Unit 2 Festivals and holidays Special festivals around the world 教学设计 2025-2026学年冀教版（2024）八年级英语上册

Unit 2 Festivals and holidays-Special festivals around the world This lesson is from Unit 2 Festivals and holidays of the 8th grade English textbook (Hebei Education Press, 2024). It focuses on introducing special festivals around the world. Through various texts, pictures, and discussions, students will explore the origins, traditions, and celebration ways of different festivals. This topic not only enriches students' vocabulary related to festivals but also broadens their international perspectives, helping them understand and respect diverse cultures globally. 教学目标 1. Knowledge Objectives Students will be able to master key vocabulary about festivals, such as "festival", "holiday", "celebrate", "decorate", "exchange", "gift", "Christmas", "Easter", "Thanksgiving", etc. Students can understand and use important phrases and expressions, like "celebrate the festival", "exchange gifts", "prepare food", "have a good time", etc. Students will grasp the usage of the Simple Past Tense to describe past festival experiences. 2. Ability Objectives Improve students' reading ability to extract key information about festivals from texts. Develop students' listening skills to understand conversations about festivals. Enhance students' speaking ability to talk about festivals they know in English. Cultivate students' writing ability to write short passages about festivals. 3. Emotional Objectives Foster students' interest in learning about different cultures and festivals around the world. Promote students' respect for cultural diversity and enhance their cross - cultural communication awareness. 教学重难点 1. Key Points Key vocabulary and phrases related to festivals. The usage of the Simple Past Tense in the context of festival descriptions. Understanding the main features and celebration ways of special festivals introduced in the text. 2. Difficult Points Distinguishing the differences in cultural connotations among different festivals. Applying the Simple Past Tense correctly and flexibly when describing past festival events. Organizing ideas and expressing opinions clearly in English when discussing festivals. 1. Key Vocabulary Festival - related names: festival /'festɪvl/ n. Festival holiday /'hɒlədeɪ/ n. Holiday; vacation Spring Festival 春节 Mid - Autumn Festival 中秋节 Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 National Day 国庆节 New Year's Day 元旦 Christmas /'krɪsməs/ n. Christmas Easter /'iːstə(r)/ n. Easter Thanksgiving /'θæŋksɡɪvɪŋ/ n. Thanksgiving birthday /'bɜːθdeɪ/ n. Birthday vacation /və'keɪʃn/ n. Vacation Celebration activities: celebrate /'selɪbreɪt/ v. Celebrate celebration /selɪ'breɪʃn/ n. Celebration activity decorate /'dekəreɪt/ v. Decorate invite /ɪn'vaɪt/ v. Invite prepare /prɪ'peə(r)/ v. Prepare gather /'ɡæðə(r)/ v. Gather exchange /ɪks'tʃeɪndʒ/ v. Exchange receive /rɪ'siːv/ v. Receive give /ɡɪv/ v. (gave, given) Give visit /'vɪzɪt/ v. Visit; tour travel /'trævl/ v. Travel Festival items: gift /ɡɪft/ n. Gift present /'preznt/ n. Gift firework /'faɪəwɜːk/ n. Firework lantern /'læntən/ n. Lantern mooncake /'muːnkeɪk/ n. Mooncake dumpling /'dʌmplɪŋ/ n. Dumpling red packet 红包 Christmas tree 圣诞树 turkey /'tɜːki/ n. Turkey pumpkin /'pʌmpkɪn/ n. Pumpkin 2. Key Phrases festivals and holidays 节日与假期 celebrate the festival 庆祝节日 have a holiday 度假 go on vacation 去度假 decorate the house 装饰房子 prepare food 准备食物 make dumplings 包饺子 eat mooncakes 吃月饼 watch fireworks 看烟花 exchange gifts 交换礼物 receive red packets 收到红包 visit relatives 拜访亲戚 travel around 周游 take photos 拍照 have a good time 玩得开心 best wishes 最美好的祝愿 Happy New Year! 新年快乐！ Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！ 3. Key Sentence Patterns Talking about festival activities: What did you do during the Spring Festival? 春节期间你做了什么？ — I visited my grandparents and ate lots of delicious food. 我拜访了祖父母并吃了很多美味的食物。 How did you celebrate Christmas last year? 去年你们怎么庆祝圣诞节的？ — We decorated the Christmas tree and exchanged gifts. 我们装饰了圣诞树并交换了礼物。 Describing holiday experiences: I had a wonderful time during the vacation. 我在假期过得很愉快。 We traveled to Sanya for the holiday. 我们假期去三亚旅行了。 They watched the fireworks display on New Year's Eve. 他们在除夕夜观看了烟花表演。 Expressing festival wishes: Happy Spring Festival! 春节快乐！ Merry Christmas! 圣诞快乐！ Best wishes for the New Year! 致以新年的最美好祝愿！ I hope you have a great holiday! 希望你假期愉快！ Asking about festival information: When is the Mid - Autumn Festival this year? 今年中秋节是什么时候？ What do people usually do at the Dragon Boat Festival? 人们在端午节通常做什么？ How do you celebrate your birthday? 你怎么庆祝你的生日？ 4. Grammar Focus The Simple Past Tense: Function: It is used to indicate actions or states that occurred at a specific time in the past. Structure: Subject + verb past form + other. Regular verb past form changes: For most verbs, add - ed. For example, work - worked. For verbs ending with - e, add - d. For example, live - lived. For verbs with a consonant + y at the end, change y to i and add - ed. For example, study - studied. For verbs with a stressed closed - syllable ending, double the final consonant and add - ed. For example, stop - stopped. Examples: I visited my uncle during the holiday. (假期我拜访了我叔叔。) We celebrated the Spring Festival last week. (我们上周庆祝了春节。) She received many gifts on her birthday. (她在生日那天收到了很多礼物。) Negative form: did not (didn't) + verb original form. For example, They didn't go traveling during the vacation. (他们假期没有去旅行。) Interrogative form: Did + subject + verb original form...? For example, Did you have a good time during the holiday? (你假期过得愉快吗？) Answers: Yes, I did. / No, I didn't. Adverbial Clause of Time: Function: It is led by words like when, while, before, after, etc., indicating the time when the main - clause action takes place. Examples: When the Spring Festival comes, people decorate their houses. (当春节来临时，人们装饰他们的房子。) 教学过程 1. Warming - up (5 minutes) Greet the students and start a simple conversation. For example, "How was your weekend?" "Did you do anything special?" Show some pictures of different festivals around the world on the PPT, such as the colorful Carnival in Brazil, the lantern - filled Lantern Festival in China, and the turkey - centered Thanksgiving in the US. Ask students to guess the names of these festivals and briefly share what they know about them. 2. New Knowledge Presentation (15 minutes) Vocabulary teaching: Present the new vocabulary about festivals on the PPT one by one. Pronounce each word clearly and ask students to repeat after the teacher several times. Use pictures or short videos to help students understand the meaning of words. For example, when teaching "Christmas tree", show a picture of a beautifully decorated Christmas tree; when teaching "firework", play a short video of a firework display. Let students practice reading the words in pairs, and the teacher walks around the classroom to correct their pronunciation. Text introduction: Introduce the text "Special festivals around the world". Tell students that they will learn about some unique festivals and their traditions. Read the text aloud to the students slowly and clearly, while students listen carefully. After reading, ask some simple questions to check students' general understanding, such as "How many festivals are mentioned in the text?" "What are the names of these festivals?" Explain some difficult sentences in the text. For example, "Thanksgiving is a time for families to gather and give thanks for the blessings they have received." Analyze the sentence structure and the usage of phrases like "gather" and "give thanks for". 3. Practice (15 minutes) Listening practice: Play a short recording about a festival. Before playing, give students some questions to listen for, such as "What festival is it about?" "How do people celebrate it?" After playing the recording, ask students to answer the questions. Check the answers together and play the recording again if necessary for students to catch the missed information. Speaking practice: Divide students into groups of four. Each group chooses a festival they are interested in. They need to discuss and share what they know about this festival, including its origin, celebration ways, and their own experiences or feelings related to this festival. Ask each group to send a representative to the front of the class to present their discussion results. Other groups listen carefully and can ask questions or make comments. Grammar practice: Write some sentences on the blackboard, some in the Simple Present Tense and some in the Simple Past Tense. For example, "I visit my grandparents every week." and "I visited my grandparents last week." Ask students to distinguish the differences and explain why the tenses are used in this way. Give students some prompts about festival activities, such as "watch fireworks", "exchange gifts", "have a big dinner", etc. Ask them to make sentences using the Simple Past Tense to describe past festival experiences. 4. Consolidation (8 minutes) Reading comprehension: Give students a short passage about a festival. Let them read it carefully and then answer some comprehension questions, including multiple - choice questions, true - or - false questions, and short - answer questions. This can help students further improve their reading skills and understanding of festival - related texts. Writing practice: Ask students to write a short passage about their favorite festival. They should include information such as the name of the festival, when it is celebrated, how people celebrate it, and why they like it. Walk around the classroom to offer help and guidance when students are writing. 5. Summary and Homework Assignment (2 minutes) Summary: Briefly summarize the key points of this lesson with students, including the new vocabulary, important phrases, sentence patterns, and grammar knowledge. Review the festivals introduced in the class and their main features. Homework assignment: Ask students to search for more information about a festival they are interested in and make a simple poster. The poster should include pictures, words, and some brief introductions about the festival. They will share their posters in the next class. 教学反思 After this class, overall, students showed great interest in the topic of festivals around the world. The warm - up activity effectively aroused their enthusiasm and curiosity. In the process of vocabulary and text teaching, most students could follow the teacher's rhythm and master the new knowledge. However, there were still some problems. During the speaking practice, some students were a bit shy and not very active in expressing their ideas. In the future, more encouragement and guidance should be given to these students. Also, in grammar practice, although students had a certain understanding of the Simple Past Tense, some still made mistakes when applying it. It is necessary to design more targeted exercises to strengthen their usage of this tense. The time management in the class can also be improved. Some activities, such as group discussion and individual writing, took a bit longer than expected, resulting in a relatively hasty summary at the end. In the following classes, more accurate time control should be carried out to ensure that each teaching link can be completed smoothly and effectively. 2 / 37 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $