一、Teaching materials:
Unit 1 We’re getting ready for the Spring Festival (Module 2 Spring Festival)
二、Targets for this period:
To understand conversations about the Spring Festival
To recognize phrases and recognize short answers in the listening
To talk about the Spring Festival with given information
三、Key points:
Key vocabulary-festival, spring Festival, ready, get ready for, cook, meal, dragon, lantern, dragon dance, Lantern Festival, sweep, sweep away, floor
Key structures-What is Lingling doing?
She’s getting ready for the Spring Festival.
Is your mother working?
Yes, she is.
四、Teaching methods:
Interactive approach
五、Teaching aids
Tape recorder, blackboard
六、Teaching arrangements:
Step One Warming-up
1. Ask the students to talk about some festivals they know.
2. Ask the students to divide the festivals into Chinese festivals and western festivals.
3. Ask the students to discuss what the biggest festival in China is and what people usually do to get ready for the festival?
4. Ask the students to match the words with the pictures and make sentences about what they see in the picture.
1) The children are learning a dragon dance.
2) The girl is making lanterns.
3) The woman is sweeping the floor.
4) The grandma is cooking the meal.
5) The woman is cleaning the house.
5. Students listen and check the sentences. (Activity1)
Step Two Listening (Activity 2)
1. Students listen and finish Activity 3.
1) Are they getting ready for the Spring Festival? Yes, they are.
2) Are the boys making lanterns? No, they aren’t.
3) Is Lingling’s mother sweeping the floor? No, she isn’t.
4) Is her aunt cooking the meal? No, she isn’t.
5) Is Lingling’s grandmother cooking the meal? Yes, she is.
6) Is Lingling’s father working? Yes, he is.
（注意：现在进行时的一般疑问句形式： 把be提到句首。）
2. Students listen again and finish Activity 4
1) What are the boys doing? They are learning a dragon dance.
2) What is Lingling doing? She is making lanterns.
3) What is Lingling’s mother doing? She is cleaning the house.
4) What is Lingling’s aunt doing? She is sweeping the floor.
5) What is Lingling’s grandmother doing? She is cooking the meal.
6) What is Lingling’s father doing? He is working.
（注意：现在进行时的特殊疑问句形式：疑问词 + 一般疑问句形式。）
Step Three To practice reading aloud the conversation in groups of two.
Step Four Language points (Activity 2)
1. sth happen to sb 某事发生在某人身上
e.g. ----What’s happening to you? ----Nothing is happening.
happen to do sth 碰巧做某事
e.g. I happened to see traffic accidents.
2. ready (adj.)
e.g. Everything is ready.
She is always ready to help others.
The farmers are getting ready for the next year.
3. too, either, also 也
too置于句末，用逗号隔开
either置于否定句句末，用逗号隔开
also常置于句中，be动词之后，实义动词之前
4. help sb (to) do sth
help sb with sth
e.g. Computer can help us with our homework.
5. He’s at work. = He’s working.
Step Five To read aloud the conversation again.
Step Six Pronunciation
1. Students listen and repeat the words. (Activity 5)
2. Students listen and repeat the conversation.
3. One student reads the sentences in the correct tone, his partner listen and help him with the pronunciation. (Activity 6)
Step Seven Pair working: students ask and answer the questions like those in Activity 6
Homework:
1. To recite the dialogue of Unit1, Module 2
2. To finish Unit1, Module2, 点中典
3. To find information about Yang Liwei
Blackboard designing
We’re getting ready for the Spring Festival.
1. sth happen to sb 某事发生在某人身上
e.g. ----What’s happening to you? ----Nothing is happening.
happen to do sth 碰巧做某事
e.g. I happened to see traffic accidents.
2. ready (adj.)
e.g. Everything is ready.
She is always ready to help others.
The farmers are getting ready for the next year.