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Good morning, my class. How was your day? You seem to be a little blue? Yes, of course. We’ve just finished a three-day holiday for the Dragon boat festival. And it’s time to go back here and have classes. But you can expect for the next holiday. What is it? Yes, it’s the National holiday. 

We know so many about Chinese festivals. But do you know about some foreign festivals? Mike? You know about Easter. Good. The symbols of Easter are eggs and rabbits. Others? Iris? You know about Christmas? Yes, a very big holiday during which we can see many Christmas trees, presents and maybe the Santa Claus. 

Ok, you know so much about foreign holidays too. Today we have someone here also celebrating holiday. Let’s open our book, turn to page 40. Look at the picture. Can you guess what the holiday is. Someone says Thanksgiving. Is he right? But some students are not sure. Ok, let’s read this passage quickly for 3 minutes and find out. 

Finished? What’s the main idea of this passage, Joy? You said that it is about Thanksgiving. Is she right? Yes. Nicely done. Sit down please. Then where did the family go? Linda? You said that Jenny and her family went to grandparents’ home and have a family get together. Is Linda right? Yes. Very good. Sit down please.

During your first time reading, have you notice “What were everyone doing? No? That’s all right. Now read this passage again to find out the answers. I have a form here for you to fill. 4 students as a group to have a discussion about these questions. 10 minutes for you. Start! Now, group 1 would you like to send someone to come to the front and share your answers? Ok, they send Tina here. Ok she finished. Let’s check the answers. Tina wrote that “when they arrived, her grandfather opened the door.” “Their grandma was cooking.” Her cousins will come tonight.” Is Group one right? Ok, the first one and the second are right. But the third one is not. Group 1 could you think it over. Find again. You said the answer should be “her cousins are here now!” This time, the answer is right. Very good. See? That’s the power of group wisdom. Let’s applaud for them. Tina. Please go back to your seat. Thank you.

I still have a question can you answer me? Peter. When Brian first came here, what did he feel? You said he felt that everything was different. Where is the answer? Yes. It’s in the second paragraph from the bottom. Ok, now let’s look at this sentence and the one from the form. That is, “When they arrived, her grandfather opened the door.” “When I first came here, everything was different.” What are these two sentences? Yes. Adverbial clause of time. So what is the rule of it? Let’s read these two sentences carefully. Who can tell me? Woody. You said that the verb tense of both the main clause and subordinate clause is the same. So what are they? They are all simple past tense. Is he right? Yes, you have read it very carefully. Sit down please.

Now I have a task for you. Let’s do a survey. Each group makes a survey about how each group member’s family celebrates their festivals. Ten minutes for you. Let’s get started. Time is up. Which group wants to share your survey? Group 3. Ok, Manny represents group 3. You can start. Manny said one of his group member’s family will go on a vacation if there’s a holiday coming. Good. And another member’s family will stay at home to have a big celebration by inviting relatives and friends to come. Nice. Ok sit down please. We can see that different families have different ways to celebrate holidays. But no matter in what way, they are doing this together. Right? Because family is important.

Now Jason, would you please conclude what we have learnt today. Thank you, very good. We know something about Thanksgiving Day. And we also review adverbial clause.

After class, how about finding more foreign holidays and making a report about it. And next class I would like you to share with us.

That’ all for today. See you next time.

This is my presentation. Thanks for listening.

試講稿《Unit 3 Celebrations》

Good morning/afternoon, I’m number 6 candidate, applying for senior middle school English teacher. It’s my great honor to be here to present my lesson, now please allow me to start my presentation.

Good morning/afternoon, boys and girls. How are you today? Not bad? You feel great. I’m great, too. Thanks for asking. Are you ready for our English travel today? Oh, that’s great. Let’s enjoy some pictures together. What are these pictures about? Yeah, parties. Any other parties do you know?  New Year Party; Wedding party; Christmas party, birthday party...... Amazing.

What do we usually do in parties? We eat delicious food, we exchange things. Great, look at this picture, what are they doing? They are sitting around and eat hot-pot. Do you like ice-cream and cookies? Yeah, they taste sweet, and we call them snacks. Do you like Coco-kola? It’s a kind of drink with no alcohol, so it is soft drink.

Now, read these words by yourself, please. Stop here. Please fill in the blanks of exercise 2. Carlos, would you please read out your answer? The first one, we only invite family and close friends to my father’s birthday party.  The second one, In the summer, we love having a barbecue in the garden with friends. Terrific. Sit down, please. In life there are always things worth celebrating, such as: passing test, retiring, going to study abroad, getting a job with good salary and so on. Now, let’s listen to a four people’s speech, judge why each person is celebrating, OK? Great. Here we go.

Tape is over, why is Dave celebrating?Diana. He passed his driving test, she had failed twice, now, he feels great. Dean, why is Mike celebrating? He is so lucky, he gets a job with good salary. Wonderful. Sit down, please. Grace, can you tell us why Ewa is celebrating? She gets a great opportunity that she can study one year in America. That’s fine. Sit down, please. Do you agree with her.?Yeah. Excellent! What’s Lisa celebrating for? Let’s say it together. Now she is retiring after working for many years. Well done. When we attend a party we should follow social customs. What do you think should you do in parties? Wear proper clothes, be polite, respect local tradition. Wonderful. In exercise 4, you will get some useful advice. Now read through the advice , trying to complete the sentences and predicting what the answer will be. Stop here. Who want to be the first one? David, how brave you are! Read the whole sentence please. If it’s very formal, you should dress smartly. Nowadays, you don’t have to be too formal. You shouldn’t arrive late to a dinner party. Well done, sit down please.

Supposed you have a foreign friends who receives an invitation to one of the Chinese traditional celebrations. would you please give him/her some advice.

For example: What to wear? What presents to take? What not to do? When to arrive?

You are so kind. Work in groups and try to create a short play in such situation. Have you finished? Group 1. go back to your seat. Let’s applaud for them. They give some advice for celebrating the oncoming middle autumn festival. Many interesting things happen among them. That’s amazing. I’m proud of you. So, here we know that, there are so many differences between Chinese and western cultures, so please pay more attention to our traditional festivals and learn to respect other’s customs. OK? Fabulous.

How time flies, did you enjoy our English travel? That’s what I try to do. Glad you are happy. Time for homework. Suppose we are going to have a barbecue to welcome fresh man, you are suppose to write a composition about this. Next class, show you results. Are we clear? Perfect. So much for today, see you next time.

That’s all. Thank you.