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而了解節(jié)日慶祝原因的多樣性。本板塊旨在激學生已有的語言、背景知識,為接下來整個單元的學習活動做鋪墊和預熱。課文介紹了英國作家 Tolkien的《圣誕老人的來信》,主要講述了 Tolkien在圣誕節(jié)以圣誕老人的口吻給他的孩子們寫信的故事,體現(xiàn)了Tolkien對孩子們深沉的父愛。讀中活動引導學生思考“寫的是什么、為什么要寫”這兩個問題。1. Guide students to have a preliminary understanding of different types of festivals and understand different festival cultures。3. Guide students to understand the characteristics of book review articles and obtain the key information about the works introduced in the articles。2. Understand the spirit of giving and giving that letters from Santa Claus celebrates and deepen your understanding of the meaning of the holiday.Difficult points:1. Master the application of some key vocabulary and sentence patterns。2) , poet, harvest,decoration,freedom,inequality,fantasy,novel,literature,envelope,pole, roof,warning.3) ,limitless,handwritten,regular,polar,starving.Step 2 LeadinActivity 1 (Starting out)1. T asks Ss to read the questions in Activity 1 and plays the watch a video about festivals in different seasons and answer the questions:(1) What festivals are mentioned in the video?(2) Why do people celebrate these festivals?2. T invites some Ss to share their answers with the class. Ss share their answers with the class.Q1:The festivals mentioned in the video are “hanami”, the Rose Festival, the MidAutumn Day, the Harbin international Ice and Snow Festival,and the New Year.Q2:Because people want to celebrate the Changing seasons and express their appreciation of nature. play the video again,and the whole cl