Chinese New Year is a traditional festival in China. On Chinese New Year?s Eve, people often watch TV from 8pm to midnight and let off the fireworks. We often watch the lion dance and make , eat dumplings. We all feel excited during the Chinese New Year.
2. List the new words and read them after the teacher. And introduce Chinese New Year according to these new words. ? ? ? ? ?
1.traditional food 传统食物 2.let off the fireworks 放焰火 3.watch the lion dance 看舞狮 4.from… to midnight 从… 到午夜 5.feel excited 感到兴奋
Introduce Chinese New Year to Daniel: ? ? ?
A: What _______ Chinese festival do you like? B: Of course, Chinese New Year. A: What do you do?
B: On Chinese New Year?s Eve, we watch TV from 8pm to _______.Then we let off ________and eat _________. ? ? ?
A: Are you _______ about these？
B: Yes. We can also get red ______ from our parents and watch the _____ Dance. A: How wonderful it is!
Step 3 Ask and answer
Teacher says：Now more and more Chinese people live in foreign countries. They often live in a place called :Chinatown(唐人街)。How do they celebrate the Chinese New Year? Let?s read a poster .(P63) and answer three questions. (1)Where is Wendy?
(2)What are they going to do ?
(3)What are the activities in Chinese New Year party? Step 4Exercises
1. Fill in blanks of part A1 according to the poster.(Students should listen to the tape to finish the left information.)
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2.Teacher says：Now, we have enough information about Chinese New Year celebrations in Chinatown. But Millie doesn?t. Wendy is writing a poster to Millie. Let?s help Wendy to finish her postcard.
( finish the exercise Page 63/ 64 according to the poster and the exercise A1) Ask the students to check the answer together and read it together. Step 5Listening
1. Teacher says：Sandy and Millie are talking about their favorite day. Listen and answer:
(1) Which is Millie?s favorite day in the year? (2) When is Millie?s birthday?
(3) Why does she like her birthday so much? (4) Who gives her the presents?
Open the books and read it in different roles. Step 6Pair work
Teacher says：Now it is time to talk about our favorite day. First let?s learn some days in a year.
April Fool?s Day ----April 1st National Day ----October 1st Children?s Day----June 1st
Mid-Autumn Day (Lunar calendar农历)----August 15th Teachers? Day ----September 10th Christmas Day ----December 25th Then practice the dialogue in pairs:
A: Which is your favorite day? B: My favorite day is… A: When is it? B: It?s on … A: Why do you like it so much? B: Because… A: What do you do on that day? B:… Step 7 Homework:
(1)Look for more information about festivals on the Internet. (2)Make a poster about your favorite day
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Study Skills
Teaching aims and demands: To review the vowels.
Teaching aids: recorder
Teaching procedures: Step 1 Presentation： To learn the sounds of vowels. Ask Ss to read the each group of words. Step 2 Presentation
Watch a video on the sounds of International Phonetic Alphabet. Step 3. Practice
1. Ask Ss to read the following sentences and pay attention to the vowels on page 65. 2. Playing a game
Ask Ss to choose one icon, and read the group of the words
3.Ask Ss to find more words and put them into a group then find the rules of the same letters .
Step 4. Homework
Try to find more words and put them into a group then find the rules of the same letters .
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Task
Teaching Aims:
1. Write a passage about the festival and how to celebrate it 2. Learn how to make posters Teaching importance:
1. New words and phrases and pronunciation 2.Learn how to write posters Teaching Preparation
Multi-media, pictures about different festivals Teaching Contents: Basic contents:
words： west candle way light shine through
phrases：in the west in many ways give a treat of some candy
Other contents phrases：make …out of shine through
Teaching procedures: Step 1 Lead-in
1. Show six pictures about festivals, and ask: what festival is it? Then ask: Which is your favorite festival? Lead in: Halloween。Then review something about Halloween, and ask questions:
（1）When is Halloween? (It?s on 31st October) （2）Who celebrate it? (People in the west)
Learn word: west. Is the USA in the west of the world? (Yes). Practice phrase: in the west.
（3）Do Chinese people celebrate Halloween?
（No, we don?t. It is a traditional festival in the West.）practice phrase again: in the west
（4）How do people celebrate Halloween?
(People celebrate it by dressing up, playing ?trick or treat?, eating candies, making pumpkin lanterns and having parties .So they celebrate it in many ways .Tell
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