Step1.Introduce the unit topic: Families get together to celebrate. When there is a big festival in China, the family members always get together to celebrate. Then what’s the festival in October in China? What festival do you know except Mid-Autumn Festival? Help the students to respond in an appropriate way.

Step2. Remind the students that in the previous book Li Ming and his family celebrated the Chinese New Year in China and Jenny and her family celebrated Christmas in Canada.

Step3. What do you know about the Western festivals? What festival is coming soon in Canada? If someone knows what it is, ask him to describe it.

Step4. Come to “THINK ABOUT IT”

Step5. Listen to the tape about Part1 and answer the following questions:

1.How many festivals are there in October in China?

2.What wil l Li Ming’s family do on the on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival?

3.What did Li Ming’s mother buy?

4.When is National Day?

5.What will Li Ming’s mother and father do during National Day?

6.Why does Li Ming like autumn best?

Step6. Read Part1 again and answer the questions above. Help the students respond in an appropriate way.

Step7. Ask some volunteers to come to the front and say what they often do on Mid-Autumn Festival? What will they do this year? Did they have any plans? If National Day is not familiar to them, you can help them to remind and make a plan.

Step8. Listen to the tape of Part2 and then retell the story in third person. Pay attention to the important points.

1.Why does Jenny like autumn, too?

2.What’s the name of the festival?

3.What will they do on Thanksgiving?

4.Did you notice the differences between Canada and the U.S for Thanksgiving?

Step9. Read Part2 again and find the answers of the questions above. If some students can’t understand correctly, you can explain it patiently.