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Unit 1 Festivals And Celebrations Reading and Thinking
导学案
Learning Objectives
1. Students can get the main idea of this passage and some reading skills.
2. Students can improve their reading skills by skimming and scanning.
3. Students can learn to treat our festivals correctly, and improve cooperative spirit by group work.
Key and difficult points
1. Students can understand some new words.
2. Students can improve their reading skills.
Teaching process
Step1 Warming up
Greeting and ask students to play a guess game. (Students can guess what the festival is from these pictures.)
Step 2 Pre-reading
1. Questions on page 4:
1 What festivals do you celebrate with your family each year?
2 Why do you think people celebrate different festivals?
2. Predict what the passage is main about.
Step 3 While-reading
Task1 Fast reading
Underline the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Task 2 Careful reading
Read para 1 and answer the question.
Which of the following is the common spirit of all festivals?
A. Enjoying a peaceful life.
B. Showing respect.
C. Sharing happiness.
D. Honoring ancestors.
Para 2
T/F 1. The harvest festival takes place before all the crops have been gathered in.
2.When was the Egyptian harvest season?
A.Autumn. B.Summer.
C.Winter. D.Spring.
3.What's the function of the examples in Paragraph 2?
A.To show the harvest festival is the most important in Egypt and China.
B.To show it is celebrated in almost all cultures.
C.To show the ways people celebrate it have changed.
D.To show all the people are grateful for the supply of crops.
Para 3
1.Why have Chinese people in many big cities stopped lighting firecrackers?
A.To protect the environment.
B.To save money.
C.To avoid injuries.
D.To get rid of old customs.
Para 4
T/F 1. Commercialised festivals are definitely harmful for our daily
2.What is the writer's attitude towards the fact that festivals are becoming more and more commercial?
A.Supportive. B.Obje