Unit 1 Festivals and celebrations Period 2 Reading and Thinking 学案-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 1 Reading and Thinking 【学习目标】 Learning Objectives 1 To know the reasons and meanings of celebrating festivals, figure out the main structure of the passage by analysing the main idea of each paragraph 2 To identify the useful patterns and expressions from the reading text, summarise the text 【学习过程】 Learning activities 目标一：To know the reasons and meanings of celebrating festivals, figure out the main structure of the passage by analysing the main idea of each paragraph Activity 1: Look at the pictures from the text and its title, predict what it is about. WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 2: Read the text and find out the answer to the question in the title. Why do we celebrate festivals? People all over the world celebrate different festivals because: •we would like to________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Answers: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 3: Read the text quickly and answer the following questions. 1. Why do people celebrate the harvest festivals? 2. What role do customs and traditions play in festivals? Do you think they are also the reasons for celebrating festivals? Why? 3. Why did the writer mention the commercialisation of festivals? How is it influencing people’s way of celebrating festivals? 4. What are some other reasons for celebrating festivals? Answers: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 4: Read the text again and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph that gives the main idea. Identify the main idea of a paragraph Identifying the main ideas of paragraphs is necessary when analysing a t