1、页Lesson 1 Chinese Seasonal Festival Teaching aims:To use pictures to help understand new wordsTo read a text quickly to find specific informationTo practise the Present Simple Passive, Present Continuous Passive, Past Simple Passive, Present Perfect Passive and Past Continuous Passive.To practise sp
2、oken English Teaching difficulties:To read a text quickly to find specific informationTo practise the Present Simple Passive, Present Continuous Passive, Past Simple Passive, Present Perfect Passive and Past Continuous Passive.Teaching Aids: computer and cassetteTeaching procedures: . Warming upT: W
3、hats your favorite season?S:T: (show some slides about “spring” “summer” “autumn” and “winter” )What festivals happen during your favorite season?S: students will say out different festivals in different seasons.T: Today we will read three articles about Chinese Seasonal Festival, now guess what fes
4、tivals they are?S:T: They are the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. Before reading the text can you introduce these festivals in your own words?S:T: Ok, Im glad that your spoken English has improved. You can describe these festivals character. Now lets read the
5、text you will learn more from them. Reading页Read the text and do the exercise (according to these pictures say out the names of festivals)T: Are you interested in these festivals?S:T: Read the text quickly and the following sentences tell me which festival it belongs to?1. On that day, many people t
6、ry their best to go home to share the feeling of being together with families. 2. This festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration.3. This festival marks the beginning of the hottest season of the year.4. The special food for this festival is sweet dumplings.5. The festival falls on f
7、ifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.6. On that day, the moon is said to be biggest and brightest.Answers: 1. the Mid-Autumn Festival 2. the Lantern Festival 3. the Dragon Boat Festival 4. the Lantern Festival 5. the Dragon Boat Festival 6. the Mid-Autumn Festival Talking and speakingDi
8、vide the class into three groups. Each group reads one section of the text carefully and writes four or five questions about it. Then give the class three or four minutes to read the whole text again. Students close their books，in turn each group asks its questions for the rest of the class to answe
9、r.Do the exercise 3Encourage students to describe other festivals they know well but they cant tell the name of the festival so that other students will be interested to guess what they are. Voice your opinion1. Do you think too much money is spent at festival times? Why or why not?2. Which festival
10、 in China is most important for children? Young people? Old people? Women and men?grammar页Show students the basic passive structure: be +past participate; be +being + participateCompare a sentence of the active voice with one of the passive voice.Do the exercise 5, 6, 7 and 8 VocabularyDo the exercise 9 HomeworkDo the exercise 10