一、Teaching materials:
Unit 2 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival? (Module 2 Spring Festival)
二、Targets for this period:
To get information from the reading material about the Spring Festival
To match photos with paragraphs and match questions with paragraphs
To make notes and write sentences
To learn to write paragraphs
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-tradition, bad, luck, paint, mean, decorate, decoration, paper cut, everyone, haircut, New Year, New Year’s Eve, dumpling, sweet pudding, fireworks, few, a few, week, round, all the year round, bring, color, something, cut, Christmas
四、Teaching methods:
Task-based approach and interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Reading material, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Lead-in: discussion in groups
1. Do you like the Spring Festival? Why?
2. Before the Spring Festival, what do people do? Why?
3. What do people do on the Eve of the Spring Festival?
4. What presents do people get?
5. When does the Spring Festival finish?
Step Two To pronounce some new words and expressions of Unit 2
1. Students read the words after the tape.
2. Students practice pronouncing the words by themselves.
3. To help some students correct the pronunciations of some words.
Step Three Pre-reading (Activity 1& 3)
1. Students look at the picture2 and match them with the questions in Activity 3
Picture 1: What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
Picture 2: What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve?
Picture 3: When does the spring Festival finish?
Picture 4: What do you do in the Spring Festival?
2. Students try to answer the questions according to the pictures.
Picture 1: We decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts.
Picture 2: We have a rich meal.
Picture 3: It finishes at the Lantern Festival.
Picture 4: We get presents from adults.
Step Four To read the passengers quickly and match the questions with the paragraphs (Activity 3)
A-What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
B- What do you do in the Spring Festival?
C- What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve?
D- When does the spring Festival finish?
Step Five To read it again and check the answers to the questions
A: clean our houses, sweep away bad luck, paint doors and windows red, decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts, buy clothes, have a haircut
B: give us New Year presents, put on our new clothes, visit our family and friends, watch dragon and lion dancing
C: have dinner, eat jiaozi or sweet rice pudding, watch TV at midnight, watch fireworks
D: at the Lantern Festival after two weeks, eat yuanxiao
Step Six Language points
1. sweep 打扫
e.g. Please sweep the house clean.
sweep away 扫除
e.g. The wind sweeps away the leaves.
2. paint 画（油画）；涂
e.g. He is painting a picture.
Please pain the wall white.
3. mean 意思是，意味着
e.g. ----What do you mean? ----I mean you’re right.
4. decorate 装饰
e.g. They’re decorating their new house with flowers.
5. family
e.g. My family has a rich meal.（全家人，强调整体）
Our family are going on a trip.（全家人，强调成员）
Many families decorate their house with colored lights.（家庭，强调社会单位）
6. all the year round 全年
e.g. They work hard all the year round.
Step Seven Students practice reading the passage aloud
Step Eight Students discuss the questions in groups (Activity 4)
1. Paper cuts, apples are red.
2. Good luck is happy and good things. Bad luck is sad and bad things.
3. The doors and windows are in the wall.
4. Paper cuts are things that people use scissors and knives to cut shapes in paper and use them to decorate houses.
5. Decorate means to make things more beautiful.
6. A haircut means to make hair shorter.
7. Dumpling is a kind of food people in North China eat during the Spring Festival.
Sweet rice pudding is a kind of food people in South China eat during the Spring Festival.
8. Midnight is twelve o’clock at night.
9. Fireworks are the show of explosive devices to make smoke, fire and noise for happiness.
Step Nine Writing
1. Students use the word map to match the notes with the headings. (Activity 5)
Decorations: d, e, j Food: b, f, h Getting ready: a, d, e, f, j
Presents: a, c, e Traditions: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h
2. Students join two notes and write one sentence with “and”.(Activity 6)
1) They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
2) They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.
3) They say “Happy Christmas” to family and friends and sing Christmas songs.
4) They decorate homes and have a Christmas tree.
5) They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents on Christmas Day..
3. Students put the headings before the sentences.(Activity7)
4. Students write a passenger describing Christmas in Britain.
Homework:
1. To find information about a hero and get ready to give a talk, you can take the module task on P73 for example.
2. To finish Unit2, Module2, 点中典
Blackboard designing
Unit 2 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
Spring Festival in China
The beginning of the Spring festival: clean our houses, sweep away bad luck, paint doors and windows red, decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts, buy clothes, have a haircut
On New Year’s day: give us New Year presents, put on our new clothes, visit our family and friends, watch dragon and lion dancing
On New Year’s Eve: have dinner, eat jiaozi or sweet rice pudding, watch TV at midnight, watch fireworks
The end of the Spring Festival: at the Lantern Festival after two weeks, eat yuanxiao
Christmas in Britain
Getting ready for Christmas:
They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
Food:
They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.
Traditions:
They say “Happy Christmas” to family and friends and sing Christmas songs.
Decorations:
They decorate homes and have a Christmas tree.
Presents:
They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents on Christmas Day.
1. sweep 打扫
e.g. Please sweep the house clean.
sweep away 扫除
e.g. The wind sweeps away the leaves.
2. paint 画（油画）；涂
e.g. He is painting a picture.
Please pain the wall white.
3. mean 意思是，意味着
e.g. ----What do you mean? ----I mean you’re right.
4. decorate 装饰
e.g. They’re decorating their new house with flowers.
5. family
e.g. My family has a rich meal.（全家人，强调整体）
Our family are going on a trip.（全家人，强调成员）
Many families decorate their house with colored lights.（家庭，强调社会单位）
6. all the year round 全年
e.g. They work hard all the year round.