Key words and phrases: Spring Festival, ready, cook, meal, dragon, floor, happen, help, get ready for, dragon dance, lantern, festival, sweep away, at work

Key structure: be +v.-ing

What is he doing?

Is he working? Yes, he is. No, he isn’t.

2) Listening skill: To understand conversations about the Spring Festival.

3) Affection and attitudes: We should be interested in the festivals in the world.

3、Learning strategies:

Bottom-up approach and listening to the tape and do some exercises.

4、Teaching Aids: Multi-Media (Tape recorder, video, handout,etc)

5、Teaching Procedures:

Activity 1: Revision

Task: Recall what we have learned in last lesson.

Step 1

Label the pictures with the words.

(1). Read through the words in the box and have the Ss. Repeat them after you.

(2). Ask them to label them in the pictures on the screen.

(3). Make some sentences with the words. Ask students to speak out as many as they ca n.

Step 2

Talk about the pictures that the teacher brings into the classroom.

She is standing./walking/ buying/talking …

I am not walkin g to school now.

You are not walking to school no w.

He is not walking to school now.

Are you walking to school now?

Is he walking to school now?

Activity 2: Lead in

Task 1: Brainstorm of the words “festival”.

Step 1

Draw a Festival tree.

Festival

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Chinese Festivals Western Festivals

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Step 2

Talk about the festivals.

Do you like festivals?

Why?

What kind of festivals do you like, Chinese or western?

What do people do on festivals?

What festivals do you like best? Etc.