Teaching content: Unit5 Task
Teaching Objectives:
1. Knowledge objective: Ss can master new words and phrases and know how to write a passage about a festival correctly and fluently.
2. Ability objective: Ss can use a writing plan and a model poster to develop creative writing skills.
3. Emotional objective: Ss will get interested in writing and love Chinese traditional festivals.
Teaching key and difficult points:
How to make Ss master writing skills and introduce a festival correctly.
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1.Pre-writing
Warm up:
What festivals do you know now? Do you know them well?Let’s have a check.
Step 2.While-writing
1. Presentation
①Which are Chinese festivals? So which festival do you think is the most important in China? What do you know about the Spring Festival?
Show pictures about the Spring Festival.（new words and phrases）
②Millie also likes the Spring Festival. She wants to write an article about it. But she makes a writing plan first. Let's have a look.
What is the Spring Festival? When is the Spring Festival?
Who celebrates the Spring Festival?
How do people celebrate it?
③Can you help Millie complete the article on P67 just according to her writing plan?
④Let's summarize the main idea of each paragraph.
2.Practice writing
①Watch a video or pictures about the Mid-Autumn Festival. What? When? Who? How?
Millie wants to know more about the Mid-Autumn Festival. Can you write an article about it?Let's make a writing plan first.
②Write an article about the Mid-Autumn Festival.（Every two groups write two paragraphs）
③Sample show: choose one or two texts to find advantages and disadvantages.
④Peer editing
Step 3. Post-writing
Discussion: What are the common characteristics among the festivals?
Step 4. Homework
1.Finish the article
2.Finish the exercises of Period 7