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人教新课标英语必修三第一单元教案 Unit 1 Festivals around the World Reading 教案 Teaching goals To get the students to talk about festivals To learn about how festivals begin and how to celebrate festivals so as to enable them to learn more about different cultures while learning different language To develop the students’ reading skills : skimming, scanning, summarizing, and finding out details. To arouse the students’ interest in festivals, cultures, especially those in China，thus promote their culture awareness. Important points Comprehension of the reading part. Knowledge accumulation of festivals and cultures. Useful words and expressions concerning festivals. Teaching aids A computer, a projector, courseware, a tape-recorder Teaching procedures Step 1 revision Revise the festivals. Festivals Time The Spring Festival Lunar January 1 ?The Lantern Festival Lunar January 15 The Tree-planting Day ?March 12 The Qingming Festival ?April4-6 The Dragon Boat Festival Lunar May 5 The Double Seventh Festival ?Lunar July 7 Teachers’ Day September 10 The Double Ninth Festival Lunar September 9 The National Day October 1 Festivals Time New Year’s Day ?January 1 Valentine’s Day February 14 Fool’s Day April1 Labour’s Day May 1 Children’s Day ?June 1 Halloween October 31 Thanksgiving Day The four Thursday in November ?Christmas Day December 25 Step 2 pre-reading What is your favourite holiday of the year? Why? Step 3 fast reading 1.How many kinds of festivals are mentioned in the text? What are they? 2. let’s get to know more about these festivals and fill in the form on P3.Ex1 Step 4 careful reading Paragraph 1:When did ancient people celebrate ? at the end of winter When good weather returned a good harvest animals caught Paragraph 2: Festivals of the dead 1.What are festivals of the dead for? 2. How do Japanese honour their ancestors? 3. What do the people in Mexico do in memory of the dead? *Are there any similar festivals in China? What do do? What to eat? The Qingmi