New SBI unit 14 Festivals

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    Major Activities Have family reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve, pay New Year’s visits, recreational activities (dragon dance, lion dance, stilt-walking…) Family reunion, have a big dinner on Christmas Eve…
    purpose Bidding farewell to the old year and welcoming the new year, hoping for the best and the good future. Celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
    Note: The italicized words in the form above are suggested answers.
    Step 3 Reading
    T: Do you know there is another festival which follows Christmas Day in America. It is an important festival to African Americans. Is there any one who knows the name of the festival? (Kwanzaa)
    1. Fast reading: Read the text on page 10 fast and try to get a general idea of Kwanzaa from the text. T can present a diagram of the information about Kwanzaa to help Ss to finish this task.
    (Questionnaire: When is Kwanzaa celebrated? How long does it last?
    Who created the festival of Kwanzaa? (Dr Maulana Karenga) Who usually celebrates Kwanzaa? Why is it celebrated? What are the characteristics of Kwanzaa?)
    2. Careful reading: Get Ss to read the text carefully to get more details. After reading, Ss are asked to do True or False exercises.
    1) African Americans have a long history and a rich culture, so Kwanzaa is an old festival. ( F ) (a young festival)
    2) People created Kwanzaa to celebrate American culture. ( F ) ( to celebrate African culture)
    3) The word Kwanzaa means first fruit in Swahili, one of the largest languages in Africa. ( T )
    4) The African first-fruit
    festivals are completely different from each other. ( F ) ( to have many things in common )
    5) Kwanzaa is celebrated on Christmas Day. ( F ) ( from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 )
    6) Kwanzaa is based on old African festivals. ( T )
    7) People who celebrate Kwanzaa light a candle for each of the seven principles. ( T )
    3. Dialogue.
    Suppose you are the reporter of Overseas Wind Programme of Huipu Students’ Broadcasting. Now you are chosen to interview the foreign teacher John about the festival of Kwanzaa. Make up a dialogue with your partner. One acts the role of the reporter, and the other acts the role of John. The dialogue can begin like this:
    Reporter (R): Good afternoon, everyone. Here is our Overseas Wind Programme. Today, we have a foreign guest in our progamme. He is our foreign teacher John. Hello, John.
    John (J): Hello.
    R: Welcome to our Overseas Wind Programme. Today we have a topic about the festival of Kwanzaa. So would you like to introduce Kwanzaa to us? …
    J: …
    Step 4 Discussion
    Topic1: Do you agree festivals can help us understand our history and culture? How do they help us understand our history and culture?
    Topic2: Nowadays more and more festivals have been created in my cities for various purposes, such as developing local economy, making the city well-known, etc. Our city Linhai created the Festival of the Great Wall in the South. It has been celebrated for three years. However, some Linhainese think holding such a festival causes some problems to the city. What effects does the Festival of the Great Wall in the South bring to us? Make a list
    Good Effects Bad Effects
    … …
    Step 5 Homework
    1. Oral Work: Read and recite the new words learnt in this class.
    Read and recite some beautiful and useful sentences in the text.
    2. Written Work: Suppose you are the journalist of Huipu Sunshine Magazine. You are going to write a passage about Kwanzaa.
    Period 3 Language Study & Grammar
    Step 1 Revision
    Get Ss to have revision of the text The Birth of Kwanzaa. Ss are required to answer the following questions about Kwanzaa.
    Q1: Who created Kwanzaa?
    Q2: Is it a young or an old festival? When was it born?
    Q3: When is Kwanzaa celebrated?
    Q4: Who celebrate the festival of Kwanzaa?
    Q5: Why is it celebrated?
    Q6: What are the characteristics of Kwanzaa?
    Then T can ask individual Ss to give a short talk about Kwanzaa according to the questions above.
    Step 2 Language points (in the text The Birth of Kwanzaa)
    T: Now we have a good knowledge of Kwanzaa by reading the text. And there are some useful and important words and expressions in the text as well. It is necessary for us to learn and master them well. What usefu
    l words and expressions have you found from the text?
    1. Let Ss do a word matching exercise to check whether Ss master the new words well.
    1. nation A. a strong wish to succeed in doing something
    2. faith B. large community of people; country
    3. determination C. belief in something or someone
    4. purpose D. an action meant to deceive (欺骗) someone
    5. generation E. a reason for doing something
    6. ancestor F. the people born at a certain time
    7. peace G. a person in your family who lived a long time ago
    8. trick H. quietness and calm
    (suggested answers:1-B 2-C 3-A 4-E 5-F 6-G 7-H 8-D )
    Then check answers to the exercises in Word Study on Page 13.
    (suggested answers: theme, faith, purpose, nations, determination, joy, ancestors, birth, peace, treated)
    2. Deal with the language points in the text. Get Ss to enjoy the text by listening to the tape. Ask Ss to read after the tape in low voice, and pay attention to the pronunciation, intonation and pause while listening.
    1) Kwanzaa is a seven-day festival celebrating the culture and history of African Americans.(现在分词作后置定语,表示名词中心词与分词是主动关系。)
    Kwanzaa is a seven-day festival created to celebrate the culture and history of African Americans.(过去分词作后置定语,表示名词中心词与分词是被动关系。)
    e.g.那只跟着王老师进来的狗是我家的狗。
    The dog following Mr. Wang into the room is my dog.
    被一群学生跟在后面的那个男人是我们的王老师。
    The man followed by a group of students is our teacher, Mr. Wang.

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