Unit12 Festivals
一、Analysis of the teaching content：
The lesson is a reading passage. It mainly talks about the Chinese traditional Festival “The Spring Festival”.The lesson contains the most important cultural and language information of this unit. It plays a very important part in the English teaching of this unit. By learning the passage, the Ss can not only learn about the Chinese traditional Festival “The Spring Festival”but also master the key words and useful expressions in this unit. At the same time, the Ss can improve their reading ability. 二、Analysis of the Ss’ learning:
The students in vocational schools are weak in English. So in the teaching process .I’ll strengthen the guidance to them. I’ll do my best to make the Ss the real master in class. while the teacher acts as director. In this lesson, the Ss are very familiar with the topic“The Spring Festival”,so it is easy for them to understand the passage. 三、Teaching aims: 1.: Knowledge aims:
1): Key words: spend, holiday, celebrate, prepare, celebrate, sweep,
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luck, happiness, delicious, express. 2): Useful expressions:
Far away, prepare for, hang up , dress up, no matter how, sweep out, so that.
3)：Understand the difficult sentences. 2. Ability aims:
1): Get the students to learn about the Chinese traditional festival:”The Spring festival”. 2):Improve the Ss’ reading ability. 3. Emotional aim:
Enable the Ss’ to talk about the customs and the activities during the Spring Festival and inspire the Ss’ interest in learning Chinese traditional culture and festivals. 四、Teaching key points:
1. Master the .key words and useful expressions.
2. Get the Ss’ to know about the activities during the Spring Festival 五、Teaching difficult points:
1. How to improve the Ss’ reading ability. 2. Master the important sentences patterns 六、Teaching methods:
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1. Task- based teaching and learning.
2. Fast reading to get the general idea of the passage 3. Careful reading to get some detailed information. 七、Teaching aids:
The multimedia and the general teaching tools. 八、Teaching steps: Step 1.Warming up and lead-in
Ask the Ss:1.Can you tell me some festivals in our country? (Mid-Autumn Day, Children’s Day ,Women’s Day, the Spring Festival and so on) 2.When is the Spring Festival?
Tell the Ss: The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China .But do you know what people do to prepare for the festival and how they celebrate it? Now let’s learn the passage together. Step 2.Fast-reading
1.Let the Ss read the passage as fast as they can and do Ex 1 on page 95.
2.Check the answers.
Purpose: Develop the students’ skimming and analyzing abilities
Step 3.Careful-reading
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1. Let the Ss read each paragraph together and translate it into Chinese.
2. Let the Ss find the answers to the following questions 1).When do people usually start preparing for the celebration of the Spring Festival?
2).What do people usually do at the midnight on New Year’s Eve? Purpose：Make the Ss get much details about the passage and help them to have a better understanding of the text. 3. Deal with the language points. Step 4 .Language points: 1. prepare for…“为……做准备”
eg.:We are preparing for the English speech contest. 2.sweep out…“扫掉，清扫”
eg: Could you help me sweep out the snow? 3.as for…“谈到，至于”
eg: As for professor Wang ,he is well known to us. 4.Show respect to…“向……表示敬意” eg:We should show respect to those who help us.
Purpose: Help the Ss to master the usage of the useful expressions in this unit.
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Step 5.Summary
Let the Ss summarize the main idea of each part. ,they can discuss it if necessary.
Part 1(Para.1-2): It tells us that the Spring Festival is the most
important festival in China and the author will go home to spend the holiday.
Part 2 (Para.3): It tells us what people do to prepare for the Spring
Festival
Part 3 (Para 4-5): It tells us how people celebrate the Spring Festival. Part 4 (Para.6): A brief summary to the whole passage. Step 6. Practice
Translate the sentences into English 1. 无论问题有多难，我们都得回答。 2. 她正在为明天的考试做准备。
3. 春节期间，我们通常在院子里挂起红灯笼。 4. 我们应该向我们的老师表示敬意。 5. 他们正在燃放烟花爆竹。 Step 7. Rewriting
Let the Ss rewrite the passage of Reading using their own words. Step 8 .Homework
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