Unit 4 It's time to celebrate Starting out &Understanding ideas课件 2025-2026学年外研版英语七年级上册

该初中英语课件围绕节日主题，涵盖中外节日名称、庆祝活动及文化意义，聚焦频度副词运用与节日介绍表达。通过视频观看、节日匹配、问题链引导导入，搭建从已知节日到新知拓展、从词汇学习到语篇分析再到对话输出的学习支架。 其亮点在于融合文化意识与语言能力培养，通过中外节日对比（如春节与泼水节）、语篇分析（《An unusual Spring Festival》）及任务型活动（匹配、对话、海报制作），引导学生运用核心词汇和频度副词表达节日习俗。采用问题驱动与输出导向教学，学生能提升跨文化理解与语言运用能力，教师可依托结构化流程高效开展教学。

Starting out What festival is it in the picture? How do you often celebrate it? It’s the National Day. Usually we have seven days off and there is a military /ˈmɪlətri/ parade /pəˈreɪd/ in Tian’anmen Square. Traditons of Chinese festivals New ways to celebrate persons on duty during festivals There are many different kinds of festivals around the world全世界.Watch a video and find some of them. Festival Name Country Time Activities Thailand 泰国 mid-April have a happy water fight;throw water at each other to wash away bad luck. Brazil 巴西 late February wear bright clothes and dance to music;cars with flowers. Sweden 瑞典 the 19th and the 25th of June dance and wear flowers in your hair. What are the names of the festivals in the video? Songkran 泼水节 Carnival 狂欢节 Midsummer 仲夏节 Tomb-sweeping Day Nadam Fair Water-splashing Festibval Look and match 那达慕大会 清明节 泼水节 /ˈnædəm/ /ˈsplæʃɪŋ/ /tuːm/ April 13th - 15th (Dai people) People splash water on each other to wish good luck and happiness. July 11th - 13th (Mongolian people) The festival includes three main sports: wrestling (摔跤), horse racing, and archery (射箭), showing strength, skill, and courage. April 3rd and April 5th (Chinese) People clean their ancestors’ (祖先) tombs and place offerings (祭品) to show respect to their ancestors. Match the festivals with the activities. Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day Independence Day Halloween What festivals or holidays around the world do you know? [ˈkrɪsməs] [ˌθæŋksˈɡɪvɪŋ] [ˌɪndɪˈpendəns] [ˌhæləʊˈiːn] What festivals or holidays in China do you know? What festivals or holidays in China do you know? By Murmure What is the most special and important festival in China? The Spring Festival Where do you usually celebrate it? Who do you usually celebrate it with? What food do you usually have? The Spring Festival What activities do you usually do? How do you usually feel? The whole family watch Spring Festival Gala put up Spring Festival couplets [ˈkʌplət] 对联 set off fireworks Fish Tangyuan Dumplings Happy Excited have a family reunion dinner get Hongbao (lucky money) 在Understanding ideas板块，学生将学习两个语篇和相关词汇，学习频度副词，讨论话题 traditions of Chinese festivals，最后完成一段对话。 1 主题目标:学生能够了解并介绍中国传统节日的庆祝方式。 2 结果产出:学生完成一段对话，话题为ways to celebrate a traditional festival. 3评价标准: (1)学生能够介绍传统节日的名称、主要活动和特色食物。 (2)学生能够介绍一起庆祝节日的人。 (3)学生能够描述庆祝节日的感受。 (4)学生能够尽可能多地使用本板块所学的核心词汇和学生用书Useful expressions中的表达。 (5)学生能够正确使用频度副词。 Pre-reading What are the people doing? What festival is it? video call P64 dish dinner family reunion Spring festival They are having dinner together and enjoying family reunion by the video call during the Spring Festival. Pre-reading What is on the table? P64 There are many dishes like fish and pork on the table. Here is a passage about an unusual Spring Festival. Let’s read it to find out how special the Spring Festival is. Read and match the main ideas. The result The writer’s problem and solution The writer’s idea While-reading Skimming While-reading When who where What why the Spring Festival Emilia and I treat Emilia to a Chinese dinner sometimes she cooks British food for me in the UK She stays in ___________________instead of ________________________. She steys with__________________instead of _________________. A. to give medical care B. to offer food or drinks Unusual Usual in the UK an English friend with her family staying in China 1. What’s the problem? 2. What does the writer mean by saying How I wish to have four hands now? 3. Who comes to help the writer ?How do they help ? 4. What’s the writer’s family like? 5.Does the writer make it at last? While-reading Her whole family comes to her help on the phone. Helpful, patient and loving. She wishes somebody to help her with the cooking. Yes, she does. She even makes some cucumber flowers. Cooking is so difficult for her. Read paras. 4-6 and finish the tasks. 1. What’s the last dish? A. Some cucumbers flowers. B. The lion’s head. C. Dumplings 2. What’s the meaning of the last dish? Its round shape stands for family reunions. 4. What does Emilia think of it? She is ________ at the name. She ______ the taste. shocked loves While-reading 3. What does Emilia do in the dining room? a I don’t like having the Spring Festival all by myself. b I miss my family so much. c It’s really an unusual but happy Spring Festival. 1.How does the writer feel at last? Why? 2. Choose the best ending of the passage. P66 While-reading She feels like she is back home. Because the smell of dishes amd the sound of their laughing fill the room. 4. Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Today is1________________ in the UK. I want to cook a 2______________for Emilia. But cooking is so difficult for me. The writer's problem At midnight in China, my 3_____________ come to help me on the phone. The writer's solution I show the last 4___________ to Emilia. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. She is 5____________ at the name of the dish, but she liked the taste. We enjoy the dinner and laugh. I felt like I am 6____________. The result Spring Festival Chinese dinner whole family dish shocked back home Post-reading P66 By Murmure While-reading Post-reading Summary Pre-reading Lead-in Reason 1 (Place): It was in the UK, not in China. Reason 2 (People): She spent it with her English friend, and her family were connected on the phone. Reason 3 (Experience): She cooked dinner by herself for the first time and explained Chinese culture, which caused a funny misunderstanding. Before But this time Celebrate with family Celebrate with her friend Learn to cook by herself At home/In China. In the UK. Place People Experience Why is unusual Spring Festival for the writer? Festivals bring people closer together no matter where we are or how we celebrate them. By Murmure Different places Different dishes Different ways the family Same love for the festival the culture New words n.大学 v.对待，款待；治疗 adj.整个的 the whole story =all the story v.意识到 n.饺子 n.黄瓜 n.灯笼 n.气球 v.悬挂 v.开玩笑 违反法律 adj.吃惊的，震惊的 v.大笑 n.猪肉 圆形 n.团员，团聚 块，片，段 a piece of paper a piece of advice n.小刀 pl.knives n.味道 v.弥漫，充满 fill sth. with...用...装... fill the bottle with water n.菜肴，一道菜 Expressions cook for sb.为..做饭 treat sb. to sth.用某物款待某人 watch sb. do.sth.看...做某事 我多希望做... 我的全家人 一步一步地 你在开玩笑吗？ 违反法律 代表，象征 圆形 家庭团聚 一片，一条 用她的刀 感觉像 回家 Thank you! Lavf58.12.100 $