Unit 1 Festivals around the worldTeaching goals1. To help students learn to talk about festivals2. To help students learn to read festivals and celebrations. 3. To help students learn to make phone calls, invitations and express “thanks”4. To help students learn to use some important words and expressions5. To help students identify examples of “The modal verbs” in the textTopicFestivals; how festivals began; how festivals are celebratedVocabularybeauty, harvest, celebration, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, Mexico, feast, bone, belief, trick, poet, arrival, gain, independence, independent, gather, agriculture, agricultural, award, rooster, admire, energetic, Easter, clothing, Christian, custom, worldwide, fool, permission, parking, apologize, drown, sadness, obvious, wipe, weep, remind, forgiveExpressions take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, parking lot, turn up , keep ones word, hold ones breath, set off, remind - of-Function1. Making phone calls: May I speak to -? Can I ring/ call back later? Hold / Hang on, please. Ill ring him/ her up again. Just a moment, please. Sorry, he / she isnt here right now. 2. Invitations: I wonder if you are inerested in- Id like to invite you to - Would you like-? Could/ Would you please -? Im looking forward to- Id love to, but-3. Thanks: Thank you so much. Thanks a lot. Thats very kind of you. Youre most welcome. Dont mention it. Its a pleasure. GrammarThe modal verbs (can,could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, cant)Teaching AidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, tape-recorder, photos, diagramsPeriod OneProcedureStep1 Warming up Warming up by Brainstorming holidays around the world.Warming up by guessing which picture matches with which festival.Warming up by discussing and listing Students are required to work in groups and list three more Chinese festivals that they know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Then tell the group which festival is his/ her favourite and why. Step 2 Pre-reading Discussing and answeringAsk students to discuss and answer the two questions on P11) It is intended to help students bring their personal experience into the discussion of festivals. 2) Students are directed to predict the content of the reading passage, based on the title and pictures.Step 3 Reading 1.Skimming Ask students to read the Ex1 on P3, have them understand four kinds of festivals, and then ask them to skim the reading passage. After reading, ask the whole class to fill the first line of the chart together. Then get them to finish the chart by themselves. At last, have three students tell the class his/ her answers. 2. Scanning for the detailed information1) Ask students to Scan the passage and finish the true and false exercise. 1. The ancient people neednt worry about their food. F2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead. T3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honour a lot in China. T4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. F5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F2)Ask students to scan the passage again to find out the answers to the first three questions of the Ex2 on P3. And then ask one student to answer the questions and check with the whole class. Suggested answers:1.Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancesters ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people. 2.Auturn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished. 3. At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring. 3. Discussion (group work)Ask students to discuss Question 4 and 5 in Ex2 on P3.Question-enjoy lifeReasons to festivals and celebrations 4forget our work for a little while-Be proud of our customsQuestion 5The similarities: The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs to honour the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.The Difference: The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do. Step 4. Post reading1. Summarize and fill in the chartAncient Festivalswhy the end of the cold winter;planting in spring and harvest in autumn how light fire and make music Festivals of the deadwhy to honour the dead or satisfy and please the ancestorshow light lamps, play music, eat food in the shapes of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets,dress u