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Exploring Cultural Celebrations: A Comprehensive Guide for High School English Learners

Unit 3 focuses on the various festivals and celebrations around the world, enhancing students' understanding of cultural significance in English-speaking contexts. Through engaging lesson plans, students will listen to, read about, and discuss traditional and modern celebrations including Christmas, weddings, and the Spring Festival. They will learn vocabulary, participate in group discussions, and analyze changes in these traditions over time. This comprehensive unit aims to boost students’ language skills while fostering cross-cultural appreciation.

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Exploring Cultural Celebrations: A Comprehensive Guide for High School English Learners

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  1. Unit 3 教材教法分析 清华附中高一英语备课组

  2. Introduction to our team

  3. The materials • PPT • Teaching Plans • Other Materials: • Preview • (Phrases + Word definition + Sentences) • Blank filling of the texts • Phrase test

  4. Analysis of This Unit Unit 3 Celebration • Warm-up • Lesson 1 Festivals • Lesson 2 Parties • Lesson 3 Weddings • Lesson 4 Christmas • Communication Workshop: Describing an event 谢慧艳 杨俊 刘珏 尹然 Instructors: 张姝敏、刘桂章

  5. Unit 3 CelebrationWarm-up & Lesson 1(I)

  6. Teaching Objectives By the end of the class, you will be able to • make a summary of different kinds of festivals and celebrations, 2. introduce a festival in English.

  7. What festivals have you recently celebrated? Step 1: Lead-in

  8. What do people usually celebrate?

  9. passing an exam

  10. sporting victory

  11. winning a scholarship

  12. graduation

  13. wedding

  14. promotion

  15. retirement

  16. anniversary

  17. Ex.2 Listening Task Step 2: Listening • Which five celebrations do you hear? • How were they celebrated respectively (activities)?

  18. 1. Christmas • 2. A sporting victory eat turkey and Christmas pudding, play with toys, laugh at jokes, put on silly paper hats. go out and have a drink.

  19. 3. A birthday • 4. A wedding • 5. The New Year blow the candles on the cake, with everyone saying good wishes. put a ring on the woman’s finger. count down to welcome the arrival of a new year.

  20. Step 3: ReadingQuestions before reading • What are the festivals celebrated in China? • If you are to introduce a traditional Chinese festival to the world, how will you describe it?

  21. Look at the three pictures on page 36 and guess the festivals they stand for. • Match the festivals with the texts.

  22. Step 3: ReadingTask 1 Fill in the chart • Read the texts and fill in the chart. 1. When does it take place (time of year / date)? 2. Why do we celebrate (origin)? 3. What do people do? 4. How has it changed? 5. What part of it do you like best?

  23. September or October • the 15th day of the 8th lunar month • the beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friends • eat moon cakes, watch the full moon with family and friends • a greater variety of moon cakes

  24. the 15th of the first month of the lunar calendar • the beauty of 1st full moon of the new year, time with family and friends • eat sweet dumplings, make and display lanterns, guess riddles • a greater variety of lanterns

  25. the 5th of the 5th month in the lunar calendar • the memory of the beloved poet Qu Yuan who died in 278 BC • eat zongzi, watch dragon boat races, throw zongzi into water, put herbs on doorways for good health • dragon boat races enjoy greater popularity; a greater variety of zongzi

  26. Supporting language Step 3: Reading Task 2 Retelling When it takes place • It takes place on… • It falls on… of …lunar month/year. Why people celebrate • It marks the beginning/ending of • It celebrates…

  27. How it has changed • Traditional moon cakes…,but nowadays… • In the old days,... However, in recent years… • In the past, … Nowadays, …

  28. Step 4: Group workIntroduce another festival • What festivals do Chinese people celebrate in spring? Tomb-sweeping Festival (清明节） • Introduce the festival from the following aspects: date/ reasons for celebration/ what people do (activities) / changes / your favorite part

  29. April 5th • to honor past ancestors, celebrate the rebirth of nature, mark the beginning of the planting season and other outdoor activities • visit their family graves, sweep away dirt and set off offerings of food and spirit money, spring outing, fly kites • the old superstitious custom is being replaced : presenting flowers to the deceased instead of paper money

  30. Step 4: Group workDiscussion • Based on the texts, what do most Chinese traditional festivals have in common? • Why do you think these things might be important to people everywhere?

  31. Possible answers: being with family and friends, food, lights or fires, entertainment, music, dance…

  32. Step 4: Group workDebate Nowadays, more and more people follow the trend of celebrating western festivals

  33. Debate :Should we celebrate western festivals? No!!! Yes!!! Pro. Con.

  34. Homework • Writing: Introduce the Spring Festival to your foreign friend. or Should we observe western festivals?

  35. Thank You!

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