1、Unit 1 Festivals and CelebrationsPeriod 1 Listening & Speaking and Listening &Talking 【教材分析】Listening and Speaking introduces the topic of “Talk about festival activities”. The listening text has three dialogues, including man-on-the-street interview, daily communication and tour guide; students wil
2、l respectively listen a brief dialogue in three Festival scenes from three different countries. In the dialogue, these people are participating in or will experience the festival activities. Three dialogues has a strong flavour of the life with festival culture elements. By listening to the text, st
3、udents can know more about different festival cultures from different countries and teenagers can perceive and experience the English language, paving the way for subsequently learning English language structure. Besides, in these dialogues, some important language expressions are also involved. Aft
4、er listening the text, students will grasp some important expressions in English 【教学目标】1. Enable students to judge the interpersonal relationship about the dialogue between the two sides according to the approach and content of the expression from the speakers.2. Students can find the topic sentence
5、 and grasp the gist of a paragraph. 3. Students can know more about different cultural backgrounds, customs， understand much more cultural connotation and related significance, and carry forward the proud Chinese cultural traditions.4. According to the type of the festival, enable students to sort d
6、ifferent cultural information, including name, origin, special dish, etc. about the festivals around the word, and discuss how the development of the society affects traditional festivals.【教学重难点】1. Guide students to pay more attention to speakers attitude during the process of listening and distingu
7、ish the relationship between speakers; 2. Inspire students ability to describe festival activities by combining existing background knowledge and using topic vocabularies.【教学过程】Part 1: Listening and SpeakingStep 1: Lead inObserve three pictures and know some information about the festival background
8、, and know what are name about three festival and which country do three festivals belong to respectively.Hi, boys and girls, before our listening, lets observe three pictures about festivals.What festivals do the three pictures show us?In which country do you think people usually celebrate each fes
9、tival?How do people celebrate the festivals?Step 2: DiscussionThe teacher organizes students to carry out the group discussion. Students are required to associate vocabularies below the pictures of activity 1 with related festival. The teacher can set an example and guide students to learn to simply
10、 describe festival activities by using these lexical chunks.Step 3: Summary of the main ideaAfter the discussion is completed, students shall report the results from their own group discussionWhat do people do to celebrate the Chinese Lantern Festival?Who will celebrate the coming-Age-Day? What do t
11、hey do to celebrate?What do you expect to see if you go to the Rio Carnival?Then play the radio which is about“Talk about festival activities” and has three dialogues, including man-on-the-street interview, daily communication and tour guide. And after finishing listening for the first time, the stu
12、dents need to finish the following tasks.1. Listen to the text and judge which festival scene following three dialogues happen in respectively, and judge the relationship between two speakers according to the content students hear. Conversation (1): Coming-of-Age ceremony, interviewer and interviewe
13、e Conversation (2): Carnival Festival, friends; Conversation (3): Lantern Festival, guide and foreign visitor. 2. Listen again and complete the sentences with the correct words. 3. Listen again and make a list of each festivals activities. Chinese Lantern Festival: Coming-of-Age Day: Rio Carnival: S
14、tep 4: in pairs, discuss which of these festivals attracts you the most and why. Conversation 1 T: Which of the three festivals do you like best? S1: I think the Coming-of-Age Day is the most interesting. T: Why is it your favourite? S1: Because I like to see women dressed up in their colourful trad
15、itional kimonos. Conversation 2 T: Which of the three festivals attracts you most? S2: The Chinese Lantern Festival. T: I suppose you like yuanxiao, the sweet dumplings. S2: Not only that. I especially like guessing riddles and Im good at it.Step 5: Homework Students sum up the learning of this clas
16、s by carrying out the role play.Pronunciation In this unit, for the voice, it mainly involve learn and consolidate the assimilation of the voice in English. The assimilation is a very common phenomena in the learning of voice. Therefore, we shall pay more attention to it.一. Listen and read aloud the
17、 word or phrases to your partner. Pay attention to change in the pronunciation of the bold letters.(1) duty, education (2) use, usually (3) news, newspaper (4) is, issue(5) last year (6) in bed (7)those shirts (8) as you see二. Listen to the following sentences, paying attention to the consonants in
18、bold. How do their pronunciations change when they are read in the sentences?(1). Did you enjoy the holiday?(2). Miss, congratulations on becoming an adult!(3). Itll be too tiring to walk or dance for a long time in those shoes.(4). I was hoping to hear that you had a great time throughout.(5). Chil
19、dren then take part in Easter egg hunts to find the eggs and win prizes.(6). In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is celebrated between October 31st and November 2nd. Discuss the differences with your partner. Then listen and repeat.Part 2: Listening and Talking This part shows one dialogue about some cul
20、tural information that Song Lin, a Chinese student, ask his friend, Max, to go home to celebrate Christmas. By listening to the dialogue, although there are many differences in terms of origin and the modes of celebration, Christmas Day is also similar to Spring Festival in China. Step 1: Know about
21、 names about food from festivals(1) The teacher shows some pictures from the local special food in Spring Festival and that in the western Christmas Day by using courseware, and enable students to recognize and remember English names of the food on the picture. （2）Let students browse those five ques
22、tions in activity 1, the teacher questions “Can you predict what festival Song Lin and Max are going to talk about? How do you know ”, the ask two students to express their own opinions.Step 2: The teacher plays the tape for the first time, let students verify previous guess and answer the first que
23、stion in activity 1. Step 3: before playing the tape for the second question, the teacher guides those four questions in activity 1, and remind students of writing down some key information during listening to the tape. What did Max do during the festival? Pay attention to the activities. What dishe
24、s did Macs mother cook? Pay attention to the food names or dishes.Step 4: The teacher plays the tape for the third time, and then students first check their answers in the group and the whole class check the answers together. If necessary, the teacher shall repeatedly play the tape because of those
25、sentences including above information.Step 5: Students first read those sentences expressing various emotions in activity 2, and when the teacher plays the tape again, students shall check the functional sentences used in the dialogue between Song Lin and Max, then the whole class check these answers.Step 6: Homework Review new words, learn more information about China and other countries by many learning tools, and carry out the role play with classmates or students friends.
