人教新课标英语必修三第一单元阅读课教案
Unit 1 Festivals around the World
    Reading
festivals and celebrations
Teaching goals
1. To get the students to talk about festivals
2. To learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language
3. To develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details.
4. To arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in China，thus prom
ote their culture awareness.
Important points
1. Comprehension of the reading part.
2. Knowledge accumulation of festivals and cultures.
3. Useful words and expressions concerning festivals.
Teaching aids
A computer, a projector, blackboard
Teaching procedures
Step 1lead in
Task1：
How many festivals do you know both in and out of China?
Chinese traditional festivals
Spring Festival
Festival of lanterns
Tomb-sweeping Day
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Day
Chinese public holidays
Children’s Day
International Labor Day
Teachers’  Day
International Women’s Day
New Year’s Day
National  Day
The Youth Day
festivals of foreign countries
Thanksgiving Day
Halloween
Christmas
Easter
Step2 Skimming
Task2:
How many kinds of festivals are mentioned in the text? What are they?
There are four kinds of festivals mentioned in the text .
They are:
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honor People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals
Step 3 Scanning
Task3:
Scan the reading passage quickly and then fill in the following chart
Kinds of festivals
Names of the festivals
countries
Festivals of the Dead
Obon
Japan
Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
Some western countries
Festivals to Honor People
Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
USA
Festival to Honor Gandhi
India
Harvest Festivals
Harvest / Thanksgiving Day
European and other countries
Mid-Autumn festivals
China and Japan
Spring Festivals
Spring Festival
China
Easter and related holidays
some western countries
Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan
Step 4 Careful reading
Task4:
Read the passage carefully again and try to answer the following questions.
1、What are festivals of the dead usually for?
Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.
2、What makes autumn festivals happy events?
Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
3、What do people usually do at spring festivals?
At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
Step 5 Summary   
Task5:    T or F
(1). The ancient people needn’t 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 whom people honor a lot in China.    T 
(4). Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.    F
(5). Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.  F
Step6 Group work
Task6:    Create your own festivals
Festivals are created. Now you’ve got the chance to create a new festival. Discuss in groups, make a plan:
  What is the name of your festival
When the festival takes place
  What the festival is for
  What people do at the festival
Sample: Peace Day
spring怎么读语音英语
It takes place every year on January 2, the day after the New Year’s Day. At the beginning of a new year, we create such a festival in order to call for peace, to make the world a better place for everyone. People have to learn about foreign countries on that day. The TVs and newspapers will be all about foreign countries. And people are asked to  eat foreign food on that day. And they are asked to talk about peace with their families, friends, and so on.
Men's Day
As you know March 3rd is the Women's Day. But we are thinking of creating a day the men on which the men celebrating their own holiday. It will symble a free day for the men on which they can do whatever they like, such as going to the club without taking their wives, going on a visit or travel wherever they like, driving in the desert, hiking or surfing and so on .Whatever you do , it must be thrilling and exciting. It could be a period of time ,maybe about a week or at least three or four days during which all men, especially those who work very hard, they can relax themselves completely without worrying about their work or families. We consider it better to be on the 2nd week of April, which follows the April Fools ' Day. It will symble a completely liberations from work and tire from daily routings or trouble from their stress from family problems. In this holiday, those who are willing to attend it should not take mobile phones, leaving everything at homes.

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