Learning about languages and exercise
Teaching Goals: 1. To check what has been learned yesterday.
2. To enable Ss to master some new words and expressions.
3. To get Ss to have knowledge of the grammar point: the model verb
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1. Revision
1.讲评日记
2．Ask Some Ss to read the new words in Unit and explain some points about it。.
3．分组,分任务(每组由小组长分配任务,每组两个人回答*,2人 **,以次类推,争取每人都有机会回答)
4．比手划脚游戏(***)每组有1分钟的时间，再一分钟内看能猜出几个节日,就加几乘以3,要求解说的同学必须以句子为主,否则不给分)(2人上台猜,2人发言，其他辅助) 学生参考的句子:
1. What does it celebrate?
It celebrates_____________
It honors_______________
It is in memory of________
2. What do people do on that day?
People often clean the graves, eat rice dumplings, give flowers to sb, set off firecrackers, visit relatives, enjoy the mooncakes, have a dragon boat match, eat Zongzi.
3.When does it take place?
It takes place on______
5. Revise the main points in Unit
take place\ happen
beauty\ harvest\celbrate\
Mid-autumn Day _________on the 15th of the 8th _______ month. It c______the h___________. People have a big dinner with their family and enjoy the _____ of the full moon.
Starve to death, die of starvation\ Millions of people starved to death during the war
Tell us the origin of any festival in English
Religious beliefs
Some festivals are held to _______ the dead or to __________ the ancestors, who _______ return either to help or to do_________.
Say sth about Obon( clean graves,light incense, in memory of,light lamps, play music, lead…to…)
The Western holilday Halloween also had its______ in old___________about the return of the __________ fo dead people.. It is now a __________ festival, when they can __________ and go to their neighbour’s homes to __________sweets. If the neighbours do not give any sweets, they might ________________ them.
______________________ in China honours the famous ______ Qu Yuan.
In the USA, Columbus Day is _____________ the ________ fo Columbus in the New World.
China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals, when people_______ the moon and in China __________ the mooncakes.
The most ________ and important festivals are the ones that _______________ the end of winter and to the ________of spring.
Easter is an important ___________ and social festival for ____________around the world. It _____________ the return of ___________ from the __________
People love to ____________ to eat, drink and_____________each other. Festivals let us __________life, be proud of our _________ and forget our work for a little ________.
Step 2. Word study
Purpose: To consolidate the words and phrases in the text.
Finish Ex1
Purpose: To enable Ss to master some new words and expressions.
Ex2 Many people think that Christmas is a western __________, but in fact it is really a worldwide holiday. Christmas actually as a _______ festivalcelebrated by _________ around the world. Its ______ is around the 3rd or 4th century AD, when the _______ of remembering Jesus’ birth on December 25th first started. Today, of course, many people celebrate Christmas __________ it were just a holiday to ______________ family, rather than a holiday about a _______.
Suggested Answers:
celebration, religious, Christians, origin, custom, as though, have a fun with, belief
小测内容：
发生, 美,丰收, 庆祝, 饿死,起源,宗教信仰,纪念,打扮,搞恶作剧,
到来,获得,聚集,奖品,钦佩,精力充沛的,期望,日夜,好象,玩得开心,
Step3 Homework



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