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Unit 3 Celebrations
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
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Lead-in
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What are they about ?
lion dance
lucky money
have the family reunion dinner
pay a new year call
character Fu / jiaozi
Talk about what the Spring Festival means to you? And what words immediately come to your mind describing its meaning?
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Pre-reading
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How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival? Use the phrases to help you.
to have a family gathering
to get together
to prepare snacks
to make dumplings
to put up decorations
to let off fireworks
Pre-reading: Answer the following question
Example: My family celebrates Spring Festival by making dumplings together.
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Ⅲ
Fast Reading
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Fast Reading
There are three readers’ accounts to the magazine. Who are they and what do they do? Where do they celebrate Spring Festival?
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Tom Jenkins
a 16-year-old
exchange student
living in Nanjing
Xu Gang
a 28-year-old
computer engineer
working in Shanghai
Li Yan
a 70-year-old
grandmother
from Heilongjiang
Fast Reading
In Nanjing
At parents’ home
in Shanxi
At home in Heilongjiang
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Ⅳ
Intensive Reading
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Intensive Reading: Fill in the blanks
Tom Xu Gang Li Yan
Where and with whom
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
with his _______
family in Nanjing
getting ready for children coming back, buying things and __________ dishes
at home
________ the house, ________ Fu upside down to the front door
________travel tickets and _________ gifts for parents
setting off and watching fireworks
at parents’ home
chatting with his parents and having hotpot
children running / shouting / playing, adults talking / making jiaozi together
host
cleaning
attached
booking
choosing
choosing
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Intensive Reading: Think about the following questions
1. Find at least three descriptive sentences in the accounts that provide a vivid picture of Spring Festival.
Example: The moment I get on the train, I am surrounded by Shanxi
accents.
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Intensive Reading: