Lets celebrateTeaching aims and demands:1. To understand clues about a crime2. To read notes on four suspects and decide which suspect is most likely to be guilty Important points：To know the meanings of the words related to a detective story, such as murder, evidence, suspectDifficult points:To learn to describe a personTeaching procedures：Step Lead-in1. Show a flash about the happy scene of Chinese New Year.2. Say: The flash is about a festival. What festival is it about?Present Chinese New Year/ the Spring Festival.3. Say: In Spring Festival, we usually have many activities to celebrate it. Let students watch another flash about Chinese New Year celebrations.Present the word celebrate and lead students to read together.Step Presentation.1. Show some pictures related to the festival and get the students to talk about what we usually do at Chinese New Year.Such as: What do we usually wear /get /eat? Present wear new clothes / get red packets / eat delicious food2. Lead the students to read.Step Free talk1. Get students to talk freely about what other Chinese festivals we usually celebrate.2. Then let students speak them out themselves. (If they cant say them in English, they can say them in Chinese.)3. Say: All of you do a good job, now lets learn about some Chinese festivals.Step Presentation1. Show pictures about Dragon Boat Festival and talk about them with students together. What do we usually eat /do at Dragon Boat Festival?2. Present rice dumplings/ have a dragon boat race3. Get the students to talk about the pictures about Mid-Autumn Festival and present new words and phrases.Step Free talk1. Say: We have many festivals in our country, but in western countries, they also have their own festivals. 2. Get the students to talk with each other and name the western festivals out.Step Presentation1. Lets learn some western festivals.2. Show Christmas pictures and ask what they usually have in their home at Christmas.3. Present Christmas tree / get cards and presents with the help of the pictures.4. Do the same with other western festivalsPresent on Thanksgiving Day turkey/ have a big dinner with the family at Halloween pumpkin lanterns/ dress up as a ghostStep Doing a match1. Let students match the pictures related to the different learned festivals with the names of the festivals. Chinese New Year Christmas Dragon Boat Festival Thanksgiving Day Halloween Mid- Autumn Festival 2. Read them together.Step Playing a guessing game1. I have prepared six gift boxes, and there is a riddle about a certain kind of festival in each one. Let the students choose one as they like. If they can guess what festival it is about, they will get a little gift related to the festival.2.The riddles include two songs about Christmas and Halloween respectively, two pictures about Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival which are shown bit by bit, and two introductions about Chinese New Year and Thanks Giving Day. Step IX. Practice1. Say: I would like you to make a dialogue about your favourite festivals. Before it, I will show you a summary, please go through it and read them aloud by yourselves.get red packetswear new clotheseat delicious foodat eat rice dumplingshave dragon boat races watch/enjoy the full moon eat mooncakes have a Christmas tree get cards and presentshave a Christmas tree get cards and presentseat turkey have a big dinner with the familyChinese New YearMid-Autumn Festival Dragon Boat FestivalChristmasHalloween on Thanksgiving Day 2. Let students to work in pairs like this:A: Which is your favourite festival? B: My favourite festival is_. A: Why do you like_? B: Because . What festival do you like? A: I like _. B: What do you usually do at/on _? A: _. In addition, some related pictures are shown to help students complete the task well.Step X Watching, reading and answering1. Say: My favourite festival is Chinese. What about Eddie and Hobos? Lets watch a video and find out what festival they are celebrating.2. Get one of them to give the answer.3. Let students read the dialogue freely, and answer the following questions:What is Hobo dressing up as?What will he dress up as then?4. Read the dialogue after the recording together.Step X. Role-play1. Give students some minutes to practice the dialogue.2. Get some pairs to give their performance. (Some masks are prepared to help students perform well.)Step XI. Sublimation 1. Say: Diffe