Unit 3  Let’s celebrate!

Period 7   Integrated Skills

Teaching Aims

1.      To identify main points from posters and pictures

2.      To extract specific information about schedules, places and activities from a radio programme on Chinese New Year celebrations in New York.

3.      To talk about favorite days with the word ‘ favourite’ & ‘Wh-‘ questions and the statements in response to ‘Wh-‘questions.

Teaching Procedures

Step I  Lead-in

Introduce some background information and show some related pictures.

Step II  Presentation

Explain the context of section A. Teach the new words: Lion dance, firework(s), Chinatown with pictures. Arouse Ss’ curiosity to learn about celebrations of Chinese festivals so far away from China.

Step III  Reading

Ask Ss to read about the poster, and then complete the table on their own with the information they can find from the poster.

Step IV  Listening

1.      Play the tape for Ss and ask them to listen for the left missing details. After that, check in class.

2.      Ask Ss to look at Wendy’s postcard and fill in as many of the blanks as possible from memory, then they can accord to the information in P46

3.      Check the answer and ask some Ss to read out the postcard, checking for the correct pronunciation.

Step V  Speak up

1.      Ask Ss to discuss ‘what do you do at Chinese New Year?’

2.      Listen to the tape and set a question beforehand: ‘why does Millie like her birthday so much?’ then fill the blanks with the first letters of each missing word without looking at the books.

3.      Ask Ss to read the dialogue first in pairs and then altogether.

Step VI  Practice

Ask Ss to change the model conversation to talk about their own favorite days. Role-play the conversations in front of class.

Step VII  Homework

Ask Ss to make a postcard for celebrating Chinese New Year.

重点概览
“独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲”。同学们，希望你们在新的一年里，心想事成，
事如意。Best wishes for the Happy new Year!
1、 traditional Chinese food 传统的中国食物traditional 意思为“传统的”，
例如：
traditional dress 传统女服。
2、I’m going to watch the lion dance.我打算观看狮子舞。
这里watch是动词“观看，注视”的意思，常用于观看比赛，电视等，例如：
We can watch TV on Sunday and Saturday.
3、It will be the first time I see it and I am very excited. 这将是我第一次看
到，我很兴奋，be excited意思是“兴奋”，如：I was very excited when I heard
the news. 当我听到这个消息，我非常兴奋。

三、学海拾贝
随堂检测：
1、根据实际情况回答问题。
（1） How do you usually go to school?

（2）What would you like for Children’s Day?

（3）which is your favo write subject?

（4）Why do you like English so much?

（5）When is your birthday?

（6）Where do you have the birthday party?

2、根据所学完成下面的海报
New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day is January 1st People in the west and
celebrate it Chinese people Celebrate New Year’s Day many ways.
Children are on . They often go to the park the it parents or
they do some shopping to some new clothes. Students don’t have any
homework on that day. They often have a at school. They sing and
. They are very happy.
3、用on, in和at填空
1、I get up six o’clock.
2、My father goes fishing Sunday.
3、My parents watch TV the evening.
4、I often chat with my classmates supper.
5、 summer, we always swim in the lake.
6、His birthday is 3rd October.
4、用some, any 填空
1、There is orange juice in the bottle.
2、There are presents under the Christmas tree.
3、There aren’t mooncakes on he plate.
4、Is there money in the packet? No, there isn’t .
5、Do you have chocolate eggs? Yes, I have .
5、句型转换
1、There is a present on the table.(改为复数句)
There on the table.
2、There is some money in the packet.(改为否定句)
There money in the packet.
3、I have some comic books.(改为一般疑问句)
you have comic books?

学后记
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