1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world1. Teaching aims of this unit Talk about festivals and celebrationsTalk about the ways to express request and thanksLearn to use Modal verbsWrite a similar story with a different ending2. Sentence patterns:Request: Could/ Would you please?Could I have?Could we look a

2、t?I look forward toMay I see? Thanks: Its very kind of youThank you very much/ Thanks a lot. Id love to. It was a pleasure Dont mention it. You are most welcome.3. Modal verbs:May might, can could， will would，shall should，must can The first period warming up 1. Teaching aims: Vocabulary: take place,

3、 festival , beauty, celebrate, Phrases: take place , could you ？ Would you ? The second period ReadingTeaching Aims1. Vocabulary: Starve , starvation, origin , religious , ancestors ,plenty, Mexico, feast, in memory of , bones, beliefs, dress up, play a trick on ,poet , arrival, gain , independence

4、, gathered , agricultural , awards , rooster , admire,look forward to , Easter , energetic , day and night ,clothing ,Christians, as though ,have fun with , customs2. To enable the students to know the earliest festivals with reasons for them and four different kinds of festivals that occur in most

5、parts of the world3. To enable the students to master some English expressions and phrases about festivals.1. Teach the basic reading skills: skimming and scanning.2. Try to compare and make conclusion s of different festivals.Step Revision1. Greetings.2. Review the new words of this part.3. Check t

6、he students homework-festivalsStep Reading1. Scanning T: Open your books and turn to page one. Id like you to do the scanning. Read the text quickly and accurately to get the main idea and answer the 5 questions on Page3.( Ask the student to look through the questions and then read the text silently

7、.)( Four minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen.)2. Intensive reading ( Allow the students to read aloud and carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details)T: Read the text loudly for a second time

8、 and them try to tell if these sentences are True or False.1. The ancient people neednt worry about their food. ( F )2 .Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. ( T )3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. ( T )4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end

9、 ot autumn( F )5.Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. ( F )3. Reading and discussion T: Read the text a third time and then work impairs to do Exercise 2 on Page 3.( Let the students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the chart with their partners. Encourage them to expand t

10、heir answers according to their own experiences.)4. Explanation(In this part try to help the students analyse the difficult, long and complex sentences and guess the meaning of the new words; ask them to deal with the language points in the context.)T: Now I will discuss some important sentences and

11、 phrases in the passage.a. Some festivals are held to honor the dead or satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm.b. In memory ofc. India has a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi, the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain.d. People are

12、 grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over .e. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.f. The country , covered with cherry flowers ,looks as though it is covered with pi

13、nk snow.The suggested explanation:a. An attributive clause.The sentence means people hold some festivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.b. in memory of serving to recall sb, to keep him fresh in people minds.He wrote a poem

14、 in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of ( showing great respect or high public regard)in hopes/the hope of (hoping)in defence of (defending)c. a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositived. two clauses for reasone. energyenergetic adj. ( full of or done with energy)look forward to ( to is a preposition here.)devote to, be/get used to, get down to , stick toe.g. Im looking forward to hearing from you.Step Listening T: Now I will play the tape for you. You can just liste