您正在看的高中一年级是:人教版高一Unit14 Festivals。 　　1. What could we do to celebrate Earth Day? Is there a similar festival in China?

　　2. What do you think “A Day On, Not A Day Off!” mean?

　　3.Is the Day of the Dead a sad day? What do people do to celebrate the festival?

　　4. What is the strange feature of April Fool’s Day?

　　Answers：1. We can clean up the school yard, pick up trash, plant trees and so on.

　　Yes, tree-planting days and Lei Feng day.

　　2.It is not a time for us to rest, but a time to think about and do something important and great.

　　3. No. it’s a time to celebrate the cycle of life. People usually give sugar skeletons to each other as gifts.

　　4. People can play tricks on each other and try to fool each other. The person who is fooled is often called “April Fool!”

　　Task 1: Design your new favourite holiday or festival and give reasons.

　　Report your new holiday or festival, using the following eXPressions:

　　In my opinion, we should… I believe we should…

　　I don’t think it is necessary to… We must decide…

　　I hope we can make a decision. If we do this, we can…

　　Task 2: Create your own festival. Get Ss to write a short description of their created festival according to the form below.

　　Name of the festival: ____________________________

　　Date: __________________________________________

　　Meaning: _________________________________________

　　Principles: __________________________________________

　　How is the festival celebrated? ___________________________

　　What is the symbol of the festival? _______________________

　　Task3: Writing

　　T: Now you have created your new festival, you may want your friends to join the celebration of your new festival. So you should invite your friends to attend your celebration activity. Then how will you invite your friends? Here an invitation is needed.

　　T can present a sample of invitation and tell Ss how to write an invitation. Information needed in an invitation should include: what, when, who, why, and where? (see tips on page14)

　　(Sample:

　　Dear Mr. and Mrs. Silver,

　　We are having a small At-home party with a few close friends at our house on Tuesday, February 3rd, at 7:00 o’clock.

　　We should be very pleased if you could honour us with your company.

　　Sincerely yours,

　　John Brown)

　　第二部分 篇章分析

　　the date of Kwanzaa

　　the description of Kwanzaa ①the source of Kwanzaa

　　②the meaning of the word “Kwanzaa”

　　③the characteristics of African first-fruit festivals

　　the seven principles of Kwanzaa ①Unity

　　②Self-determination

　　③Living together

　　④Working together

　　⑤Purpose

　　⑥Creativity

　　⑦Faith

　　the way people celebrate it : light a candle each day

　　the effects festivals have on us

　　第三部分 难点透析

　　词语简析：

　　1. compare…with/to …比较---和---

　　compare…to 把---比作

　　Compared with/ to many women, she was indeed very lucky.

　　We often compare children to flowers.

　　2. in common

　　have sth. in common 有共同之处

　　They have a lot in common.

　　I don’t have a thing in common with my father.

　　out of common 异乎寻常

　　Except for some crazy ideas, there is nothing out of the common in his book.

　　3. as well as “和，还有， 不但—而且—”

　　Einstein was a violinist as well as a physicist.

　　We shall travel by night as well as by day.

　　The manager as well as the workers wishes for an outing.

　　注意：1)as well as连接两个名词或代词做主语时，后面部分可视为插入语，因此，谓语动词应和前一句词和代词保持人称和数的一致。上句可改为：

　　The manager, as well as the worker, wishes for an outing.

　　The manager wishes for an outing as well as the workers.

　　The workers wish for an outing, and the manager wishes as well.

　　2)as well as连接两个动词时，后面的动词用-形式

　　He hurt his arm as well as breaking his leg.

　　as well as还可用于比较，表“和---一样好”

　　He plays as well as, if not better than, that man.

　　4. do as much as we can

　　a) do as much as we can (do)= do as much as possible=do everything we can= do all we can 尽可能多地工作/做事

　　as—as I can/ could= as—as possible 尽最大可能

　　as soon/often/hard as possible

　　Tom bought as many books as he could with the money he had.