B3U1 Festivals and celebrations Reading and thinking
Why do we celebrate festivals 学习活动与作业设计
【Learning Objectives】
By the end of the class, we will be able to:
1. identify main idea of each paragraph via topic sentences;
2. analyse structure and logic of the text according to mind map;
3. understand the connotation of different festivals and customs;
4. discuss and reflect the influence on traditional festivals caused by the social development.
The Key points and difficult points :Understood the cultural information of different festivals, including their origins, customs, celebration activities, and connotations, Organized the discourse structure and textual logic, further explored the different reasons and fundamental essence of celebrating festivals
【Teaching Procedures】
Lead-in Watch a short video and share mentioned festivals.
1. What other traditional festivals do you know
2. Why do we celebrate these festivals
设计意图:利用 Top5 节日视频介绍,创设情境,激活背景知识,引出主题,形成阅读期待。
效果评价:利用主题关联视频激活了学生已有的关于节日的背景知识,缩小了学生与文本内容之间的距离,激发了学生学习兴趣,活跃了课堂气氛,使学生快速进入学习的状态,并形成阅读期待。
核心素养提升点:学习能力—激活已知,发现问题。
Teaching procedures
Step 1 Pre-reading
Can you predict what the text is about
Tip1 Titles and pictures can help us make predictions as they contain some information.
Step 2 While-reading
Task1. Skimming for the main idea of each paragraph.
Tip2 Identify main idea of each paragraph by topic sentences.
Para.1 Festivals are celebrated all around the world.
Para.2 Of all the traditional festivals, the harvest festival can be found in almost every culture.
Para.3 Customs play a significant role in festivals, but sometimes they can change over time
Para.4 Festivals are becoming more and more commercial, with businesses taking advantage of the celebrations.
Para.5 Festivals are an important part of society
Task2. Finish a mind-map of the text according to the topic sentences.
设计意图:通过略读使学生快速了解语篇的主旨大意,通过找关键句等信息,从整体上把握文章的结构脉络,并通过完成结构图的填空,提取和归纳基本信息。
效果评价:绝大部分学生能够识别文章中各段(首段除外)的主题句,概括并整合出文章结构但首段的主题句少部分学生需要老师引导说出提示词“However”。
核心素养提升点:思维品质—利用结构图分析、概括并整合信息。
Task3. Detailed-reading
Para1:1. What are the different origins for different festivals 2. What is the common spirit
Para2: Can you describe the harvest festivals around the world
Para3:What festival customs have changed over time
Para.4: 1. How do people think of the commercialization of festivals 2. What’s the writer’s attitude towards the commercialisation of festivals
A. Objective B. Positive C. Indifferent D. Negative
设计意图:基于语篇特点,在细读环节进行逐段阅读,了解节日的起源、共同内涵(para.1);了解不同文化背景下形成的不同民族的节日——harvest festival(para.2);了解节日的发展和变化(para.3,para.4);
效果评价:对于 Task3 的前 3 个问题,学生能准确完成。对于 Task3 第 4 个问题即关于作者对于节日商业化的态度,文本中含有 easier,the increase in spending is good for... 等表态度倾向性的暗示及 Although 引导的让步状语从句,部分同学在分析作者的措辞时需要老师的提示才能得出结论。最后一个问题需要学生开动脑筋,结合自己的理解,并联系社会客观发展实际进行批判性的回答。
核心素养提升点:学习能力—获取概括信息,整合运用语言进行表达和描述。思维品质—通过阅读文本,深化理解并形成自己的判断。
Para5:
Why are festivals an important part of society
设计意图:在文本结尾,挖掘这些节日所体现的人类共同的愿望和心理诉求, 思考和探究节日的丰富内涵,回扣文本题目即水到渠成地回答“Why do we celebrate festivals ”的问题。
效果评价:学生能找到关于节日重要性的文本原句,但部分同学用自己的话复述节日重要性存在困难。
核心素养提升点:学习能力—获取概括信息,整合运用语言进行表达和描述。
Step 3 Post-reading
Task1. Can we change the order of these paragraphs(Para.2-Para.4)
设计意图:梳理文章结构,形成整体认知。纵向观察学生是否发现了文本的时间暗线,即从农业时期-现代时期-互联网时代,引导学生进一步在语篇结构以及深层逻辑关系上进行学科核心思维的培养。
效果评价:虽然因人而异,但都在教师提示下找到隐藏线索。
核心素养提升点:学习能力—利用结构图分析概括并整合信息。
Task2. Group discussion:
How do you feel about festival customs that have already faded away
Tips: People in...used to...during..., but now... Nowadays people no longer.../People have given up the custom of...in order to... As for the custom of..., I think I’d love to... I think it is because...
设计意图:该活动的设计基于课文内容,但又超出课文范畴,能深化主题意义,拓展话题内容,感受社会发展对传统文化的影响,同时加强中华传统文化浸润,迁移创新。
效果评价:节日话题贴近学生生活,让学生有话可说,绝大部分学生能根据提示分享自己对节日变迁的感悟。
核心素养提升点:思维品质—创新思维,批判性思维;文化意识—联系生活,坚定文化自信。
Step 4 Summary
设计意图:回扣文本主题,形成整体认知。
效果评价:学生在熟悉语块的基础上进一步深化对文本的理解。
核心素养提升点:学习能力—提炼、整合文本信息。
Step 5 Assignment
Option1: Make a poster on one festival, including when, why and how to celebrate it.
Option2: Write about your finding about another festival using expressions and writing skills you have learnt.
设计意图:旨在帮助学生将阅读所学知识与实际生活相联系,通过读写结合,运用语言实践解决实际问题,提高学生将知识和技能转换为实际运用语言的能力,真正实现语言的输入自然过渡到输出的目的。
核心素养提升点:文化意识—传播传统节日,坚定文化自信