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　　Step 4 Tasks

　　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? _______________________

　　Step 5 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)

　　Step 6 Homework

　　1. Writing: Use the information about the festival you have created to write an invitation. Your invitation letter should eXPlain your festival and tell the guest how it will be celebrated.

　　2. Finish off all the exercises in Workbook.

　　Period 5 Exercise

　　Exercising and assessing.

　　Part 4 Post-unit Activities: Extended Tasks

　　Task 1: Collect information about festivals learnt in this unit and make notes if necessary.

　　Task 2: Reflection

　　T’s reflection: Have all the teaching aims been reached?

　　Have all the Ss learnt a lot in the lessons?

　　What can be improved? …

　　Ss’ reflection:

　　Self Assessment

　　Unit 14 Festivals

　　Class ________Name _________No _________Date __________

　　In this unit, you learnt about festivals and customs. How comfortable do you feel doing each of the skills below?

　　1=Not comfortable 2=Need more practice

　　3=comfortable 4=very comfortable

　　Skills comfortable level

　　Talk about festivals and customs 1 2 3 4

　　Practice eXPressing and supporting an opinion 1 2 3 4

　　Use the new words and eXPressions 1 2 3 4

　　Use modal verbs: must, have to and have got to 1 2 3 4

　　Create new festivals or holidays 1 2 3 4

　　Write an invitation 1 2 3 4

　　Reflection

　　How many festivals have been learnt in this unit? ___________________

　　What impressed me most in this unit? ____________________________

　　What points haven’t I understood yet? ____________________________

　　In what aspect do I need improvement? ___________________________