Unit 3 Festivals across cultures-C Festival celebrations (Reading & Grammar in use) 教学设计 2024-2025学年沪教版（五四学制）英语六年级下册

Unit 3 Festivals across cultures-C Festival celebrations (Reading & Grammar in use) This lesson is from Unit 3 "Festivals across cultures" of the Shanghai Education Edition (Five - Four Academic System, 2024) for Grade Six. The reading passage mainly focuses on introducing different festival celebrations around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, the Torch Festival of the Yi ethnic group, and some Western festivals. It aims to expose students to the diversity of festival cultures across the globe. The grammar part in this lesson is likely to be related to the usage of present simple tense to describe habitual actions and general facts, which is very suitable for talking about festival traditions. 教学目标 Students will be able to understand and remember new words and phrases related to festivals, such as "torch", "worship", "auspicious", "carnival", etc. Students will master the usage of present simple tense in the context of festival descriptions, including its affirmative, negative, interrogative forms. 教学重难点 1 Key Points The new vocabulary and expressions related to festivals. The correct usage of present simple tense to describe festival celebrations, including the third - person singular form. Understanding the main ideas and details of the reading passage about festival celebrations. 2 Difficult Points Helping students distinguish between the third - person singular form and the base form of verbs in the present simple tense, especially when using it to describe festival customs. Guiding students to express their own ideas about festivals in a logical and fluent way, with rich details. 1 New Words and Phrases torch /t t /n. 火炬;火把 worship / w p/v. 崇拜;敬仰 auspicious / sp s/adj. 吉利的;吉祥的 carnival / k n vl/n. 狂欢节 ethnic / e n k/adj. 民族的;种族的 boast /b st/v. 有(值得自豪的东西) scale /ske l/n. 规模;范围 distinct /d st kt/adj. 清晰的;明显的;独特的 harvest / h v st/n. 收获;收成 wrestling / resl /n. 摔跤 bullfighting / b lfa t /n. 斗牛 cockfighting / k kfa t /n. 斗鸡 beauty pageant 选美比赛 symbolize / s mb la z/v. 象征;代表 2 Grammar - Present Simple Tense Affirmative form: I/You/We/They + verb (base form) + other elements. For example, "We clean our houses before the Spring Festival." He/She/It + verb (third - person singular form) + other elements. For example, "She wears new clothes on New Year's Day." Negative form: I/You/We/They + don't + verb (base form) + other elements. For example, "We don't have classes during the festival." He/She/It + doesn't + verb (base form) + other elements. For example, "He doesn't like eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day." Interrogative form: Do + I/You/We/They + verb (base form) + other elements? For example, "Do you visit your grandparents during the Mid - Autumn Festival?" Does + He/She/It + verb (base form) + other elements? For example, "Does she often go to the temple fair during the Spring Festival?" 教学过程 1 Lead - in (5 minutes) Greet the class T: Hello, everyone! How are you today? Ss: Fine, thank you. Show some pictures of festivals T: Now, look at the big screen. I will show you some pictures. Please tell me which festivals they are. (Show pictures of the Spring Festival, Christmas, Halloween, etc.) Ss: The Spring Festival! Christmas! Halloween! Ask questions T: Great! Then, can you tell me something about the Spring Festival? What do we usually do during the Spring Festival? S1: We clean our houses. S2: We wear new clothes and get red envelopes. T: Very good! You all have a good memory. As we know, different festivals have different celebrations. Today, we are going to learn more about festival celebrations across cultures. 2 Pre - reading (8 minutes) Vocabulary teaching T: First, let's learn some new words and phrases about festivals. (Write the new words on the blackboard one by one, and explain their meanings with pictures or examples) For example, when teaching "torch", show a picture of a torch and say, "Look, this is a torch. People use it in some festivals, like the Torch Festival." Teach other words and phrases in the same way, and ask students to repeat after the teacher several times. Then, do a quick word - matching exercise on the PPT. Show some words on the left and their explanations on the right, and ask students to match them correctly. Prediction T: Now, look at the title of our reading passage "Festival celebrations". What do you think we will read about in this passage? Talk with your partners for one minute. After one minute, invite some students to share their ideas. S1: Maybe we will read about how different festivals are celebrated. S2: We may read about some special festivals from different countries. T: Good guesses! Let's read the passage and see if your predictions are right. 3 While - reading (15 minutes) Fast reading T: Now, please open your books to the reading passage. Read it quickly and find out the main idea of each paragraph. You have two minutes. After two minutes, ask students to share their answers. S1: Paragraph 1 is about the importance of festivals in different cultures. S2: Paragraph 2 is about the Spring Festival celebration in China. S3: Paragraph 3 is about the Torch Festival of the Yi ethnic group. T: Well done! You all grasped the main ideas accurately. Careful reading T: Read the passage carefully again, and answer the following questions on the PPT. (Show some detailed questions related to the text, such as "When is the Spring Festival celebrated?", "What activities are there during the Torch Festival?") Give students enough time to read and answer the questions. Then, check the answers together. T: For the question "When is the Spring Festival celebrated?", who can tell me the answer? S4: It is celebrated in January or February. T: Right! And for the question "What activities are there during the Torch Festival?", S5? S5: There are horse racing, wrestling, bullfighting, cockfighting competitions, and a beauty pageant. T: Excellent! Now, let's focus on some sentences in the passage. Pay attention to the verbs. 4 Grammar presentation (5 minutes) Find examples T: Look at these sentences from the passage. "The Spring Festival is celebrated in January or February." "People clean their houses and put up red paper couplets." "The Yi people, who worship fire, believe that flames can ward off insects and evil spirits." (Write these sentences on the blackboard) T: What tense are these sentences in? Ss: Present simple tense. T: Good. Now, can you find the rules of using the present simple tense in these sentences? Discuss with your partners. Explain the rules After students' discussion, invite some to share their findings. Then, summarize the rules of present simple tense together. T: As we can see, when we talk about general facts, habitual actions, or festival traditions, we often use the present simple tense. For the third - person singular (he, she, it), we need to add - s or - es to the verb. For example, "She likes the Spring Festival." "It symbolizes good luck." 5 Post - reading (7 minutes) Group discussion T: Now, let's work in groups of four. Choose a festival you like best, and discuss how it is celebrated. You can use the present simple tense we just learned. Each group needs to make a short report. You have three minutes. Walk around the classroom, listen to students' discussions, and offer help if necessary. After three minutes, invite each group to give their report. Group 1: We choose Christmas. People usually put up Christmas trees at home. They give each other gifts. Children wait for Santa Claus to bring them presents. T: Wonderful! Your description is very clear and you used the present simple tense correctly. Summary T: Today, we have learned a lot about festival celebrations across cultures. We learned new words, read a passage about festivals, and mastered the usage of present simple tense. Can you tell me one thing you have learned today? S6: I learned some new words about festivals, like "torch" and "worship". S7: I know how to use the present simple tense to describe festival traditions. T: Great! Remember to review what we learned today after class. 6 Homework assignment (5 minutes) Written homework T: For your homework today, first, copy the new words and phrases three times and write down their Chinese meanings. Then, write a short passage about a festival you know, using at least five sentences with the present simple tense. Oral homework T: Also, I want you to tell your parents about the festivals we learned today in English. Try to use as many new words and correct tenses as possible. 教学反思 In this 45 - minute class, through various teaching methods such as lead - in, pre - reading, while - reading, grammar presentation, post - reading and homework assignment, students showed great interest in the topic of festival celebrations across cultures. The use of pictures and real - life examples in the lead - in and vocabulary teaching stage effectively attracted students' attention and helped them better understand new words. During the reading process, students gradually mastered the skills of fast reading and careful reading, and could accurately find the main ideas and details of the passage. However, in the grammar presentation part, some students still had difficulties in distinguishing the third - person singular form of verbs. In future teaching, more exercises and examples should be provided to strengthen this point. The group discussion in the post - reading stage gave students an opportunity to express their ideas freely, but some groups' reports were a bit short and lacked details. Next time, more guidance can be given before the discussion to help students organize their thoughts better. Overall, this class achieved most of the teaching objectives, but there is still room for improvement. 2 / 37 学科网(北京)股份有限公司 学科网(北京)股份有限公司 $$