Unit 2 My mother’s cleaning our houses and sweeping away bad luck.教案

Unit 2 My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
ⅠTeaching model
Reading and writing.
ⅡTeaching method
Interactive approach
ⅢTeaching aims
1. To match photos with paragraphs and match questions with paragraphs
2. To get information from the reading material about the Spring Festival
3. To make notes and write sentences
4. To learn to write paragraphs
ⅣTeaching Objectives
1. Key vocabulary: Christmas, February, January, before, sweep away, luck, mean, table, celebrate, traditional, dumpling, programme, sweater, coat, lucky, tree, tell
2. Key phrase:
good luck, bad luck, decorate … with…, have a haircut, on New Year’s Day, a kind of at midnight, a few, at Lantern Festival, all the year round, on Spring Festival’s Eve, sweep away
2. Key structures:
1) My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
2) We are celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
3) I am eating jiaozi—a kind of dumpling.
4) My parents and I are visiting my uncles and aunts.
5) We are wearing new sweaters and coats.
ⅤTeaching aids
Recorder, OHP, video
ⅥTeaching Steps
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Review the text of Unit 1.
2. Show some pictures, ask the students to look at the pictures, then talk something about the pictures.
3. Introduce the new words.
4. Read the new words.
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Read through the example sentences in Activity 1.
—What’s Li Shan’s mother doing?
—She’s cleaning the house.
2. Look at the pictures and talk about what’s happening.
Step 3 Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity1.
1. Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity1.
2. Check with a partner.
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Step 4 Reading.
1. Play the recording.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
3. Complete the passage with the correct words and expression from the box in Activity 3.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys:
1. celebrate 2. few 3. sweep away 4. luck 5. traditional 6. dumplings 7. programme 8. means
6. Read the passage together.
7. Learning to learn
Step 5 Writing and speaking.
1. Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain.
2. Match the notes with the headings.
Getting ready Presents Traditional things on Christmas Day
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys:
Getting ready: a, e
Presents: c, d
Traditional things on Christmas Day: b, c, d, f, g, h
4. Read the phrases together.
Step 6 Writing
1.Write sentences with the notes in Activity 4.Join two notes and write one sentences with and.
2. Choose one of the headings in Activity 4 and write about Christmas in Britain.
Step 7 Do exercises:
A. Translate these phrases into English.
1.好运 2.倒霉 3.新年里 4.一种　5.在午夜 6.在元宵节 7.一年到头 8.在除夕 9.扫去
Keys: 1.good luck 2. bad luck 3. on New Year’s Day 4. a kind of 5. at midnight 6. at Lantern Festival 7. all the year round 8. on Spring Festival’s Eve 9. sweep away
B.单词拼写
1. We are _________ (涂漆) the wall together.
2. It ____________ (意味着) happening.
3. There are lots of ____________ (饺子) on the plate.
4. _____________ (每个人) has his own problems.
Keys: 1. painting 2. means 3. dumplings 4. Everyone
C.完成句子。
1. 我们必须马上把树叶扫掉。
We must ___________ the leaves at once.
2. 他们用鲜花装饰房间。
They _________ the house ___________.
3. dumplings 是什么意思？
_________ dumplings ______?
4. 我们有好几天不打扫家居。
We __________ the house _____________.
5. 元宵全年带给我们好运。
Yuanxiao __________________________
Keys:
1. sweep away
2. decorate; with flowers
3. What do; mean
4. don’t clean; for a few days
5. brings us good luck all the year round
D. 按要求改写句子。
1. Is your uncle making lanterns? (否定回答)
_________________________________
2. She’s sweeping the floor at the moment. (一般疑问句)
__________________________________
3. They’re getting ready for the Lantern Festival. (划线部分提问)
________________________________
4. They go shopping for presents. They get lots of food ready. (用and合成一句话)
________________________________
Keys:
1. No, he isn’t.
2. Is she sweeping the floor at the moment?
3. What are they getting ready for?
4. They go shopping for the presents and get lots of food ready.