Unit14 Festivals（reading）
I.Teaching Goals
A .knowledge goals
1.Learn and master the following words ：honour，ancester，nation，self-determination，purpose，generation，faith.
2.Better understand the reading material.
3.Let the students learn about the relation between festivals and history and culture.
B. Ability goals
1.Train the Ss＇reading ability.
2.Train the Ss＇ability of getting the main idea of each paragraph .
C.Moral goals
Do not forget our own culture and history.
D.Strategy goals
Skimming，scanning，
E.culture goal
Learn about foreign history and culture by reading.
II. Teaching important points and difficult points.
1.Improve the students＇reading ability .
2.Help the students understand the foreign history and culture by reading about festivals.
III.Teaching methods
1.Disscussion before reading and after reading to make the students interested in what they will read and futher understand what they have read.
2.Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage correctly.
3.Pair or gourp work to make the students take an active part in the activities in class.
IV.Teaching aids
A projector，a record
V.Teaching procedures
Step1. Greeting
Step2.Lead-in and presentation
T：The spring festival has just gone by .Did you have a good time？
Ss：yes.
T：Me too.We all know that the spring festival is the most important and great festival to our Chinese people.By the way，I want to know how your family celebrate it and why we celebrate it.
（Students discuss ）
Step2.Skimming
T：We are fimilar with our traditional festivals.Maybe you want to know some new festivals inWestern countries.Now we are going to learn “The Birth of a Festival”. Please read the text as quickly as possible and think about these questions：
1.which Festival is mentioned ？
2.When was it born？
3.who celebrate it？
Step3.Scanning
We have known something about Kwnzaa.Do you want to know some more details ？Read the text carefully then answer my questions：
1.T or F questions （见书）
2.Wh- questions
（1）Did the African first-fruit festivals have any things in common？What are them？
（2）“The people who celebrated …”what does “them” refers to？
（3）What are the seven principles？
（4）What do all festivals help us understand？
Step4.sufficient reading
T：I am sure you have known more details about Kanzaa.Can you read the text fluently ，quickly and loudly ？So this time you can have a chance to practice reading .please follow the tape and pay attention to pronunciation and intonation.
Questions：
Kanzaa
Why to create

principles

when

How to celebrate



Retell the text ：
Step5.study reading
Choose one of our Chinese festivals to disscuss：
Name of the festival
When is it celebrated？
Why do？people celebrate it？
How do people celebrate it？
Step6.writing
Would you like to write down what you have disscussed？（writing）
Step6.Summary
Who wants to summarize what we learnt in this class？Christmas is so popular in our country .But some of our own traditional festivals become less important to some young people .How do you think about this ？

Let us cherish our own culture and history through remembering ，celebrating and creating festivals.
Step7.Homework
Go to internet to find more information about festivals.
















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