第一课时 听说课（一）
 
第一步 引入话题

1. Take advantage of the last Spring Festival and ask students what else they know about Chinese festivals, including when they take place and they celebrate and at least one thing that people do at that time.

2. Ask students how much they know about foreign festivals.

第二步 看一看 猜一猜（小组竞赛）

1. Show students some pictures/photos, then ask them to guess which festival people are celebrating.

2. Put a photo of “Easter” in the end, leading into the listening training.

第三步 听力训练（双人活动）

1. (Page 41 Listening) Ask students to talk about the 3 pictures.

2. Students listen to the tape for the first time and write down the main idea or just ask students to fill in the blanks like: The listening passage is about Easter. Children look for Easter eggs hidden by their parents and the family eat a special dinner of roast lamb and apple pie.

3. Ask students to have a look at the six questions in Exercise 2 before they listen to the tape again.

4. Play the tape and let students answer the questions.

5. Ask students to exchange their information.

6. Play the tape again for the students to correct their answers.

第四步 角色扮演：购物（双人活动）

1. (Page 41 Talking) Ask students to read the situation, better choose “Easter” rather than “Spring Festival”.

2. Let students read the expressions of “request”.

3. Ask students to make up a dialogue in pairs, one as the shopkeeper and the other as the customer.

4. Ask some pairs to present their dialogues to the class.

第五步 作业布置

1.Page 46 Speaking Task ＋ Page 47 Project

Ask students to design a poster or a travel brochure of a festival, which can either be well known or invented by themselves. (It can be finished by the end of learning the unit.)

2. Think about the questions in Part 2 “Pre-reading”.
 

第二课时 整体阅读

第一步 作业检查

Ask some students their opinions about the two questions in “Pre-reading”.

第二步 预测文章内容 （个人自由发言）
 
1. Ask students to read the title “Festivals and celebrations” and look at the pictures, then guess what the passage may be about.

2. Ask one or two students to give their point of view.

第三步 阅读文章Festivals and celebrations

1. Give students one minute, and ask them to scan the passage, then answer: How many kinds of festivals are mentioned? What are they?

2. Let students read the text again and do the true or false questions.

①     The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. (F)

②     People celebrate Halloween with a different purpose from the past. (T)

③     Gandhi was a great leader who Indian people honor a lot. (T)

④     China and Japan share the same custom of celebrating mid-autumn festival. (T)

⑤     Easter just celebrates the rebirth of Jesus. (F)

3. Let students have an intensive reading and finish the form.

Festivals and celebrations 

 第四步 讨论（双人或四人小组活动）

1. Ask students to do Exercise 2 & 3 on page 3 individually.

2. Let students exchange their information in pairs.

3. Get students to discuss their results in groups of four.

第五步 各抒己见

Ask students the following question and let them state their point of view.
 
Who do you think should have a festival to honor him/them? Why?

第六步 作业布置

1. Read the text again and try to find out some important or difficult words and expressions.

2. Preview “Learning about language—Discovering useful words and expressions”