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and master the words associated with Christmas.2. To improve the students’ reading ability. 3. To enable the students to understand the text better.Ⅲ. Teaching Difficult Points:1. How to help the students understand the reading passage better.2. How to improve the students’ reading ability.Ⅳ. Teaching Type: A reading classⅤ. Teaching Methods:1. Taskbased teaching method2. Teaching the text as a whole 3. Questionandanswer activity method4. Individual, pair, or group work to make every student in class workⅥ. Teaching Aids:The multimedia Ⅵ. Teaching Procedure:Step 1 Warmup1. Greet the whole class as usual.2. Introduce the tasks in this period.Step 2 Leadin1. Students listen to a song and then answer the following questions shown on the screen:(1) Do you know the name of this song?(2) On what special occasion do we sing this song?2. Check the answer as a class, thus leading into today’s topicStep 3 Prereading1. Show tod