Unit3 Celebration-Culture Corner教案.doc

Unit3 Celebration-Culture Corner教案 background in western societies, halloween, the celebration of death on the night of 31 october, is a special occasion for young people. in keeping with the spooky atmosphere of the holiday, young people dress up as creatures associated with death and evil. bats, black cats, ghosts, egyptian mummies, werewolves, witches and vampires are popular characters. young people also hold halloween parties where they play tricks on each other and enjoy traditional games like apple bobbing. to play apple bobbing, you put some apples in a large bowl of water. the person who catches an apple with their teeth in the quickest time is the winner. warm-up ask students what they know about halloween encourage them to say as much as they can. exercise students read the passage and choose the best answer to complete the sentences. have them compare and check their answers in pairs. answers 1 a 2 c 3 b 4 a options students individually decide which creature they want to dress up as for a halloween party. have them draw their costume and make brief notes. then ask students to work in small groups and take turns to describe and explain their choice of costume. ask students to vote for the best costume in their group. ask the winner of each group to describe and explain their choice of costume to the class. finally, ask the class to vote for the best costume. the costume with the most votes is the overall winner. in pairs, have students design a game or a trick suitable for a halloween party. ask them to make a drawing of their game and write a brief description. students should also include instructions on how to play the game. next collect the students work and make a big book of halloween games and tricks for the class. prepare a long list of words with some halloween related words in it, e.g. baby, fish, ghost, monkey etc. divide the class into two groups and ask them to listen carefully to youreading out the list. when they hear a halloween word, the groups must put up their hands and say the word correctly. the group with their hands up first and the correct answer wins a point. the group with the most points is the winner.bulletin board objectives to talk about festival traditions to make a festival collage to exchange ideas about festivals to further explore the theme of the unit ask students about their favourite festivals and their childhood memories of them. 第 2 页 /总页数2 页