Unit 1 Festivals around the world 编号 005【学习目标】1、听材料并且处理材料中的问题 2、学习写作【教学重点】 Develop the students’ listening ability, especially listening to and understanding words 【教学难点】Develop th students’ writing skills by reading , discussing and writing a letter of advice【自主预习】 熟记单词及词组harvest, starve, trick, gain, gather, award, admire, blossom, fool, apolog ize, drown, wipe, weave, weep, remind, forgivetake place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fin with, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath, set off, remind … of…【自学检测】1. The status____________ honour an important person .2. Some festivals are held to ________the dead or to ________the ancestors, who might return ________to help _____to_________.3.For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense____________ their ancestors.3. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that____________ the end of winter and to the coming of spring.5. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals, when people _____________ and in China, enjoy mooncakes.6. The country, ___________ cherry tree flowers, looks __________it is covered with pink snow.7. You have a life of ________, what would you be worried about? n. 富裕8. He is a German by ________.9. _________ ideas 新颖的意见10. an __________writer 有独创性的作家【预习疑问】 【课堂探究】Task 1 Listening to the materials about 4 friends in the carnival paradesto answer the questions on Page 6Part 1 Listen to the conversation between Carla and Li Mei. Do the True or False below.1.Limei wanted something to go with her dress, so she wore the uncomfortable shoes.2.Limei’s dress is light....