1、英语：Unit1 Festivals around the world教案（8） （新人 教版必修 3） -（必修 3 unit 1 人教新课标）1 Part 1: Teaching Design (第一部分：教学设计) Period 3: A sample lesson plan for Using Language (A SAD LOVE STORY) Aims To help students read the passage A SAD LOVE STORY To help students to use the language by reading, listening, spea
2、king and writing Procedures I. Warming up by talking about “carnival.” What is a carnival? 1. The period of merrymaking and feasting celebrated just before Lent. 2. A traveling amusement show usually including rides, games, and sideshows. A festival or revel: winter carnival. carnival, communal cele
3、bration, especially the religious celebration in Catholic countries that takes place just before Lent. Since early times carnivals have been accompanied by parades, masquerades, pageants, and other forms of revelry that had their origins in pre-Christian pagan rites, particularly fertility rites tha
4、t were connected with the coming of spring and the rebirth of vegetation. In recent times, the term carnival has also been loosely applied to include local festivals, traveling circuses, bazaars, and other celebrations of a joyous nature, regardless of their purpose or their season. II. Listening Th
5、ere is a big and famous carnival in Trinidad every February. Li Mei and Wu Ping are there. Listen to the tape and answer the questions on page 6. III. Speaking You have visited America and you have returned home to China. You are phoning your friend in America to thank him for the visit. These expre
6、ssions might help you. Could/ Would you please? Id love to Its very kind of you I look forward to Thank you very much/ Thanks a lot. It was a pleasure Youre most welcome. Dont mention it. 1. Reading and underlining Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the
7、passage A SAD LOVE STORY. Copy them to your notebook after class as homework. Collocations from A SAD LOVE STORY meet sb. at the coffee shop 在咖啡店遇到某人, after work 下班后 , turn up 突然出现；到场；调 低（收音机等）, right now, laugh at 嘲笑, keep ones word 守信用；履行诺言, look forward to ing 期待做某事, all day 整天, be alone with sb.
8、与某人在一起, be like a fool 像个傻瓜, hold ones breath 屏息；屏气, drown ones sadness in coffee, it is obvious that显然, wait forto leave 等待离开, wipe the table 擦桌子, sit down 坐下, turn on the TV 打开电视, a weaving girl 织女 , a herd boy 牛郎, fall in love with 与 相爱, get married secretly 秘密结婚, be married to sb.嫁给/娶了某人, become
9、 angry 变得生气, return to Heaven, cross the river 过河, once a year 一年一次, make of, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month 每年七月初 七, hear about 听说, set off for home 动身回家, throw away, remind sb. of提醒某人想 起, pass on the corner on ones way home 在回家路上, heardo/ ing, wave at sb. 向 某人挥手, have a gift for sb.
10、给某人一个礼物 a happy Valentines Day 一个快乐情人节 2. Speaking Turn to page 8 and with a partner, find the answers to the questions: Why did Li Fang feel like a fool? Because he was alone and heart-broken. What was Li Fang afraid that Hu Jin was doing? She could be with her friends laughing at him. How did Li F
11、ang know the manager wanted to shut the coffee shop? He saw the manager wipe the tables, sit down and turn on the TV. Why do people want the weather to be fine on Qiqiaojie? Because if it rains Zhinu would weep and the couple wouldnt be able to meet. What is the reason why Li Fang and Hu Jin did not
12、 meet on time? For Li Fang had gone to the wrong place to meet Hu Jin. They should meet at the tea shop. Why was Li Fang so worried at the end of the story? Because he had no gifts for Hu Jin. 3. Acting Next we are going to put the text A Sad Love Story on stage, that is, to play the story. IV. Guid
13、ed writing 1. Writing an imagined and different ending to the story of Li Fang, beginning with: As he sadly passed the tea shop on the corner on his way 2. Writing a description To inform the foreigners of the Chinese culture, you are to write a description of Qiqiaojie in English. You may begin lik
14、e this: Love story for this day is about the 7th daughter of Emperor of Heaven and an orphaned cowherd. They were separated by the Emperor. The 7th daughter was forced to move to the star Vega and the cowherd moved to the star Altair. They were allowed to meet only once a year on the day of 7th day
15、of 7th lunar month. V. Further applying 1. Finding information Go to the library to read or get online to search in order to find more information on festivals and celebrations. Take notes of your findings and report them to your group mates next period. 2. Writing letters Write a letter either to Z
16、hinu or Niulang, telling about the modern life and the modern love. VI. Closing down Closing down by filling a form Make use of the text and others to fill in the form. TWO SAD LOVE STORIES OF Li Fang and Hu Jin Of Niulang and Zhinu Closing down by describing the stars of Vega and Altair To end this
17、 period, I am going to ask you to write a short passage to describe to the class the two stars of Vega and Altair which are related to Qiqiaojie, the Chinese Valentines Day. Festival around the world -（必修 3 unit 1 人教新课标）2 Part 2: Teaching Resources (第二部分：教学资源) Section 1: A text structure analysis of
18、 FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS 1. Type of writing and summary of the text Type of writing This is a piece of descriptive writing. Main idea of the passage Festivals and celebrations of all kinds, such as festivals of the dead, festivals to honour people, harvest festivals and spring festivals, have bee
19、n held ever since the ancient times. Topic sentence of 1st paragraph Ancient festivals celebrate the end of the cold weather and the hunting of animals. Topic sentence of 2nd paragraph Festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors. Topic sentence of 3rd paragraph Festiva
20、ls can be held as an honour to famous people or to the gods. Topic sentence of 4th paragraph Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events. Topic sentence of 5th paragraph The most energetic and important festivals are the ones at the end of the winter and the coming of spring. 2. A bo
21、x graph of the text Section 2: Background information for Unit1 Festivals around the world 1. What is a festival? a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); “a drama festival.” Ancient festivals Festivals of the
22、 Dead Festivals to honour people Harvest festivals Spring festivals From Latin, joyful. Another way of describing a Feast Day. A special day or season of the year to celebrate an event of importance to a religion. They were and are times of feasting (hence the name) and are often associated with hol
23、idays (holy-days) A special occasion during the church year. a religious celebration. A ceremonial parade 2. Traditional Chinese Festivals Spring Festival 春节 The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. Since all the traditional festivals in China are based on the Chinese lunar calen
24、dar, the Spring Festival marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year. At this festival, people bring out their bounty from hunting, fishing and the field to thank the gods and ancestors for the blessings. The first meal in Spring Festival is rather important. Family members will have a reunion
25、 to eat together. According to historical records, people from both north and south ate dumplings on Chinese New Years Day. Dumpling means midnight or the end and the beginning of time. To pay a New Year visit is an important event during the Spring Festival. And from the Ming Dynasty in the 14th ce
26、ntury, ordinary people began to exchange cards. The recreational activities during the Spring Festival are various and colorful. The traditional performances are Dragon Dance and Lion Dance. On New Years Eve firecrackers are ubiquitous. Mid -Autumn Festival 中秋节 Chinese ancestors believed that the se
27、venth, eighth, and ninth lunar months belong to autumn. So the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back more than 2,000 years. In feudal times, Chinese emperors prayed to Heaven for a prosperous year. There is a beautiful legend
28、about the moon. A long time ago, a terrible drought plagued the earth. Ten suns burned fiercely in the sky like smoldering volcanoes. The king of Heaven sent Hou Yi down to the earth to shoot down nine suns. A beautiful girl named Change fell in love with him. The two soon married. The Goddess rewar
29、ds Hou Yi with an elixir. Unfortunately an evil man murdered Hou Yi. Change had to eat the elixir herself and decided to choose living on the moon. Because the full moon is round and symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the festival of reunion. People will eat moon-cakes at t
30、his festival for cakes shaped like the moon. So dont forget to taste all the delicious moon-cakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yuanxiao Festival 元宵节 The Yuanxiao Festival is on the 15th of the first lunar month. That night there is a full moon, and every household is decorated with colorful lanterns
31、and prepares yuanxiao, a kind of round dumpling made of glutinous rice flour with sweet of salted fillings, which is boiled or fried. When night falls, people go into the street, where exquisite lanterns of diverse designs are hung. Some are pasted with riddles for the passers-by to solve. Laba and
32、the Eight-Treasure Porridge 腊八和八宝粥 Laba is celebrated on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month, because La in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and Ba means eight. The eighth day of that month was considered a day for sacrifice to the gods and ancestors to ensure a peaceful life and a good harvest
33、 for the next year. On this day, people will eat Labazhou-the eight-treasure porridge, referring to the many nutritious ingredients used in this porridge. The eight-treasure porridge was first introduced to China in the Song Dynasty about 900 years ago. According to written records, large Buddhist t
34、emples would offer it to the poor to show their faith to Buddha. In the Ming Dynasty about 500 years ago, it became such a holy food that emperors would offer it to their officials during festivals. As it gained favor in the feudal upper class, it also quickly became popular throughout the country.
