Unit 7 Celebrating Holidays and Making Friends（略）The First Period Section ITeaching time 第次/第周日 3、4节/5、6节——浆24班/浆23班日 1、2节热动班Teaching aims:1. Read and discuss announcements, notices and posters in English,2. Learn some expressions used in making announcements, notices and posters ,3. Comprehend the two passages and master the useful expressions in them, and4. Finish the exercises by themselves or with some help.Teaching important point:Master the new phrases, sentence patterns and make the students be free to talk about a poster. Teaching difficult point:Individual, pair or group work to make everyone work in classTeaching methods:1.Individual, pair or group work to make everyone work in class2.Task-based learningmunicative approachTeaching aids:1.a radio player2.the blackboard3. Picture sTeaching proceduresI. Lead-inNotices and posters are very common in our daily life, and they are often used to offer information about social functions. Therefore, we should not only learn to read them, but also learn to write them.It’s very important to know how to make announcements, notices and posters. The following samples make it clear that we should first tell the general information like how attractive or interesting the thing you want to make known, then give definite information about time, place and price etc.II. PresentationSection I Talking Face to FaceStep1. Read and translate the two samples of postersNotes:1) The poster gives us a clear idea of the sponsor, time and place.2) The poster uses some parallel sentences to catch its audience’s eye.3) The body of the poster is like a Christmas tree, and the fonts are different. It aims to highlight the effect of the poster.Step 2 Practice:Teaching time 第2次/第14 周12.20日 1、2节/5、6节——浆24班/浆23班12.21日 1、2节热动班Section II Being All EarsPre-listening: provide the students with the new words and expressions; read through the questions and the chart in exercise 1 and 2, and make somepredictions as to the content of the dialogue.While-listening: ask the students to listen to the dialogue for the first time and ask them just to understand the main idea of the dialogue not to finish theexercises; listen to the dialogue again and ask them to finish exercise 1;ask the students to repeat the dialogue sentence by sentence after the tapewhile the teacher will press the button “pause” on the tape recorder; listento the dialogue as a whole for the last time.Post-listening: ask the students to finish exercise 2, i.e. answering questions. This step aims to change listening to speaking.Notes: The following dialogue and the passage listening can be done in a more or less similar procedure.III. Assignment1.Do ex.1-32. Preview section III.Conclusion:The Second Period Passage ITeaching time 第1次/第15 周12.24日 3、4节/5、6节——浆24班/浆23班12.25日 1、2节热动班Teaching aims:1. Understand the passage2. Master some useful expressions in Passage I3. Get the knowledge of some important western holidays4. Know something about western cultureTeaching important point:Master the new phrases, sentence patterns and get some information about holidaysTeaching difficult point:Enable students to understand the passageTeaching methods:1. Individual, pair or group work to make everyone work in class2. Task-based learning3. Communicative approachTeaching aids:1. a radio player2.the blackboard3. Picture sTeaching proceduresStep 1.Lead-in(In this step, some related information will be provided for the students.)U.S. Public Holidays & Celebrations1. Federal Public HolidaysJanuary 1st New Year's Day3rd Monday in January Martin Luther King's Birthday3rd Monday in February Washington's BirthdayLast Monday in May Memorial DayJuly 4th Independence Day1st Monday in September Labor Day2nd Monday in October Columbus DayNovember 11th Veterans Day ,4th Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day ,December 25th Christmas DayFebruary 12th Lincoln's BirthdayNote: Virtually all the states observe certain other days during the year; the principal ones are:Normally, if a holiday falls on a Sunday the following Monday is observed; if on a Saturday, the previous Friday.2. Other American Celebration DaysMother's Day Second Sunday in MayFather's Day Third Sunday in JuneGroundhog Day February 2nd1Traditionally, if the sun is shining on this day, and a groundhog sees his shadow, he returns to his burrow, and winter continues for six more weeks.Daylight Saving TimeDaylight Saving Time (DST) is achieved by advancing the clock one hour. Most states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions observe Daylight Saving Time beginning at 2.00 am on the first Sunday in April, and ending at 2.00 am on the last Sunday in October.Step 2. Comprehension Questions (The students will be asked some compression questions after they have skimmed the passage to help them develop reading strategies.)(1) What is the origin of Thanksgiving Day?(2) How did the early settlers survive their first winter in the New World?(3) What does a traditional Thanksgiving dinner usually include?(4) What do people do if they can’t join the family for Christmas?(5) Why is Christmas said to be family holiday?Step 3 Explain the passage in detail(1) Explanation of Difficult Sentences1.-- Thanksgiving Day on the fourth Thursday of November is uniquely an American holiday which dates back to the arrival of some of the first European settlers in the New World. (Para. 1)每年11月的第四个星期四的感恩节是唯有美国才有的节日。