Unit 12 The Spring Festival

Teaching aim and demands: Grasp the key words and key structures:

be +v.-ing (重点 ) Listening skill: To understand conversatio

ns about festivals and Grasp the phonemes / l/ , / w/ , / j/ in the listening. (难点 )

Affection and attitudes: We should be interested in the festivals in the world .

Festivals around us: Spring Festival Lantern

Festival Father’s Day Mother’s Day May Day Children’s Day Teacher’s Day Mid-autumn

Day National Day …

New Year Valentine’s

Day Father’s Day Mother’s Day April Fool’s Day Children’s Day Halloween Thanks-giving

Day Christmas …Chinese festivals Western festivals

What is the biggest festival in China?

clean the house

cook the meal

learn a dragon dance

make lanterns

sweep the floor

What do people usually do to get ready for (为…作准备） Spring Festival?

Listen and repeat:

/ l/ learn lantern meal let yellow careful

/ w/ what work way wash weekend / j/ yes you your year yellow

A test: Write the sentences1.Lingling’s mother/ get ready ?

2.they/ have/a good time ?

3.Her friends/ buy /fireworks?

4.Her dad/ work/ this week?

5.her mother /wrap/ present?

Is Lingling’s mother getting ready?

Are they having a good time ?

Is her friends buying fireworks?

Is her dad working this week?

Is her mother wrapping present?

Teaching aim and demands: Grasp the key words and key structure:

be +v.-ing Reading skill: To understand the text. Affection and attitudes: We should be i

nterested in festivals in the world.

Answer the questions:

What colour means good luck? Where are the doors and windows in your

classroom? What are paper cuts/fireworks ? What does decorate/dumpling/sweet rice

pudding mean? What is a haircut? When is midnight?

Speaking:

1.Say what people are doing at the moment. Sb.+ be +doing

2.Ask and answer the questions about the pictures.

Is he/…?

Are they/…?

They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready.

They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.

They open their presents on Christmas day and say “happy Christmas” to family and friends.

They decorate homes and sing Christmas songs.

mothers shop----buy clothes Fathers decorate windows---paint doors Everyone eat dumplings---sweet rice

pudding Children wear new clothes---do dragon

dances Young people get presents---go to parties

Write short answers:

Is Father Christmas giving presents? Are they getting ready for the Spring Festiva

l? Is he learning a dragon dance? Is she cooking the meal? Is he working? Are they decorating the house? Is Lingling making lantern?

Yes , they are.

Yes , he is.

No, he isn’t.

No, she isn’t.

No, they aren’t.Yes, she is.