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Lesson 1 Spring Festival
—Reading
Unit 3 Celebrations
1.Read and talk about the spring festival.
2.Train the students’ skimming and summarizing ability.
3.Read for specific information and understand words in
context.
4.Love and carry forward Chinese traditional culture.
How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival?
Lead-in
clean the house from top to bottom
do New Year shopping
put up couplets
let off fireworks/firecrackers
have a family reunion dinner
make dumplings
visit relatives and friends
lion & dragon dances
watch the Spring Festival Gala(看春晚)
receive/give lucky money in red envelopes
Read the notes from the editor and look at the three pictures, and try to make predictions of the main idea of the passage.
Notes from the editor: Spring Festival is an important tradition in China. It has unique meanings. However, people may understand it differently, including those from other cultures. Here are three readers’ accounts to our magazine, in which the readers shared their experiences and views about it.
a 16-year-old
exchange student
living in Nanjing
a 28-year-old
computer engineer
working in Shanghai
a 70-year-old
grandmother from Heilongjiang
Spring Festival
unique meanings
understand it differently
experiences and views
accounts
Pre-reading
The passage may be mainly about _____ readers’ accounts/descriptions of how they spend ______________
and their ___________ and ______ about it.
three
Spring Festival
experiences
views
1. Match the main idea of each part.
While-reading
Activity 1 Fast-reading for main ideas
Part 1 Tom Jenkins’ account
Part 2 Xu Gang’s account
Part 3 Li Yan’s account
A.Coming home and being with family are the most important parts of the Spring Festival.
B.Spring Festival is family time.
C.Spring Festival means excitement and a lot of fun.
2. How does each part of the passage mainly develop?
A.By giving examples.
B.By following the order of time.
C.By giving explanations.
D.By comparison.
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Ⅰ. Read the accounts of Tom Je