Unit 2

Unit 2 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?一、Teaching materials:Unit 2 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival? (Module 2 Spring Festival)二、Targets for this period:To get information from the reading material about the Spring FestivalTo match photos with paragraphs and match questions with paragraphsTo make notes and write sentencesTo learn to write paragraphs三、Key points:Key vocabulary—tradition, bad, luck, paint, mean, decorate, decoration, paper cut, everyone, haircut, New Year, New Year’s Eve, dumpling, sweetpudding, fireworks, few, a few, week, round, all the year round,bring, color, something, cut, Christmas四、Teaching methods:Task-based approach and interactive approach五、Teaching aidsReading material, blackboard六、Teaching arrangements:Step I Lead-in:discussion in groups1.Do you like the Spring Festival? Why?2.Before the Spring Festival, what do people do? Why?3.What do people do on the Eve of the Spring Festival?4.What presents do people get?5.When does the Spring Festival finish?Step II To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 21.Students read the words after the tape.2.Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.3.To help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.Step III Pre-reading (Activity 1& 3)1.Students look at the picture2 and match them with the questions in Activity3Picture 1: What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?Picture 2: What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve?Picture 3: When does the spring Festival finish?Picture 4: What do you do in the Spring Festival?2.Students try to answer the questions according to the pictures.Picture 1: We decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts.Picture 2: We have a rich meal.Picture 3: It finishes at the Lantern Festival.Picture 4: We get presents from adults.Step IV To read the passengers quickly and match the questions with the paragraphs (Activity 3)A-What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?B- What do you do in the Spring Festival?C- What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve?D- When does the spring Festival finish?Step V To read it again and check the answers to the questionsA: clean our houses, sweep away bad luck, paint doors and windows red, decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts, buy clothes, have a haircut B: give us New Year presents, put on our new clothes, visit our family and friends, watch dragon and lion dancingC: have dinner, eat jiaozi or sweet rice pudding, watch TV at midnight, watch fireworksD: at the Lantern Festival after two weeks, eat Yuan XiaoStep VI Language points1.sweep 打扫e.g. please sweep the house clean.sweep away 扫除e.g. the wind sweeps away the leaves.2.paint 画（油画）；涂e.g. He is painting a picture.Please pain the wall white.3.mean 意思是，意味着e.g. ----What do you mean? ----I mean you’re right.4.decorate 装饰e.g. They’re decorating their new house with flowers.5.familye.g. My family has a rich meal.（全家人，强调整体）Our family are going on a trip.（全家人，强调成员）Many families decorate their house with colored lights.（家庭，强调社会单位）6.all the year round 全年e.g. They work hard all the year round.Step VII Students practice reading the passage aloudStep VIII Students discuss the questions in groups (Activity 4)1.Paper cuts, apples are red.2.Good luck is happy and good things. Bad luck is sad and bad things.3.The doors and windows are in the wall.4.Paper cuts are things that people use scissors and knives to cut shapes inpaper and use them to decorate houses.5.Decorate means to make things more beautiful.6. A haircut means to make hair shorter.7.Dumpling is a kind of food people in North China eat during the SpringFestival.Sweet rice pudding is a kind of food people in South China eat during theSpring Festival.8.Midnight is twelve o’clock at night.9.Fireworks are the show of explosive devices to make smoke, fire and noisefor happiness.Step IX Writing1.Students use the word map to match the notes with the headings. (Activity 5)Decorations: d, e, j Food: b, f, h Getting ready: a, d, e, f, jPresents: a, c, e Traditions: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h2.Students join two notes and write one sentence with “and”.(Activity 6)1)They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.2)They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.3)They say “Happy Christmas”to family and friends and sing Christmassongs.4)They decorate homes and have a Christmas tree.5)They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents onChristmas Day..3.Students put the headings before the sentences.(Activity7)4.Students write a passenger describing Christmas in Britain.Homework:1. To find information about a hero and get ready to give a talk, you can takethe module task on P73 for example.Blackboard designingUnit 2 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?Spring Festival in ChinaThe beginning of the Spring Festival: clean our houses, sweep away bad luck, paint doors and windows red, decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts, buy clothes, and have a haircutOn New Year’s Day: give us New Year presents, put on our new clothes, visit our family and friends, watch dragon and lion dancingOn New Year’s Eve: have dinner, eat jiaozi or sweet rice pudding, watch TV at midnight, and watch fireworksThe end of the Spring Festival:at the Lantern Festival after two weeks, eat Yuan XiaoChristmas in BritainGetting ready for Christmas:They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.Food:They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.Traditions:They say “Happy Christmas” to family and friends and sing Christmas songs. Decorations:They decorate homes and have a Christmas tree.Presents:They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents on Christmas Day.1. sweep 打扫e.g. Please sweep the house clean.sweep away 扫除e.g. The wind sweeps away the leaves.2. paint 画（油画）；涂e.g. He is painting a picture.Please pain the wall white.3.mean 意思是，意味着e.g. ----What do you mean? ----I mean you’re right.4.decorate 装饰e.g. They’re decorating their new house with flowers.5.familye.g. My family has a rich meal.（全家人，强调整体）Our family are going on a trip.（全家人，强调成员）Many families decorate their house with colored lights.（家庭，强调社会单位）6.all the year round 全年e.g. They work hard all the year round.。