Unit 3 Families Celebrate Together 单元教学设计 2022-2023学年冀教版英语八年级上册

Unit & its Topic: Unit 3- Families Celebrate Together单元教学设计
Big theme: Human & Self人与自我
Subthemes: 社会服务与人际沟通-世界主要国家的文化习俗与文化景观、节假日与庆祝活动 (Social service and interpersonal communication - custom and cultural phenomenon, celebrations of festivals and holidays in the world ).
Big idea: Learning about the world’s culture and festivals in the world is a way to building students’correct values
了解世界文化与节日是塑造学生正确价值观的途径
Sub-concepts:
1.了解世界文化与主要节日是学生学习世界文化习俗的主要途径。
(Learning about the world’s culture and the main festivals in the world is a main way to knowing about world’s culture)
2.了解世界文化是培养学生正确价值观（正确进行人际沟通、重视家庭、懂得感恩）的重要途径。(Learning about the world’s culture is a main way to cultivating students’ correct value-communicating in a correct way, caring family, being grateful)
3. 了解世界文化是促进文化交际的重要途径。(Learning about the world’s culture is a way to promoting culture communication)
Big question:
What can you (students) get from festivals
Sub-questions:
1.What main festivals at home and abroad do you know (Mid-autumn Festival, Thanksgiving)
2. How to celebrate the festivals
3. What is the culture behind the festivals
4. How to save your family memories
5. How to prepare a proper birthday gift according to the culture
Analysis of the unit（单元教学内容分析）
1.本单元的话题是“Families Celebrate Together”。单元内容主要涉及中秋节和感恩节；家庭庆祝活动；购买礼物、准备礼物和庆祝李明的生日。它包含六个语篇：L13中秋节和感恩节，L14介绍了家庭庆祝活动，L15购买礼物，L16庆祝感恩节，L17为朋友准备礼物，L18介绍李明的生日情况。
本单元主要任务是通过了解世界主要国家的文化和节日，如何记录家庭记忆，以及通过准备生日礼物来介绍正确的人际沟通方法，向我们展示了了解世界文化和重要节日对于培养学生的正确价值观，思维品质和文化意识的重要性，传达了文化交际要达到立德树人和文化自信的最终目标。
2.主要语法项目：名词所有格和when引导的时间状语从句用法。
3.语言功能项目：谈论家庭庆祝活动、谈论尺寸。
The aim of the core literacy of English discipline (英语学科核心素养目标):
1. Linguistic competences / Language skills
T will help Ss develop their skills of
A) listening and reading by training their micro-skills, such as predicting, getting the main information by listening, understanding the text by detailed reading, integrating and applying the new knowledge (Family celebrate together: festivals, gifts, etc) summarizing and so on.
B) doing things in English, such as talking about family celebrations ( stay in touch with, give a big hug, best wishes to, make a wish...); possessive case; using adverbial clause with “when” to talk about things.
2. Cultural awareness
A) Ss can conclude how to celebrate the main festivals in the world. (Mid-autumn Festival and Thanksgiving).
B) Ss can have the confidence of Chinese culture.
3. Thinking quality
A) Ss can find out, discriminate and summarize the new linguistic phenomena. ( stay in touch with, give a big hug, best wishes to, make a wish...; possessive case; using adverbial clause with “when” to talk about things).
B) They can treat (看待) different culture in a correct way. C) They can creatively voice their own ideas about different cultures at home and abroad.
4. Learning ability
A) Ss will keep their interest in and participate in learning English actively.
B) They will use some English learning strategies, such as previewing new vocabulary, forming a good habit of studying, concentrating on their studies in class, cooperating with their group members and so on.
C) They will improve their learning ability by reading some more extended reading materials in or out of class.
At last, it should be emphasized that the teaching objectives of this unit are not only to help Ss improve their core competences but also foster their determination of cultivating students’ correct value-communicating in a correct way, caring family, being grateful.
Important points / Learning focuses：
A) Words and expressions: celebrate, wonder, choose, record, birth, attend, size, conversation, blow, stay in touch with, turn off...
B) Grammar: possessive case, adverbial clause with “when”
C) Understanding and mastery of the contents of this unit.
D) Ability: talking about family celebrate together: festivals, gifts, etc, talking about preparing gifts and saving memories.
E) Morality: cultivating students’ correct value-communicating in a correct way, caring family, being grateful.
Difficulties /Difficult points :
A) Talking about festivals from different aspects.
B) Using adverbial clause with “when” to talk family celebrations.
C) Using important phrases in a context correctly.
Teaching methods:
ITM (Integrated Teaching Method), Interactive Approach, TBLTM(TBLT Method), Unit Integrative Teaching Approach, The Communicative Approach，The Situational Teaching Approach，The Audio-lingual Approach / Method…
Teaching aids:
video, PPT, pictures…
Subject decomposition主题分解：
一个子主题：
社会服务与人际沟通-世界主要国家的文化习俗与文化景观、节假日与庆祝活动(Social service and interpersonal communication - custom and cultural phenomenon, celebrations of festivals and holidays in the world )
Teaching arrangements教学安排：
1. Learning about the main festivals at home and abroad；
第一课时L13: I love autumn (festival at home and abroad);
第二课时 L16: Happy Thanksgiving；
2. Family celebrations
第三课时L14: Happy memories
3. Preparing and receiving gifts
第四课时 L15: A present for Li Ming
第五课时 第五课时L17: Present from Canada
第六课时L18: Li Ming’s birthday
第七课时 围绕单元大主题拓展阅读（Receiving money makes me uncomfortable）及进行综合运用。
Exploratory activities（探究活动）:
1.思维探究：头脑风暴(Brainstorm)，小组讨论 (Discussion Q&A), 师生问答(Questioning)， 互动(Interaction)
2. 语言探究：归纳语法规则(Language rules), 语言操练(Drills), 复述(Retelling), 改写(Rewriting)
3.文化探究： 表述或交流（观点、体会等） Voicing / Sharing (views, experience)
4.综合探究：应用实践(Application Interview)，制作小报 (Poster), 角色扮演 (Role-play)