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高一英语人教课标必修3Unit 1 Festivals around the world学案
Unit 1 Festivals around the world
The First Period Speaking
Teaching goals 教学目标
1. Target language 目标语言
a. 重点词汇和短语
take place, lunar, festivals, Army Day, Christmas, dress up
b. 交际用语
Express one’s opinion:
In my opinion, ...
I believe ...
I think that ...
Expressions used in the shops:
Would you like...?        Could I have...?
Might I offer help...?      May I see...?
You should try...?         Could we look at...?
Can you suggest...?        We might take...?
2. 能力目标
Enable the students to talk about Chinese festivals and customs in English and get to know some information about foreign festivals.
3. 学能目标
Enable the students to learn how to talk about Chinese festivals and customs.
Teaching important points 教学重点及难点
How to talk about the Chinese festivals and social customs at festivals and how to offer and request the items you need in shops.
Teaching methods 教学方法 
Elicitation, discussion, listening, pair work.
Teaching aid 教具准备
A computer, a projector and a tape recorder
Teaching procedures && ways 教学过程与方法
Step I   Leading in
T: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to school! Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?
Ss: Yes. Of course!
T: When did you feel most happy and excited? 
Ss: At the Spring Festival.
T: Who can tell us why? Volunteers!
S1: Because it’s the most important festival in our country.
S2: Because I got much lucky money from my parents,
grandparents and my relatives.
S3: Because I needn’t study at festivals and there was lots of delicious food to eat. How great!
S4: Because I met my cousins and old friends who I hadn’t seen for a long time and we had a very good time together.
T: Excellent work! I am glad to hear that. Now let’s talk about FESTIVALS, which are meant to celebrate important events. Please think about other Chinese festivals.
S1: New Year (January 1st), Yuan Xiao Festival (15 days after the Spring Festival).
T: Quite right. That’s the Lantern Festival. It’s the 15th day of the first lunar month. What do you usually do on the Lantern Festival?
S2: We eat special sweet dumplings called Yuan Xiao and enjoy displayed lanterns.
S3: And we enjoy beautiful fireworks, too.
T: You have done a good job. What are the other festivals?
S4: International Women’s Day. It was on March 8.
S5: Arbor Day on March 12th.
S6: International Labor Day and Chinese Youth Day.
S7: International Children’s Day.
T: Yes. Very good. Next one?
S8: Army Day is on August 1st and Teachers’ Day is on September 10th.
S9: National Day on October 1st.
T: Excellent work! Those are all the legal holidays in our country. Do you know our traditional festivals? List some of them, please.
Sa: The most important one is the Spring Festival.
T: Yes. It’s also called Lunar New Year. Anything else?
Sb: Qingming Festival in memory of the dead or the heroes on April the fifth.
T: It’s called Tomb Sweeping Festival. Another one?
Sc: Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in memory of the great poet — Qu Yuan.
Sd: Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifth day of the eighth lunar month.
T: You’ve done a good job, boys and girls! You have named many festivals. I’m proud of you for you are so well-informed.
Step II Warming up
T: Look at the screen and I’ll show you a table and some pictures:
Festivals    Date Festivals    Date
New Year January 1st Teachers’ Day September 10th
International
Women’s Day March 8 National Day October 1st
Arbor Day March 12th the Spring
Festival Lunar New Year
International Labor Day May 1st Pure Brightness Day April the fifth
Chinese Youth Day May 4th. Dragon Boat Festival the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
International Children’s
Day June 1st Mid-Autumn
Festival the 5th day of the 8th lunar month
Army Day August 1st Lantern
Festival the 15 day of the 1st lunar month
Talking (P41)
Use the following sentences:
• When does the Spring Festival usually take place?
• What do you do to celebrate it?
• What special food do you eat?
• What is the origin of the Spring Festival?
• Why is the Spring Festival such a big holiday in China?

Li Mei and Carla are talking on the phone. Carla is asking some more
questions about Spring Festival.
 A: Li Mei, when does the Spring Festival  usually take place?
 B: Well, the date is a little different every year, but it usually happens at the end of January or the beginning of February.
 A: What do you usually do to celebrate it?
 B: My whole family gets together- my grandparents, all my aunts and uncles, and all my cousins. We usually talk about what we’ve done in the past year. Then we cook a lot of food.
   A: What special food do you eat?
   B: We almost always make and eat dumplings. That’s the most traditional Spring Festival food.
A: What is the origin of Spring Festival?
B: Well, there are several old stories about Spring Festival. In old Chinese stories, there was a monster named Nian who would come into towns at the end of the year and frighten people. Sometimes he would eat them.
   At some point, people discovered that the monster Nian was frightened of loud noises and the colour red. They began to put red paper on their doors and set off firecrackers. It became the tradition to do this every year to frighten the monster away from the town.
A: Wow! That’s an amazing story! Why is
Spring Festival such an important holiday in China?
B: I guess it’s like Christmas in Western countries. It’s the most important family holiday all year.
Homework
Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Think about the questions in Part 2 “pre-reading” and then preview the next part about reading to get the main idea.
Step III Listening (WB P41)
T: Now, we will come to the listening part. First, turn to Page 41. And then listen to the tape. Look at the first picture in this page. What can you see?
S5: A rabbit and a chicken.
T: Yes. But the rabbit is called the Easter Bunny. Read after me "the Easter Bunny". It is an imaginary rabbit that children believe comes to the home to hide the Easter eggs(复活节彩蛋). And the second picture is about the Easter eggs. What’s in the third picture?
S6: Some bread.
T: Yes. The bread with an X is called hot cross buns. On Easter Day people eat it. Now listen to the tape and try to get the main idea. 
Play the tape for the students. While listening, the students should grasp the key words and get the main idea. Then play the tape once more. After listening, let the students answer the questions. And check the answers with the whole class. Then sum up the useful expressions in the material (about Easter Day).  Then play the tape a third time for them to write down the main idea of the passage. Then check the answers with the whole class.
The suggested answers are in the Teachers’ Book Page 18.