Lesson 1
Warming up， listening and speaking
Talk about the Spring Festival with students
Part 1 and 2
Step3 Listening
First, talk about the pictures about three festivals. Then look at the exercises and listen to the tape. Listen for three times.
Step4 Speaking
From listening, we have learned a lot about foreign festivals. Now let’s talk about some other holidays. You can work in groups of four, and you can use the useful expressions on Page 10.
Step4 Homework
Write a passage “How I spent the Spring Festival”.
Step1.lead-in
We have learned something about some foreign festivals.
Today we are going to read about another festivals ----Kwanzaa.
Step2.Fast---reading
Read the passage fast to find the main idea of it , which is the main idea of the passage ?(c)
A How Karenga created Kwanzaa.
B What are the seven principle of Kwanzaa.
C Why Karenga created Kwanzaa.
D How Karenga got the idea of creating Kwanzaa.
Step3.True or False
Exx on Page 11
Step4.careful ---reading
Read the passage carefully to finish the following exercise .
1. Which of the following is not true according to the test?
A Kwanzaa is a young holiday .
B The word Kwanzaa means first fruit in Swahili.
C Dr Karenga created Kwanzaa to celebrate American culture and history .
Dkwanzaa is based on old African festivals .
2. The celibration of Kwanzaa lasts _______(A)
A 7days B 5days C 6days D11days
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