Unit 5 Let’s celebrate!
Comic strip and Welcome to the unit
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. know some famous festivals in different countries;
2. know how to celebrate these festivals;
3. talk about their favourite festivals.
II. Teaching contents
1. New words and phrases: celebrate, guess, dress, as, Christmas, festival, because, present, together, moon cake, full, have a guess, dress up, on that day, get together, enjoy the full moon
2. New structures: Let’s celebrate!
How about the Monkey King?
What is your favourite festival?
It’s great!
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
1. Master the new words;
2. Know how to celebrate the festivals in different countries.
IV. Teaching procedures
A Welcome to the unit
Step 1 Lead-in
T: First, let’s enjoy some pictures. What are these pictures about? (S: About different festivals.) What festivals do you know? Please talk with your partner and then we will have a group competition.
【设计意图：通过不同节日的图片导入新课，使学生迅速进入本课话题，又为接下来的教学做好铺垫。用竞赛的形式激发学生上课的兴趣。】
Step 2 Presentation
1. How to celebrate different festivals
T: You’ve known a lot of festivals. But do you know how people celebrate festivals? What do people usually do on that day? For example, look at the picture. What festival is it? How do people celebrate it? Have a talk with your partner. Another PK!
T: We can do many things on that day. Let’s read these phrases together.
【设计意图：以同样的方式处理端午节和春节。先呈现图片让学生说，然后教师补充，不熟悉的单词和短语及时帯读。】
T: Who can tell me what festivals we have talked about? Yes, and they are all Chinese festivals. Now, let’s play a guessing game. Guess what festival it is. It’s a Western festival. People get together and sing songs. Children get a lot of presents. There is a special tree with presents. Yes, Christmas! Who is it?
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Father Christmas! Now please talk about Christmas with your partner. You can begin like this: At Christmas, people usually …
T: Another Western festival: people have a big dinner with the family. They eat a special kind of food—turkey. Do you know turkey? It’s like chicken, but bigger than chicken. People celebrate the festival to show their thanks. It’s Thanksgiving Day. Please make complete sentences with your partner according to the key words on the screen.
T: The last festival, a western festival too. On that day, children play a special game called trick or treat. People have a party and wear special clothes. They may dress up as a ghost. It’s Halloween!
What will you dress up as if you have the chance? Please make complete sentences with your partner according to the key words on the screen.
T: So much for the festivals. Now, let’s read these words and phrases together.
T: Millie is writing a list of festivals. Look at the pictures. Help her write the names of the festivals under the pictures. Read the names of the festivals again.
T: Let me check your memory.
(1) People in the USA eat the turkey’s (火鸡) meat on ____________________.
(2) At __________________, we can get red packets from our parents.
(3) Jim likes ____________________ because he likes eating moon cakes.
(4) At ___________, they can open their Christmas presents.
(5) Sandy likes ___________________ because she likes eating rice dumplings.
(6) People often dress up as a ghost on __________.
【设计意图：先谈论三个中国节日，以旧带新，便于学生接受新知识；以猜谜的方式呈现三个西方节日，然后让学生根据关键词复述。巩固练习可由易到难，为接下来的对话练习做铺垫。】
B Comic Strip
Step 1 Presentation
1. Listen and answer the questions
T: What festival are Eddie and Hobo talking about? How will they celebrate?
T: Read the dialogue after the tape and answer two more questions.
(1) Why is Eddie very happy?
(2) What does Hobo dress up as at last?
Read the dialogue with your partner and try to act it out.
2. Make a summary
Today is ________. Eddie and Hobo will _______it. Hobo is dressing ______ as a _____. But Eddie says it’s not ______. So Hobo will dress up as ___________.
【设计意图：通过猜测巩固生词，复习万圣节的庆祝方式；同时引入Eddie 和Hobo的对话。通过回答问题解读对话文本，加深学生对对话的印象；通过总结加以再次巩固。】
Step 2 Practice
1. Listen and answer questions
T: What festival do you like? Why? Millie and Tommy are chatting online about their
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favourite festivals. Let’s listen to the tape and answer:
(1) Why does Tommy like Christmas?
(2) What do people do to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
2. Talk about favourite festivals
Work in pairs and make a similar dialogue like Millie and Tommy’s.
【设计意图：由教材上的对话引导学生谈论自己喜欢的节日。由于之前的输入，学生在这个环节有话可说。】
3. Sum up
T: Today, we’ve learnt a lot about festivals. You also talked about your favourite festivals. All of you did a very good job. Here are some words for you. Let’s read together.
Learn from different festivals.
Learn about different cultures.
Enjoy festivals.
Enjoy your life.
【设计意图：通过总结本节课所学再次明确重点内容。通过激励性的表达，起到升华情感的作用。】
V. Homework
1. Collect more information about the festivals you like.
2. Review the new words and phrases.
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