课题

7A Unit8 Let’s celebrate！ Welcome to the unit

开课班级

初一（15）班

教学目标

1. Learn to know about different festivals around the world.

2. Know more about how people celebrate different festivals in different countries.

3. Talk about your own favourite festival and how people celebrate it.

教学重点

锻炼学生听说与表达自己最喜欢的节日并具体阐述如何庆祝节日。

教学难点

引导学生思考不同节日背后的文化背景与历史底蕴，培养学生的思维品质。

教具学具

PPT

教学过程

Steps

Learning activities

Teaching purposes

Lead-in

Greet

To generate interest of the lesson and lead into the topic.

Ask and answer: Which festivals are coming?

Watch a video about the Spring Festival.

Question: What can people do at the Spring Festival?

A guessing game

Question1: What am I looking at?

(Halloween, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, the Dragon Boat Festival, Burns Night)

To help students learn more different festivals around the world and how people celebrate them.

Question 2: What can people do on that day?

Question 3: Do you want to learn something more about Burns Night?

Watch and write

Watch a video about “What is Burns Night?”.

To exercise students’ listening skills , so as to cultivate students’ ability  to acquire and record key information efficiently.

Write down the time, activities and meaning of this festival.(Fill in the blanks on the worksheet.)

Check the answer

Fill in the boxes

Match the pictures with festivals.

To check whether students know these festivals.

Free talk

Talk about your favourite festival.

Question: Which festival do you like best? Why?

(Example: I like the Spring Festival best. It’s meaningful because I can enjoy a reunion dinner with my family and friends…)

To prepare the speaking materials for the next dialogue and link Part A with Part B

Listen and fill

Listen to the dialogue twice and fill in the blanks on the worksheet.

To help students sort out the key information about their favourite festivals and learn how to describe the festival. To exercise the listening skills again.

Check the answer together.

Read the dialogue together.

Make a summary

Question1: What are the Chinese festivals we have mentioned in today’s class?

To review the festivals we learned.

Question2: What are the Western festivals we have mentioned in today’s class?

Question3: What other festivals do you know?

To help students prepare more different festivals for the next pair work.

Pair work

Introduce your favourite festival.

To use the knowledge students learned to talk about their own favourite festivals and their celebrations. To exercise their speaking skills.

Assignments

For all, search for more festivals around the world. Write them down and share them with us next class.

To let students make a whole output after class.

For some, write a short passage about your own favourite festival. Introduce it to others next class.