1、Unit 1 Festivals and CelebrationsPeriod 4 Reading for writing教材内容分析The activity theme in this module is to “Write about your festival experience”. The final purpose of the module is to change the contents by communication and discussion into related words, and complete an article related to own fest
2、ival experience.The diary describes the experience about the author spending together Naadam Festival with his friends in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The structure of the article is very clear; the opening paragraph introduces the theme and the whole feelings of “Naadam Festival”, then the art
3、icle emphatically narrates the scene, horse racing, wrestling before the ceremony of the festival, and finally summarize the experience about the festival. By reading the article, students not only know much more information about Naadam Festival, but also feel the personality, entertainment spirit
4、and cultural atmosphere, which also contribute to cultivating students cultural consciousness and making students appreciate colorful national culture教学目标1. Guide students to learn some basic information about Naadam Festival from the text.2. Enable students to learn how to imitate and use some bett
5、er sentences during the writing.教学重难点1. Guide students to write a piece of narrative and introduce own festival experience.2. Guide students to write some better opening lines with complete information and simple language.3. Inspire students to consciously use key language structure in the unit duri
6、ng students writing. 教学过程Step 1: Warming up The teacher ask one question to students to lead to the topic. “We have known much more knowledge about different festival. Today, I want to ask what does “Naadam” mean? Which events does it include?”Step 2: Leading-inText Understanding（1）Students answer t
7、he second question by fast reading the diary.（2）Students carefully read the diary again by analyzing the latter two questions in activity 2. After reading the diary, students work in small groups and share their own ideas, then the teacher ask some students to answer these questions.Step 3: Pre-writ
8、ingText structure and speech analysis（1）The teacher puts forward to some questions to guide students to analyze the text structure of the diary and think how to describe the festival experience.（2）Students read and compare three sentence patterns in activity 2, and rewrite the opening paragraph by t
9、rying using these sentence patterns. Then students shall share their ideas with each other.（3）Let students read the text again and find some sentences related to express ones emotions and sentiments in the text, especially for those sentences with forms of V-ing and past participle, and then say som
10、e emotions these sentences want to express, for example：horse racing, wrestling, and archery, which are all so exciting to watch.Some amazing performancesI was surprised to see I was a little worried aboutFeeling really tiredStep 4: WritingComplete the writing.（1）Preparation. Students look back thei
11、r recent festival experience and list all activities, affairs and feelings related to the festival in the form of the phrase.（2）Draw up the outline. Students look back the methods about the discourse analysis in activity 2, and fill the name of the festival or celebration, the details of some conten
12、ts and emotions and sentiments in the outline table of the activity 3, and then strike out the outline of the diary.（3）Write out the first draft. Students shall study out a headline expressing the topic of the article, then according to the outline, students map out the opening lines introducing the
13、 topic of the article and the whole feeling, main paragraphs with abundant contents and briefly summarizing the ending of the festival experience.（4）Peer response. Students exchange their first draft with their peer in pairs, carrying out the peer response according to six main points in activity 3
14、and map out the related suggestions, then according to these suggestions, students make some further modification.（5）Share the writing. After completing the modification, students can discuss some questions and ideas in groups during the peer response, and then recommend the excellent article to share or show in the class, the teacher shall put forward to some good point and suggestions.Step 5: HomeworkWrite an article about the festival or celebration based on related knowledge in the class.
