Unit8 The Seasons and the Weather Yunan Experimental Middle School Shi ZonglingTopic 3 Lets celebrate !Section BChristmasTeacherZongling ShiStudentsClass 13, Grade7Teaching materialBooking Renai Education publicationTeaching time45 minutesTeaching analysisLesson typeReading lessonTeaching aims and demands1. Language goals:(1) Train the studentsabilities of listening,speaking,reading,writing in English,especially reading and listening in this class.(2) Build up useful expressions of this lesson:be busy doing sth, prepare for sth, put up, by, at the end of,greet2. Learning strategies：cooperation,quester,natural acquisition3. Emotional state：to give love to the people in trouble 4. Cultural realization :to know more about ChristmasTeaching important points：to know more about ChristmasTeaching difficult points:training of the studentsabilities of listening,speaking,reading, writing in EnglishTeaching methodsheuristic teaching,task-based teachingTeaching aidspowerpiont; some things about ChristmasTeaching procedureTeaching aimsTeachers activitiesStudents activitiesStep1 Revision(1 minute) Review some festivals in western countriesShow some pictures about festivals in western countries and ask students to talk about what festivals they are. Look at the pictures in the powerpoint and talk about the festivalsnames together.Step2 Lead-in(1 minute) To make the students clarify the main contents and listen effectively. Ask:Which festival is the most important one in many countries? Do you know?Do you like it?Lets learn something about it today.Students Answer: Christmas.Yes.Step3Presentation(37 minutes) Step3Presentation To find out the features of Christmas through the flashTo make students to know more about Christmas by listening and train the students ability of listening at the same time.To make students learn more about Chritmas by reading.To know better about the contents of the text.To build up the useful expressions and make students learn further.To grasp well the activities at Christmas by performing the text in groups and interest students in learning English.To build up useful expression by learning first by themselves, then learn after the teacher.1.Show a flash about Christmas and ask students to find out what they can see at Christmas after watching and discussing in pairs.Eg, T: What can you see in the flash? Work in pairs to talk about it .2.Ask students to talk about the features of Christmas one by one.3. Show things about Christmas and ask students to say them out in English.4. Ask the students to listen carefully and ask them to do exercies on books .5. Then check the answers.6. Ask the students to have a reding competition with different paragraphs.7. Ask the students to read the text alone for the second time by themselves.8. Ask the students to discuss in pairs : What people do before Christmas / on Christmas Eve/ On Christmas Day?9. Ask the students to act out the dialogue. 10. Ask the students to read out the activities of Christmas.11. Ask the students to work in groups to act out the passage.12. Ask the students to act out in front of the class.13. Ask the students to find out the answers to the exercises according to the text.14. Check the answers.15. Explain for the main language points by actions and pictures.1.Watch the flash and discuss in pairs.2.Answer the qustions one by one.3. Say the things in English.4. Listen and do the exercises on books.5. Give their answers one by one.6.Read in groups loudly.7. Read alone.8. Talk in pairs.9. Act out the dialogue.10. Read aloud together.11. Group leader organize and arrange the roles to different students.12. Act out the passage by different groups.13. Look up their books and write down the answers on exercise books.14. Give their answers one by one.15. Look, listen and say.Step4Summary(5 minutes)To mention the students of the contents they learnt today by asking and answering with rewarded presents to surprise the students by sending “presents”.16. Ask two students to host this activity.17. Lead the students to sing a Christmas song to the people in the disaster area.16. One asks questions, another acts out “Father Christmas” and sent gifts. “Father Christmas”give a short speech to encourage the students to give presents to people in disaster area.17.Sing the song together.Step5Homework(2 minutes)To review what the students learnt today.Give the homework: write a passage about Christmas (60 words).Discuss and try to write.Teaching reflectionI was a little nervous, the time was controled well. I Forgot to give the microphon