Lesson 64: Unit ReviewTeaching Content: Mastery words and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63. Oral words and expressions from Lesson 57 to Lesson 63. Teaching Aims: 1.Learn the foreign festivals and culture. 2.Cultivate the students interests of learning English. Teaching Important Points: 1.Improve the students abilities of comprehension. 2.Finish one project in groups and correct compositions with the help of the teacher. Teaching Difficult Points: Use some words and expressions: talent, confident , decorate Teaching Preparation: flashcards Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards Type of lesson: review lesson Teaching Procedure: Step1. PROJECT: “All About Me” Report Type: group discussion, individual work Lesson time: 15 minutes Description: The students write and illustrate a report about themselves. First, they plan the report. In small groups, they share, discuss and revise their plans, and then they each write a report based on their plan. Objective: To learn vocabulary for personal description. Resources needed: The students can illustrate their reports with photographs, drawings or magazines cutouts. Step2. Practice The students exchange their reports and correct the mistakes with the help of the teacher. After finishing, return them to their owners. Then let the owners check the reports that changed just now. Does it still have mistakes? Check it correctly. Step3. Play a game One student says a festival; the others say when, where and how it celebrates. How many festivals can they display? Put all the information about one festival together. Now the students can understand a festival easily. The students can search the Internet before the class. Step4. Do the exercises on Page 79 and 80. The teacher walks around in the classroom. Help them if necessary. Step5. Collect some problems that most of the students dont understand and explain them on the blackboard in detail. Step6. Have a further discussion about the exercises. Step7. 1. Finish off the activity book. 2.Sing the song “You Are You”.Summary:The review lesson cant be boring. The teacher must make it interesting and lively. At the same time, practice the students abilities of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students can have a good use of the things at hand.Lesson 63: Christmas Is Coming!Teaching Content: Mastery words and expressions: decorate, without, put up, by the way Oral words and expressions: decoration, Germany, in the 1600s Teaching Aims: Know about the foreign festivals and the differences between Chinese and Western countries. Teaching Important Points: Know about the main festivals in Western countries and how do they celebrate them. Teaching Difficult Points: How to celebrate Christmas? Teaching Preparation: flashcards Teaching Aids: audiotape, flashcards Type of lesson: new lesson Teaching Procedure: Step1. Discuss the Christmas and New Year in western countries. Discuss in groups. After a while, present their answers to the class. Step2. Listen to the tape with the following questions: 1.When is Christmas? 2.When is New Year? 3.Where do people put up their Christmas tree? 4.What goes under the tree? 5.What do people usually do before Christmas? 6.What are the differences between the Western Christmas and the Chinese Spring Festival? 7.How do you greet people during the Christmas season or during the Chinese Spring Festival? Step3. Read the text silently and check the answers. Then read the text loudly in class. The teacher walks around and finds the mistakes to correct. Step4. Help the students to retell the story but not word for word. Step5. Listen to the tape again and repeat after it until they can read it correctly and fluently. Step6. Come to “LETS DO IT”. Make a Christmas card! 1.Fold a piece of paper in half. Draw a Christmas picture on the front of the card. Here are some ideas for Christmas pictures: a star, a Christmas tree, Santa, toys, a candy cane, a winter scene with snow or Christmas gifts. 2.Write a greeting on the inside of the card. This should be written on the right-hand side of the card. The greeting will say: Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! Step7.1. Finish off the activity book.2.Go on the next reading in the student book.Summary:Christmas is more familiar to the students than the Western New Year. Introduce the Western New Year to the students in detail. The Western New Years celebration is quite different from the Chinese New Years celebration. It is a minor holiday festival in comparison. It lasts only two days: December 31, New Years Eve, and January 1, New Years Day.Lesson 62: ConfidenceTeaching Content: Mastery words and expressions: finger, both, himself, because of Oral words and expressions: spelling, be confident of, have confident in Teaching Aims: 1.Cultivate the ability of learning by oneself. 2.Learn the foreign culture. Teaching Important Points: 1.Guess the main ideas of the text according to the pictures. 2.Correct a composition with t