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必修1 Unit3
Lesson 4 Christmas
Period 1 Reading
Objects
In this lesson, we will be able to:
1. build up an area of vocabulary related to
Christmas
2. read and understand a passage about
memories of Christmas
3. develop reading strategies to answer multiple-
choice questions;
4. know about and respect the different culture
in foreign countries.
Prediction
•What topics of
Christmas are
mentioned in the text?
Christmas
s
Brainstorm
List some words about
Christmas:
Christmas
weather
food
people
activities
objects
Words about Christmas
singing carols (唱颂歌)
Fast reading
Read the passage quickly and
do the two exercises. Ex.2 on
page 42
1.Find out the key words about
Christmas and circle them out
2.What other Christmas things
are mentioned? Make a list.
Detailed reading
Listen to the radio carefully
and pay attention to the
pronunciation, then
do Ex. 3 quickly.
Exercise 3
d. write a letter to Father Christmas
a. open the new year calendar
b. put their stockings at the end of...
c. sing Christmas carols
e. put up the Christmas tree
f. go to church
g. have Christmas cake
Detailed reading
Read the Reading Strategies to
do Multiple-choice questions
（多项选择题）. Ex. 4 on page
43
Answers:
B A B C C
In time order
In what order are the memories described?
Detailed reading
Narrative structure(记叙文的结构)
Before Christmas
On Christmas Eve
On Christmas Day
1. write …
2. open
3. make …
4. decorate ...
5. put up …, put …
6. go to …
7. sing …
8. have …
Activities
Fill in the blanks.
Time clue Activities Childish behaviors
November
(para.1)
December (para.2)
Christmas Eve
(para.3)
Christmas Day
(para.4)
After lunch (para.5)
Time clue Activities Childish behaviors
November
(para.1)
We down in front
of the fire and a
letter to Father Christmas.
We seriously wrote
“Father Christmas, the
North Pole” on
the .
December
(para.2)
We opened the
new ,Christmas
card in the post,
Christmas lights
in the streets, and
we the town
carol service.
Enough snow
to snowmen,
and
to exciting
snowball fights in the
school playground.
Christmas
Eve (para.3)
We the house,
the chrismas
tree, the decorations and
the , then
put our at the
end of beds.
Before we went to bed,
we some wine
and for
Father Christmas. We
tried to as
long as possible to see
Father christmas .
sat
wrote
envelope
calender
arrived
appeared
atteneded
make
have
decorated
put up
balloons
stockings
left
biscuits
stay awake
Time clue Activities Childish behaviors
Christmas
Morning
(para.4)
After going to ,we
played with our
new . Then we
had lunch, christmas
carols happily, at
jokes,
put on paper hats and
laughed again.
I put food
in my mouth
sometimes that
it was hard
to .
After lunch
(para.5)
The adults on the
sofas in the front of the
Queen’s on television
while we all played cards.
We had Christmas cakes. As
soon as we the
lights,
we a sleep.
It didn’t seem
possible, but
we eating.
church
presents
sang
palyed
silly
so much
swallow
slept
speech
turned off
fell into
carried on
Extraction
Pay attention to the two group sentences about
childish behaviors and weather, try to feel why the
author writes them like this.
Group 1:
① We seriously wrote “Father Christmas, the North
Pole”on the envelope, before giving them to our mother
to post.
② We tried to stay awake as long as possible to see Father
Christmas.
③ I put so much food in my mouth sometimes that it was
hard to swallow.
Group 2:
①For me ,Christmas always began in the middle of the cold,
windy month of November.
②Christmas morning was bright and sunny and, after lunch,
my cousin……
vivid and lovely
comparison
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Time clue
Before
Christmas
Christmas
Eve
Christmas
Day
Post-reading
write a letter to
…
put the
stocking …
watch…,have
tea and
Christmas cakes,
go to church, go
out to play…
decorate…,put
up…
1 5
6
8 4
Before Christmas,
in December
2
o p e n … , a t t e n d … ,
make…，have…
sing chrismas
carols
3
have lunch
7
Put these pictures in order
according to the passage
f
b c d
e
a
g h
Your turn to tell the story
Put time ahead of activities.
Add more details.
Give at least three sentences for each
Picture.
In each group, each student prepare
one picture, and then link pictures to
make a whole story.
Your group presents in the front of
your class.
write a letter to
…
put the
stocking … watch…,have
tea and
Christmas cakes,
go to church, go
out to play…
decorate…,put
up…
1
5
6 8
4Before Christmas,
in December
2
o p e n … , a t t e n d … ,
make…，have…
sing chrismas
carols
3
have lunch
7
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Activities give the basic information.
Time clue makes the article clear.
While writing an article…
C h i l d i s h b e h a v i o r a n d w e a t h e r
description to express emotion as well
as other writing way (by comparison)
make the article vivid and lovely.
Further thinking
• Why do we celebrate
festivals ?
• What can we learn from
celebrating festivals?
Further thinking
• We can feel happy and enjoyable
in celebrating festivals.
• We can show our best wishes, loves
and respect to our family and friends.
• We should know some culture, try to
love, cherish and pass down good
traditional culture.
Homework
Write and polish(润色):
“Memories of Spring Festival”
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