【正文】 Excellent work! I am glad to hear that. Now let’s talk about FESTIVALS, which are meant to celebrate important events. Please think about other Chinese festivals.S1: New Year (January 1st), Yuan Xiao Festival (15 days after the Spring Festival).T: Quite right. That’s the Lantern Festival. It’s the 15th day of the first lunar month. What do you usually do on the Lantern Festival?S2: We eat special sweet dumplings called Yuan Xiao and enjoy displayed lanterns.S3: And we enjoy beautiful fireworks, too.T: You have done a good job. What are the other festivals?S4: International Women’s Day. It was on March 8.S5: Arbor Day on March 12th.S6: International Labor Day and Chinese Youth Day.S7: International Children’s Day.T: Yes. Very good. Next one?S8: Army Day is on August 1st and Teachers’ Day is on September 10th.S9: National Day on October 1st.T: Excellent work! Those are all the legal holidays in our country. Do you know our traditional festivals? List some of them, please.Sa: The most important one is the Spring Festival.T: Yes. It’s also called Lunar New Year. Anything else?Sb: Qingming Festival in memory of the dead or the heroes on April the fifth. T: It’s called Tomb Sweeping Festival. Another one?Sc: Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in memory of the great poet — Qu Yuan.Sd: MidAutumn Festival on the fifth day of the eighth lunar month.T: You’ve done a good job, boys and girls! You have named many festivals. I’m proud of you for you are so wellinformed.Step II Warming up T: Look at the screen and I’ll show you a table and some pictures:Festivals DateFestivals DateNew YearJanuary 1stTeachers’ DaySeptember 10thInternational Women’s DayMarch 8National DayOctober 1stArbor DayMarch 12ththe SpringFestivalLunar New YearInternational Labor DayMay 1stPure Brightness DayApril the fifthChinese Youth DayMay 4th.Dragon Boat Festivalthe fifth day of the fifth lunar monthInternational Children’sDayJune 1stMidAutumn Festivalthe 5th day of the 8th lunar monthArmy DayAugust 1stLantern Festivalthe 15 day of the 1st lunar monthTalking Use the following sentences:? When does the Spring Festival usually take place?? What do you do to celebrate it?? What special food do you eat?? What is the origin of the Spring Festival?? Why is the Spring Festival such a big holiday in China?Li Mei and Carla are talking on the phone. Carla is asking some more questions about Spring Festival. A: Li Mei, when does the Spring Festival usually take place? B: Well, the date is a little different every year, but it usually happens at the end of January or the beginning of February. A: What do you usually do to celebrate it? B: My whole family gets together my grandparents, all my aunts and uncles, and all my cousins. We usually talk about what we’ve done in the past year. Then we cook a lot of food. A: What special food do you eat? B: We almost always make and eat dumplings. That’s the most traditional Spring Festival food.A: What is the origin of Spring Festival?B: Well, there are several old stories about Spring Festival. In old Chinese stories, there was a monster named Nian who would e into towns at the end of the year and frighten people. Sometimes he would eat them. At some point, people discovered that the monster Nian was frightened of loud noises and the colour red. They began to put red paper on their doors and set off firecrackers. It became the tradition to do this every year to frighten the monster away from the town.A: Wow! That’s an amazing story! Why isSpring Festival such an important holiday in China?B: I guess it’s like Christmas in Western countries. It’s the most important family holiday all year.Homework Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Think about the questions in Part 2 “prereading” and then preview the next part about reading to get the main idea. Step III Listening T: Now, we will e to the listening part. First, turn to Page 41. And then listen to the tape. Look at the first picture in this page. What can you see?S5: A rabbit and a chicken.T: Yes. But the rabbit is called the Easter Bunny. Read after me the Easter Bunny. It is an imaginary rabbit that children believe es to the home to hide the Easter eggs (復(fù)活節(jié)彩蛋). And the second picture is about the Easter eggs. What’s in the third picture?S6: Some bread.T: Yes. The bread with an X is called hot cross buns. On Easter Day people eat it. Now listen to the tape and try to get the main idea. Play the tape for the students. While listening, the students should grasp the key words and get the main idea. Then play the tape once more. After listening, let the students answer the questions. And check the answers with the whole class. Then sum up the useful expressions in the material (about Easter Day). Then play the tape a third time for them to write down the main idea of the passage. Then check the answers with the whole class.ReadingTeaching goals 教學(xué)目標(biāo)1. Target language 目標(biāo)語言a. 重點詞匯和短語Beauty harvest celebration starve origin religious ancestor Mexico feast bone belief trick poet arrival gain independence gather agriculture award rooster admire energetic Easter clothing Christian custom worldwideb. 重點句子They lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. They might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colorful clothing of all kinds. Some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestor, who could return either to help or to do harm. On this important feast day, people might eat food in the shape of skulls, and cakes with bones on them. Another is Columbus Day in the USA