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课件网) Festivals and Celebrations reading and thinking Learning Objectives： By the end of this class, you will be able to: use games to review the knowledge about festivals. learn to paraphrase new words. analyse the writing methods used in the article including listing and exemplification, parallel construction, etc. draw a mind map of this article. Warming up part 1 Reasons 1.title 2.The structure of this text is clear. There are five paragraphs, and the first sentence in each paragraph is the topic sentence. Target students Senior 2 Senior 3 Senior 1 Students have certain reading comprehension ability, but lack the overall analysis ability of the text. Critical thinking and oral expression ability need to be strengthened. Before class, students have finished the vocabulary part, so they have a general understanding of this unit. Language objectives Thinking quality Learning Ability Cultural awareness grasp the structure of the text and get the reasons for celebrating festivals; understand the common spirit in all festivals and share different opinions Introduce their favourite festival; Form correct values and attitudes towards different festivals and cultures. Important points Help students understand the main idea and text structure of why we celebrate the festival; Instruct students to use key sentences or keywords in each paragraph to sort out text information. Guide students to use reading strategies (skimming and scanning) to organize information and sort out the author’s writing techniques. Difficult points: 1) Task-based language teaching 2)Audio-visual teaching method 3) Communicative approach 6. Teaching Methods 迁移创新 Discussion(10’-15’) 分析与运用 Scanning(10’) 概括整合 Skimming(10’) 获取梳理 Prediction(5’) 感知注意 Lead-in(5’) 迁移创新 Discussion 感知注意 Lead-in 获取梳理 Prediction 概括整合 Skimming 分析运用 Scanning 1.Show some pictures of all kinds of festivals (home and abroad) and arose students to speak out more information behind them. WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS？ Pre-reading If you were the writer, what would you write WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS different kinds of festivals history of festivals the ways to celebrate the reasons of celebration While-reading part 3 What’s the genre (体裁) of this article Does this article mention the aspects we have just predicted What else did the writer write How did the author organize all these information Skimming Skimming The topic sentence of each paragraph. 目的 获取文章结构 和 主要内容 学习阅读技巧 Scanning 目的 获取细节信息 学习阅读技巧 （Complete the mind map） importance Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Pare. 5 a wide range of origins the harvest festival customs change over time commercialised festivals the importance of festivals Festivals are celebrated all around the world. They have a wide range of origins. Of all the traditional festivals, the harvest festival can be found in almost every culture. Cus ... ...
