Important points: develop students` reading skills by extensive reading.

　　Difficult points: Enable students to use reading strategies such as skimming, scanning and so on in order to get them to understand foreign culture and customs.

　　Knowledge aims: get them to learn some useful words and expressions by reading the story A Sad Love Story to know more about the Quebec Carnival.

　　Step 1 Revision

1. Check the homework exercises.

2. Ask some students to perform their dialogues.

　　Step 2 Warming up by brainstorming

　　Some questions:

Can you tell me something about Chinese Qiqiao Festival?

Can you tell something about Valentine`s Day?

Have you read any love stories? What are they?

　　Step 3 Reading

　　1. Read and judge:

　　1). The girl Li Fang loved and waited for didn`t turn up, but he didn`t lose heart. (F)

　　2). Because he granddaughter got married to a human, the Goddess of Heaven got very angry. (T)

　　3). Zhinv was made to return to Heaven without her husband. They were not allowed to meet forever. (F)

　　4). Hu Jin had been waiting for Li Fang for a long time with a gift for him.(T)

　　2. Read and answer.

　　1). Why did Li Fang feel like a fool?

　　2). Why was Li Fang afraid that Hu Jin was doing?

　　3). How did Li Fang know the manager wanted to shut the coffee shop?

　　4). What is the reason why Li Fang and Hu Jin did not meet on time?

　　5). Why was Li Fang so worried at the end of the story?

　　3. Read to find out the collocations.

　　Be heart-broken, Valentine`s Day, a coffee shop, after work, turn up, laugh at, keep one`s word, look forward to, hole one`s breath, drown one`s sadness in coffee, the Goddess of Heaven, the weaving girl, on earth, the herd boy, fall in love, get married, be married to, the Milk Way, once a year, be able to, set off, throw ..... away, remind ..... of....