教材:人教版必修三Unit1 Why Do We Celebrate Festivals?
课型:Reading & Thinking
课时:40分钟
授课教师:夏梦春(温州市龙湾中学)
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板书设计及主线很好,南昌二中黄裕恒老师B3U1阅读课Why do we celebrate festivals?
优质课 | 浙江苏克银高级教师B3U1阅读课Why do we celebrate festivals?
01 Warming-up: Activate existing knowledge
T: Okay, good morning boys and girls, how are you today? Nice, okay. So my name is Alice. This is our first time to cooperate with each other. I hope we can have a good journey. Okay, are you ready? Yes, okay, so just now we have enjoyed a song. Do you know about it? Do you know something about this movie?

S: The name of song is remember me and the movie, is, is about, we love, love the music and he is his, his dream of music.
T: You know, a lot, right? So actually, this movie is about a festival, it's called the Day of the Dead, so boys and girls, let's think about in our culture, do we have a similar festival?
S:清明节。
T:Qingming festival, right?
T: So last week we had just a Qingming festival, right? So I will ask you one more question. Have you ever thought about why do we celebrate the Qingming Festival? Why do we celebrate Qinming Festival? How about using your microphone? Okay, would you have a try using microphone when you answer my questions? Why do we celebrate QM festival?

看到这里,抛开教学本身,夏老师的笑容真的非常非常美,如沐春风般的感觉,尤其是这个画满真的是美极了,动人极啦.
S: To remember the person....
T: Who passed away. Maybe we remember our ancestors or honor our ancestors, right? Okay, what did you do on that day?
S: 这里学生说的听不大清楚。
T: So maybe why do we celebrate festival? We got it; we remember right? Okay, boy, don't be hurry, So I want to say, except you offer flowers, you clean the tomb, right? So what others things did you do?
T: I visit the parks with my family.
T: Oh, you mean that you visit the parks with your family, that means you enjoy the spring out with your family members? Yes, okay, great, so why do we celebrate festival? Maybe we also enjoy that, right? Do you think so? Yeah, we enjoy, you know, boys and girls and Qing Ming festival, in our culture, that means clear and bright, that is a good time to enjoy the spring out. Okay, thank you.
此时老师板书了we remember,we want,将学生的回答写在黑板上,尊重学生的表达,创设安全的学习氛围。
T:Okay, so boys and girls, today we are also wanting to go a further exploration about why we celebrate festival.
02 Self-directed questioning before reading
T: So, I want all of you to open your book and turn to page 4. And according to the title and pictures in this class, I want all of you to try to think out more questions about this passage. We know that here, this is the essential question. Any other questions come into your mind?

T: Any other questions? So how about you boy?
S: What, what festival did does the article talk about and why does article and what spirit does?
这里语法问题有,但是其实学生的问题质量本身是很高的,所以夏老师非常机智,下面就是体现夏老师机智的表现,夏老师按下暂停键,不指出学生的无法问题,而是采取复述的方式理清楚,从而引导学生问出更深的问题。同时,进行板书!注意老师的板书是如何一步步完成的。学生提出的所有问题,教师要能够包容学生提问时暂时存在的不足,这是一种积极的情感支持和鼓励(葛炳芳,2025:11)。

(看板书)
T: Okay, okay, let's make it clear slowly. Okay, the first one is what…
S: What festival does the article talk about?
T: You may wonder what festivals are mentioned in this article, right? Okay, great. So how about your desk mate?
S:这里学生的麦克风有问题。
T: You will talk about the origins. Okay, quite good. That also belongs to the what question, what question.
Okay, okay, so how about you?
S: What are the customs of the festival?
T: Okay, great, you want to know the customs, right? Quite okay, any other, how about you girl?
S: What the difference about the different countries festival?
T: Oh, you want to know about the difference, right? Okay, great, so maybe you want to know... Hey girl, so maybe you want to know the celebration. Organize these questions with how questions how...
S: All those festivals were were same.
T: So we can organize it, how do we celebrate, right?
T:Okay, it is enough.Any questions?
T: Okay, so right now I want all of you to read the passage, try to find our answers for those questions. Don't forget about our essential question. That is, why do we celebrate?Okay, so go through the passage quickly and try to find out the answers to the questions. Okay, ready, here we go.
03 Self-directed reading to locate answers
Step 1: Allow students sufficient time to read the passage thoroughly without interruption. Students will locate the answers to their prediction.
T: When you read, you should underline or circle that something seems important. If you have finished reading, you can just have a small discussion with a desk mate to check what you get, okay? And if you did not, just to continue.
Step2: Quick check of answers.
Teacher goes back to the board, questions: 1.Why do we celebrate festivals?
T: Alright boys and girls let's come back to our questions. So, have you found some answers to why do we celebrate festival and why do we celebrate festival? Have you found some evidence or reasons? Have you found some reasons? So okay, do you like to share.
S: We celebrate festival to share joy, gratitude, love or peace. And the festival helps us understand where we came from.
T: Where did you find it?
S: In the first paragraph.
T: Yeah, in the first paragraph, right? Okay.
S: So, let's say that together, share joy, gratitude, love.
T: Oh, you mean that you share joy, gratitude, love or peace, right? Okay, let's let me put here, cheer, joy, gratitude, right? Okay, any other things?
S: And then the last paragraph.
T: Oh, in the last paragraph. Okay, wait a moment. Okay, I will give back to the last. Oh, okay, here in the last paragraph.
S: The festival reflects people's wishes, beliefs, faith and the attitudes towards life.
T: Reflect people's.
S: It can help us understand where we came from, who we are, and what to appreciate.
T: Okay? And here, pay attention to here. What does they present?

S: Festival.
T: Festival. Yeah, so maybe we can see that the third one maybe allow us to relax and enjoy.
T: So how about the last one?
S: Understand where we came from.
T: Help us understand, right? Okay, that's quite good, that's quite good.
T: So, let's see, boys and girls, the here are four reasons I mentioned in this passage, right? So here, let's see in the last paragraph, festivals are an important part of the society, so how does the writer prove that it's important?
Important means… 夏老师在这里尝试带领学生分析这里的句间逻辑。

T: Yeah, the three sentences are all related to the importance, right? Or we can say that which word? Yeah, quite good, significance, right?
Step3: Deep dive into paragraph 1 together with the students for modelling.
T:So how about the things mentioned in the first paragraph? Please mention in the first paragraph, share joy, gratitude, love or peace that is about spirit. Oh, quite good, I like that word. It's spirit, right? So,
the spirit is common, right? Is there anything different?
T: Spirit is common. What is different?Let's focus on the first paragraph.
S: Different customs and unique charms.
T: Oh great, we can see that it's different customs and unique charms, right? Any other things, any other things? So how about this one? How about this one? We have a wide range of that means different, right? So, we got different origins, yeah, so maybe we can see the information we organize that the spirit is common, right? So, what is different?
T: Maybe the customs, yeah, origins, another, yeah, quite good, that is charm, okay, so that is what we get from the first paragraph, right?
04 Deep dive into discovering the common spirit and different customs
Step1: come back to the self-directed questions:
2.What festivals are mentioned? (Harvest festival, Spring Festival, Halloween, Mid-Autumn Festival)
3.How do people celebrate? (We’ll look closely at para 2)
T: So right now let's continue to read, let's continue to read, let's come back to our second question, what festivals are mentioned?
I think it's very easy, so could you please give me answer together. What festivals are mentioned?
T: Okay, the harvest festival, any other? The mid-autumn day, right, mid-autumn day, any other? Yeah, spring festival, right? Any other? Yeah, Halloween, quite good. So you did a good job, right? So right now I want all of you to see how do we celebrate festival? Let's move to these questions, how do we celebrate festival?
T: I think that maybe we can find some information, in the second paragraph, right? So right now I will ask all of you to read the second paragraph one more time and pay attention to what is common and what is different. Are you clear? Okay, look at it.
T: Okay, so let's come back. What is the comment in the second paragraph?
So who would like to have a try? So how about you? What is common?

夏老师这节课没有夸张的装饰,没有激动人心的表演,但是每一步都是带领学生对文本的解读,实现语言的学习,思维的发展。
S: People show their gratitude.
T: People show their gratitude for the supply of food, right? At least we share, we share gratitude, right? So one more question, why we show our gratitude to food? Because I have this time, right? So we got a lot of things why we just want to show our gratitude to food? How about you, how about you?
S:Maybe because the food is the source of life and, food is significant to us.
T: Yeah, the food is very important because without food, we cannot survive. Yes, so why do we celebrate festival? Maybe we firstly we survive, Do you agree, do you agree? Yeah, I like your word survive. Okay, car, maybe this is also the spirit. This is a spirit. Okay, so did you find something different? You find something different, how about you? We.
Step2: figure out the information about the three harvest festivals (ancient Egypt, Europe, China).
S: I find, take harvest festival as the example, the there are different forms of the customs, they celebrate the festivals.
T: So what, so you mean that examples, right, what are the examples? Could you tell me?
S: The harvest festival?
T: Yeah, and how about the space in the whole world, right? We see that the harvest festival is almost in every culture, what are the cultures mentioned in this paragraph?
S: The Egyptian and...
T: The Egypt. Any,other?
S: And European.
T: Europe, right?
S: China.
T: Okay, good. That mentioned three countries, right? So what are the different maybe the activities, right? So could you please focus on these words? The first one in the Egypt, we got a right, how about feast, right? And in European country we read it very quickly, right? That is that great churches and towns, right? Another how about China? Yeah, very different customers, right? But boys and girls, let's say, even though there are so many different customs, one thing is the same. What's that? People do what?
T: Yeah, even in the ancient Egypt and nowadays, nowadays in where in European country, what is the same?
S: People gather together.
T: That's great, that's a big discovery that people gather together, right? People get together. So we can see that even though some customs change, right? But something is also, yeah, some customs also kept. You think so? Yeah, great.
Step3: Guided questioning – cultural meaning
T: So right now I want all of you to try to, think more deeper about our mid-autumn day. So let's take out your handout here, we got a table, right? So I want all of you to try to think more about, our mid-autumn day, right?

T: So here we put it the mid-autumn day, right? So what will we, what will we put here? It's in the head of the table, yeah, festival,right? Good. So here in this table, what will you put here? We focus on the activities, right? So what did they do, what did we Chinese do? I heard your voice. when you answer my question, just use your microphone, okay? If you don't want to use a microphone, speak louder. Okay? So what is it? People get together, we can see that we had a family gather any other thing? Yeah, okay, thank you. Okay, admire the moon, right? Yeah, thank you. Enjoy the moon cake, maybe we eat moon cakes, right? So this is what we do, we can, so that is the customers, right? Or we can say that is our traditions, okay?
T: So how about in this line? I want all of you to go deeper to think about that. Tell me why we want to have a family togather .
S: Because he, a van family, gathers, we can reunion with our family and talk with each other to show what you have done in the year.
T: You mean that we can feel connected, right?
S: It is a sense of belonging.
T: Wow, this of belonging. Well done for him, well done, that's a quite good answer. Yeah, we saw with that maybe why do we celebrate festival? We see that together, we long give us a sense of belonging, right? Yeah, a sense of belonging quite good, great continue, how about your desk mate? Tell me why we admire moon? Why we admire moon?
S: Maybe remind someone, someone.
T: Let me let me help you. What, what does moon represent? You can, you can ask, you can tell me in Chinese is, okay, what does moon represent? Okay, let me let him help you.
T: It does not matter.
S: Maybe it can remind us of the people who don't gather, maybe in the remote places.
T: So can, can you remind some poem about that?
S: 相思之情
T: 天涯共此时. So maybe we can see that this is a home, right? Or convey our missing, we missing others, right? Okay, great, so how about the enjoy the delicious mooncake? When you eat mooncake, you feel delicious, delicious and you feel happy.
T: So we can see that it's also bring us work, right? So boys and girls, let's see, it's also we reflect people's wishes because we want to this together with our families, right? It give us a chance to relax and enjoy the delicious moon cake. So does it help us understand something?

T: Does it help us understand something? So how about you girl, let me ask you, why we admire moon, not the song?
S: Some ancient stories about moon we heard from.
T: Beautiful legends, beautiful stories about Moon, right in our culture, right? So maybe admire the moon can remind us of the the culture cultures.
T: So that is help us understand what can you give that word? Understand word from your textbook, Help me, help us understand, help us understand culture and how did the writers say that?
T: Understand how helps us understand. Let's read together, okay? Let's read together the helps one to go. They helps us understand where we came from, who we are. Do you agree? Do you agree that, yeah, that is, we are Chinese, we celebrate, we admire the moon, do you think? Yeah, so remember and the belongings, maybe also our culture, our roots, do you agree? Okay, great, so this is what we learned about the second paragraph, right?
05 Analyzing changes in the following paragraphs
T: So boys and girls, after doing a global reading, tell me, does the customs change over time? Does the custom change over time? Yes, how do you know that? Can you show me some evidence? Can you show me some evidence? So how about you?
S: Yes, because in the paragraph 3, some traditions may fade away and others may be established.
T: Oh, you are mentioned about the changes. What are the changes, boys and girls? Let's write it down, some customs, fade away, right? And others? Right, okay, great. So why? Why we got that change? Why we got that change? So, how about you?
S: Because we are looking development of the different area about the development of modern society and spread of new ideas.
T: Okay, quite good. Okay, what are the examples? Have a try about your girl?
S: The Chinese Spring Festival custom or lightning firecrackers.
T: What is the situation right now?
S: Many big cities have given up this custom.
T: Yeah, we can see that fire cracker is gone, right? So maybe we can see that customers sometimes may disappear, right? Yeah, any other changes? How about the Halloween mentioned in this passage?
S: It became an exciting festival for children.
T: So what changed? What changed?
S: The people.
T: That is a target. So origin changed, right? Okay, great, thank you. So we can see that maybe the origins will still change, right?
T: Great, okay, So boys and girls, let's go deeper. Let's go deeper. Okay, so let's look at the fire cracker, right? So let's take out the handout and think more about the second one is the b-ring festival, right? So what is changed? As we can see that fire, fire has gone, right? So what's your attitude about it? Or do you think this thing conveys what kind of a significance? Think about it.

S: The firecrackers used to be a tradition, but, in nowadays it cannot, adapt to the adapt, adapt to the all these situations because of the because of, because of the air pollutions. So I think this change is, it's a good change, but but it, it may, it may let us forget something of, okay.
T: Let's organize. That's very good speech, you know that the first one is that we because the society is development, right? We embrace the change, right? Any other things?
夏老师很认真的听学生表达,而且很能在恰当的时间接住学生的话,鼓励学生。不让学生尴尬。
T: How about the environment? Okay, give it to your desk mate. So what's your idea about the crackers has gone? I think it's good or not?
S: So I think it's okay.
T: Why that is okay?
S: Because many cities avoid air pollution.
T: Yeah, it avoid the air pollution, right? And you think that it's okay? I'm supporting about that because maybe it remind our sense of responsibility of protecting the environment.
T: Okay, good, so any other things, alright, so have you ever found some change in your family tradition? So could you please give an example about the changes about the Spring Festival? So what changed in your family? A change in your family? Did you find some changes in your family?

S: In a few years ago, my family went back to, we gather, gather together to, to have to have a big meal, something like that.
看这里的话轮,夏老师很会捕捉,学生提到a big meal,夏老师迅速接过来,给出一个封闭性问题,让学生从中选择,降低学生接下来表达的难度,非常赞!这里的一代一会的feedback仅显夏老师的智慧啊!
T: You have a big meal right at home or at a restaurant?
S: What?
T: Did you have a big meal at your home or at a restaurant?
S: At at home.
T: So how about right now?
S: Now, we usually go out at a restaurant or hotel.
T: So what is the significance of that? What's your opinion about eating outside for the biggest dinner?
S: Eating outside is more convenient.
T: More convenient, right? And you want to get all the family members to enjoy that happiness, right? Enjoy that reunion, right? Do you think so? Okay, great, so any other changes? Thank you for your sharing.
T: Okay, so except the boys, let's see, except the customs changes, what other changes mentioned in this passage, what other changes? Other changes? Wow, you are so quick.
S: Festivals are becoming more and more commercial.
T: More and more commercial. So could you like give that one word for me that is, what girls, what is changed? It is the some festivals are becoming commercialized or we can see that is commercialized, yeah, commercialization, right?

T: So I would want to do an interview, How about girl with glasses? So let's look at the picture, what's festival?
S: Mother's day.
T: Okay, so do you think Mother's Day is commercialized?
S:Yes.
T: How do you know that?
S: Because on Mother's Day more and more, more and more people buy some gifts to the others.
T: Well, buy gifts, maybe a bunch of flowers, right? So will you do that?
S: I usually made some gifts by myself,
T: Because I think why, why do you do that?
S: Because I think handmade can show my gratitudes and be more sincere.
T: So, yeah, maybe we see that show gratitude, right? Yes, okay, so pass your microphone to the next boy, what is your way of celebrating Mother's Day?
S: I just say thank you to my mother. I have had a heart-to-heart talk with mom.
T: Oh, heart-to-heart talk with your mom. So after that talk, will you hug your mom? No, so maybe next time, try it. Okay, I think that mom will be very happy. Okay, so thank you. So we can see that show gratitude, show our true love to your mothers, right? Okay, great, So boys and girls, let's see, look at our blackboard together.
T: So even to the ancient time, to nowadays where there are a lot of changes, some customs kept, some customs gone, some oranges change, right? Maybe new changes with the development of society, right? But what is the common, what is same? The spirit, significance will still remain here, right? No change, right? You think so? Okay, so let's say this is an ancient and nowadays, how about the future boys and girls? After this class, could you tell me will you want to put the spirit forward, would you like to, oh, I see some of you nodding your head, right?

06 Creative output – Share/ develop a family tradition
T: So right now, let's come to the most exciting part. I want all of you to share your all, develop a wonderful family tradition, Okay, so let's take out your handout. You should ready to explain how your tradition, keep the spirit alive, okay, to choose a festival and do that, okay, don't be worry, boys and girls. Let's see, let's share my example.

T: Actually, maybe you don't know that I am from Chongqing and right now it's for me, it's impossible for me to go back to my hometown to clean my grandma's tomb. What I did, I make it, I developed this tradition, take my son to the top of a nearby mountain, and I fall to the direction of my hometown. And also I share a sweet memory of my grandma to my to my son. So even though I feel closely connected to my grandma, to my grandma, are you clear? So right now I want all of you to, I want all of you to share to develop your traditions. Okay? You think about that, here we go.

T: Alright, so please forgive me about the limited time. I want all of you to share your ideas first, okay? Okay, so would you have a try?
S: I want to develop a new tradition of QM festival, every streaming festival, maybe I will invite our all of our family members to, gather around in our living room to share the, maybe the old photos that, that contain our family common memory. This is a maybe a more modern form to remember our ancestors.
T: The spirit alive, right? Okay, and also to make your family connected closely. Okay, thank you, the last chance. Okay, so how about how about girl?
S: I want to develop a family tradition for the Mid-autumn Festival. Every mid autumn festival. I want to make a photograph competition with my family.
T: Wow, that's an inspiring, inspiring activity. Do you think that hold a competition about taking photos, right? So why you want to share that photo?
S: I want to show the spirit of together. Oh, show the spirit of togetherness, right? Okay, good. So well done for the two students. Okay, well done for them boys and girls.
Activity 6: Conclusion
T: So, let's go back to the conclusion part, boys and girls. I thought the writer mentioned a thought-provoking question as this title, why do we celebrate festival? But today I want to say that you given the best answers, why? Because from survival, we enjoy, we remember, we belong, and also we develop. So that is what human needs actually. And let's go back here, we can see that is why the festival have you have future? Do you think so? Yeah, this is what we did in the future things, right? Okay, so thank you so much for giving the best answers to the questions, thank you for your cooperation, that's the ending of our class, well done for you.

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这篇逐字稿和分析最少花费5个小时,耗时两天,太难写了,而且遇到了格式问题,当然这是我的问题,真的是把我气疯了,但是夏老师,值得!
那么,在在最后再来梳理一下这节课的主要步骤:
Warming-up:
Q: 从刚刚过去的清明节,快速到本节课的主题Have you ever thought about why do we celebrate the QM festival?
Activity 1: Self-directed questioning before reading
根据图片和标题进行自主提问,学生一共提出了三个问题:Why celebrate?what mentioned?how celebrate?
Activity 2: Self-directed reading to locate answers.