Unit1 Festivals around the world说课稿

Unit1 Festivals around the world说课稿Good morning, everyone. I’m very pleased to have the opportunity to talk about some of my teaching ideas. My topic is the reading text : Festivals and celebrations in unit 1 Festivals around the world. It is made up of three parts.Part 1 My understanding of this lesson1. The analysis of the teaching material:This unit talks about many kinds of festivals in different part ofthe world. The first reading briefly describes four different kinds offestivals. By studying this unit, students can know that festivals exiteverywhere, and many of festivals in different countries celebratesimilar ideas .An important element in the unit is the opportunity to compare and contrast cultural practices in China and other countries.2. Teaching aims:a. Knowledge aim:Make students know about the holiday all over the world and the detail of the holiday, such as origin of the holiday, content of the holiday, and the date of the holiday, etc. b. Ability aim:▲Make students talk about festivals and celebrations in English.c. Emotional aim:▲Make the Ss learn about the significance of festivals.▲ Make the Ss know about the foreign festivals, and respectother countries’ custom.3. Teaching important points:How to make the Ss understand the text better.4. Teaching difficult points:Enable the Ss grasp the using of Modal Verbs.Part 2 My teaching theories, methods and aidsa.Teaching theories Before dealing with this lesson, I’ll do my best to carry out thefollowing theories: Make the Ss the real masters in class while the teacher himself acts as director；Combine the language structures with the language functions; Let the students receive some moraleducation while they are learning the English language.b.Teaching method:According to the modern perception theories and socialintercourse teaching theories, I adopts the question-and–answer method, cooperate method and discussion method in my teaching.     First, question-and–answer method, to some degree, it can arouse Ss’ interest and develop their listening and speaking.     Second, cooperate method can cultivate the Ss’s communicate skills and influence efficiency of the class.     Third, discussion can help develop their thinking and communicative ability. c.Teaching aids:1. a projector2. a tape recorder3. a computer multimedia4. the blackboardPart 3. Teaching proceduresStep 1 GreetingsGreet the whole class as usual.Step 2. Lead-in and preparation for readingShow them some pictures of many kinds of festivals and let themtalk with each other, and then use the pictures about festivals tolearn new words, for example, Obon Halloween, Valentine’s Dayand so on.Q1, What kinds of festivals in China do you know about?Q2, What festivals of foreign countries do you know?Purpose: ① Open the Ss’ mind.② Get them to be interested in what is going to learn.Step 3.SkimmingRead the passage as quickly as they can. Then do the Ex .1 in P.3Step 4.. ScanningRead the passage carefully again and answer some detailed questions on the screen.Qs: Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?Name three things people do at Spring Festival.Step 5. Careful readingIt is also called depth reading or study reading. It means readingfor detailed information.Purpose: Further understand the text （Train further reading ability） to find out some different sentences and details of the text.Ex.2 in P.3Step 6. Learning about languageDeal with the language points and the using of the Modal Verbs in the text.In memory of , dress up , look forward to ,…….Purpose: Train the Ss’ ability of understanding and using language.Step 7. Consolidation1. Find out the topic sentences.2. Retell the passage according to the topic sentences.Purpose: I want to know if my students understand the whole text really and if they master what I mean to tell them in this class.What’s more, I want to let them have the ability of introducing and analyzing expression. At the same time, I will write down theTopic sentences on the blackboard according to what the studentsfind, so they can retell it easily.Step 8. Discussion What is your favourite festival?Why?When is it?What is the festival about?How long can we have for holiday?What do we usually do in the festival?Step 9. Homework