Language Focus:

1. Useful expressions: be based on, as well, climb down…

Teaching Objectives:

1. Master some useful expressions

2. Get the students to know more about Christmas Day.

Properties: Recorder

Teaching Procedures:

I. Organizing the class

1. Ask the students to get ready for class.

2. Greeting and a duty report.

II. Revision

1. Check homework.

2. Revise the dialogue of lesson 29, Read and act out the dialogue in pairs.

III. Presentation

Give the words connected with Christmas and have the students discuss the Christmas.

Then encourage the students to use the words.

IV. Pre – reading

Ask students to discuss the questions in small groups, write down the answers and ask one of each group, to read their answers.

V. Reading

1.   

A.    Lesson 30

Well, how about in England? What festivals do they have?( Thanksgiving, Hallowmas, Easter and Christmas and so on.)

Which is the most important? ( Christmas)

How do they celebrate it?

B.    Talk about Christmas

What day in Christmas Day?

What do people call the night before Christmas Day? (Christmas Eve)

Draw some pictures to help express the meaning.

In that night, children all over England put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep because their parents tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night. Father Christmas is very kind-hearted. Because he gives people presents. How? He lands on top of the house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. Then he walks quietly to the bedrooms and fill the stockings with presents. (Teach: eve, stocking, kind-hearted, chimney, fireplace.)

C.    Part 1

Get the students to answer the questions in Part 1.

D.    Part 2

Read and do Workbook Ex1

E.       Analyze the passage and divide it into three parts.

F.       Conclusion.

The new words.

VI. Practice

Have the students read the text together, then in groups.

Have the students retell the story of Christmas Day, make sure every student can say something about Christmas Day.

VII. Workbook

Do Exercises 2 Individually and check the answers with class.

VIII. Homework

Write a short passage about your spending spring festival