Unit3 Celebration Lesson1 Festivals
教学案
Objectives
■ To use pictures to help understand new words and to use the dictionary to check meanings. ■ To read a text quickly to find specific information. ■ To practice the Present Simple Passive， Present
Continuous Passive， Past Simple Passive， Present Perfect Passive and Past Continuous Passive. Resource used
Grammar Summary
Possible problems
Students should be encouraged to use the Passive. It is used more in English than in many other languages.
Background Communal celebrations mark events such as changing seasons， religious days or political events； music， dance or costume are usually involved. Routes through the material ■ If you are short of time， set some of the exercises for homework. ■ If you have time， use one of the Options ideas.
■ If you have two periods for this lesson， a suitable natural break is after Exercise 4. Language Power: pages 76？C77. Mini-Grammar 9 Reading Before you start Exercise 1
■ Students look at the pictures and guess what is happening and what is being celebrated. Ask them to describe what they can see.
■ Students discuss what their favourite seasons are and list the festivals in China which are associated with each season. Read to learn Exercise 2
■ Students look at the three titles (Summer， Autumn， Winter) and suggest which festivals are associated with these three seasons in China and if there are any associated with Spring.
■ Students read the texts quickly and do the matching. Answers
Picture 1？CC the Dragon Boat Festival Picture 2？CA the Mid-Autumn Festival Picture 3？CB the Lantern Festival Exercise 3
■ Divide the class into three groups. Each group reads one section of the text carefully and writes four or five questions about it. Then give the class three or four minutes to read the whole text again. Students close their books， and in turn each group asks its questions for the rest of the class to answer.
■ Students read the text again and fill in the table with the text information they get. ■ Have students check their answers in pairs.
■ Encourage students to add another festival they know well.
■ Students read the questions and find the answers in the texts by reading the texts again. ■ Have students talk about their festival in pairs. Answers Passage A:
the Mid-Autumn Festival， September or October， moon cakes Passage B:
the Lantern Festival， the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar， sweet dumplings Passage C:
the Dragon Boat Festival， the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar， Zongzi Exercise 4
■ Students discuss in pairs and tell the class their opinions. Language Power: the Word Corner on page 79 gives further practice in vocabulary (clothes). Grammar THE PASSIVE (I) Exercise 5
■ Students identify that the passive is used when we don’t know or there is no need to say who the