Micro-teaching Lesson Plan
Teaching Content: Book 3 Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
Lesson Type: New Reading Class
Teaching Objectives:
1) Knowledge Aim:
Students can master some useful vocabularies about festivals: celebration, religious, dress up, play a trick on and so on.
Students can understand the content of the passage and get familiar with different festivals around the world mentioned in the passage, such as the festivals for the dead, harvest festivals and so on.
Students can pay attention to their pronunciation and intonation in their reading the passage and the discussion work in the class.
Training Objectives: the skills of questioning and drilling
2) Ability Aim:
Students can use reading strategies such as skimming the main idea of the passage and scanning the specific information from the passage in reading process.
Students can get the main ideas and specific information about the festivals and celebrations during their fast reading and careful reading.
3) Emotion Aim:
Students can experience different customs and culture about the festivals and learn to appreciate and respect cultures in other countries.
Students can be more confident and interested in learning English and they are able to speak English in public.
Students can cooperate and communicate with partners in their discussion.
Teaching Key Points:
I) Students can get the main idea and the detailed information through reading, answer questions about the passage.
2) Students can understand and grasp the content of the passage and get familiar with different festivals and their celebrations around the world.
Teaching Difficult Points:
1) Students can talk about and share their opinions about the festivals and celebrations.
2) Students can use reading strategies such as skimming the main idea of the passage and scanning the specific information from the passage in reading process.
Teaching Aids: PPT, blackboard
Lesson Duration: 45mins
Teaching procedure:
Lead-in
1. Greetings;
2. Show a short video about Tomb sweeping Day and ask some questions on the basis of the video: ①Why do you think people celebrate Tomb Sweeping Day?
②What will you do on this day
3. Lead to our topic today-festivals and celebrations.
Pre-Reading
Let the students have a discussion in groups about the following questions:
What festivals do you celebrate with your family each year?
②Why do you think people celebrate different festivals?
2. After the discussion, ask some student to answer the questions.
3. Give some comments to this topic.
While reading
Give the students 4 minutes to have a global reading with two tasks:
Find out the main idea of each paragraph.
② find the reason why we celebrate festivals.
Let the students share their ideas.
Have a detailed reading. Let some students read the passage and answer some detailed questions:
Para①Do you know the origins of festivals?
Para②Which sentence do you think is the main sentence?
Para③What have you learned from this paragraph?
Para④Do you know how do businesses take advantage of the celebrations? What is the writer’s attitude towards the commercialisation of festivals?
Para⑤Do you know what do festivals reflect?
Then help them to get the main idea of each paragraph.
Post-reading
Let students use suitable words from the text to complete the passage in page 5.
Ask students: what do most festivals have in common? Why do you think people around the world find these things important?
Summary
Summarize the teaching content of this class: we have used two reading skills: skimming and scanning and we also have a better understanding of festivals.
Homework and conclusion
1. Set homework for students: Write a passage (no less than 85 words) about how do you feel about festival customs that have already faded away.
2. Make a conclusion.