Unit 3 Leon 1 Festivals Teaching Aims 1.to use picture to help understand new words and to read a text quickly to find specific information.To practise the Present Simple Paive, Present Perfect Paive and Past Continous Paive.2.Help the Ss know more about Chinese festivals.Have the Ss feel honored about our culture.Teaching Important Points and difficult points 1.To train the Ss’reading ability and develop their reading skills.
2.To practise the Present Simple Paive, Present Perfect Paive and Past Continous Paive and know some knowledges of festivals.Teaching aids: pictures Teaching Procedures Step I lead-in We all like to have festivals because of many reasons.Can you tell me some? Ok, we can have vacation during festivals, we can eat some special food which we don’t have in daily life, we can do some interesting activities in honor of festivals.These all things will make us so happy.So all of us like festivals.And I’d like to ask you some questions.1.How many festivals do you know in China? Which one is your favourite in China? 2.What activities should we do during your favourite festival? Work in pairs, tell your partner which festival you like best.Step II Fast-reading Please read the texts quickly and then do the matching.Match the pictures with the festivals.Step III Intensive-reading
Now read the texts carefully and fill in the table on the books beside the texts.This is exercise 3.While you are reading, pay attention to which season the festival is in, when is the festival and what typical activity or food we have during the festival.Step IV Grammar and vacubulary Grammar: The paive Look at the following sentence and learn how to use the paive.1„ the Mid- Autumn Festival is celebrated by Chinese people all over the world.2.In one story, lanterns were lit to celebrate the power of light over darkne.The two sentences both use the Paive.We use it in the following cases: 1.We don’t know or don’t need to know who performed the action.Eg The streets were decorated with flowers.2.The “doer”is obvious Eg.Rice is grown in the south of China.Obviously, the doer is people.3.The action itself is more important than “doer”; or we don’t want to tell who performed the action.Eg.These beliefs were not encouraged by the church.
1 4.In writing, especially in scientific and technical reports, and in newspaper articles, the paive is more formal than the active.Eg.Each country was allowed to design their own Euro coins which could be used in any of the participating countries.The International Space Station is now being built in the Earth’s orbit.In this text, we need to learn how use the Paive under all kinds of tenses.Now look at the given sentences in your book and work out the correct verb forms of the other sentences.1.A school for the blind has been opened in the area.Look at this sentence we know how to use the Paive in the present perfect tense.Has been done.The wedding celebration _________ (arrange).Has been arranged.2.The theatre is being built in the center of the city.Be being done The money _____(collect) for the disabled.Is being collected.3.The girl was being operated on in the hospital.The house ____ (paint) white when I was there.Was being painted.Then let’s do the exercise 7 to review how to use the Paive.Vocabulary: 1.burn down: destroyed by fire.The story was about a god who wanted to burn down the town.2.celebrate: do some activities in honor of sth .The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated by the Chinese people all over the world.3.decorate: a way to make sth.More beautiful.In the past , lanterns were usually lit by candles and decorated with pictures of birds, animals and flowers.4.include : contain, have sth.In.There are many different kinds of moon cakes including fruit, coffee, chocolate and even ice-cream moon cakes.5.take part in : get involved with.To be a member of some activities.However, in recent years, people from other cultures have also taken part in the races and evjoyed the fun.Ok, now please do exercise 9 using these words.1.The room ______ by dozens of candles.Is lit 2.Tom ____ his room with some photos of sports stars.Decorated 3.A firework display was organised to ____ the Queen’s birthday.Celebrate 4.The party is for students to ____ their graduation with family and friends.5.I ____ in the soccer team when the best player broke his leg.Was inclued 6.The school ____ by a mad man.Only two clarooms still stand.7.Would you like to ____ the race tomorrow? You have to run 10km 8.The water must ____ to make sure it is clean and safe to drink.Summary: Today we have learnt a very important grammar---the paive.What’s more, we know some useful words about festivals.Homework: Writing: choose your favourite festival, describe it in many aspects.The date, the typical activity, the typical food and so on.
