1、高一英语下：Unit14Festivals教案1Unit 14 Festivals----- Reading KwanzaaTeaching aims:1. Learn and master some important sentence patterns 2. Train the students’ reading ability.3. Let the students learn about the relation between festivals and history and culture.Te
2、aching important points:1. Improve the students’ reading ability.2. Help the students learn about foreign history and culture.Teaching difficult points: How to help the students understand the passage exactly.Teaching methods:1. Fast reading and careful rea
3、ding to understand the passage correctly.2. Pair or group work to make the students take an active part in the activities in class.Teaching aids: A tape recorder and a projectorTeaching procedures:一、Pre—reading T: Everyone, please brainstorm as many festivals as pos
4、sible at home or abroad.S: Christmas, new year, april fool’s day…T: Good. now please look at the pictures and describe what kind of festival it is.S: Holloween, Easter and Christmas.T: OK. Today we’re going to learn a text about a kind of festival which some of you may have
5、n’t heard of. It’s the festival called Kwanzaa. What do you know about Kwanzaa? Now please look at the screen. First, let’s see some symbals of this festival. can you imagine what are these things stand for?S: I think the fruits and corns stand for the harvest.T: Very good.
6、 Do you know what the ears of the corn stand for?S: We don’t know. T: The ears of the corn stand for the sons in the family. The number of the sons in the family determines the quality of the ears of the corn.二、Reading T: OK. Now please listen to the tape , read the text by
7、 yourselves and then answer the following queations.1. When was the festival born and celebrated?2. Who celebrates the festival?3. Why is the festival celebrated? 4. How is the festival celebrated?5. What’s the seven principles of the festival?S: (
8、Listen and read the text and finally answer the questions.)三、Post--readingT: Good
