端午节的由来和屈原的故事

Unit 3 Dragon Boat Festival

The 1st period

Teaching aims:

Language focus:

1 To learn some new vocabulary.

2 To review and learn the simple past tense.

Ability aims:

1 Learn to use the simple past tense to talk about past events.

2 Learn to ask Wh- / How questions to find out specific information.

3 To develop the students' ability of reading.

Emotion aims:

1 To develop the students' interest of learning English.

2 To instruct the students to know more about festivals.

Important and difficult points:

1 How to use the simple past tense to talk about past events.

2 How to ask Wh- / How questions to find out specific information.

Teaching aids:

Cassette 6B, a cassette player and multi-media.

Teaching process:

Pre-task preparation:

1 Look and match:

1) Do you know these festivals? Look at the pictures and match the festivals.

Chinese New Year

Mid-autumn Festival

Christmas

Qingming Festival

Lantern Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

2) Which is not a Chinese festival?

3) Which festival is your favourite? Why?

2 Look and learn

1) What do people do on the Dragon Boat Festival?

To learn: the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races, a rice dumpling

2 )Why do people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

To elicit the topic: Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival.

While-task procedure:

1 Look and learn:

1) When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

To learn: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

2) To learn other vocabulary in the passage.

2 Listen and read:

Miss Guo’s students would like to know something about the Dragon Boat Festival.

3 Listen and read the passage one paragraph by one.

At the meantime, learn the new vocabulary in the passage.

4 Read the whole passage.

5 Learn the simple past tense:

1) Read the passage about Qu Yuan again. Find out the past forms of the given verbs.

2) Complete the following sentences by using the past forms of the verbs.

• Qu Yuan ________ born about 2,000 years ago in China.

• Qu Yuan ________ his country very much.

• The old king always ________ his advice.

• The old king ________ and the new king ________ not listen to him.

• The new king ________ a battle and Qu Yuan ________ very sad.

• Qu Yuan ________ into a river and ________ .

• It ________ the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of that year.

6 Read and answer:

• What was Qu Yuan’s job?

• Why was he sad?

• When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

• How do people remember Qu Yuan today?

Post-task activity:

1 Read and write:

Read the passage and write some information about Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan

• born in (1) __________ (where)

• born about (2) __________ years ago

• gave (3) __________ to the king

• was sad because the new king didn’t (4) _________ and his country (5) ____________

• jumped into a (6) __________ and died

• died on the (7) ______ day of the (8) ______ lunar month

• people remember Qu Yuan on (9) __________ Festival

• people eat (10) ________________ on this festival and have (11) ________________

2 Write:

Kitty is writing a report about the story of Qu Yuan. Read the story on page 14 of Student’s Book 6B again and help her complete the report.

Assignment:

Oral work:

1 Listen and read the story.

2 Recite the contents in Read.

Written work:

1 Copy the vocabulary.

2 Copy the contents in Read.

Feedback:

端午节的由来和屈原的故事，学生对此都比较熟悉，因此学习的时候都比较感兴趣，并且在回答问题时都显得比较积极，但是部分学生对一些英语单词的读音还不够准确，如lunar, battle等，语言表达方面还不够流利。

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