Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Reading and Thinking 教学设计-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations reading and thinking Why Do We Celebrate Festivals Analysis of Teaching Materials（教材内容及分析） Period 2: Reading and thinking Text type: argumentation Theme context : Human and society Main content: This article introduces the reasons why people celebrate festivals, focusing on the "similarities and differences" of festivals. Festivals are a common cultural phenomenon throughout the world. Although the origins of festivals are different, their spirits of sharing joy, gratitude, love, or peace is common in all festivals. Analysis of Students（学情分析） learning attitude: They have enough enthusiasm for the topic Present level: Students have certain reading comprehension ability to obtain information Presupposed problems: not familiar with some key words and phrases haven’t fully mastered the reading strategies unable to grasp the in-depth theme of the text Teaching Objectives（教学目标） 1. Learning ability：To employ different reading strategies, such as predicting the contents of the text, skimming for topic sentence of each paragraph, careful reading for detailed information. 2. Language ability： ① to know the words and expressions about the festivals. ② to know the common spirit and significance of festivals . ③ Be able to write essays about the protection of traditional festivals. 3. Thinking capacity： ①Be able to infer the author’s attitude towards commercialization of the festivals. ② Students thinking ability are able to be cultivated by thinking about the reason why people celebrate festivals. 4. Cultural awareness：Enhance students' cultural confidence. Not only should ss pay respect to foreign festivals but also carry forward our brilliant traditions and customs. Teaching Theories（设计思想） The whole teaching design is based on the new curriculum standard, especially the English Subject Core Competences. The activity-based approach to English learning advocates that students learn English through a series of integrated, relevant, and