1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world Reading and Writing- a sad love story Teaching aims:1. Knowledge objectives: To introduce a cross-cultural view of lovers festivals Qiqiaojie and Valentines Day.2. Ability objectives: Train the students reading ability.3. Moral objectives: Enable the students to eng

2、age imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending. Improve the students writing ability. Teaching important and difficult points:1. Understand the text well.2. Try to master the useful new words & expressions in this period.Teaching method: Task-based teaching, listeni

3、ng, reading, speakingTeaching aids: a computer & a projectorTeaching proceduresStep 1.Lead-inT: In the last period, we have learnt many kinds of festivals. Some are set in memory of the dead, some are set in honor of some great people and some are set in celebration of harvest. Do you know the festi

4、vals set for lovers? Qiqiaojie and Valentines Day _T: You are familiar with them. Look at the screen. Can you guess who the two lovers are? Zhinu and NiulangToday, we are going to learn a sad love story.Step 2 fast readingTask 1.Read fast and get the key words.Introduction Zhinu, the weaving_girl, t

5、he most lovely of the daughters, visited the earth and met Niulang, the _herd boy. Development They fell in love , married secretly and were very happy.Climax（高潮） The Goddess of Heaven got so angry that she forced Zhinu back to _Heaven_. Niulang tried to follow her but was stopped by the Milky Way.

6、Thus, the couple_ were separated. Ending The Goddess of Heaven allowed the couple to meet once a year on the _seventh_ day of the seventh lunar month when magpies made a _bridge_ of their wings.Task 2: Go through your text quickly and silently. Then finish the true or false exercises.1. Hu Jin faile

7、d to meet Li Fang at 7:00. T2. If it is raining on Qiqiaojie, it means that Zhinu is weeping and the couple will be able to meet. F will NOT be able to meet.3. Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got more than angry. TLi Fang thought he could get married to

8、Hu Jin, just like Niu Lang and Zhi Nu. T5 When Li Fang met Hu Jin, he felt very glad. F He is sadStep 3 careful readingT: Read the passage again and answer the following questions one by one.1. Where did Li Fang and Hu Jin wait for each other? Did they meet on time?_they waited each other at two dif

9、ferent tea shops, so they did not meet on time 2. How did Li Fang feel?_Li Fang was heart-broken and he was sad, he thought he was a fool.3. How would he get rid of his sadness then? And what about Hu Jin?_he watched TV and was absorbed in the story. Hu Jin waited Li Fang in another tea shop. 4. Did

10、 Li Fang continue to wait later?_No. he set for home when the story ended 5. Did they meet each other at last?_yes, they meet each other at last. 6. How did Li Fang feel?_ Li Fang felt sorry for Hu jin because he had thrown away her Valentines gift, he thought she will never forgive him, so he is un

11、happy. Step 4 Post-readingT: The two love stories happened in two different festivals. What are their similarities and differences? How should we treat Chinese traditional festivals and some western festivals?_T: Nowadays, some people pay more attention to the Valentines Day than Qiqiaojie, which wa

12、s once one of the most popular festivals in ancient China. Anyway, each festival in China has its own tale and meaning. So we should hold on to our own festivals and culture, as well as pass them on from generation to generation. We should never allow some western festivals to take the place of Chin

13、ese traditional festivals.Step 5 Retell Retell the passage from the aspect of Li Fang and Hu JinS: Li Fang: Made an appointment with Hu JinWaited in the coffee shopNot met herHeart-broken; along with; like a foolWould not hold his breath for her to apologize(wait without much hope); Would drown his

14、sadness in coffee (drink coffee in order to forget the sadness/sorrow)Gave up and threwawayMet Hu Jin without giftsFelt worried Hu Jin: Made an appointment with Li FangKept her word but waited in the tea shopNot turned up in the coffee shopWaited for him all the timeMet Li Fang with gifts Step 6 Lan

15、guage points:1. But she didnt turn up.1) 來, 出席(某活動(dòng)) turn up Im very happy you turned up so early. 2) 把(收音機(jī)等)音量開大一些, 其反義短語是turn down.Turn up the radio a little, I can scarcely hear the program.相關(guān)短語:turn down 拒絕 turn off 關(guān)掉turn on 打開 turn out 結(jié)果是.turn to sb. for help 向某人求助2. She said she would be ther

16、e at seven oclock, and he thought she would keep her word. keep ones word 意為“守信用”,其反義詞是break ones word, 即“失信”。 He is a man who always keeps his word.Dont break your word, otherwise, no one will trust you. 注意：keep ones word和break ones word中的名詞word不能用復(fù)數(shù)形式。相關(guān)短語：in a word/in short/to be short 簡言之；總之have

17、 a word with sb. 與某人談話have words with sb. 與某人發(fā)生口角in other words 換句話說3. It was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting for Li Fang to leave. obvious adj. clear 明顯的，清楚的 It + be + obvious +that-clause It was obvious that she was in danger.4. marry 的用法：1) marry sb.，而不用marry with sb.2) be

18、 married to5. set off: 動(dòng)身, 出發(fā); 使（地雷、炸彈）爆炸; 使某物更有吸引力 The bomb set off among the crowd.A woman beauty is set off by her clothes and jewelers.相關(guān)短語： set about doing sth. 著手（做某事）set in 開始 set up 建立，創(chuàng)立 set down 寫下，記下 6. I dont want them to remind me of her. remind vi. 提醒，使想起 remind sb. of sth.remind sb. to do sth. remind sb. that Step 6 SummaryThis class ,we have learnt A Sad LOVE STORY, and we have dealt with the language points of the passage, please remember these language points Step 7