Unit 4 Time to celebrate（Starting out）教案 2025-2026学年外研版（2024）英语七年级上册

课程基本信息

学科

英语

年级

七年级

学期

秋季

课题

Unit 4 Time to celebrate（Starting out）

教学目标

1. Knowledge Aims

Students will be able to master the key vocabulary related to festivals, such as “celebrate”, “festival”, “tradition”, “decoration”, “lantern”, “dumpling” etc.

Enable students to understand and use phrases and expressions about festival celebrations, like “hang lanterns”, “set off fireworks”, “have a family reunion dinner” etc.

Students can learn about the basic information of festivals around the world, including the time, places, and main celebration ways.

2. Ability Aims

Improve students' listening ability to catch key information about festivals from dialogues and passages.

Develop students' speaking skills to describe festivals and their celebration experiences fluently and accurately.

Cultivate students' reading ability to understand texts about festivals and extract relevant details.

Train students' writing ability to write short passages about their favorite festivals.

3. Emotional Aims

Foster students' interest in learning English by exploring colorful festival cultures.

Enhance students' awareness of cultural diversity, respecting and appreciating different festival cultures around the world.

Stimulate students' sense of national pride by learning about Chinese traditional festivals.

重难点

1. Teaching Key Points

The vocabulary and expressions related to festival celebrations.

The basic information and cultural backgrounds of major festivals around the world, especially Chinese traditional festivals.

The usage of simple present tense and frequency adverbs when describing festival celebration ways.

2. Teaching Difficult Points

How to help students use simple present tense and frequency adverbs correctly and flexibly in describing festival celebrations.

Cultivating students' cross - cultural communication ability, enabling them to understand and respect different cultural traditions from a deeper perspective.

教学过程

教学环节

学习活动（包含设计意图）

Step 1: Warming-up & Lead-in (5 minutes)

Activity: Show some pictures of different festivals around the world on the PPT, such as the Spring Festival in China (with red lanterns, couplets, and people setting off fireworks), Christmas in Western countries (with Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and children opening presents), and the Carnival in Brazil (with colorful parades and dancers). Then ask students some questions: “Do you know what festivals these are?”, “Which festival do you like best?”, “What do people usually do during these festivals?”

Design Intent: This activity can quickly arouse students' interest in the topic of festivals, activate their prior knowledge about festivals, and create a relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere for the following class.

Step 2: Presentation (10 minutes)

Activity: Write the title “Unit 4 Time to celebrate” on the blackboard. Then start a simple conversation with students: “Today we are going to learn about festivals around the world. We all know that festivals are special times for people to celebrate. So, why do people celebrate festivals? What meanings do festivals have in our lives?” Encourage students to express their opinions freely.

Design Intent: By guiding students to think about the significance of festivals, it can smoothly lead to the main content of this unit, and also help