人教新课标英语必修三第一单元教案Unit 1Festivals around the World
Reading 教案
Teaching goals
1.To get the students to talk about festivals
2.To learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language
3.To develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details.
4.To arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in China，thus promote their culture awareness.
Important points
prehension of the reading part.
2.Knowledge accumulation of festivals and cultures.
eful words and expressions concerning festivals.
Teaching aids
A computer, a projector, courseware, a tape-recorder
Teaching procedures
Step 1 revision
Revise the festivals.
Step 2 pre-reading
What is your favourite holiday of the year? Why?
Step 3 fast reading
1.How many kinds of festivals are mentioned in the text? What are they?
2. let’s get to know more about these festivals and fill in the form on P
3.Ex1
Step 4 careful reading
Paragraph 1:When did ancient people celebrate ?
•at the end of winter
•When good weather returned
• a good harvest
•animals caught
Paragraph 2: Festivals of the dead
1.What are festivals of the dead for?
2. How do Japanese honour their ancestors?
3. What do the people in Mexico do in memory of the dead?
*Are there any similar festivals in China? What do do? What to eat?
The Qingming Festival
Paragraph 3: Festivals to honour people
Paragraph 4:Harvest Festivals
1) Why are autumn festivals happy events?
Because people are grateful and happy and a season of agricultural work is over.
2) What do people do to celebrate it?
In European countries, it is the custom to decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit; get together to have meals, win awards for their animals, flowers, fruit and vegetables; admire the moon Paragraph 5: Spring Festivals
Paragraph 6: What are the purposes of festivals?
Festivals: To have fun with each other / To let us enjoy life/ To be proud of our custom/ To forget our daily life for a little while/To honour the dead/To honour famous people/To celebrate harvest/To welcome a new year and look forward to the future/To ask people to pay attention to something
Step 5 post reading
Do T or F
(1). The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. F
(2). Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. T
(3). Qu Y uan was a great poet whom people honor a lot in China. T
(4). Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. F
(5). Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F
(6). There is pink snow in spring in Japan. F
Step 6 Group work
Festivals are created. Now you’ve got the chance to create a new festival. Discuss in groups, make a plan:
When the festival takes place
What the festival is for
What people do at the festival
What people eat at the festival
Sample: Peace Day
It takes place every year on January 2, the day after the New Year’s Day. At the beginning of a new year, we create such a festival in order to call for peace, to make the world a better place for everyone. People have to learn about foreign countries on that day. The TVs and newspapers will be all about foreign countries. And people are asked to eat foreign food on that day. And they are asked to talk about peace with their families, friends, and so on.
Homework
Write an introduction of the festival your group have created.。