Teaching Aims:

Knowledge aims:

1. Students can learn some new words and important expressions of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Students can understand the history of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Ability aims:

1. Students can master the skills about how to describe a traditional and famous festival.

2. Students can know and get the skills of reading and know how to use them fluently.

Emotional aims:

1. Students can strengthen pride and awareness of Chinese traditional festival.

2. Students can foster the confidence and enthusiasm of learning English.

Teaching Key and Difficult Points:

Key point:

Students can know how to describe the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Difficult point:

How to get the skills of reading and how to foster students’ enthusiasm of learning?

Teaching Method: Task-based Teaching Method, Situational Teaching Method, Communicative approach

Teaching Aid: Multi-media

Teaching Procedures:

Step1 Warming up and lead-in

Free talk:

The teacher will show some pictures and then ask Ss a question: what information can you get from the pictures? Five minutes will be given, when time is up, several students will be asked to make a short report.

(Justification: Through this period, the students can arouse the interest of the class, and the students’ speaking ability and expressive ability can be improved.)

Step 2 Pre-reading

The teacher sets two questions for students to think. The first one is “how do people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?” The second one is “what story is the reading about?” Ask students to guess the main idea of this passage.

(Justification: Before reading this passage, let students do the brainstorming and cultivate student’s predictive ability.)

Step 3 While-reading

Fast reading:

Ask students the main idea of the passage, and what the main characters in the story are.

Careful reading:

Read the passage, and put the event in the correct order.

_____ Pang Meng tried to steal the medicine.

_____ A goddess thanked Hou Yi by giving him magic medicine.

_____ Chang’e refused to give Pang Meng the medicine and drank it all.

__1__ Hou Yi shot down the nine suns and save the people on the earth.

_____ Hou Yi was very sad and watched the moon at night, and wished his wife could come back.

_____ As a result, Chang’e became light and flew up to the sky.

_____ Hou Yi planned to drink the medicine with his wife.

(Justification: Through fast reading and careful reading, students can learn the main strategies of reading, such as skimming and scanning. Moreover they can know how to read a passage when given a long passage.)

Step 4 Post-reading

At the step, students will learn the knowledge of words and expressions, so there will be some exercise for them.

Without looking at the passage, try to complete the sentences with the correct words.

1. People like to a _____ the full moon on the Mid-Autumn night.

2. The story Chang’e is one of many t_____ folk stories.

3. Hou Yi got m_____ medicine for shooting down the nine suns.

4. Pang Meng wanted to s_____ the medicine.

5. Hou Yi l_____ out fruits and desserts in the garden.

(Justification: Check out whether the students have mastered the important words and the correct functions.)

Step 5 Summary and homework

Summary: Ask a student to talk about what they have learnt in the reading class and let some students retell the story for us.

Homework: At the English corner, tell the Mid-Autumn Festival story for their friends. In addition, write a passage about a famous traditional festival in China.