1、topic: Unit 1 Festivals around the world 2、Background information (1)、 textbook: New Senior English for China Students Book 3 published by Peoples Education Press. It emphasizes on the conception of learner-centeredness and quality-oriented education and aims for developing the competence of students. (2)、Students: 45 senior school students, the third semester.There are different levels of mastering the knowledge among them after learning a year. Its a blank period for many of them because they dont make their aim clear. Their self-consciousness develops rapidly during this tine. They know themselves much deeper than before and hope to be respected and affirmed by others. However, they are sensitive and easily get excited.(3)、lesson duration:45 mins.3、Teaching aims (1)、knowledge aim、Important words and phrases: harvest、starve、religious 、 take place、play a trick on、look forward to、Train students the skills of reading like skimming, summarize and so on.、Talk about festivals and celebrations.(2)、Ability aim 、 Develop students the ability of getting information and thinking independently.、 Enhance the ability and skill of reading comprehension of students.(3)、Affective aim Foster a positive attitude to learning and interest to reading, promote their consciousness for multi-culture and love for traditional festivals in China.4、Important teaching points(1)、 The usage of some words and phrases. (2)、 Make students master skills to get information from the article and solve problems.(3)、Some complex sentences: Attributive clause and apposition5、Difficult teaching points (1)、The comprehension to the article.(2) 、How to use reading skills to solve problems.(3)、Understanding for complex sentences.6、Teaching method Task-based Language teaching method7、Learning method (1)、Learning by speaking and reading.(2)、Learning by pair work and group work.(3)、learning by discussing, practicing and observing.8、Teaching aids ppt、text book and pictures.9、Teaching procedures and contents(1)、step1 Warning up (5mins) 、Ask students following questions to introduce the topic of today -festivals around the world. Do you like festivals? How many festivals that you know in the world? Which festival do you like best? Why?、Complete the form on the page1 by pair work.(2)、step2 pre-reading(10mins) 、Discuss the first question of pre-reading by group work.(3mins) 、Show some pictures about festivals to students and ask themto guess the name of festivals and say something about it. Teacher makes up some background information.(6mins) 、Discuss the second question of pre-reading.(1min)(3)、step 3 Reading(25mins) 、Students read the passage first by skimming and finish the first exercise on page 3.(3mins) 、Students read the passage again with questions on page 3 exercise2 and underline all modal verbs that they know in the passage.(5mins) 、Ask students to read this passage and teacher explains important and difficult points.(17mins)(4)、step 5 Consolidation(3mins) Teacher will take some time to summarize what is learned in the lesson.10、Assignment(2mins) (1)、Finish the exercise on page 4 before the next class. (2)、Write a short passage about the festival that you are most interested in and hand it tomorrow. The words limit 150 to 200.11、Board writing designUnit1 festivals around the worldKind of festivals names of festivals countriesFestivals of Dead Obon JapanDay of the dead MexicoHalloween Western countriesFestivals of Honor people The Dragon Boat festival China Columbus Day USA National festival IndiaHarvest festivals harvest and Thanksgiving festival Western countries Mid-autumn festival China and JapanSpring festivals spring festivals China Easter Western countries Cherry Blossom festival Japan 12、After lesson reflection( to be written immediately after the lesson )