【正文】 s Day. Dumpling means midnight or the end and the beginning of time. To pay a New Year visit is an important event during the Spring Festival. And from the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century, ordinary people began to exch。holydays39。 【漢譯英】 1. The homeless children were starving for love. 2. You have a life of plenty, what would you be worried about? 3. If we solve the problem in this way, it may do more harm than good. 4. Don’t bother to dress up. Come as you are. 5. I am looking forward to seeing you again. Part 1: Teaching Design (第一部分：教學(xué)設(shè)計 ) Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language (A SAD LOVE STORY) Aims To help students read the passage A SAD LOVE STORY To help students to use the language by reading, listening, speaking and writing Procedures I. Warming up by talking about “carnival.” What is a carnival? 1. The period of merrymaking and feasting celebrated just before Lent. 2. A traveling amusement show usually including rides, games, and sideshows. A festival or revel: winter carnival. carnival, munal celebration, especially the religious celebration in Catholic countries that takes place just before Lent. Since early times carnivals have been acpanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry that had their origins in preChristian pagan rites, particularly fertility rites that were connected with the ing of spring and the rebirth of vegetation. In recent times, the term carnival has also been loosely applied to include local festivals, traveling circuses, bazaars, and other celebrations of a joyous nature, regardless of their purpose or their season. II. Listening There is a big and famous carnival in Trinidad every February. Li Mei and Wu Ping are there. Listen to the tape and answer the questions on page 6. III. Speaking You have visited America and you have returned home to China. You are phoning your friend in America to thank him for the visit. These expressions might help you. Could/ Would you please…? I’d love to… It’s very kind of you… I look forward to… Thank you very much/ Thanks a lot. It was a pleasure… You’re most wele. Don’t mention it. 1. Reading and underlining Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage A SAD LOVE STORY. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from A SAD LOVE STORY meet sb. at the coffee shop在咖啡店遇到某人 , after work下班后 , turn up突然出現(xiàn)；到場；調(diào)低（收音機等） , right now, laugh at 嘲笑 , keep one’ s word守信用；履行諾言 , look forward to ~ing期待做某事 , all day整天 , be alone with , be like a fool像個傻瓜 , hold one’ s breath屏息；屏氣 , drown one’ s sadness in coffee, it is obvious that…顯然…… , wait for…to leave 等待……離開 , wipe the table 擦桌子 , sit down 坐下 , turn on the TV 打開電視 , a weaving girl織女 , a herd boy牛郎 , fall in love with與……相愛 , get married secretly秘密結(jié)婚 , be married to /娶了某人 , bee angry變得生氣 , return to Heaven, cross the river過河 , once a year一年一次 , make… of… , on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month每年七月初七 , hear about聽說 , set off for home動身回家 , throw… away, remind sb. of…提醒某人想起…… , pass… on the corner on one’ s way home在回家路上 , hear… ~do/ ~ing, wave at sb. 向某人揮手 , have a gift for a happy Valentine’ s Day一個快樂情人節(jié) 2. Speaking Turn to page 8 and with a partner, find the answers to the questions: Why did Li Fang feel like a fool? → Because he was alone and heartbroken. What was Li Fang afraid that Hu Jin was doing? → She could be with her friends laughing at him. How did Li Fang know the manager wanted to shut the coffee shop? → He saw the manager wipe the tables, sit down and turn on the TV. Why do people want the weather to be fine on Qiqiaojie? → Because if it rains Zhinu would weep and the couple wouldn’ t be able to meet. What is the reason why Li Fang and Hu Jin did not meet on time? → For Li Fang had gone to the wrong place to meet Hu Jin. They should meet at the tea shop. Why was Li Fang so worried at the end of the story? → Because he had no gifts for Hu Jin. 3. Acting Next we are going to put the text A Sad Love Story on stage, that is, to play the story. IV. Guided writing 1. Writing an imagined and different ending to the story of Li Fang, beginning with: As he sadly passed the tea shop on the corner on his way… 2. Writing a description To inform the foreigners of the Chinese culture, you are to write a description of Qiqiaojie in English. You may begin like this: Love story for this day is about the 7th daughter of Emperor of Heaven and an orphaned cowherd. They were separated by the Emperor. The 7th daughter was forced to move to the star Vega and the cowherd moved to the star Altair. They were allowed to meet only once a year on the day of 7th day of 7th lunar month. V. Further applying 1. Finding information Go to the library to read or get online to search in order to find more information on festivals and celebrations. Take notes of your findings and report them to your group mates next period. 2. Writing letters Write a letter either to Zhinu or Niulang, telling about the modern life and the modern love. VI. Closing down Closing down by filling a form Make use of the text and others to fill in the form. TWO SAD LOVE STORIES OF Li Fang and Hu Jin Of Niulang and Zhinu Closing down by describing the stars of Vega and Altair To end this period, I am going to ask you to write a short passage to describe to the class the two stars of Vega and Altair which are related to Qiqiaojie, the Chinese Valentine’s Day. Part 2: Teaching Resources (第二部分：教學(xué)資源 ) Section 1: A text structure analysis of FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS 1. Type of writing and summary of the text Type of writing This is a piece of descriptive writing. Main idea of the passage Festivals and celebrations of all kinds, such as festivals of the dead, festivals to honour people, h