Unit 1　Festivals around the world

　　Using language: Listening and speaking

　　设计方案(一)

　　→Step 1 Revision

　　1. Check the homework exercises.

　　2. Ask some pairs of students to make up short dialogues to review modal verbs.

　　Situations:

　　1)You want to invite your friend to come to a party on Sunday.

　　2)You want to ask your mum for permission to go fishing with your friends.

　　→Step 2 Listening

　　1. Talk about Carnival and Trinidad with students.

　　2. Ask some of students to describe the pictures of the Trinidad Carnival.

　　3. Discuss with students what kind of activities the Trinidad Carnival might have.

　　4. Turn to Page 6. Ask students to read through the directions and questions in Exercise 2, predict the main idea of the listening text and then listen to the tape and give their answers.

　　→Step 3 Speaking

　　1. Turn to Page 6. Ask students to read the expressions of making phone calls, invitations and thanks in the box. Try to learn them by heart.

　　2. Suppose the situation and make a phone conversation in pairs using the expressions.

　　3. Ask as many pairs of students as possible to present their conversations to the class.

　　→Step 4 Workbook exercises

　　1. Listening

　　1)Ask students to discuss what festival these 4 pictures are about.

　　2)Have them listen to this conversation and find out the main topic.

　　3)Let them listen again and take notes to fill in the chart.

　　2. Talking

　　Ask students to read the directions and questions. Then let them make their role-play dialogues.

　　3. Listening task

1)Ask students to dictate some festival names to see if they are familiar with them.