2019学年度人教版必修三Unit 1 Festivals around the worldPeriod1 Warming up and Reading

　　This unit talks about festivals of many kinds in different parts of the world. The first reading briefly describes four different kinds of festivals, two others, Qiqiao festival and Carnival, are introduced in the rest of the unit.

　　Some common celebrations include the following:

　　1) Seasons of the year: spring, new life and planting, and hope for the future; summer and enjoyment of good weather, hoping for a good harvest; autumn, harvest and preparing for cold weather; winter, safety, shelter and families. Many of these are connected with agricultural life, food safety and family life.

　　2) Solar festivals

　　3) Lunar festivals

　　4) Life and death

　　5) Religious festivals

　　6) Historical events and remembering heroes: they are important to strengthening national ientity.

　　　　　　　　　　　 The first period: Warming up and Reading

　　Knowledge aims: develop students` reading skills and talk about different festivals and celebrations.

　　Important points: let the students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festival and learn different reading skills.

　　Difficult points: develop students` reading skills and enable them to talk about festivals and celebrations.

　　Step 1 Leading-in

　　Have a free talk with students. Ask them the following questions:

1). Did you have a good time in your winter holidays?

2). When did you feel most happy and excited?

　　Step 2 warming up

　　1. Some Chinese festivals: lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year`s Day, Chung Yeung Festival, Christmas Day, April Fools` Day, Easter, Halloween, Valentine`s Day, Thanksgiving Day,......