the things with the whole class and make sure that they understand them all.2. Ask them to read the email and order the things individually, then check with a partner.3. Call back the answers from the whole
10、 class, in order.(Answers: 1. the atmosphere at the festival 2. the music 3. the food 4. what the writers doing5. what the writers going to do)Activity2. Underline the adjectives used to describe.1. the atmosphere: noisy/ colourful2. the music: great/ exciting/ relaxing3. the food: good/ tastyActivity3 Write an email from a Chinese festival. Make sure of the details about:1. the atmosphere2. the music3. the foodStep 8. HomeworkWrite a description of the festival for visitors to China.( For example: Spring Festival)
