Unit 1  Festivals around the world

  Extensive reading and writing

Teaching aims:

   To introduce a cross-cultural view of lover’s festivals – Qiqiaojie and Valentine’s Day.

   Train the students’ reading ability.

   Enable the students to engage imaginatively in the story and to use their own ideas of changing the ending.

   Improve the students’ writing ability.

Teaching procedures

Step 1.Lead-in

T: In the last period, we have learnt many kinds of festivals. Some are set in memory of the dead, some are set in honor of some great people and some are set in celebration of harvest. Do you know the festivals set for lovers?

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T: You are familiar with them. Look at the screen. Can you guess who the two lovers are?

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Today, we are going to learn a love story.