一、Teaching materials:
Unit 3 Language in use (Module 3 Spring Festival)
二、Targets for this period:
To consolidate Present continuous questions and short answers
To learn new words by using word map and pictures
To write a letter about the Spring Festival
三、Key points:
Key structures-Are you learning a dragon dance? No, I’m not. I’m making lanterns.
Is your mother cooking? Yes, she is.
四、Teaching methods:
Formal and interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Blackboard, handouts
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Warming-up (Around the world)
1. Students find more information about Christmas by answering the questions
1) What is the most important festival in the western countries? Christmas.
2) What is it to celebrate? The birth of Jesus Christ
3) What is Father Christmas like? A fat man with a long white beard and wears a red suit
4) What does Father Christmas give to the children? Presents
2. Language points
1) celebrate
e.g. How does she celebrate her birthday?
2) be interested in
e.g. He isn’t interested in Mothers’ Day.
3) wear, put on, dress
Wear sth 穿着 / 戴着某物 （强调状态）
Put on sth 穿上 / 戴上某物 （强调动作）
Dress sb 给某人穿衣服
Step Two Vocabulary learning (Activity 4)
Students use the word map to write the words and phrases in Units 1&2 under the headings.
Getting ready: clean the house, sweep the floor, paint the doors and windows red, buy clothes, have a haircut, cook the meal, learn the dance, make the lanterns
Decorations: paper cut, lanterns
Food: cake, jiaozi(dumpling), niangao(sweet rice pudding), yuanxiao(rice dumpling)
Presents: new clothes
Traditions: watch fireworks at midnight, visit family and friend, watch dragon and lion dancing
Step Three To write short answers according to the example (Activity 1)
Step Four To write questions and short answers (Activity 2)
1. Is Lingling’s mother cleaning the house? Yes, she is.
2. Is Lingling’s father making lanterns? No, he isn’t.
3. Is Lingling’s aunt cooking the meal? No, she isn’t
4. Is Lingling’s grandmother sweeping the floor? No, she isn’t.
5. Are the boys learning a dragon dance? Yes, they are.
6. Are Lingling and her family getting ready for the spring Festival? Yes, they are.
Step Five Comparison: 一般现在时和现在进行时的几点不同
一、基本用法不同
1. 一般现在时用来表示习惯性的动作或状态。
如： She goes to school by bike every day.
2. 现在进行时用来表示现在(说话的瞬间)正在发生或进行的动作或者用来表示现阶段正在进行或存在的状态。
如： Look ! She is reading under the tree.
二、谓语动词的形式不同
1. 一般现在时的谓语动词：1) be动词用am/is/are这三种形式；2)实义动词用动词原形或第三人称单数形式(根据主语数的变化而变化)。
如：We go to school at seven in the morning.
2. 现在进行时谓语动词的形式为： am / is / are+动词-ing 形式。
如： I am reading English now. 我现在正在读英语
三、时间状语不同
1. 一般现在时常与often, sometimes, always, usually等频率副词连用，还与 every morning /day / week..., on Wednesday, in the morning / afternoon / evening等时间状语连用。
2. 现在进行时常与now, these days, these weeks等时间状语连用。句首有 Look ! / Listen !等提示语时，后面的句子中动词一般用现在进行时。
四、特殊用法不同
1. 一般现在时的特殊用法： 表示客观真理、自然现象往往要用一般现在时表示。
如： The moon goes round the earth.月亮绕着地球转。
2. 现在进行时的特殊用法： 现在进行时与always 连用时，往往含有赞扬、厌恶、责备等感情色彩。
如： He is always working hard.他总是非常努力地工作。(表示赞扬)
come, go, begin, start, leave 等动词常用现在进行时表示将要发生的动作。
如： I'm coming. 我就来。
Step Six 用所给词的适当形式填空。
1. It’s six o’clock in the morning. I am getting (get) dressed.
2. Look! Daming is lying (lie) in the sun.
3. Listen! Betty and Lily are singing (sing) an English song.
4. Tony isn’t reading. He is writing (write).
5. What is Wang Hui doing (do) at the moment?
6. Betty’s mother is visiting (visit) Hollywood now.
7. ---Where is Lucy?
---She is shopping (shop) with her mum.
8. We often have (have) lunch at home.
9. He goes (go) to the opera every Sunday.
10.Thank you for sending (send) me a post card.
11.Look! Tom with his classmates is playing (play) football over there.
12.It’s 8:30 in the morning. Is Jim having (have) a Chinese class?
13.Little Bob has (have) a toy boy now.
14.John doesn’t live (not live) with his parents. He shares a room with his friend.
15.Who usually does (do) shopping in your family?
16.-- Does Lily bring (bring) her dictionary every day? –Yes, she’s cooking (cook) now.
17.Don’t drink (drink) too much coke. It’s not good for you.
18.My grandma watches (watch) TV every day. But she isn’t watching (watch) now.
19.Does Betty write (write) to you very often? –No. But I think she is going to write to me soon.
20.-Where does Harry often buy (buy) his train tickets?
Step seven To translate into English
1. 你们正在为春节作准备吗？
Are you getting ready for the Spring Festival?
2. 我们经常用剪纸来装饰门窗。
We often decorate doors and windows with paper cuts.
3. 连续几天，我们不打扫房间，因为我们不想把好运扫走。
We don’t clean the house for a few days, because we don’t want to sweep away good luck.
4. 在新年那一天，我们穿上新衣服去给亲戚朋友拜年。
On New Year’s Day, we put on new clothes and visit our family and friends.
5. 他们给我们一年四季带来好运气。
They bring us good luck all the year round.
6. 红色代表幸运，所以我们把门窗涂成红色。
Red means good luck, so we paint our doors and windows red.
7. 他们经常去购买礼物和准备大量的食物。
They usually go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
8. 在西方国家，圣诞节是最重要的节日。
Christmas is the most important festival in the western countries.
9. 圣诞老人是一个留着又白又长的胡须，穿着红外套的肥大的老人。
Father Christmas is an old fat man with long and white beard and wears a red suit.
10. 春节你们有什么传统习俗？
What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
Homework:
1. To review Module 2 and copy all the words and expressions in P154-155
2. To finish Module2, 点中典 & 轻巧夺冠
Blackboard designing
Unit 3 Language in use
1) celebrate
e.g. How does she celebrate her birthday?
2) be interested in
e.g. He isn’t interested in Mothers’ Day.
3) wear, put on, dress
Wear sth 穿着 / 戴着某物 （强调状态）
Put on sth 穿上 / 戴上某物 （强调动作）
Dress sb 给某人穿衣服
Word map:
clean the house make the lanterns paper cut
sweep the floor
buy clothes
have a haircut
learn the dance
paint the doors and windows red cook the meal lanterns
new clothes
niangao(sweet rice pudding)
cake
jiaozi(dumpling)
yuanxiao(rice dumpling)
watch fireworks at midnight
visit family and friend
watch dragon and lion dancing
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