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课件网) Reading and Thinking Unit 1 FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS 1 Understand the text about festival origins and customs, grasp key vocabulary related to celebrations. 2 Learn about festival traditions in different cultures, understand cultural diversity and commonalities. 3 Analyze similarities and differences of festivals across cultures, think critically about changing traditions. Teaching Objectives 4 Be able to identify the main idea of a paragraph, enhance collaborative skills through group discussions. Teaching Focus and Difficulty Guide students to understand the main ideas about festival origins and cultural significance, and guide them to identify topic sentences and key information in the text. Facilitate students' analysis of cultural similarities and differences in festivals, and develop their critical thinking about changing traditions and commercialization. Reading 01 Look at Amy's social media post. Have you ever felt the same way — even though we do almost the same things every year Why do festivals still make us excited and full of anticipation Think and share Festivals function as a socially recognized "emotional alarm clock", reminding us of moments to reunite, give thanks, feel joy, or pause. （节日就像社会公认的 “情感闹钟”，提醒着人们那些特定时刻：团圆、感恩、欢愉、驻足。） Why do humans worldwide independently need such "alarm clocks" Why does this "alarm clock" still ring despite lifestyle transformations Has only its "ringtone" changed Activity 1 Before you read, discuss these questions in groups. 1 What festivals do you celebrate with your family each year 元旦 春节 元宵节 清明节 母亲节 儿童节 父亲节 建党节 建军节 教师节 中秋节 国庆节 万圣节 感恩节 圣诞节 劳动节 Activity 1 Before you read, discuss these questions in groups. 2 Why do you think people celebrate different festivals Commemorate (纪念) important events or people Gather with family or friends Celebrate seasons or harvests Look at the title and the pictures of the text, and then answer the questions. 1. What do you think this article is about A. The importance of festivals. B. The reasons why we celebrate festivals. C. How people celebrate festivals. D. The development of festivals. 2. What type of text is it Why Argumentation. Questions starting with 'Why' naturally invite debate, as they rarely have a single answer. Different perspectives—cultural, commercial, psychological—allow authors to argue their own viewpoint. (以“为什么”开头的问题天然具有争议空间，因其答案很少是唯一的。文化、商业、心理等不同视角的并存，为作者论证个人观点提供了可能。) 3. What feature might the article include to support its ideas A. Only personal opinions without any evidence B. Examples of different festivals C. Detailed instructions on how to celebrate festivals D. Criticisms of modern festival commercialization Activity 3 Read the text again and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph that gives the main idea. Ide ... ...
