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Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!
Section A（1a-1c）
Language goals
1. Ss can talk about festivals and give their personal reactions.
2. Ss can use the exclamatory sentences.
Key words and phrases
Teaching
Aims mooncake, lantern, festival
Key sentences
—What do you like best about the Dragon Boat Festival?
— I love the races. I think that they’re fun to watch.
How fantastic the dragon boat teams were!
1. The T needs to share the background knowledge of different
Teaching Asian
Difficulties festivals and increase Ss’ vocabulary about festivals.
2. Ss can use the exclamatory statements to express their feelings.
Teaching
Aids multimedia courseware or other realia that the T needs for teaching
Teaching Procedures Tips
Step 1 Warming up
In this part, T
The T shows Ss pictures of the traditional Chinese festivals
can tell Ss
(the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Lantern that they’re
Festival) and then asks them to say the Chinese name and going to learn
some Asian
English name of each festival.
festivals in this
(Tips: Give Ss some clues if they have difficulty in recognizing the class.（目标沟
pictures. Show the answers directly if Ss cannot tell the English 通）
name of each festival.)
Ask Ss to watch a video about the Dragon Boat Festival and T can
answer the questions: introduce the
knowledge
1. Where did the Dragon Boat Festival come from?
about the
2. What do people eat on the Dragon Boat Festival? Dragon Boat
(Answers can be find in the video.) Festival and
the Spring
T can teach the cultural lexicon about the Dragon Boat Festival:
Festival
the dragon boat race 赛龙舟 the Chinese lunar calender 农历 according to
1a great Chinese poet 一位伟大的中国诗人 the video.（中
国传统文化节
Ask Ss to watch a video and then introduce the Spring Festival
日学习，既丰
to their partners.
富学生的对传
T can use the prompts: 统文化的了
解、增加其关
1. When is the Spring Festival?
于节日表达的
2. What do Chinese people do during the Spring Festival? 储备也为1a的
3. What is the legend of the Spring Festival? 练习作铺
垫。）
T can teach the cultural lexicon about the Spring Festival to Ss:
The first day of the first lunar month 正月初一
family reunion 家庭团聚 Spring Festival travel rush 春运
New Year’s Eve on the lunar calendar 除夕
worship the kitchen god 祭灶神
put up Spring Festival couplet 贴春联
Staying up late on New Year’s Eve 守岁
have a New Year’s Eve dinner 吃年夜饭
此处由传统文
Spring Festival Gala 春节联欢晚会
化节日过渡到
receive/give the red envelop 收/给红包 亚洲其他国家
的传统节日。
Show a picture of the Water Festival in Thailand and ask Ss if
they know this festival. (If yes, ask Ss to introduce a little bit of
the festival; if no, ask Ss to describe the picture.)
The T introduces the background knowledge of the Water
Festival.
* PPT P10 “A clean slate” is a slang. T can explain the cultural
meaning of it:
过去儿童在石板上写字，写错了就把它擦去重写。后来人们用a
clean slate“一块干净的石板”比喻“重新开始”。
Step 2 Free Talk Step 1 为输入
性学习，学生
Ask Ss to work in pairs or in groups of four and talk about
在 Step 1 中了
their favorite festivals. 解不同节日的
(Tip: Ss can talk about the festivals they’ve learned in Step 1 or 背景知识以及
相 关 表 达 ，
any festival they want and the answers will be varied.)
Step 2 为学生
T can ask a few Ss to share their answers to the whole 提 供 输 出 机
class. 会，这一步骤
也是对 Step 1
学习的一个简
单反馈。
Step 3 Presentation & Practice
Pre-listening
1a
2 Ask Ss to match the pictures with the descriptions.
Ask Ss to read the conversation in 1a and guess which festival
they are talking about.
Answers: 1.d 2.a 3.b 4.c
While-listening
1b
Show the video of the conversation in 1b and ask Ss to finish
the exercises.
Ask Ss to listen to the conversation again and finish the
multiple choice questions.
Answers: 1.F 2.T 3.F 4.T
Show listening material to Ss if necessary.
Post-listening
1c
Ask Ss to read the conversation in 1c.
Ask Ss to work in pairs and talk about festivals in 1a following
the model.
T can give Ss examples if they have difficulty in doing this
exercise. (See PPT P20-21)
Step 4 Language points learning
Exclamatory Statements（感叹句）
1. 了解人什么是感叹句
2. 学习what引导的感叹句：What + a /an +形容词+可数名词单数
形式 (+主语+谓语)!, 口语中常可以省略主语和谓语。what引导的感
叹句结构还可以是：What +形容词+可数名词复数或不可数名词(+主
语+谓语)!
3. 学习how引导的感叹句：How +adj./adv.(+主语+谓语) !
Words meaning（词义学习）
1. crowded adj. 拥挤的，n. 人群；群众，v. 挤；靠近；盯着
2. wonder作动词表示“想知道” ，后面接由who/what/why/how引
导的宾语从句或“特殊疑问词+动词不定式”, 意为“想知道......”。
3wonder后面还可以接if / whether引导的宾语从句, 表示“想知道是
否......”, 表示一种委婉的请求或疑问。
wonder还可以作名词, 表示“惊讶; 惊叹”, “奇观; 奇迹”。
Step 5 Summary & Homework
Summary
Ask Ss to do the exercises from PPT P31-32.
Homework:
Preview 2a-2d.
Do the exercises in students’ book.
This is the first period of unit 2. It is important to let the students
know that they will learn to give personal reactions and express their
Teaching strong feelings using exclamatory statements in this unit. Beside, the
Reflection background knowledge of different festivals will be very helpful
because the students will learn festivals in both Asian and western
countries.
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