Unit Twelve
I. Objectives
✧To get some knowledge about the Western culture of Christmas;
✧Through the learning of this text, students are expected to be able to u daily life events to illustrate the theme of a topic. They should also learn how to u parallelism in their writing, how to write in informal style and how to describe their hero’s or heroine’s psychological activities.
坏道II. Teaching Emphases and Difficulties:
1. The comprehension and appreciation of Text I;
2. New words and expressions:
distribute, confess, arrogant, stun, ebb, renunciation, shrivel, plunge, rejoice, exalt, choke, hustle, confer, asonable, gush, steep, declension, rampant, prematurely, credulity, ubiquit
ous, ignite, heresy, beam, reecho, clear away, finish up
III. Teaching Procedures (7 teaching hours)
Lead-in 1.Movie Clip 2.Quotes |
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1.Movie Clip
Watch the movie clip and answer the following questions.
1.Why does the boy change his plan?
Becau his parents decided to go to Romania to visit his brother Charlie.
2.Why is Harry so excited at Christmas?
Becau he has also got prents from Ron’s mum.
Discussion:
To many people, holidays are the best time to give gifts to their family members and friends. Do you like to give gifts on holidays? Why or why not? When you decide to give a gift to a family member or friend of yours? How do you choo your gift? This is an open question.
Script
(Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Ring the Hogwart bell.
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Cast a Christmas spell.)
- Knight to E5.
- Queen to E5.
- That’s totally barbaric!
- That’s wizard’s chess. I e you’ve packed.
- I e you haven’t.
- Change of plans. My parents decided to go to Romania to visit my brother Charlie. He’s studying dragons there.
- Good. You can help Harry then. He’s going to go and look in the library for information on Nicholas Flamel.
- We’ve looked a hundred times!
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- Not in the restricted ction. Happy Christmas.
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I think we’ve had a bad influence on her.
- Harry, wake up! Come on, Harry, wake up!
- Happy Christmas, Harry.
- Happy Christmas, Ron.
- What are you wearing?
- Oh, Mum made it. Looks like you’ve got one, too.
- I’ve got prents?
- Yeah.
- There they are.
2. Quotes
Read the following quotes and tell your classmates which one is your favorite. State your reasons.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
— George Bernard Shaw
A good holiday is one spent among people who notions of time are vaguer than yours.
— John B. Priestly
养心氏片说明书To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
— Philip Andrew Adams
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
— William Shakespeare
The holiest of all holidays are tho kept by ourlves in silence and apart; the cret ann
iversaries of the heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
— Kahlil Gibran
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
— G. K. Chesterton
It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when one loves.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Listening In and Speaking Out 1.Notes 2.Listening 3.Speaking Practice |
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1.Notes
1.Nativity scene — a depiction of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke. Distinctive nativity scenes are usually displayed during the Christmas ason in churches, homes, shopping malls, and occasionally on public lands and in public buildings.做手工的作文
2.poetic embellishment — embellishing or being embellished with untrue details. The expression means that a tale, a story or a statement is improved and made more interesting or amusing with artistic addition or poetic details.
3.canonize 局字开头的成语— declare (a dead person) as a saint or treat as a saint
4.patron saint — saint who is regarded as the protector, guardian or advocate in heaven of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person. For instance, as the most famous of Christian figures and martyrs, St. George is the patron saint of England. Can you name veral patron saints of some places or occupations?
5.proximity — the state, quality, n, or fact of being near or next; cloness
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6.a phantom gift giver — an unreal or imagined person or a person who actions (such as giving gifts) are known but who identity is suppodly not known. Do you know such phantom persons in your life?
