Loading... Please wait...Unit 1 Festivals around the world
Teaching aims and demands
1.topic: 1>Festivals
2> how festivals begin
3>how to celebrate festivals
2.function: 1>Request
Eg: Could you please…?
Could I have …?
I look forward to doing…
2>Thanks
Eg: It’s a pleasure. /Don’t mention it.
It’s very kind of you to…
I’d love to …
Thank you very much./Thanks a lot.
You are most welcome.
3.vocabulary:
4.grammar: 情态动词的用法
Jin can speak English well. (ability)
Could you please show me the way to …? (request)
May we see the awards for the team? (permission)
She might give you … (possibility)
The whole family will come for dinner. (promise)
Often he would dress up like a rich man. (pass habit)
We would be there with our friends. (promise)
II.Key points
Period 1 Warming up and fast reading
1.Greetings
2.Warming up
Step 1 discussing the following questions
a.How was your holiday/spring festival?
b.Did you go traveling?
c.How much pocket money did you get?
Step 2 talking
1). Name some festivals
Spring Festival Dragon Boat Festival Lantam Festival Mid-Autumn Festival
Army Day May Day Teachers’ Day
New Year National Day Mother’s Day
Children’s Day Father’s Day
Christmas Day Halloween carnival
Easter Valentine Day Oben
2).Ss work in groups of four and list five Chinese festivals and siscuss when they take place , what they celevrate and one thing that people do at that time. Then fill in the blanks.
Festivals Time of year/date Celebrate for Things to do
Mid-Autumn Day
Spring Festival
Dragon Boat Day
Tomb sweeping Day
Lantern Festival
3.Pre-reading
1) What’s your favourite holiday of the year? Why?
2) What festivals or celebration do you enjoy in your city or town? Do you like spending festivals with your family or with friends? What part of a festival do you like best—the music, the things to see, the visits or the food?
4. Fast reading and find the answers to the following questions.
A.What did ancient festivals celebrate?
B.What are festivals of the dead for ?
C.Why are autumn festivals happy events ?
D.Name three things people do at spring festival ?
Period 2-3 Intensive reading
1.Read the passage paragraph by paragraph and find the main ideas of each paragraph
Paragraph 1: All kinds of celebration in ancient time.
Paragraph 2: The purpose to honour the dead and three examples
Festivals Time Things people do
Oben
Day of the Dead
Halloween
Paragraph 3: The reasons Why we honour people
Festivals Who does it celebrate ?
Dragon Boat Festivals
Clumbus Day
Indian National Festival
Paragraph 4: Autumn festivals are happy events
Paragraph 5: How people celebrate in spring festivals
2．Language points
a.They would starve if food was difficult to find…
starve （v.） 饿死；挨饿
eg. Millions of people starved to death during the war.
Starve for sth 渴望…
Eg. The homeless children starve for love.
Starvation (n.) 饿死
Eg. Die of starvation
Starvation wages 不够维持基本生活的工资
b.The most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
Celebrate (vt./vi.) 庆祝，赞颂，赞美，举行（仪式）
Eg.We celebrate the new year with a party.
Their courage was celebrated in all the newspaper.
Celebrated (adj.) = famous 著名的，驰名的
c. …because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty.
days/years/…of plenty :富裕（尤指事物和钱）的日子，年月，生活等。
Eg.You have a life of plenty, what would you be worried about ?
d.Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.
1）Honour (v.) “尊敬，给…增光” honour sb. (sth.) with sth.
（n.） “荣誉，光荣，敬意，面子”
Win honour for… 为…争光
Show honour to sb. 尊敬某人
in honour of sb.(sth.) = in sb.’s /sth’s honour出于对某人的敬意
eg.There will be a party in honour of his success.
为庆祝他的成功将会举行一个晚会。
We have a party in honour of the famous artist.
为纪念这位著名艺术家我们举办了这场晚会。
2）satisfy (vt.)使满意，令人满意
Eg.That answer won’t satisfy her.
那个答案不会使她满意。
Satisfied （adj.） 满意的（主语是人）
Satisfactory (adj.) 令人满意的（主语是事而不是人）
Satisfying （adj.） 令人满意的（主语是事）
Satisfaction （n.） 满意
Eg. She’s satisfied with her son’s progress.
对于儿子的进步她感到很满意。
Do you think what he said is satisfying?
你认为他所见的令人满意吗？
3)harm (n.) (U) 伤害
Eg. Don’t be too serious , he meant no harm.
(v.) harm sb./sth.=do harm to sb./sth.
Eg. Don’t be afraid, the dog won’t harm you.
What you do should do more good than harm.
你所做的应该利大于弊。
e.The festival of Halloween had its origin as an event in memory of
the dead.
In memory of / to the memory of sb. 最为对某人的纪念，纪念某人
Eg.The museum was built in memory of the famous scientist.
f.They dress up and try to frightened people.
Dress n. 连衣裙/
v. dress sb./oneself 给…穿上衣服
Eg. The first thing she does every morning after getting up is to dress her son.
她每天起来第一件事就是帮儿子穿衣服。
Dress up 盛妆打扮，乔装打扮
Eg. Ladies loves dressing up more than anything else.
g.If they are not fiven anything, the children might play a trick.
Play a trick on sb. 玩弄某人
Eg. That naughty boy likes to play a trick on others.
h. in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columber in America.
Arrival n. 到达
Eg.We are pleased for their arrival.
i. In India there is a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma
Gandhi,the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britan.
Gain n.获得物，收获，增加
Eg.The baby has a gain of half a pound.
v.获得，得到，增加
eg.He had gained himself a reputation for unfairness.
他是自己得到了一个不公平的名声。
比较: get 得到，获得 应用最广的词
Aquire 获得，取得 指通过漫长的过程而逐渐获得
Gain 得到，获得 往往指通过努力而获得某种有益或有利的东西
Eg.I got a favorite answer.
How did she acquire her skill?
I hope you will gain still greater success.
j. gather 收集，积累
eg. The police have gathered information about the murderer.
k. …Some people might win awards for their animals…
award n.奖品，奖金，助学金
win the second award 获得第二等奖
win the award of ten thousand dolar.
获得一万美元奖金
Vt.奖励，授予 award sb. Sth./sth to sb.
Medals are awarded to the best speakers on the debating team.
奖章授给辩论队中最佳的演说者。
比较： award n./vt. 对鼓励工作突出所进行的鼓励，往往强调荣誉
Prize n. 多指在各类竞赛或抽彩中所赢得的奖。这种将有的凭靠能力，有的凭靠运气获得。
Reward n./v 指对某人的工作或服务等的报答。
Eg. He won the award for the best student of the year.
A prize was given to the person who had the winning number.
The waitress was given two more extra dolar for her good serves.
l. …when people admire the moon and give gifts of mooncakes.
Admire vt. 钦慕，羡慕，赞美
Admire sb. for sth. 因谋事而赞美/仰慕某人
Admire to do sth. 喜欢干谋事
Eg.Don’t forget to admire the students.
别忘了夸奖学生
Everybody admires him for his fine sense of humour.
人人羡慕他那极好的幽默感。
I just admire to get letter, but I don’t admire to answer it.
我只是喜欢收信件，而不喜欢回信。
m. …that looking forward to the end of winter and to the coming of sping.
Look forward to doing sth.
Eg. I am looking forward to seeing you again.
The children are looking forward to visiting the Great Wall.
n.The country is covered with cherry tree flowers so that it looks as though
it might be covered with pink snow
as though =as if 引导状语从句，常常放在act, look, sound, feel, smell
等动词后面；引导表语从句常用虚拟语气。
Eg. He behaves as though nothing has happened.
It looks as if it were summer already.