Unit 3 Dragon Boat Festival The 1st period Teaching aims: Language focus: 1 To learn some new vocabulary. 2 To review and learn the simple past tense. Ability aims: 1 Learn to use the simple past tense to talk about past events. 2 Learn to ask Wh- / How questions to find out specific information. 3 To develop the students' ability of reading. Emotion aims: 1 To develop the students' interest of learning English. 2 To instruct the students to know more about festivals. Important and difficult points: 1 How to use the simple past tense to talk about past events. 2 How to ask Wh- / How questions to find out specific information. Teaching aids: Cassette 6B, a cassette player and multi-media. Teaching process: Pre-task preparation: 1 Look and match: 1) Do you know these festivals? Look at the pictures and match the festivals. Chinese New Year Mid-autumn Festival Christmas Qingming Festival Lantern Festival Dragon Boat Festival 2) Which is not a Chinese festival? 3) Which festival is your favourite? Why? 2 Look and learn 1) What do people do on the Dragon Boat Festival? To learn: the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races, a rice dumpling 2 )Why do people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? To elicit the topic: Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival. While-task procedure: 1 Look and learn: 1) When is the Dragon Boat Festival? To learn: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. 2) To learn other vocabulary in the passage. 2Listen and read: Miss Guo’s students would like to know something about the Dragon Boat Festival. 3 Listen and read the passage one paragraph by one. At the meantime, learn the new vocabulary in the passage. 4 Read the whole passage. 5 Learn the simple past tense: 1) Read the passage about Qu Yuan again. Find out the past forms of the given verbs. 2) Complete the following sentences by using the past forms of the verbs. • Qu Yuan ________ born about 2,000 years ago in China. • Qu Yuan ________ his country very much. • The old king always ________ his advice. • The old king ________ and the new king ________ not listen to him. • The new king ________ a battle and Qu Yuan ________ very sad. • Qu Yuan ________ into a river and ________ . • It ________ the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of that year. 6 Read and answer: • What was Qu Yuan’s job? • Why was he sad? • When is the Dragon Boat Festival? • How do people remember Qu Yuan today? Post-task activity: 1 Read and write: Read the passage and write some information about Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan • born in (1) __________ (where) • born about (2) __________ years ago • gave (3) __________ to the king • was sad because the new king didn’t (4) _________ and his country (5) ____________ • jumped into a (6) __________ and died • died on the (7) ______ day of the (8) ______ lunar month • people remember Qu Yuan on (9) __________ Festival • people eat (10) ________________ on this festival and have (11) ________________ 2 Write: Kitty is writing a report about the story of Qu Yuan. Read the story on page 14 of Student’s Book 6B again and help her complete the report. Assignment: Oral work: 1 Listen and read the story. 2 Recite the contents in Read. Written work: 1 Copy the vocabulary. 2 Copy the contents in Read. Feedback: 端午节的由来和屈原的故事，学生对此都比较熟悉，因此学习的时候都比较感兴趣，并且在回答问题时都显得比较积极，但是部分学生对一些英语单词的读音还不够准确，如lunar, battle等，语言表达方面还不够流利。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/096faa3567ec102de2bd8931.html