unit 1 festivals around the world
extensive reading and writing
teaching aims:
to introduce a cross-cultural view of lover’s festivals – qiqiaojie and valentine’s day.
train the students’ reading ability.
enable the students to engage imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending.
improve the students’ writing ability.
teaching procedures
step 1.lead-in
t: in the last period, we have learnt many kinds of festivals. some are set in memory of the dead, some are set in honor of some great people and some are set in celebration of harvest. do you know the festivals set for lovers?
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t: you are familiar with them. look at the screen. can you guess who the two lovers are?
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today, we are going to learn a love story.
step 2 fast reading
the chinese people believe that the star vega(织女星), east of the milky way, is zhinu and, at the constellation of aquila(天鹰座), on the western side of the milky way, niulang waits for his wife.
read fast and get the key words.
introduction zhinu, the _______ girl, the most lovely of the daughters, visited the earth and met niulang, the _______ boy.
development they f___ ___ _____ , married secretlyand were very happy.
climax
(高潮) the goddess of heaven got so angry that she forced zhinu back to ________ . niulang tried to f_________ her but was stopped by the milky way. thus, the c_______ were separated.
ending the goddess of heaven allowed the couple to meet once a year on the ______ day of the s_______ l_______ month when magpies made a _________ of their wings.
t: go through your text quickly and silently. then finish the true or false exercises.
1. hu jin failed to meet li fang at 7:00.
2. if it is raining on qiqiaojie, it means that zhinu is weeping and the couple will be able to meet.
3. because her most lovely daughter got married to a human secretly, the goddess got more than angry.
4. li fang thought he could get married to hu jin, just like niu lang and zhi nu.
5. when li fang met hu jin, he felt very glad.
step 3 careful reading
t: read the passage again and answer the following questions one by one.
1. what does “this” (l8 para3) mean?
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2. where did li fang and hu jin wait for each other? did they meet on time?共4页,当前第1页1234
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3. how did li fang feel?
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4. how would he get rid of his sadness then? and what about hu jin?
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5. did li fang continue to wait later?
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6. did they meet each other at last?
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7. how did li fang feel?
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s: li fang: made an appointment with hu jin—waited in the coffee shop—not met her—heart-broken; along with…; like a fool—would not hold his breath for her to apologize(wait without much hope); would drown his sadness in coffee (drink coffee in order to forget the sadness/sorrow)—gave up and threw…away—met hu jin without gifts—felt worried
hu jin: made an appointment with li fang—kept her word but waited in the tea shop—not turned up in the coffee shop—waited for him all the time—met li fang with gifts
ending??
step 4 post-reading
t: the two love stories happened in two different festivals. what are their similarities and differences? how should we treat chinese traditional festivals and some western festivals?
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t: nowadays, some people pay more attention to the valentine’s day than qiqiaojie, which was once one of the most popular festivals in ancient china. anyway, each festival in china has its own tale and meaning. so we should hold on to our own festivals and culture, as well as pass them on from generation to generation. we should never allow some western festivals to take the place of chinese traditional festivals.
writing
t: li fang met hu jin after he lost heart and threw away the valentine’s gifts. to his surprise, hu jin kept her word and waited for him in the tea shop all the time! what should he do? what would happen to the two lovers? please write a different ending to the story of li fang, beginning with: as he sadly passed the tea shop on the corner on his way…共4页,当前第2页1234
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t: before writing, you’d better read the story again and then think of what hu jin will say when she finds out later that the flowers and chocolates are gone. then think of an ending to the story that will solve li fang’s problem. will he be happy or sad?
step 5 language points:
1. but she didn’t turn up.
1) 来, 出席(某活动)
i’m very happy you turned up so early.
2) 把(收音机等)音量开大一些, 其反义短语是turn down.
turn up the radio a little, i can scarcely hear the program.
相关短语:
turn down 拒绝turn off 关掉
turn on 打开turn out 结果是......
turn to sb. for help 向某人求助
2. she said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word.
keep one’s word 意为“守信用”,其反义词是break one’s word, 即“失信”。
he is a man who always keeps his word.
don’t break your word, otherwise, no one will trust you.
注意:keep one’s word和break one’s word中的名词word不能用复数形式。
相关短语:
in a word/in short/to be short 简言之;总之
have a word with sb. 与某人谈话
have words with sb. 与某人发生口角
in other words 换句话说
3. it was obvious that the manager of the coffee shop was waiting for li fang to leave...
obvious adj. 明显的,清楚的
1) obvious+ to + 表示人的名词或代词
her disappointment was obvious to her friend.
2) it + be + obvious +that-clause
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4. marry 的用法:
1) marry sb.,而不用marry with sb.
2) be married to
5. set off: 动身, 出发; 使(地雷、炸弹)爆炸; 使某物更有吸引力
the bomb set off among the crowd.
a woman’ beauty is set off by her clothes and jewelers.
相关短语:
set about doing sth. 着手(做某事)set in 开始
set up 建立,创立 set down 写下,记下
6. i don’t want them to remind me of her.
remind vi. 提醒,使想起
remind sb. of sth.
remind sb. to do sth.
remind sb. that
step 6 discussion
what are the differences and similarities between the two festivals?
how should we treat chinese traditional festivals and some western festivals?
homework
english weekly choices, cloze, reading a&b
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