II．核心素养

　　1. Arouse students' great interest in festivals and celebrations.

　　2. Develop students' sense of cooperative learning and individual thinking capability.

3. Make the students to have a deeper understanding of the origins and celebrations of some foreign festivals mentioned in the texts.

4. Enable students to be proud of our own traditional festivals.

III．教学重难点

1. Develop students' reading ability.

2. Enable students to talk about festivals and celebrations.

IV. 教学过程

1.【Warming up】

　　Warming up by brainstorming (group work to train the oral English and cooperative ability)

　　Boys and girls, what do you know about our important traditional festivals and how do we celebrate them?

　　Please discuss them with your partners and then report your ideas to the class.

　　【direction】Chinese traditional festivals: Mid-autumn Day, Lantern Festival, May Day; spring Festival ...

Students can discuss the festival from the following aspects: