Unit 7 Days and months Lesson 4 Happy holidays! 教学设计- 2025-2026学年冀教版英语七年级上册

Unit 7 Days and months-Lesson 4 Happy holidays! This lesson, "Happy holidays!" from Unit 7 of the 2024 Hebei Education Press English textbook for Grade 7, focuses on holiday - related topics. Through a reading passage in the form of an email from Jenny to Wang Mei, students are introduced to different holiday experiences in Edmonton and Sydney. The text not only enriches students' vocabulary about holidays, such as "Christmas", but also teaches them expressions for describing holiday activities, like "play volleyball on the beach", and important sentence patterns for expressing wishes, like "Merry Christmas!" and "Happy New Year!". 教学目标 1. Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to master the key words: Christmas, such, hers, during, probably, volleyball, sand, hope, plan, yours. Students can understand and use the important structures and expressions: take away, Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! 2. Ability Objectives Students can read and understand the email about holiday experiences, extract key information, and answer related questions correctly. Students are able to talk about their own holiday plans and experiences in English, using the learned vocabulary and sentence patterns. Students can improve their writing skills by writing a short passage about their favorite holidays. 3. Emotional Objectives Students can develop an interest in learning about different cultures' holiday traditions. Students can enhance their cross - cultural awareness and respect for cultural differences. 教学重难点 1. Teaching Key Points Mastery of holiday - related vocabulary and key sentence patterns. Understanding the content of the email and being able to summarize the main ideas. Using the learned language knowledge to describe holiday activities and express wishes. 2. Teaching Difficult Points Distinguishing and correctly using words with similar meanings, such as "during" and "in". Applying the learned sentence patterns flexibly in real - life communication situations. Helping students express their ideas clearly and fluently when talking about their own holiday plans. 1. Key Words Christmas /ˈkrɪsməs/: an important Christian festival, when people celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. It is often associated with family gatherings, gift - giving, and decorations like Christmas trees. such /sʌtʃ/: used to emphasize a quality or degree. For example, "Christmas is such fun." can be transformed into "Christmas is so much fun." hers /hɜːz/: a possessive pronoun, meaning the one(s) belonging to her. For example, "My cousin Elsa is from Sydney. Sometimes my family visits hers during the Christmas season." Here, "hers" refers to Elsa's place. during /ˈdjʊərɪŋ/: indicating a period of time within which something happens. It is different from "in". "During" emphasizes the entire duration, while "in" can refer to a general time within a period. For example, "We have long winters during November to April." probably /ˈprɒbəbli/: an adverb, meaning most likely. For example, "You probably know that December, January, and February are summer months in Australia." volleyball /ˈvɒlibɔːl/: a sport in which two teams hit a ball back and forth over a high net using their hands. sand /sænd/: the substance that covers beaches and deserts, made up of very small grains of rock. hope /həʊp/: can be used as a verb and a noun. As a verb, "hope to do sth." means to want something to happen. For example, "I hope to see Elsa next year." As a noun, it means a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. plan /plæn/: as a verb, it means to make arrangements for something in advance. For example, "Do you have any plans for your holidays?" As a noun, it refers to the arrangements made. yours /jɔːz/: a possessive pronoun, meaning the one(s) belonging to you. It is often used at the end of a letter, like "Yours, Jenny". 2. Key Structures and Expressions take away: to remove or carry something to another place. For example, "We draw pictures in the sand and watch the tide come and take the pictures away." Merry Christmas!: a common greeting used during the Christmas season to wish someone happiness. Happy New Year!: a greeting used to wish someone a happy new year, usually at the end of one year and the beginning of the next. 教学过程 1. Warming - up (5 minutes) Show some pictures of different holidays, such as Christmas, New Year's Day, and Chinese Spring Festival, on the PPT. Ask students to look at the pictures and answer the question: "What holidays do you see in the pictures?" Encourage them to speak out the names of the holidays they know in English. Then, ask students: "Which holiday is your favorite? And why?" Let several students share their ideas briefly. This activity aims to activate students' prior knowledge about holidays and arouse their interest in the topic of this lesson. 2. Pre - reading (10 minutes) Present some new words and phrases on the PPT, such as "Christmas", "during", "volleyball", "sand", "hope", "plan". Teach students how to pronounce these words correctly. Read them aloud first, and then ask students to repeat after you several times. Explain the meanings and usages of these new words and phrases. For example, when teaching "during", show some sentences on the PPT like "I read a lot of books during the summer holiday." and compare it with "I read a book in the summer holiday." to help students understand the difference. Divide students into pairs. Let them have a short discussion about the question: "What do you usually do during the holidays?" Each pair should share at least three activities. After the discussion, invite some pairs to share their ideas with the whole class. This can help students get familiar with the new words and think about holiday - related activities in English. 3. While - reading (15 minutes) Tell students that they are going to read an email from Jenny to Wang Mei about her holiday experiences. First, ask students to skim the email quickly and answer the question: "What two places does Jenny mention in the email?" (The answer is Edmonton and Sydney.) Then, let students read the email carefully for the second time. Ask them to answer some detailed questions, such as: "What's the weather like in Edmonton from November to April?" "Why does Jenny like summer?" "What do Jenny's family do in Sydney during the Christmas season?" After students finish reading and answering the questions, check the answers together. Explain some difficult sentences in the email, such as "Christmas is such fun, but it’s very cold now." Analyze the structure "such + noun" and compare it with "so + adjective". Let students read the email again and underline the key words and useful expressions. Then, ask them to retell the main content of the email in their own words. This can help students better understand the text and improve their reading comprehension and oral expression abilities. 4. Post - reading (10 minutes) Divide students into groups of four. Give each group a topic related to holidays, such as "My Favorite Holiday", "Holiday Plans", or "Holiday Celebrations in Different Countries". Each group needs to have a discussion based on the topic and make a short presentation. During the group discussion, walk around the classroom to offer help and guidance. Encourage students to use the words and expressions they have learned in this lesson. After the discussion, each group chooses a representative to give a presentation in front of the class. Other students should listen carefully and can ask questions after the presentation. This activity can help students further consolidate the learned knowledge and improve their cooperative learning and communication skills. 5. Summary and Homework (5 minutes) Summarize the key points of this lesson with students, including new words, phrases, sentence patterns, and the main content of the email. Write the important words and expressions on the blackboard and ask students to copy them into their notebooks. Assign homework: Ask students to write an email to their pen - pals, introducing their own holiday plans. They should use at least five new words and three key sentence patterns learned in this lesson. Let students collect more information about different holidays in the world and share it in the next class. 教学反思 After teaching this lesson, I found that most students were interested in the topic of holidays and actively participated in classroom activities. The use of pictures and group discussions effectively motivated students to think and speak in English. However, there were also some problems. For example, in the group discussion and presentation part, some students still had difficulties in expressing their ideas fluently due to limited vocabulary and grammar knowledge. In future teaching, I should pay more attention to helping students build up their language bases and provide more opportunities for them to practice speaking English. Also, I can introduce more cultural background knowledge about holidays to expand students' horizons and enhance their cross - cultural awareness. 2 / 37 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$