内容正文:
Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
Reading and Thinking
How do We Celebrate Festivals?
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Learning Objectives
learn to identify the main idea of a paragraph and try to summarize the key information.
read about why we celebrate festivals around the world.
talk about why most festivals seem to have in common and show your critical
attitudes to foreign festivals.
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express personal opinions on the topic and cultivate the awareness of why we celebrate festivals.
By the end of this period, we will be able to:
学习重点:梳理文中节日和庆祝活动的原因,理解并学会运用一定的词汇和句式表达自己自己对节日庆祝的原因的看法;
教学难点:运用文中所学语言知识探索节日背后的原因。
Do you know these festivals or celebrations?
Coming-of-Age Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
the Spring Festival
the Latern Festival
Rio Carnival
When is each of these festivals celebrated?
the 2nd Monday during the month of January
the 4th Thursday of November
25th, December
the 1st day of the Chinese Lunar year
the 15th day of the 1st month on Chinese lunar calendar
between the end of February and the beginning of March
What do we usually do during these festivals?
wear/attend/ receive
express/eat
decorate/sing/wish
reunite/get /enjoy
guess/visit
dress up/ march/ watch
Which festival do you like best?
Why do you like it best?
Now let's read the text and find more information about festivals.
Why do we celebrate festivals?
title
the answer/reasons to the question in the title
What type of writing is this text?
A. Narration(记叙文) B. Description(描述文)
C. Exposition(说明文) D. Argumentation(议论文)
Skimming
Underline the topic sentence of each paragraph that gives the main idea.
Tip: Identify the main idea of a paragraph
Identifying the main ideas of paragraphs is necessary when analyzing a text. Most paragraphs will have a “topic sentence” that tells you the paragraph’s main idea. It is often the first sentence, but sometimes it is found elsewhere in the paragraph.
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Scanning for details
all around the world
the harvest festival
changing customs
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