1、 It was a pleasure Dont mention it. You are most welcome.4. Modal verbs:May might, can could will would shall should must can The first period Speaking1. Teaching aims: Vocabulary: take place, lunar, festival, Army Day, Christmas, dress up Phrases: Would you like Could I have? Might I offer help? Ma
2、y I see? You should tryCould we like at?Can you suggest? We might takeTeaching ProceduresStep I Leading inT: Hello, everybody! Welcome back to school! Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?Ss. Yes. Of course! When did you feel most happy and excited?Ss: At the Spring Festival. Who can tel
3、l us why? Any volunteers?S1: Because it is the most important festival in our country.S2: Because I got a lot of lucky money from my parents.S3: Because I neednt study at festivals and there was a lot of delicious food to eat. How great.S4: Because I met my cousins and friends who I hadnt seen for a
4、 long time.T. Very food! I am glad to hear that. Today we will talk about festivals, which are meant to celebrate important events. Please think about some other festivals. Can you name just a few? New year, Yuan xiao festival: Quite right. Thats called the Lanterns Festival. How about some other fe
5、stivals? The Army Day, International Labours Day, National Day, Tomb Sweeping Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-autumn Day You have done a good job, boys and girls! .Step Warming upFestivals are meant to celebrate important events. Different countries have different festivals. Work in groups and l
6、ost five Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time. The first one is given to you as an example. FestivalsTime of year/dateWhat does it celebrateWhat do people doMid-Autumn FestivalAutumn/FallThe beauty of the full mo
7、on, harvest, time with family and friendsGive/Eat mooncakes and watch the full moon with family and friendsStep Pre- reading Discuss in groups of four1. Whats your favourite holiday of the year? Why?2. What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town? Do you like spending festivals w
8、ith your family or with friends? What part of a festival do you like best-the music, the things to see, the visits or the food?Step Assignment1. Consolidation2. Listening to the material again after class to be familiar with it.3. Homework: Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Th
9、e second period ReadingTeaching Aims1.Vocabulary: starve, starvation, plenty, satisfy ancestor lamps lead feast bone origin in memory of dress up trick poet arrival national gain independence gather agricultural European custom awards watermelon handsome rooster admire look forward to religious as t
10、hough have fun with daily 2.To enable the students to know the earliest festivals with reasons for them and four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world3.To enable the students to master some English expressions and phrases about festivals.4. Teach the basic reading skills
11、: skimming and scanning.5. Try to compare and make conclusion s of different festivals.Step Revision1. Greetings.2. Review the new words of this part.3. Check the students homework-festivalsStep Reading1.Scanning Open your books and turn to page one. Id like you to do the scanning. Read the text qui
12、ckly and accurately to get the main idea and answer the 6 questions on Page3.（ Ask the student to look through the questions and then read the text silently.）（ Four minutes later, check the answers with the whole class. Show the suggested answers on the screen.）2.Intensive reading （ Allow the studen
13、ts to read aloud and carefully this time to understand the main ideas of each paragraph and the important details） Read the text loudly for a second time and them try to tell if these sentences are True or False.1. The ancient people neednt worry about their food. （ F ）2.Halloween used to be a festi
14、val intended to honor the dead. （ T ）3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. （ T ）4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end ot autumn（ F ）5.Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. （ F ）3.Reading and discussion T: Read the text a third time and then work impairs to do Exerc
15、ise 2 on Page 3.（ Let the students have enough time to read the passage carefully and discuss the chart with their partners. Encourage them to expand their answers according to their own experiences.）4.Explanation（In this part try to help the students analyse the difficult, long and complex sentence
16、s and guess the meaning of the new words; ask them to deal with the language points in the context.） Now I will discuss some important sentences and phrases in the passage.a. Some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm
17、.b. In memory ofc. In India there is a national festival on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi, the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain.d. People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter, and because a season of agricultural work is over.e. The most energetic and
18、 important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.f. The country is covered with cherry flowers so that it looks as though it might be covered with pink snow.The suggested explanation:a. An attributive clause.The sentence means people hold some fest
19、ivals either to show respect to the dead or to make their ancestors happy in case they might come back to do harm.b. in memory of serving to recall sb, to keep him fresh in people minds.He wrote a poem in memory of his dearest wife, who died in an accident.in honor of （ showing great respect or high
20、 public regard）in hopes/the hope of （hoping）in defence of （defending）c. a noun phrase followed by an attributive clause as the appositived. two clauses for reasone. energyenergetic adj. （ full of or done with energy）look forward to （ to is a preposition here.）devote to, be/get used to, get down to ,
21、 stick toe.g. Im looking forward to hearing from you.Step Listening Now I will play the tape for you. You can just listen with your books closed or look at your books or read in a low voice together with the tape. Its up to you. After listening, please write down three things that most festivals see
22、m to have in common.（ Comprehending Ex.3 on Page 3）.The third period Learning about languageTeaching aims: 1. Let the students know the usage of modal verbs.2. Enable the students to recognize the words and expressions in the reading passage according to what mean the same as them.Step Greeting and
23、Revision （ Ask some students to retell the text we learned .）Step. Practicing the useful words and expressions As we know, there are two important kinds of verbs-transitive verbs and intransitive verbs. But many intransitive verbs have the structure “verb+preposition+objects ” Can you give me some e
24、xamples? Sure. Such as look at the picture, hear from my friends, listen to the radio and so on. Ok. Now turn to page 4, Ex. 4. You are to make some sentences of your own, using the words given.S1. Im looking forward to hearing form my friend We are talking about verbs. Would you like to talk with m
25、e? Who can think of an effective solution to the problem?S5: Please think about my proposal.Step Useful Structures Lets come to the next part. This part is about modal verbs. You are to read the sentences in Ex. 1 and then to find out and write down different sentences with modal verbs form the read
26、ing passage and try to explain their meanings. If you have any difficulty in understanding them you can refer to Grammar in Pages 92-94Step Summing up and home work Boys and girls, today we have practiced useful words and phrases of this unit and the usage of modal verbs. I think it is not easy for
27、you to master them, after class you should review them. Homework1. Practice of WBP42EX.1,2,3.2. Please find out10 sentences with modal verbs, and try to get their meanings.The fourth period Listening 1. Vocabulary: go with, the big bands, musicians, over and over again, for sale, get used to, the wi
28、nners of this years awards for the best costumes2. Enable the students to know how to get the key words to understand the conversation about the carnival parade, to talk about sth happened and express request and thanks.Step Revision After checking the WB Ex. 1,2,3 the teacher ask the students to gi
29、ve examples about modal verbs and try to explain them.Step Warming up By the way, whats the topic of this unit? Festivals around the world. Would you like to know something more about festivals around the world? Of course. Now I will show you several pictures. Whats the festival called? Carnival. Ye
30、s. This class we will listen to a dialogue about carnivals. First look through the four questions in listening part to find out the listening points.Step Listening I will play the tape for you twice. Please listen carefully and pay much attention to the important points. For the first time you are to make notes beside the questions. For the second
