牛津高中英语

1. Advance with English 牛津高中英语 (模块九 ·高三上学期)

2. Unit 4 Task Telling a story about Father Christmas The First Period 板块：教学设计—课件 作者：钱建芬

3. Unit 4 课件描述： 本课件用于Task部分第一课时的教学。通过文字、图片等的展示，帮助学生在听、说、读、写等开放式任务型活动中学会去分析信息、处理信息，从而为完成最后一部分的书面写作任务作好铺垫。

4. Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Christianity Islam Etc. Revision: Themost popular religions in the world Lead-in

5. Lead-in • Christianity Which is the most popular religion in western countries? What do we call people believing in Christianity? • Christians.

6. Lead-in Christmas. Which is the most popular festival celebrated by Christians? What do you know about Christmas

7. A brief introduction of Christmas Lead-in Christmas is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to be the son of God. Childeren are excited about this holiday because they believe Father Christmas will bring them gifts.

8. Lead-in Father Christmas

9. Lead-in Father Christmas is delivering gifts to people

10. No. Although Father Christmas is very famous and people talk a lot about him, he is just a legendary person. The story of Father Christmas is just a legend. Lead-in • But do you believe Father Christmas really exists? • Then what is a legend and what kind of personis a legendary person ? Please read the top of page 58 in Skills building 1 and find out the answers.

11. Skills Building 1: Finding information about a legendary person

12. So what is a legend? Skills Building 1 • Legend refers to the traditional story of a famous person or an event. Some of the stories can be true. However, most of the stories include things that are untrue, impossible or do not exist.

13. What is a legendary person? Skills Building 1 • A legendary person is a person who is very famous and who is talked about by a lot of people. Often, a legendary person is a real person who lived a long time ago, so the information about this person might be true but some of it might be untrue and just part of a legend.

14. Skills Building 1 Examples of traditional Chinese legends

15. Skills Building 1 Pangu cutting open heaven and earth

16. Skills Building 1 Nuwa patching the sky with five-colour stones

17. Skills Building 1 Pangu and Nuwa. In such legends, who are legendary people? So in the legends about Father Christmas, who is a legendary person? Father Christmas.

18. Expressions used to describe a legendary person/ figure Skills Building 1 • He/ she is said/supposed to… • He/She is known/described as… • People believe that… • According to the stories, he/she … • Apparently, he/she… • I have heard that he/she…

19. Practice: Rewrite the following sentence with the expressions above Skills Building 1 Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. e.g. Father Christmas is said/supposed to deliver/ bring presents to people.

20. Practice Skills Building 1 • He/ she is said/supposed to… • He/She is known/described as… • People believe that… • According to the stories, he/she … • Apparently, he/she… • I have heard that he/she… Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people.

21. Examples Skills Building 1 • Father Christmas is known as a person who delivers/ brings presents to people. • People believe that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people. • According to the stories, Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people. • Apparently, Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people. • I have heard that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people.

22. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas You have been asked to tell a story at your friend’s party. You decide to tell a legendary story about Father Christmas. Listen to a TV program about this legendary figure and fill in the notes 1- 8 and 13 -14. A

23. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas What he looks like a happy, (1) __________ man with long __________ hair and a long white beard, dressed in a (3) __________ with a (4) ______ belt and the same colour boots fat white red suit black

24. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Where he lives North near the (5) __________ Pole Who his friends are elves: help make (6) __________ reindeer: (7) __________ in number help (8) __________ the presents toys 12 deliver

25. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Interesting facts was usually drawn wearing (13) __________ before a famous advertisement used a picture of him wearing red in (14) _______ green 1931

26. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas B:Listen to the second half in Part B and fill in the notes 9-12. What he does goes down chimneys and places (9) _______ in stockings, in front of the Christmas (10) _____ by children’s (11)________ or by the fireplace presents tree bed The food he likes sweet mince (12) ________ pies

27. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas C Reading Read the web page about St Nicholas and work in pairs to ask and answer the questions at the bottom of Page 59.

28. Pair workAsk and answer the questions below Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas • 1. Where did St Nicholas come from? • 2. Why is Father Christmas modelled after him? • 3. What is the origion of Father Christmas coming down the chimney? • 4. Where did the idea of hanging stockings near the fireplace come from? • 5. What does St Nicholas look like?

29. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 1. Where did St Nicholas come from? St Nicholas came from a village called Myra in Turkey. 2.Why is Father Christmas modelled after him? Because he was very kind and generous especially to young people.

30. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 3. What is the origin of Father Christmas coming down the chimney? St Nicholas threw small bags of gold down the chimney to help the three daughters in a poor family get married. 4.Where did the idea of hanging stockings near the fireplace come from? One of his bags of gold fell into a stocking hanging up to dry over the fireplace.

31. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas 5. What does St Nicholas look like? He is tall and thin with no beard and wears the traditional clothes of a priest.

32. Summary Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas Give a summary of the passage according to the questions and answers about St Nicholas you practised just now.

33. A summary of St Nicholas based The story of Father Christmas is _______ _____ St Nicholas, the bishop of a village called Myra in ________ over 1,600 years ago.He is ______ and _______ with no _______ and wears the traditional clothes of a ________. He is one of the most popular _________ in Christianity and the saint of people because he is said to be very kind, __________ and generous, especially to young people. on Turkey thin tall beard priest figures merciful

34. believe chimney People ________ that once he threw small bags of gold down the _______ to help the three daughters in a poor family to get ________. This is the ________ of Father Christmas _______ down the chimney. __________ ____ the legends, one of his bags of gold fell into a ________ hanging up to dry over the _________. This is where the idea of hanging stockings near the fireplace came from. married origion coming According to stocking fireplace

35. Homework Practise telling a legendary story about Father Christmas, with the Expressions used to describe a legendary person . Your story needs to cover the following aspects. • What he looks like • Where he lives • Who his friends are • What he does • The food he likes • Interesting facts • St Nicholas

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