Unit 1 Festivals around the world1. Teaching aims of this unit Talk about festivals and celebrationsTalk about the ways to express request and thanksLearn to use Modal verbsWrite a similar story with a different ending2. Sentence patterns:Request: Could/ Would you please?Could I have?Could we look at?I look forward toMay I see? Thanks: Its very kind of youThank you very much/ Thanks a lot. Id love to. It was a pleasure Dont mention it. You are most welcome.3. Modal verbs:May might, can could， will would，shall should，must can The first period warming up 1. Teaching aims: Vocabulary: take place, festival , beauty, celebrate, Phrases: take place , could you ？ Would you ? The fifth period Extensive readingTeaching aims:1. Vocabulary: turn up, keep ones word, hold ones breath, apologize , drown ones sadness in coffee, obvious ,wipe , weep, set off, remind somebody of something, forgive.2. Learn the festivals in China Step RevisionCheck homeworkStep Reading (1)T: As we know, there are all kinds of festivals around the world. We have talked about two Chinese festivals for the dead. Today we are going to read a sad story, which is to introduce a cross cultural view of lovers festivalQi Qiao and Valentines Day. Now please read it quickly and find out the sentence below are true or false.The girl Li Fang loved and waited but she didnt turn up. But he didnt lose heart.(F.)Because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the Goddess got very angry. .(T.)Zhinv was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were allowed to meet once a year on the seventh day of the tenth lunar month, .(F.)Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him. .(T.)T: I think you have got the general idea of the passage. Now please read the passage once more and answer the questions on Page 8.Some language points:1. turn up: appear2.keep her word: keep her promise3.hold his breath: wait without much hope4.drown ones sadness/sorrow in coffee: drink coffee in order to forget the sadness/ sorrow5.remind sb of sth: make sb think of sthStep Discussion and writing T: Thats for the reading part of the passage. Please think about the ending of the story. Are you satisfied with the ending? Different people have different opinions to a matter. Now any one of you have an opportunity to make up an ending to the story. Please engage imaginatively in the story and use your own ideas. Try to use the vocabulary and structures you have learned of you like.Step Reading (2) T: Lets come to another passage about carnival in Quebec. Please turn to Page 44, read it quickly and answer the questions in Page 45. Five minutes for you.Added material: Thanksgiving DayFourth Thursday in November is celebrated as Thanksgiving Day People thank God for his blessings. People can Thank friends, foes and anyone for the experiences, happiness and sunshine they bring into their lives. Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in America during the second winter in the new world. The first winter had been bad as nearly half of the people had perished due to lack of food and bad weather. But the following year, with the help of Indians who showed them how to plant Indian corn, the pilgrims had successful harvest. Governor William Bradford decided that December 13, 1621 be set aside for feasting and prayer. The Indians were invited to share the festival. Since than, Thanksgiving Day is been celebrated in America. However, it was only in 1941, the Congress in a joint resolution named the fourth Sunday in November as the official Thanksgiving Day. Dating back, it is known that the Council thought to appoint and set apart the 29th day of June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for his Goodness and Favour. The First Thanksgiving Proclamation was however on June 20, 1676. The governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts, held a meeting to determine how best to express thanks for the good fortune that had seen their community securely established. By unanimous vote they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a day of thanksgiving, It is also known that the Pilgrims set ground at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. Their first winter was devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But the harvest of 1621 was a bountiful one. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast - including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year. It is believed that the Pilgrims would not have made it through the year without the help of the natives The feast was more of a traditional English harvest festival than a true thanksgiving observance. It lasted three days.Thanksgiving, as we know it today, has come a long way fr