Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!
Teaching Aims:
Knowledge aims:
1. Students can learn some new words and important expressions of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.
2. Students can understand the history of Mid-Autumn Festival.
Ability aims:
1. Students can master the skills about how to describe a traditional and famous festival.
2. Students can know and get the skills of reading and know how to use them fluently.
Emotional aims:
1. Students can strengthen pride and awareness of Chinese traditional festival.
2. Students can foster the confidence and enthusiasm of learning English.
Teaching Key and Difficult Points:
Key point:
Students can know how to describe the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Difficult point:
How to get the skills of reading and how to foster students’ enthusiasm of learning?
Teaching Method: Task-based Teaching Method, Situational Teaching Method, Communicative approach
Teaching Aid: Multi-media
Teaching Procedures:
Step1 Warming up and lead-in
Free talk:
The teacher will ask Ss a question : how many festivals can you think of in China? Five minutes will be given, when time is up, several students will be asked to make a short report.
(Justification: Through this period, the students can arouse the interest of the class, and the students’ speaking ability and expressive ability can be improved.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
The teacher sets two questions for students to think. The first one is “how do people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?” The second one is “what story is the reading about?” Ask students to guess the main idea of this passage.
(Justification: Before reading this passage, let students do the brainstorming and cultivate student’s predictive ability.)
Step 3 While-reading
Fast reading:
Ask students the main idea of the passage, and what the main characters in the story are.
Careful reading:
characters
activities
Hou?Yi
_??_the?nine?suns
A?goddess
_magic?medicine?to?Hou?Yi
to?_him
Pang?Meng
tried?to??_the?mecicine
Chang'e
_the?medicine?and_?_to?the?moon?????????????????????????????
Hou?Yi
_?_?wife's?name?to?the?moon?every?night.
_?_?his?favorite?fruits?and?desserts?in?the?garden
(Justification: Through fast reading and careful reading, students can learn the main strategies of reading, such as skimming and scanning. Moreover they can know how to read a passage when given a long passage.)
Step 4 Post-reading
At the step, students will learn the knowledge of words and expressions, so there will be some exercise for them.
Without looking at the passage, try to complete the sentences with the correct words.
1. People like to a _____ the full moon on the Mid-Autumn night.
2. The story Chang’e is one of many t_____ folk stories.
3. Hou Yi got m_____ medicine for shooting down the nine suns.
4. Pang Meng wanted to s_____ the medicine.
5. Hou Yi l_____ out fruits and desserts in the garden.
(Justification: Check out whether the students have mastered the important words and the correct functions.)
Step 5 Summary and homework
Summary: Ask a student to talk about what they have learnt in the reading class and let some students retell the story for us.
Homework: At the English corner, tell the Mid-Autumn Festival story for their friends. In addition, write a passage about a famous traditional festival in China.
课件25张PPT。Unit 2
Period 3I think that mooncakes are delicious! The Dragon
Boat FestivalThe Water
FestivalThe Mid-Autumn FestivalThe Spring
FestivalThe Lantern
Festival 1.When is the Mid-Autumn Festival?
2.How do Chinese people celebrate
the Mid-Autumn Festival?
People usually have a family reunion dinner, and then they eat moon cakes and enjoy the round moon. When is the Mid-Autumn Festival? It falls on the 15th day of the 8th
lunar month, usually in September.
This day was also considered as a
harvest（收获） festival . How do Chinese people celebrate
the Mid-Autumn Festival?what can you see in the picture?
Can you guess who the woman is?Read and answer the questions.1. What story is the reading about?3aThe reading is about the story of Chang’e.2. What do mooncakes look like? What meaning do they carry?
They are in the shape of a full moon. They carry people’s wishes to the families they love and miss. 阅读3a，判断下列句子的正（T）误（F） 1.( ) The mooncakes carry wishes to the families they love and miss. 2.( ) A goddess gave magic medicine to chang'e. 3.( )Pang Meng tried to steal the medicine when chang'e was not at home. 4.( )People admire the moon and share the mooncakes with their families on mid-autumn night.Retell the story of Chang’e according to the words and phrases below.Chang’e, Hou Yi, shot down the nine suns, magic medicine, live forever,
a bad man, steal, refused, flew up, sad ,called out her name, bright and round, laid out, wish1. Full Moon, Full feelingsLanguage points月满，情浓2. I have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries这是现在完成进行时，其构成为：(have / has) + been + doingI have been living in Shanghai for ten years.
我在上海已经生活了十年。for centuries=since centuries ago.数个世纪in the shape of以 ... 形状 The cloud was in the shape of a horse.那云呈现出马的形状They carry people’s wishes to the families
they love and miss.folk story 民间故事 folk music民间音乐他们寄托着人们对他们深爱和想念的家人的祝愿.2. … is the most touching touching adj. 动人的；感人的/ touched
This is the most touching story I have ever heard.
这是我听到过的最动人的故事。
We were deeply touched by their presents.
我们被他们的礼物深深感动。 touch v. 触摸；感动；触及；接触
Don't touch the paint until it's dry.
油漆未干, 切勿触摸。
His sad story touched our hearts.
他的悲惨的故事深深打动了我们的心。
2. shoot down 击落，射下。-shot shoot at 朝。。射击
3. Whoever drank this could live forever, …
whoever pron. 无论是谁；任何人。 Whoever wants the book may have it.
谁想要这本书都可以拿。
I'll take whoever wants to go.
谁要去我就带谁去。
whoever= no matter who
whatever=no matter what
whenever=no matter when…..
4. steal v. 偷；窃取 / stole- stolen steal… from….
He stole something from me.
他偷了我的东西。rob sb of sth抢走某人某物 / robbedHe robbed me of a ring.
他从我身上抢走了一枚戒指 On her way home Lucy saw a thief _____ in a shop. She stopped _____ 110 at once.
A. steal, calling
B. stealing, calling
C. stealing, to callC
They knocked him down and _______
him of this bag.
A. rob B. robbed
C. steal D. stole B 1. refuse to do sth 拒绝做某事
2. light. n.光，日光，vt.使发光;?点燃;?
adj.轻的;?少量的，浅色的。
3. fly –flew- flown 4. call out one’s name. 大叫某人的名字。
5. lay out 摆开；布置
Don't lay out your clothes on the bed. Put them away.
别把你的衣服都摊在床上，把它们收起来
lay v. 放置；=place 安放；产(卵)；下(蛋) –laid-laid
You may lay it on the table.
你可以把它放在桌子上。
You can't expect the hen to lay in the afternoon.
你不能期望鸡下午生蛋。
lie- lied-lied 说谎
lie-lay-lain 躺下，位于;处于… lay, place, put, set这些动词均有“放”之意。
lay指小心地把人或物平放或横放，侧重动作安稳。
place较正式用词，指把某物放在一个正确的位置上，侧重动作的正确。
put普通用词，含义较广泛。指把人或物置于某处，并将其留在该处。
set普通用词，指为了某种目的而将人或物放在一定位置上。指物时多指立着放。知识链接6. admire v. 欣赏；仰慕He was very successful in his business and all his friends admired him.
他的事业非常成功，他的朋友都很羡慕。
admire sb/sth., admire sb. for sth.。
We admire (him for) what he has done.
我们对他所做的事很钦佩。— Jason is too
stubborn sometimes.
— I quite _______. But he's always
friendly to others.
A. accept B. argue
C. agree D. admire
我很钦佩我父母亲。
CI admire my parents very much. 用admire的适当形式填空。?
1.?The?school?is?widely?________?for?its?
excellent?teaching.?
2.?I?really?________?the?way?she?brings?
up?those?kids?all?on?her?own.admired?admire
