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aster Independence Day Halloween Thanksgiving Day Valentine’s Day … What are Lingling and her mother doing ? Where is Lingling’s father? Make sure the Ss understand the 2 questions: Step 2 Play the recording and have them listen . Step 3 Play the recording again and have them write the answers individually. Step 4 Play the recording and have them check their answers with a partner Step 5 Call back the answers from the whole class. Task 2: activity 3 on page 9. Step 1 Choose the best answers in Activity 3. Step 2 Call back the answer in a whole class setting. Task 3: Listen and read: Step 1 Play the recording and ask the Ss. to listen and read the conversation. Step 2 Play the recording again and pause after each phrase, asking the Ss. to repeat chorally and individually. Step 3 Put the Ss. into groups of 3 to practise the dialogue. Step 4 They should repeat it several times, changing the roles each time. Task 4: activity 4 on page 9 Step 1 Explain by saying ―This activity is designed to check if you have grasped the main structure. Explain that the students have to answer the questions in full sentences. Step 2 Put the Ss. into groups to ask and answer the questions. Step 3 Call back the answer in a whole class setting. Step 4 Ask different students to practice them in front of the class. Activity 4: Pronunciation Task: Grasp 3 phonemes / l Step 1 Step 2 Play the recording again and ask the Ss. to repeat chorally and individually. Step 3 Put the Ss. in pairs to practice them. Activity 5: A test Listen to the tape and translate some of the sentences into Chine se. Activity 6: Homework Recite the short passage as fluently as possible. Period 2 Reading and Vocabulary Teaching Content: Reading and Vocabulary Teaching Aims and Demands: 1) Language knowledge: New words: tradition, bad, luck, paint, mean, decorate, decoration, everyone, haircut, dumpling, fireworks, few, week, round, bring Key phrases: paper cut, New Year, New Year’s Eve, sweet pudding, a few, all the year round. 2) Reading skill: To understand the text. (重 點(diǎn) ) 3) Affection and attitudes: We should be interested in festivals in the world. Learning strategies: Communicative approach. Teaching Aids: MultiMedia (Tape recorder, video, handout) Teaching Procedures: Activity 1: Revision Help students to revise what is learnt in Period one of this module. Show them some pictures about the new words in last period. Have the Ss. spell them chorally and individually. Revise be + of the present continuous tense I am not walking to school now. You are not walking to school now. He is not walking to school now. Are you walking to school now? I s he walking to school now? Activity 2: Preparation Task1: Learn the new words. Directions: Label the pictures with the words. (1). Read through the words in the box and have the Ss. Repeat them after you. (2). Ask them to label them in the pictures on the screen. (3). Make some sentences with the words. Ask students to speak out as many as they can. Task 2: Talk about the pictures Directions: Let the Ss. ask and answer .eg. What’s the colo