5B, Unit7, Chinese festivals(Period1)

武进区寨桥小学 朱艳红

The aims of teaching:

1.能听懂、会说、能读、会学这些词汇: Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival

2.通过快读、细读，学生能获取文本详细信息，了解相关节日的月份和活动。

3.通过开放性的对话和思维导图的设计，学生能活用本课重点知识进行交流，讲述自己最喜爱的节日，提升对新知的运用的能力。

4.通过朗读文本，学生能形成语感，加深对文本信息的理解，为表达作铺垫。

5.联系生活，学生能用所学内容谈论节日，培养学生学会“用语言做事”的综合表达能力。

The challenges of teaching:

1.通过快读、细读，学生能获取文本详细信息，了解相关节日的月份和活动。

2.通过开放性的对话和思维导图的设计，学生能活用本课重点知识进行交流，讲述自己最喜爱的节日，提升对新知的运用的能力。

3.联系生活，学生能用所学内容谈论节日，培养学生学会“用语言做事”的综合表达能力。

The preparation of teaching:

教师准备：制作好课件、打印好词条卡、准备好导学案

学生准备：预习好课文、准备好文具

The produces of teaching:

Step1 Warming up

T: Boys and girls, what’s this?

S: Christmas.

T: When is the Christmas?

S: It’s on the twenty-fifth of December.

T: Yes, it’s about the time.

T: What do people do at Christmas?

S: They see Father Christmas/….

T: They’re about the activities.

T: What do people eat at Christmas?

S: They eat the turkey/Christmas pudding.

T: They’re about the food.

Step2 Presentation

T: Christmas is the important festival in Western countries. Which festival is the important inChina? You can speak it in Chinese.

S: ….

Teach: festival, the Spring Festival

T: Is the Spring Festival a western festival or a Chinese festival?

S: It’s a Chinese festival

T: InChina, there are some Chinese festivals. Today let’s learn a new lesson “Unit7 Chinese festivals”.

Teach the title.

T: How many Chinese festivals are there in the story? Please watch the video and answer the question.

Watch the video

T: How many Chinese festivals are there in the story?

S: There are four.

T: What are these? They’re ….

Teach: Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, call it Chinese New Year

Read the words.

T: Do you want to know somethings about the Chinese festivals?

S: Yes.

T: If we know something about Chinese festivals, we have to finish three tasks. Please take out your paper. First, let’s finish Task1 Listen and match.

Listen and match.

Check the answers.

T: Look at the questions, Who can read them?(When is the Spring Festival? What do people do? What do people eat?)

S: (Read)

T: Now please open your English books and turn to page 68. Underline or circle Part1 the answers with three questions.

Read and underline or circle the answers.

Answer the questions and teach the new words: in January or February, get together with their families, eat dumplings

Read the Part1

Retell or repeat the Spring Festival

T: The Spring Festival is happy for us. And the other three Chinese festivals are nice too. Now work in pairs, read Part2, 3 and 4, then ask and answer with the three questions. Look at the learning tips:

1.Read Part2, 3 and 4, find the unknown words. You can ask your partners for help.

2.You can use the three question: When is … Festival? What do people do? What do people eat?

Work in pairs. (When’s the … Festival? What do people do? What do people eat?)

Ask and answer, then teach the new words: watch dragon boat races in some places, eat rice dumplings, look at the moon at night with their families, eat moon cakes and fruit, visit their parents and grandparents, climb mountains, old people, eat rice cakes

Read Part2, 3 and 4.

Retell or repeat the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival.

Step3 Practice

Happy reading(choose one kind of reading styles: Choose one to read it together./Choose one to read it one by one./Choose one to read it after your leaders.)

Step4 Consolidation

1.Finish Task3 Make your festival mind map

Tips(要点):1.Please choose your favourite festival and finish the mind map(请选择你最喜欢的节日和完成这个思维导图).

2.You can use the other words and phrases(你能用其他的词汇和短语): eat tangyuan(吃汤圆), get red packets(收红包), watch fireworks and firecrackers(看烟花和鞭炮), watch the Spring Festival Gala(看春晚), eat the salted eggs(吃咸蛋), recite the poems(吟诵诗歌), wear cornel(插茱萸)

3.You can introduce your mind map to others(你能向其他人展示你的节日思维导图).

Finish the mind map.

Show the sentences:

Example: I like               best. It’s in                   . At this festival, I can                                                      at this festival. I can eat              at this festival.

Show time.

Appraise the mind map.

2.Summary: the time, the activities and the food about the Chinese festivals.

3.Share the culture about Chinese festivals.

Step5 Assignment the homework

1.Try to retell the story to your friends.

2.Try to make an e-card to your family or friends.

The blackboard-writing design:

Unit7 Chinese festivals