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1、Unit TwelveUnit Twelve(6 hours)I.ObjectivesI.Objectives1.1 Have a basic understanding of text 1.（Why do the parents try to hide the truth of familypoverty before the boy?How did the boy find the truth little by little?）1.2 To get some knowledge about the Western culture of Christmas;1.3 Through the

2、learning of this text,students are expected to be able to use daily life events toillustrate the theme of a topic.They should also learn how to use parallelism in their writing,howto write in informal style and how to describe their heros or heroines psychological activities.1.4 New words and expres

3、sions.II.Teaching focal points:II.Teaching focal points:1.The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;2.New words and expressions:distribute,confess,arrogant,stun,ebb,renunciation,shrivel,plunge,rejoice,exalt,choke,hustle,confer,seasonable,gush,steep,declension,rampant,prematurely,credulity,ubiquit

4、ous,ignite,heresy,beam,reecho,clear away,finish upIII.Teaching method:III.Teaching method:task-based,discussion,question and answer,report,illustration of grammarand vocabularyIVIV.Teaching procedures.Teaching proceduresLead-inLead-in1.1.Movie ClipMovie Clip2.2.QuotesQuotes1.1.Movie ClipMovie ClipWa

5、tch the movie clip and answer the following questions.Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions.1.Why does the boy change his plan?Because his parents decided to go to Romania to visit his brother Charlie.2.Why is Harry so excited at Christmas?Because he has also got presents from Rons

6、 mum.Discussion:Discussion:To many people,holidays are the best time to give gifts to their family members and friends.Doyou like to give gifts on holidays?Why or why not?When you decide to give a gift to a familymember or friend of yours?How do you choose your gift?This is an open question.ScriptSc

7、ript(Merry Christmas.Merry Christmas.Ring the Hogwart bell.Merry Christmas.Merry Christmas.1Cast a Christmas spell.)-Knight to E5.-Queen to E5.-Thats totally barbaric!-Thats wizards chess.I see youve packed.-I see you havent.-Change of plans.My parents decided to go to Romania to visit my brother Ch

8、arlie.Hes studyingdragons there.-Good.You can help Harry then.Hes going to go and look in the library for information onNicholas Flamel.-Weve looked a hundred times!-Not in the restricted section.Happy Christmas.-I think weve had a bad influence on her.-Harry,wake up!Come on,Harry,wake up!-Happy Chr

9、istmas,Harry.-Happy Christmas,Ron.-What are you wearing?-Oh,Mum made it.Looks like youve got one,too.-Ive got presents?-Yeah.-There they are.2.2.QuotesQuotesReadRead thethe followingfollowing quotesquotes andand telltell youryour classmatesclassmates whichwhich oneone is is youryour favorite.favorit

10、e.StateState youryourreasons.reasons.A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.George Bernard ShawA good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.John B.PriestlyTo many people holidays are not voyages of discovery,but a ritual of reassurance.Philip

11、 Andrew AdamsIf all the year were playing holidays,to sport would be as tedious as to work.William ShakespeareThe holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart;the secret anniversariesof the heart.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowComing generations will learn equality from povert

12、y,and love from woes.Kahlil Gibran2The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty.The honest rich can never forget it.G.K.ChestertonIt is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.Edward G.Bulwer-LyttonListening In and Speaking OutListening In and Speaking Out1.1.NotesNotes2.2.ListeningL

13、istening3.Speaking PracticeSpeaking Practice1.1.NotesNotes1.Nativity sceneNativity scene a depiction of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew andLuke.Distinctive nativity scenes are usually displayed during the Christmas season in churches,homes,shopping malls,and occasionally on

14、 public lands and in public buildings.2.poetic embellishmentpoetic embellishment embellishing or being embellished with untrue details.Theexpression means that a tale,a story or a statement is improved and made more interesting oramusing with artistic addition or poetic details.3.canonizecanonize de

15、clare(a dead person)as a saint or treat as a saint4.patron saintpatron saint saint who is regarded as the protector,guardian or advocate in heaven of anation,place,craft,activity,class,clan,family,or person.For instance,as the most famous ofChristian figures and martyrs,St.George is thepatron sainto

16、f England.Can you name severalpatron saints of some places or occupations?5.proximityproximity the state,quality,sense,or fact of being near or next;closeness6.a phantom gift givera phantom gift giver an unreal or imagined person or a person whose actions(such asgiving gifts)are known but whose iden

17、tity is supposedly not known.Do you know suchphantom persons in your life?2.2.ListeningListeningListen to the recording and answer the following questions.Listen to the recording and answer the following questions.1.What kind of memory do different speakers have for Christmas?Christmas comes with a

18、host of vivid images:Christmas trees,presents,the lights and theChristmas music.32.How do these speakers describe Santa Claus?They describe Santa Claus as chubby and jolly,a loving,very generous kind of guy and a goodlistener.Santa Claus is thought to be one of the greatest people in the world.3.Can

19、 you say who Saint Nicholas is?Saint Nicholas was a 4th century monk in what is now Turkey,who was famous for his kindness.4.According to the host,why do people honor Saint Nicholas as a saint?Because he gave away his wealth to help children and the poor.He believed in helping others anddoing it sec

20、retly,secret giving.5.How did Nicholas gradually become associated with Christmas?On the date of Nicholas death one year,some French nuns decided,to bake some little treats,go byall the homes,put treats in the shoes of the little children and tell them that Nicholas brought themfor being good.And ov

21、er hundreds of years,more people pick up on this idea of giving something tothe children.Because of the proximity of his feast day to Christmas,Saint Nicholas graduallybecame associated with the holiday.ScriptScriptOut of the BoxOut of the BoxHost:Host:For most of us,the season evokes a kind of univ

22、ersal memory.A A(a woman):My strongest memory of Christmas is the tree with all of the presents underneath it.And usually in the morning I wake up really early,like at five oclock.B B(a man):And when you come downstairs on Christmas morning and the trees lit up,there arepiles of presents,there might

23、 be a bicycle,there are skis,there is allA:A:I really remember the lights,because that to me was the most magical.B:B:And hearing just the Christmas music that you only hear one time a year.Therere just lots to behappy for.Host:Host:Is that what you ask from Santa?A&B:A&B:Yeah.Host:Host:Christmas co

24、mes with a host of vivid images that bombard us from all directions for the entireseason:candy canes and carolers,stockings and store windows,Nativity scenes andnutcrackers.Then on top of all that isthe art character whos the master of ceremonies of thisvisual feast.Santa Claus.A:A:Id describe him a

25、s fat and jolly.B:B:Big,chubby.A:A:A loving,very generous kind of guy.B:B:A good listener,listens to requests.A:A:I used to think that Santa Claus was probably one of the greatest people in the world.MerryChristmas!Host:Host:Santas origins go back more than 2,000 years,but it took centuries of poeti

26、c embellishmentand a few things lost in translation before the Santa that we know today emerged.The legendbegins with a real figure,Saint Nicholas,a 4th century monk in what is now Turkey,who isfamous for his kindness.Its said that he gave away his wealth to help children and the poor.He believed in

27、 helping others and doing it secretly,secret giving.Nicholas was a bishop bythe time he died around 350 AD,he was later canonized as a saint and became a reveredsymbol of generosity throughout Europe and beyond.The Greek adopted him as a patron4saint.The date of Nicholas death,December 6th,washonore

28、d every year with a popularfeast.But in 12th century France,the celebration took on a new twist that quickly becamepart of the tradition.Some French nuns decided one year,to bake some little treats,go by allthe homes,put treats in the shoes of the little children and tell them that Nicholas broughtt

29、hem for being good.And over the next hundred,two hundred years,more people pick up onthis idea of giving something to the children.Because of the proximity of his feast day to Christmas,Saint Nicholas graduallybecame associated with the holiday,as did the notion of a phantom gift giver.3.3.Speaking

30、PracticeSpeaking Practice1.Give an oral presentation on the summary of the main points of the listening passage.For your referenceFor your referenceThe key points:-Their memory of Christmas-The origin of Santa Claus2.Discuss and comment on the effectiveness of each others oral presentation.3.Work in

31、 pairs and take turns to ask and give answers about the following topics:a.What is your memory of the Chinese Spring Festival?b.Compare Christmas with the Chinese Spring Festival.c.Do Chinese people celebrate Christmas?Why or why not?TextText1.1.Text IText I(1)(1)Pre-Reading QuestionsPre-Reading Que

32、stions(2)(2)General ReadingGeneral Reading(3)(3)BackgroundBackground(4)(4)TextText(5)(5)Comments on the TextComments on the Text(6)(6)ExercisesExercises2.2.Text IIText II(1)(1)TextText(2)(2)QuestionsQuestionsText IText I1.1.Pre-Reading QuestionsPre-Reading QuestionsWhat association of ideas does the

33、 word Christmasbring to you?How do people in the Westusually celebrate it?The hero of the story is a little boy.What do you think the story tells us about?Think of two or three things you anticipate from the story and discuss with your classmates.Theseare open questions.You may choose any one or mor

34、e of the above questions to discuss with yourclassmates.Your original ideas will be highly valued.For your referenceFor your reference5The following information on Christmas is for your reference.1.Christmas the annual festival of the Christian church commemorating the birth of Jesus;celebrated by m

35、ost Christians on December 252.Now generally observed in many countries as a legal holiday and an occasion for exchanginggifts or greetings3.An occasion for family reunions4.Festive atmosphere in streets and shops:advertisements with Santa Claus and holly wreaths,shopwindows beautifully decorated,“c

36、ommercialized”holiday atmosphere,fountains withbackground of bright and colourful lights5.Festive atmosphere at home:Christmas tree decorated with tinsel,candles and gifts,mistletoehanging in the rooms;holly wreaths placed on doors,Christmas parties,Christmas dinner(turkeyor goose),stockings hanging

37、 at the foot of childrens beds for Father Christmas,or Santa Claus,to put gifts into them2.2.General ReadingGeneral ReadingThe text can be roughly divided into five parts.Now write down the main idea(s)for each part.1.Lines 129:Those were hard times;poor children did not have enough to eat.The boy b

38、rought food and money to Sunday school as he was told.2.Lines 3045:The boy did not go to school.Christmas was approaching,but there was no mention of Christmas at home.The boy was frightened and anxious.3.Lines 4657:It was Christmas Eve.The boy asked his parents about Christmas,the parents response

39、was queer.4.Lines 5872:The boy began to be aware of the familys plight.5.Lines 7381:The boy felt the cold emotion of renunciation.6.Lines 8285:Meagre presents in a stocking were found on Christmas morning,but the boy nolonger desired anything.3.3.BackgroundBackgroundSunday schoolSunday schoolA Sunda

40、y school is an institution designed to teach people,usually children,aboutChristianity,named such because most Christian churches meet on Sunday.Sunday schools werefirst set up in the 1780s to provide education to working children on their one day off from the6factory.It was proposed by Robert Raike

41、s,editor of the Gloucester Journal in an article in hisjournal and supported by many clergymen.It aimed to teach the youngsters reading,writing andcyphering and a knowledge ofthe Bible.By the 1960s,the term Sunday School could refer to the building and not to anyeducation classes,and by the 1970s ev

42、en largest Sunday School at Stockport had been demolished.From then Sunday School became the generic name for many different types of religiouseducation pursued on Sundays by various denominations.Sunday schools,contrary to the name,are virtually never recognized educationalinstitutions;rather than

43、offering formal grades or transcripts,Sunday schools simply attempt tooffer meaningful instruction concerning Christian doctrine and keep little or no record ofperformance for any given week.Attendance is often tracked as a means of encouraging childrento attend regularly,and awards are frequently g

44、iven for reaching attendance milestones.Today many different expressions of Sunday schools exist.They range from traditionalmethods of teaching,using small groups,Bible-based teaching,familiar songs,etc.,to the morecontemporary.Sunday school is often part of a larger Christian Formation program in m

45、anychurches.4.4.TextTextChristmasChristmasThat fall,before it was discovered that the soles of both my shoes were worn clear through,Istill went to Sunday school.And one time the Sunday-school superintendent made a speech to allthe classes.He said that these were hard times,and that many poor childr

46、en werent gettingenough to eat.It was the first time that I had heard about it.He asked everybody to bring somefood for the poor children next Sunday.I felt very sorry for the poor children.Also,little envelopes were distributed to all the classes.Each little boy and girl was to bringmoney for the p

47、oor,next Sunday.The pretty Sunday-school teacher explained that we were towrite our names,or have our parents write them,up in the left-hand corner of the littleenvelopes.I told my mother all about it when I came home.And my mother gave me,the nextSunday,a small bag of potatoes to carry to Sunday sc

48、hool.I supposed the poor childrens motherswould make potato soup out of them.Potato soup was good.My father,who was quite a joker,would always say,as if he were surprised,“Ah!I see we have some nourishing potato souptoday!”It was so good that we had it every day.My father was at home all day long an

49、d every day,now;and I liked that.I had my parents all to myself,too;the others were away.My oldest brotherwas in Quincy,and memory does not reveal where the others were:perhaps with relatives in thecountry.Taking my small bag of potatoes to Sunday school,I looked around for the poor children;Iwas di

50、sappointed not to see them.I had heard about poor children in stories.But I was told just toput my contribution with the others on the big table in the side room.I had brought with me the little yellow envelope,with some money in it for the poor children.My mother had put the money in it and sealed