课题

Unit 5 Let’s celebrate!

Comic strip ﹠Welcome to the unit

教学目标

1. To know about some important festivals and the ways people celebrate them.

2. To learn to talk about festivals in English freely.

教学重点

 To know about some important festivals and talk about their favourite festivals

教学难点

How to encourage my students to express their ideas in their own words properly.

教法教具

Listening  speaking reading and writing

Some pictures about festivals,a tape recorder,flash cards

教学过程

学生活动及设计意图

Step 1 Preview-checking

1.Give Ss five minutes to preview this period and finish some exercises.walk around the class and give help if necessary.

2.check Ss’progress of previewing this part by checking the answers.

Step 2 Lead-in (Free-talk about special days)

1.Today we will learn some festivals in the world.

Show a picture about National Day.“What day is it ?” Write National Day on the blackboard. Then show the date of Oct. 31 to the students and ask what day it is. (Halloween)

2.Ask “Do we celebrate Halloween inChina?

How do people celebrate Halloween?

Step 3  Presentation

1.   Ask “How do Eddie and Hobo celebrate Halloween.? ” Students listen to the comic and find out the answer.

2.   the students listen and answer the questions.

3.   Open the book and read after the tape,

4.   Ask the students to act out the dialogue.

Step 3  Learning

1.Ask Can you say some Chinese festivals and western festivals?” ask them to say something about the festivals.

     2.show the picture of Thanksgiving Day and ask;

      What day is it ? Can you guess?

     3.Now let’s read a short passage about Thanksgiving Day .Then answer some questions.

     3.Do you want to know how to celebrate Thanksgiving Day?

Thanksgiving Day: eat turkey

     4. Present the other four festivals in similar ways.

Chinese New Year: eat dumplings lost of nice food,

                       get some money

                       enjoy fireworks

         Christmas: have a beautiful Christmas tree

                  have lots of Christmas presents

                  sing Christmas songs

         Dragon Boat Festival:have dragon boat races

                        eat rice dumplings

                        do sth to remember Qu Yuan

         Mid-autumn Festival:eat mooncakes

                          get together

tell the story of Chang’e

Step 4  Practice

1.   Say: We know many festivals in the world. Look at the board and match the activities on the left with the festivals on th right.

2.Ask some questions and help them to answer.

   Which is your favourite festival?

 Why do you like it?…”

2.   Go through part B on page 57.

3.   Ask the students to make their dialogue.

A: Which is your favourite festival? 

B: It’s _______________________________

A: Why do you like it?           

B: Because ____________________________

A: How do you celebrate it?       

B: We ________________________________

Step 5 Consilidation

1.complete the sentences with correcr words.

2.Do some exercises in the senior high school entrance

 examinations

Homework

1.Talk about your favourite festival

2. find out some information about Halloween.

Ss may learn sth about

this period on their own first.

Ss learn sth about Dational Day and Halloween.

Ss answer my questions

Ss learn the comic strips.

Ss say sth about festivals if they know.

Read and answer.(To improve Ss’ ability of reading)

Ss look at the pictures and learn sth about Thanksgiving Day

Ss look at the pictures and learn the other festivals.

Ss do the matching exercises.

Ss read the dialogue in Part B.

Then make their dialogue and act out them.

Ss finish the exercises.

Ss do their homework.

板书设计

Unit 5 Let’s celebrate!

Comic strip ﹠Welcome to the unit

What is your favourite festival?  How do people celebrate?

Halloween               dress up as/laterns

Thanksgiving Day             eat turkey

Christmas              get presents/sing songs

Chinese New Year          red packets/dumplings

Dragon Boat Festival          rice dumplings

Mid-autumn Festival         mooncakes/Change

教后反思