Unit 4 Time to celebrate（Reflection）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（Reflection）

教学目标

1.1 Language Knowledge

Students will be able to master and use key vocabulary related to festivals and celebrations, such as “festival, holiday, celebrate, tradition, activity” etc. correctly.

Students can understand and apply adverbs of frequency (always, usually, often, sometimes, never) and the simple present tense to describe festival celebration habits.

1.2 Language Skills

Develop students' listening skills by enabling them to understand dialogues or short passages about festival celebrations.

Improve students' speaking skills, allowing them to describe their favorite festivals and celebration methods fluently in English.

Cultivate students' reading skills, helping them to extract key information from festival - related texts.

Promote students' writing skills, so that they can write a short passage about a festival following a certain structure.

1.3 Cultural Awareness

Enable students to understand and respect the diversity of festival cultures around the world, and enhance their cross - cultural communication awareness.

Let students realize the importance of inheriting and carrying forward traditional festival cultures.

1.4 Learning Strategies

Guide students to learn independently, such as looking up words in dictionaries to expand vocabulary.

Foster students' cooperative learning ability through group work, for example, discussing

festival topics in groups.

重难点

2.1 Teaching Key Points

Key vocabulary and phrases related to festivals and celebrations.

The correct usage of adverbs of frequency and the simple present tense in the context of festival descriptions.

The main features and celebration methods of some common festivals.

2.2 Teaching Difficult Points

How to help students use English to vividly and accurately describe the complex celebration processes and cultural connotations of festivals.

How to cultivate students' cross - cultural awareness and make them understand the deep - seated cultural differences behind different festivals.

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)

Teacher's Activity:

Greet the students and show some pictures of different festivals on the PPT, such as the Spring Festival with red lanterns and fireworks, Christmas with Santa Claus and decorated trees, and the Dragon Boat Festival with dragon boat races. Then ask students: “Boys and girls, look at these pictures. Can you tell me the names of these festivals  And which one is your favorite ”

Student's Activity:

Students observe the pictures carefully and raise their hands to answer the teacher's questions. They share the names of the festivals they recognize and briefly state why they like a certain festival.

Design Intention:

This step aims to quickly arouse students' interest in the topic of festivals, activate their prior knowledge, and create a relaxed and active classroom atmosphere, which is conducive to the smooth progress of subsequent teaching activities.