Lesson4 Christmas.doc

Lesson4 Christmas Objectives: Knowledge aims: To build up an area of vocabulary associated with Christmas and Spring Festival To read a narrative text and understand the story. Ability aims: To practise analyzing and retell the text. To develop reading strategies to answer multiple-choice questions. Emotional aim: To know about and respect the different cultures in foreign countries. To compare Christmas and Spring Festival. Teaching important points: To grasp the vocabulary of Christmas To answer multiple-choice questions using the reading strategies. Teaching difficult points: How to grasp the vocabulary of Christmas effectively. How to retell the story . Teaching methods: Discussion Analysis Individual and group work Teaching aid: The multi—media Teaching process: Step 1 , Lead-in 1, Clip a video -–a Christmas carol “We wish you a merry Christmas” to lead in the most famous western festival ---Christmas . 2, Show pictures of the elements of Christmas 3,Look at the pictures, discuss and write down the vocabulary of the pictures on the blackboard with the whole class. Step2,Prediction Brainstorm : According to the pictures and the first sentence of each paragraph , predict : What kinds of memories of Christmas do you think the text will tell? Step3,Fast—reading 1,Scan the text quickly to check the prediction of step 2 2, Listen to the text and answer: Match the main idea with each paragraph . Para. 1 decorations outside Para. 2 the beginning of Christmas Para. 3 activities on Christmas Eve Para. 4 activities after lunch Para. 5 activities on Christmas morning Step4, Careful –Reading 1,Analyze the text and then fill in the table. paragraph time activities Before Christmas eve write a letter to Father Christmas, open the new year calendar, Christmas lights appear, attend carol service, make snowmen, have snow ball fights On Christmas eve On Christmas Day 2,Do mult