Class Type | Grammar |
Objectives | 1.To learn the “objective clauses with that, if and whether”. 2.To learn the “exclamatory statements”. 3.To better understand the expression of “objective clause” and “exclamatory statements”. |
Key structure | I know that the Water Festival is really fun. —What fun the Water Festival is! 2. I wonder if they will have the races again next year. 3. How fantastic the dragon boat teams were! 4. I believe that April is the hottest month in Thailand. |
Difficulties | How to describe and express the “objective clauses with that, if and whether” and “exclamatory statements” in practice. |
Period | 1 |
Procedure | |
Lead-in | Read some sentences with “objective clause” underlined. |
Step 1 | Explain the definition and basic factors of “objective clause”. |
Step 2 | Statements of object clauses with that. |
Step 3 | Statements of object clauses with if and whether. |
Step 4 | Exercises about objective clause. |
Step 5 | Show Ss some pictures in exclamatory statements by using adjective words. |
Step 6 | Conclusion about the rules of exclamatory statements. |
Step 7 | The exchanges of “what-” clause and “how-clause”. |
Step 8 | More exercises about exclamatory statements. |
Class Type | Listening, reading and speaking |
Objectives | 4.To learn the different festivals. 5.To practice talking about the conversations by listening to the information about festivals. 6.To learn the information in the conversation by listening. 7.To know something about Ching Mai. |
Key structure | 1. What a great day! 2. What do you like best? —I love the races. I think they are fun to watch. 8.What did you do on your vacation? 9.Guess what? |
Difficulties | How to understand and describe the information about some festivals and Ching Mai. |
Vocabulary | strange, relative, pound |
put on | |
Period | 1 |
Procedure | |
Lead-in | Free talk. Show Ss the pictures and let them say what the festival is. |
Step 1 | Discussion. 1.What is your favorite festival? 2.Why do you like it most? 3.What did you do at the festival? |
Step 2 | Activity 1b. Listen and circle T or F. |
Step 3 | Ask Ss to listen again and answer the questions. |
Step 4 | Pair works. Make a dialogue about one of the four festivals. |
Step 5 | Free talk. Do you know anything about the four festivals? |
Step 6 | Brainstorm. Introduce to Ss about the information of some festivals. |
Step 7 | Activity 2a. Listen and circle the correct words. |
Step 8 | Listen 2a again and answer the question. |
Step 9 | Activity 2b. Listen again and fill in the chart. |
Step 10 | Free talk. 1.Have you ever had any down sides when travelling in a place? 2.What were they? |
Step 11 | Pair works. Make a dialogue about a vacation by using 2c as a model. |
Step 12 | Free talk. 1.Have you ever been abroad? 2.Do you know where Chiang Mai is? |
Step 13 | Show Ss some pictures about Chiang Mai and give some explanations. |
Step 14 | Activity 2d. Read the conversation and answer the questions. |
Step 15 | Language points: explain the key words and phrases in section A-1. |
Class Type | Reading |
Objectives | 10.To learn the mooncake in the Mid-Autumn Festival. 11.To learn to express the story of the history of mooncake. |
Key structure | 1. Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival for centuries. 2. Whoever drank this could live forever, … |
Difficulties | How to better understand the meaning of the mooncake in the Mid-Autumn Festival. |
Vocabulary | steal, lay, dessert, garden, admire, tie |
lay out, in the shape of, carry one’s wishes | |
Period | 1 |
Procedure | |
Lead-in | Free talk. 1.What is your favorite festival? 2.Why do you like it most? |
Step 1 | Show Ss some pictures about mooncakes and ask questions about the Mid-Autumn Festival. |
Step 2 | Activity 3a. Read the passage about the Mid-Autumn Festival and answer the questions. |
Step 3 | Activity 3b. Read again and put the events in the correct order. |
Step 4 | Retelling. Retell the story of Chang’e according to the words and phrases below. |
Step 5 | Activity 3c. Try to complete the sentences with correct words without looking at the passage above. |
Step 6 | Discussion. Show Ss some name of mooncakes and let them discuss if they ever tried these mooncakes. |
Step 7 | Free talk. Let Ss talk about any other traditional folk stories about the Mid-Autumn Festival among the whole class. |
Step 8 | Brainstorm. 1.Introduce to Ss about the information of the Mid-Autumn Festival. 2.Show Ss some beautiful and interesting the Mid-Autumn Festival cards. |
Step 9 | Homework. Try to design the Mid-Autumn Festival cards for your families and friends. |
Step 10 | Language points: explain the key words and phrases with examples and exercises in unit 2 section A-2. |
Class Type | Listening and speaking. |
Objectives | 1.To describe the pictures about Halloween. 2.To know more about Halloween by listening. 3.To practice talking about the Halloween activity that you think is most interesting. |
Key structure | 1.What have you learned about Halloween? 2.What do you like most about this festival? —I think it’s fun to dress up as a cartoon characters. |
Difficulties | How to better understand the festival: Halloween. |
Vocabulary | treat, trick, spider |
dress up, trick or treat, black cat | |
Periods | 1 |
Procedure | |
Lead-in | Free Talk. How much do you know about Halloween? |
Step 1 | Discussion. Show Ss some pictures about Halloween and talk about what you think this festival is about. |
Step 2 | Activity 1b. Listen and answer the questions. |
Step 3 | Activity 1c. Listen again and fill in the blanks about the four paragraphs. |
Step 4 | Introduce to Ss some Halloween activities in details. |
Step 5 | Structures about how to ask for other’s opinion and how to give a person reaction. |
Step 6 | Free talk. 1.What do you think of Halloween? 2.Do you think children love it? 3.Why? |
Step 7 | Language points: explain the key words and phrases in section B-1. |
Step 8 | Enjoy a song: How do you do. |
Class Type | Reading and writing |
Objectives | 1.To understand the passage about the spirit of Christmas. 2.To introduce your favorite Chinese festival. |
Key structure | 1. But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas. 2. Marley used to be just like Scrooge. 3. It’s my favorite festival because… 4. It makes me feel… |
Difficulties | How to better understand the information about the festival Christmas and the book A Christmas Carol. |
Vocabulary | Christmas, lie, novel, eve, dead, business, punish, warn, present, warmth, spread |
used to, end up | |
Periods | 1 |
Procedure | |
Lead-in | Free talk. Can you name any foreign festivals? |
Step 1 | Brainstorm. Show Ss some foreign festival pictures and give out some explanations of each festival. |
Step 2 | Activity 2a. Try to match each day with the correct date. |
Step 3 | Free talk. Let Ss talk about the Christmas they think. |
Step 4 | Show some pictures about the Christmas and give some explanations. |
Step 5 | Activity 2b-1. Read the passage about the Christmas and answer the questions. |
Step 6 | Brainstorm. Show the picture of the author and the story “the Christmas Carol”. Give out detail information about the book. |
Step 7 | Activity 2b-2. Read the passage and decide the sentence is true or false. |
Step 8 | Activity 2c. Read the passage again and complete the chart. |
Step 9 | Activity 2d. Read the questions in Page 15 and give the answers. |
Step 10 | Brainstorm. Introduce the information of “Santa Claus” and some traditional cuisine of Christmas to Ss. |
Step 11 | Free talk. Let Ss talk about their favorite festival and give the information in details. |
Step 12 | Writing. Suppose you are Liu Wei, send an e-mail to your friend Mike and introduce him our Chinese festival, the Spring Festival. |
Step 13 | Language points: explain the key words and phrases in section B-2. |