Unit 1　Festivals around the world(Period 2　Learning about language: Important language points)

unit 1　festivals around the world
period 2　learning about language: important language points
整體設計
教材分析
this is the second teaching period of this unit. the teacher can first check students’ homework and offer chances for students to review what they learned during the first period.
the emphasis of this period will be placed on the important new words, expressions and sentence patterns in the parts warming up, pre-reading, reading and comprehending. in order to make students understand these important points thoroughly, we can first get students to understand their meanings in the context, then give some explanations about them, and later offer some practice to make students master their usages. some new words and expressions, such as trick, gain, award, admire, take place, look forward to, as though and so on are very useful and important. so are the sentence patterns “. . . people would starve if food was difficult to find. ” and “the country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. ” we ought to pay more attention to them and design special exercises.
at the end of the class, the teacher can make students do more exercises for consolidation. in doing so, they can learn, grasp and use these important language points well.
教學重點
1. enable students to grasp the usages of such important new words and expressions as trick, gain, award, admire, take place, look forward to, as though, etc.
2. get students to master the patterns “. . . people would starve if food was difficult to find. ” and “the country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. ”
教學難點
1. let students learn the usage of the expression “take place”.
2. enable students to learn the adverbial clause introduced by as though.
3. get students to understand some difficult and long sentences.
三維目標
知識目標
1. get students to learn and grasp the important useful new words and expressions in this part: beauty, harvest, starve, origin, religious, ancestor, mexico, feast, bone, belief, poet, arrival, gain, independence, gather, agriculture, award, rooster, admire, energetic, easter, clothing, christian, custom, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with
2. let students learn the following important useful sentence patterns:
1). . . people would starve if food was difficult to find. . . (the subjunctive mood)
2)the country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. (as though. . . )