初一英语外研版（上）教案
Module 10 Spring Festival
一、学习目标:
1. 重点单词：
festival, lantern, dragon, dance, clean, sweep, cook, meal, speak, happen, ready, quite, away, hard, floor, join, hurry, Christmas, February, January, before, luck, mean, table, celebrate, traditional, dumpling, programme, sweater, coat, lucky, tree, tell
2. 重点短语：
put away, hurry up, sweep away
3.重点句子：
1) Are you getting ready for Spring Festival?
2) This is Tony speaking.
3) What’s happening?
4) —What are you doing at the moment?
—I’m making big red lanterns.
5) She’s cleaning the house and putting things away.
6) —What are Daming and Betty doing?
—They’re learning a dragon dance with my grandpa.
7) What’s your mother doing?8) She’s cleaning the house.
9) I’m eating jiaozi.
二、重点及难点:
1. Function: 1) How to describe and ask about the festival;
2) Describe the process of preparing the festival.
2. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.
三、教学设计:
Unit 3 Language in use
ⅠTeaching model
Revision and application
ⅡTeaching method
  Formal and interactive practice
ⅢTeaching aims
1. To consolidate Present continuous questions and short answers
2. To learn new words by using word map and pictures
3. To write a letter about the Spring Festival
ⅣTeaching Objectives
Key vocabulary: finish, housework
Key structures: Present simple with I, you, we, they prepositions of time at, in, on negative form of present simple don’t.
ⅤTeaching aids
Tape recorder, OHP, handouts
ⅥTeaching Steps
Step 1 Revision
Review the text of Unit 1 and Unit 2.
Step 2 Language practice
1. Read through the example sentences in the box with the whole class.
2. Ask the students to repeat the sentences in the box.
3. Grammar: The Present Continuous Tense.
Step 3 Work in pairs
1. Look at the pictures.
2. Ask and answer: What can you see? What are they doing?
3. Ask the students to talk about the pictures.
4. Read through the example sentences with the whole class.
Students A: Choose a picture. Say what the people are doing.
Students B: Guess which picture Students A is describing.
A: They are watching TV.
B: Is it Picture 4?A: Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.
5. Work in pairs.
Step 4 Writing 
1. Read through the example sentences in Activity 2.
Lingling’s mother / learning a lion dance?
—Is Lingling’s mother learning a lion dance?
—No, she isn’t.
2. Read through the sentences in Activity 2.
3. Write questions and short answers.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers.
Keys:
1. —I Is Lingling’s mother cleaning the house?
—I Yes, she is.
2. —Is Lingling’s father making lanterns?
—No, he isn’t.
3. —Is Lingling’s aunt cooking the meal?
—No, she isn’t.
4. —Is Lingling’s grandma sweeping the floor?
—No, she isn’t.
5. —Are Daming and Betty learning a lion dance?
—No, they aren’t.
5. Write questions and answers about the pictures in Activity 1 like this..
—What’s the boy doing?
—He is using a computer.
6. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers.
Step 5 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expression in brackets.
1. Read through the passage with the whole class.
2. Ask the students to complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expression in brackets with a partner.
3. Call back the answers from the whole class, check the answers.
Keys:
1. are getting ready 2. are cleaning 3. are sweeping 4. is cooking 5. work 6. buy 7.   get  8. eat
4. Read the passage together.
Step 6 Around the world:
1. Ask the students to look at the picture and discuss what they can see.
2. Read through the information with the whole class, and talk something about them.
3. Ask and answer.
4. Read the passage together.
Step 7 Module task: Writing a letter about Spring Festival to a foreign student.
1. Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about what you and your family are doing for Spring Festival at the moment.
—What are you and your family doing for Spring Festival at the moment ?
— My mother is cooking.
2. Write notes about your Spring Festival. Use the headings to help you.
 Getting ready     Food       Presents     Traditions
3. Write a letter to a friend saying::
what you’re doing for Spring Festival at the moment.
what you usually do.
Use your notes in Activity 6 and 7.
Step 8 Exercise
根据短文内容及首字母提示，在空格处填入正确的词，使短文意思完整。
The Spring Festival is one of the most important (1) f_______ in China. There are a lot of (2) t_______ for Spring Festival. We clean our houses and (3) s_______ away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows (4) r_______. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with (5) p______ cuts. We also buy clothes and everyone has a (6) h_______. The family have dinner and we eat jiaozi — a kind of (7) d_______, or a sweet rice pudding. Older people give young people red packets with (8) m_______ in them. On New Year's Day, we put on our new (9)c_______ and visit our family and friends. There is dragon and lion (10) d_______ in the street.
Keys:
1. festivals    2. traditions     3. sweep   4. red     5. paper
6. haircut  7. dumpling   8. money   9. clothes   10. dancing