Part 3. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Greetings
Greet the whole class as usual.
Step 2. Lead-in and preparation for reading
Show them some pictures of many kinds of festivals and let them talk with each other, and then use the pictures about festivals to learn new words, for example, Obon Halloween, Valentine’s Day and so on.
Q1, What kinds of festivals in
Q2, What festivals of foreign countries do you know?
Purpose: ① Open the Ss’ mind.
② Get them to be interested in what is going to learn.
Step 3.Skimming
Read the passage as quickly as they can. Then do the Ex
Step 4.. Scanning
Read the passage carefully again and answer some detailed questions on the screen.
Qs: Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?
What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?
Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?
How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?
Name three things people do at Spring Festival.
Step 5. Careful reading
It is also called depth reading or study reading. It means reading for detailed information.
Purpose: Further understand the text （Train further reading ability） to find out some different sentences and details of the text.
Ex
Step 6. Learning about language
Deal with the language points and the using of the Modal Verbs in the text.
In memory of , dress up , look forward to ,…….
. Purpose: Train the Ss’ ability of understanding and using laguage.