1、Book 3 Unit 1 Festivals and CelebrationsPeriod 2 Reading and ThinkingAnalysis of the teaching materialTeaching key and difficult pointsAnalysis of studentsPart 4Teaching procedurePart 5ContentsPart 3Part 1Part 2Teaching objectivesPart 6Teaching methodsPart 7Blackboard DesignAnalysis of the teaching
2、material“Why do we celebrate festivals?”is taken from Unit1,Student s Book 3,New Senior English for China,by PEP.This reading passage is the second period of this unit and it needs 45mins.It mainly talks about the reasons for celebrating festivals.This article introduces the reasons why people celeb
3、rate festivals,focusing on the similarities and differences of festivals.Festivals are a common cultural phenomenon throughout the world.Although the origins of festivals are different,their spirits of sharing joy,gratitude,love,or peace is common in all festivals.Analysis of students Analysis of st
4、udents Students should be familiar with and interested in the topic of this unit.In addition,in the listening and speaking class,students have learned about some festivals and customs.However,students lack a deep understanding of the humanistic connotation of festivals and the commonalities of festi
5、val culture,which poses a certain challenge to students.3Linguistic abilityStudents are able to employ different reading strategies,such as predicting the contents of the text,skimming for topic sentence of each paragraph,scanning for specific information.Learning abilityThinking abilityTeaching obj
6、ectivesStudents are able to know the words and expressions about the festivals,such as origin,figure,harvest,decorate and significant.Students are able to know the common spirit and significance of all festivals around the world.Students inferential comprehension are able to be cultivated by inferri
7、ng the authors attitude towards commercialization of the festivals.Students thinking ability are able to be cultivated by thinking about the reason why people celebrate festivals.Students are able to know common spirits and different origins and customs between Chinese and western festivals.Students
8、 are able to know the cultural connotation of Chinese traditional festivals.Cultural consciousness单击此处添加标题Help students to employ different reading strategies to find the answer of the question“Why do we celebrate festivals？”and know how to find the main idea of each paragraph by finding the topic s
9、entence.Key pointsStudents may have difficulty in viewing correctly the commercialization of festivals and knowing the cultural connotation of the festivals.Difficult pointsTeaching key and difficult points Communicative Approach交际法Cooperative learning method合作学习法Task-based teaching method任务型教学法Teac
10、hing methods Teaching procedure Justification:Using several questions to arouse students interest and activate their existing knowledge to prepare for the new unit.Lead-in1Brainstorm Pre-reading2Justification:Guide students to achieve learning ability by employing reading skill of prediction to pred
11、ict the content of the passage.Prediction While-reading3Skimming Justification:Guide students to achieve learning ability by employing reading skill of skimming for main idea.At the same time,students are able to identify the main idea of each paragraph with the help of the topic sentence.While-read
12、ing3Scanning Justification:Guide students to know the common spirits and different origins and customs of festivals all around the world.While-reading3Scanning Justification:Guide students to know the differences of the way and the times and reason to celebrate the harvest festival in the different
13、countries with the help of the mind map.While-reading3Scanning Justification:Students are guided to know the changes of customs that happened in Spring Festival and Halloween,the reason for this phenomenon and how does the author support the topic sentence.While-reading3Scanning Justification:Guide
14、students to explore the authors attitude on the basis of understanding the article,which will help students to improve the ability to analyze and infer problems.While-reading3Scanning Justification:Students are guided to know the importance of festivals and their critical thinking are able to be cul
15、tivated by thinking about the spirit and significance of festivals.Post-reading4Discussion Justification:Students critical thinking and cooperative ability are able to be cultivated by thinking about the reason why people celebrate festivals,which will help students to find out the answer to the tit
16、le.Homework5Justification:Students cultural consciousness are able to be cultivated by thinking about the reason why people celebrate the Spring Festival and apply what they have learned to their composition.Blackboard design6topic sentence:the first/last sentenceelsewhere in paragraphUnit 1 Festivals and Celebrationsthe reasons for celebrating festivals.Thanks
