(共35张PPT)
Lesson 4
What’s your feeling after listening
to the songs？
Happy, active, excited, relaxed…
Find the Key Words in the pictures.
What Christmas things can you think of
Pre-Reading
Father
Christmas
Christmas tree
carol service
snowman
presents
candle
balloons
decorations
turkey
Christmas pudding
Christmas
cake
sweets/candies
Christmas stockings
Scanning
Find out the order of time in the text
Answers:
2) December
3) Christmas Eve
4) Christmas morning
5) after lunch
1) November
food pudding, turkey, sweets,
Christmas cake, wine, biscuits
weather cold, windy, snowy
Skimming
Careful reading
What’s the main idea of
each paragraph
☆ find out the main idea of each paragraph
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
the beginning of Christmas
our excitement
activities on Christmas Eve
activities on Christmas morning
activities after lunch
c) sing Christmas carols
d) write a letter to Father Christmas
e) put up the Christmas tree
f) go to church
g) have Christmas cake
3
4
6
7
1
b) put their stockings at the end of the bed
a) open the new year calendar
2
5
In what order did the children do these things
Do exercise4 on page43 .
Before Christmas my sister and I wrote a letter to Father Christmas and then gave them to our mother to post. Our excitement grew each day because there were many exciting things---- Christmas cards, Christmas lights, attending the town carol service, and enough snow to make snowmen and had snowball fights.
On Christmas Eve, the whole family helped to decorate the house and got everything ready. Before we went to bed, we left some food for Father Christmas and put our stockings at the end of our beds. We tried to stay awake in order to see Father Christmas, but the next thing we knew it was Christmas morning.
On Christmas morning, we found our stockings full of all kinds of small presents and sweets. After church, we enjoyed playing with our new presents. Lunch was always late, but it was very rich. A big turkey with all the vegetables followed by Christmas pudding. During lunch time, we sang Christmas carols, laughed at jokes, put on silly paper hats and laughed again.
After lunch, the adults slept on the sofas in front of the Queen’s speech on TV . Also we had tea, with a huge Christmas cake. It didn’t seem possible, however, we carried on eating. At night, as soon as we turned off the bed light, we all fell into a deep, happy sleep.
Activities people
Para. 1
1. write a letter and tell Father Christmas about what presents they want
2. give the letters to their mother to post
the writer and his sister
Activities people
Para. 2
1.open new calendar
2.receive Christmas cards
3.Christmas lights appear in the streets
4.attend carol service
5.make snowmen and have snowball fights.
students
the writer
Activities people
Para. 3
1.decorate the house
2.put up the Christmas tree
3.put stockings at the end of the beds
4.stay awake to see Father Christmas
The whole family
Activities people
Para. 4
5.sing Christmas carols,
laugh at jokes,
put on silly hats
1.stockings are filled with…
3. play with new presents
4.have lunch
the writer and his cousin and the whole family
2.Go to church
Activities people
Para. 5
1.the adults sleep on the sofa and watch Queen’s speech on TV
2.Children play cards
3.have tea and eat Christmas cake
4.go to bed
adults
children
Discussion
Discuss in groups and compare the differences between Christmas and the Spring Festival.
春联：Spring Festival couplets
剪纸：paper-cuts
年画：New Year paintings
灯笼：lantern：a portable light
烟花：fireworks
爆竹：firecrackers(People use to scare off evils and ghosts)
红包：red packets (money wrapped up in red paper to symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.)
压岁钱：gift money( money given to children as a lunar New Year gift)
拜年：pay New Year’s call; give New Year’s greetings; New Year’s visit
春节 The Spring Festival
正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar
除夕 New Year's Eve
初一 the beginning of New Year
团圆饭 family reunion dinner
年夜饭 the dinner on New Year's Eve
饺子 Jiao-zi
过年 Guo-nian; have the Spring Festival
Write a letter to an English friend describing the spring festival in China.
Homework
