Unit2 Let’s celebrate Time for a Change P20-21 课件（含音频）-【新教材】外研版高中英语必修第二册

Unit 2 Let’s celebrate! Time for a Change (P20-21) Unit 2 Developing ideas P20-21.mp3 Social Insights A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have the dinner in a restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea. What do our readers think? Dear Editor, We have eaten out for the Spring Festival family dinner for the last three years, and we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home. I don’t understand why some people refused to embrace the change. Can’t they admit that the preparations for the dinner are hard work? I really don’t think it’s worth the effort of spending so much time preparing for a single meal, and then another hour cleaning up the mess after it’s over. We work all year, so why can’t one day be about spending time with family and relaxing? Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions. We still have the dinner with the same people, just in a different place. The occasion is more enjoyable without all that tiring cooking, and the dishes taste better! In my opinion, what or where we eat on Spring Festival Eve rally doesn’t matter. Eating out may change the form of this tradition, but the love between the family members sitting around the table together remains the same. Wang Peng, software engineer Dear Editor, For this year’ s Spring Festival family dinner, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town, but I’m a bit unhappy about it. For me, it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. When I was a little boy, the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was what 1 looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together. I would run around the house, listening to the adults chatting about their year. I’ d get under my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. She’ d put tokens in some dump