Reading: Festivals and celebrations
I.Teaching Aims:
1. Learn and master the following words: feast， ancestor， awards，
gathered， look forward to
2. Train the students’ reading ability.
3. Let the students learn about the relation between festivals and history and culture.
II. Teaching Important Points:
1. Improve the students’ reading ability.
2. Help the students learn about foreign history and culture by reading about festivals.
III. Teaching Difficult Point:
How to help the students understand the passage exactly.
IV. Teaching Methods:
1. Discussions before reading and after reading to make the students interested in what they will read and further understand what they have read.
2. Fast reading and careful reading to understand the passage correctly.
3. Pair or group work to make the students take an active part in the activities in class.
V. Teaching Aids:
1. a TV set and a VCD
2. a projector
3. a recorder
VI. Teaching Procedures:
Step1. Greetings
Greet the students as usual.
Step2. Discussion and Lead-in
1. Watch a program about a festival.
2. Ask the students to talk about the program.
3. Ask the students to discuss the questions below.﹙four questions﹚
4. Learn the new words in the passage.
Step3. Reading
1. Ask the students to read the passage silently and quickly to get the general idea.
2. Ask the students to answer some questions.﹙three questions﹚
3. Re-read the passage carefully to further understand it. Then work in groups of four to discuss some questions.
4. Read aloud the passage and try to understand it better.
Step4. Listening and Consolidation
Ask the students to listen to the tape and finish the “true” or “false” exercise on Page11.
Step5. Summary and Homework
Preview next part— Language study.
