Unit 1 Festivals around the WorldListening and speaking

Unit 1 Festivals around the World（Listening and speaking）Unit 1 Festivals around the World（Listening and speaking）Teaching goals 1. To train the students’ listening ability through the listening context. 2. To learn about the Carnival in Trinidad and how people celebrate it so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language. 3. To develop the students’ speaking skills, with the help of the sample dialogue. Important points 1. Information grasping of the listening part. 2. Mastery of the words and phrases concerning festivals in daily expression Teaching aid A computer Teaching procedures Step 1 lead-in 1. What’s the topic of this unit? Festivals around the World. 2. What are the festivals we learnt in this unit? Show a picture of carnival. Can you have a guess? What are they doing in the pictures? Ss: They are having carnivals. T: Have you ever seen a real carnival? Ss: No/yes. T: Let’s enjoy a real carnival in the video. (after the video) T: What would people do in a carnival? Ss: They would dance. They would go on a parade. Step 2 listening Do you know there is a big and famous carnival in Trinidad every February? Li Mei and Wu Ping are visiting Trinidad and they are getting ready to go to the carnival parade. Listen to the tape and find out what the plans for the parade are. Then answer the question. Part 1 1. What is wrong with Li Mei’s clothing and shoes? Li Mei’s clothing is too thick and her shoes are not comfortable enough to walk in for a long time.2. What advice does Carla give Li Mei? Carla suggests that Li Mei change her shoes to something more comfortable, wear some lighter and cooler clothing and also take a hat. Part 23. Why is it important for them to have water? It is important for them to have water because it is very hot and they will be doing a lot of walking.4. Why is it difficult for them to hear eachother? It is difficult for them to hear each other because the music is very loud. 5. Why do they plan to meet at the parking lot at 8 o’ clock? They plan to meet at the parking lot at 8 o’clock because they might get separated in the crowd. Listen again and choose the best answer. 1. What does Carla advise Li Mei to wear? A. comfortable shoes and a hat, B. light and cool clothes. C. Both A and B. 2.What do they find when they arrive at the park? A. They meet the boys, big bands, dancers and musicians on trucks B. the road is very crowed C. The weather turn cold. 3.Why is it important for them to have water? A. because they eat enough B. because the temperature is 35 degree.C. because they will visit the parade. 4. Why can’t they hear each other? A. because they speak in too low a voice. B. because the loudspeakers make it impossible to hear. C. Because it’s too crowded. 5. Why do they plan to meet at the parking lot?A. In case they may get lost.B. Because they want to enjoy the carnival alone.C. Because they’re going to park their cars there. 6. Why shouldn’t Li Mei wear the dress she chose at first?A. It’s not niceB. It doesn’t go with her shoes.C. it’s too heavy and hot to walk and dance till midnight with such high temperature. Step 3 Speaking T: Now, Suppose you are Li Mei or Wu Ping. You have visited Carla and Hari’s home in Trinidad and you have returned home to Zhejiang. You are phoning their mother to thank her for the visit. The expressions below might help you. T: Sample dialogue is given for you. Sample dialogue A: Hello, Xiao Feng. It’s calling from Jilin. Can you hear me? B: Oh, hello . How nice to hear from you. A: I want to say thank you very much for the lovely visit in Trinidad. B: It was a pleasure having you here. Would you please give my best wishes to your parents? A: Of course I will. They asked me to send their greetings and thanks also. B: I look forward to meeting them.Perhaps we can visit China sometime soon. A: That’d be wonderful. You’re most welcome. B: It was fun having you here ―― maybe you can come again for Carnival next year. A: I’d love to. Say hello to Carla and Hari for me ―― I hope they can come to China with you. And thanks again. B: Don’t mention it. I’ll tell them you called. I’m glad you had a good trip home. T: So, no w it’s your show time. Get your dialogues ready and present it to the whole class. SA… SB …Homework Preview the reading context A Sad Love Story on page 7 and do the relevant exercises thereafter.Unit 1 Festivals around the world Extensive reading and writing Teaching aims: To introduce a cross-cultural view of lover’s festivals �C Qiqiaojie and Valentine’s Day. Train the students’ reading ability. Enable the students to engage imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending. Improve the students’ writing ability. Teaching procedures Step 1.Lead-in T: In the last period, we have learnt many kinds of festivals. Some are set in memory of the dead, some are set in honor of some great people and some are set in celebration of harvest. Do you know the festivals set for lovers?_______________________________________________________ T: You are familiar with them. Look at the screen. Can you guess who the two lovers are?_______________________________________________________ Today, we are going to learn a love story. Step 2 fast reading The Chinese people believe that the star Vega（织女星）, east of the Milky Way, is Zhinu and, at the constellation of Aquila （天鹰座）, on the western side of the Milky Way, Niulang waits for his wife. Read fast and get the key words. IntroductionZhinu, the _______ girl, the most lovely of the daughters, visited the earth and met Niulang, the _______ boy. Development They f___ ___ _____ , married secretlyand were very happy. Climax （高潮） The Goddess of Heaven got so angry that she forced Zhinu back to ________ . Niulang tried to f_________ her but was stopped by the Milky Way. Thus, the c_______ were separated. Ending The Goddess of Heaven allowed the couple to meet once a year on the ______ day of the s_______ l_______ month when magpies made a _________ of their wings. T: Go through your text quickly and silently. Then finish the true or false exercises. 1. Hu Jin failed to meet Li Fang at 7:00. 2. If it is raining on Qiqiaojie, it means that Zhinu is weeping and the couple will be able to meet. 3. Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got more than angry.4. Li Fang thought he could get married to Hu Jin, just like Niu Lang and Zhi Nu.5. When Li Fang met Hu Jin, he felt very glad. Step 3 careful reading T: Read the passage again and answer the following questions one by one. 1. What does “this” (L8 para3) mean?_______________________________________________________ 2. Where did Li Fang and Hu Jin wait for each other? Did they meet on time?_______________________________________________________ 3. How did Li Fang feel?_______________________________________________________ 4. How would he get rid of his sadness then? And what about Hu Jin? _______________________________________________________ 5. Did Li Fang continue to wait later?_______________________________________________________ 6. Did they meet each other at last?_______________________________________________________ 7.How did Li Fang feel?_______________________________________________________ S: Li Fang: Made an appointment with Hu Jin―Waited in the coffee shop―Not met her―Heart-broken; along with…; like afool―Would not hold his breath for her to apologize(wait without much hope); Would drown his sadness in coffee (drink coffee in order to forget the sadness/sorrow)―Gave up and threw…away―Met Hu Jin without gifts―Felt worried Hu Jin: Made an appointment with Li Fang―Kept her word but waited in the tea shop―Not turned up in the coffee shop―Waited for him all t he time―Met Li Fang with gifts ENDING?? Step 4Post-reading T: The two love stories happened in two different festivals. What are their similarities and differences? How should we treat Chinese traditional festivals and some western festivals?_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ T: Nowadays, some people pay more attention to the Valentine’s Day than Qiqiaojie, which was once one of the most popular festivals in ancient China. Anyway, each festival in China has its own tale and meaning. So we should hold on to our own festivals and culture, as well as pass them on from generation to generation. We should never allow some western festivals to take the place of Chinese traditional festivals. Writing T: Li Fang met Hu Jin after he lost heart and threw away the Valentine’s gifts. To his surprise, Hu Jin kept her word and waited for him in the tea shop all the time! What should he do? What would happen to the two lovers? Please write a different ending to the story of Li Fang, beginning with: As he sadly passed the tea shop on the corner on his way…___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________T: Before writing, you’d better read the story again and then think of what Hu Jin will say when she finds out later that the flowers and chocolates are gone. Then think of an ending to the story that will solve Li Fang’s problem. Will he be happy or sad? Step 5 Language points: 1. But she didn’t turn up. 1) 来, 出席(某活动) I’m very happy you turned up so early. 2) 把(收音机等)音量开大一些, 其反义短语是turn down. Turn up the radio a little, I can scarcely hear the program. 相关短语: turn down 拒绝turn off 关掉 turn on 打开turn out 结果是...... turn to sb. for help 向某人求助 2. She said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word. keep one’s word 意为“守信用”,其反义词是break one’s word, 即“失信”。