【正文】 purpose, faith, mercial, similar, salute, celebration…..Phrases:hear about, so that, as well as, believe in, get together, play a trick on sb… Sentence: was born in 1966, when people created a new festival so that African American would be able to celebrate their history and African firstfruit festivals had many things in must do as much as we can to make our munity better and more Kwanzaa is a time for learning as well as joy, people celebrate it by lighting a candle each day and discussing one of the seven principles of hear about=learnt abouthear of sb.=have a knowledge of much/great faith in sb./ little/no faith in sb./ faith with well as+clausedo as much as do have honour to sb.=do honour to sb.(do )Ⅲ.Teaching key and difficult points:Teaching key: understand the text and using your own words to retell the point：how to use phrases: as well as, so that, have … in aids:1)Raising question approach 2)Discussion approach3)taskbased approach*Teaching means: use the multimedia as an assistant means in teaching.Ⅳ.Teaching steps: Step 1 Leadin1）Have a free talk about festival in China, and then discuss the question in Prereading on page does your family celebrate the Spring Festival? do we celebrate the Spring Festival? festivals help us understand our history and culture? kind of gifts and things do people buy during major festival like Christmas and the Spring Festival? 2）Show the student 3 pictures about Kwanzaa and then discuss what’s the picture about ?Step 2 Listening prehensions1)Present the students the questions before listening to the )Get the students to listen to the tape and then answer the following questions.① Why did people create Kwanzaa? ② Many festival around the world are celebrated around the same do we celebrate these festivals at these times?Step 3 Fast reading1)Tell the students the task of reading before they read the )After reading then summary the main idea of this 4 Language pointsPhrases: hear about, sevenday, celebrating, get together, so that, have…in mon, harvest, honour, as well as, as much as we can do, believe in, so that, keep faith with, show honour to sb., in honour : was born in 1966, when people created a new festival so that African American would be able to celebrate their history and African firstfruit festivals had many things in must do as much as we can to make our munity better and more Kwanzaa is a time for learning as well as joy, people celebrate it by lighting a candle each day and discussing one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa..Step 5 Intensive reading1)Tell the students the task of reading before they read the passage once )Get the students to read the passage more carefully and then discuss the following questions in groups.① Compare Kwanzaa with the Chinese Spring festival and which way are they similar and in which war are they different?② Look at the seven principle of one do you think is the most important? Why? Are there any other festivals which have one or more of the same principles?Step 6 Task—based activity 1)Ask the students act as an announcer and introduce Midautumn festival to the )Show some picture for the students to )Give them some key , traditional, Midautumn festival, moon cakes, Chang E, celebrate, get together, big )Give the students an example when Summary1)Go through the important points and difficult points of this lesson with the students once )Come to the screen ① To know about the brief history of the Kwanzaa.② To get more information about the Kwanzaa.③ To master the important words, phrases and sentences.④ To retell the text.