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Section A (3a-3c)
Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!
Learning goals
1.Words: steal, lay, dessert, garden, admire, tie
4. Sentences:① I know that the Water Festival is fun.
② I wonder if they’ll have the races again next year.
③ What fun the Water Festival is!
④ How fantastic the dragon boat teams were!
2. Useful expressions: in the shape of, lay out, steal sth. from…,
admire sb. for (doing) sth.
3. Grammar:① Objective clauses with that, if/whether
② Exclamatory statements
Listen to a great song.
What festival do you think of?
What do you know about the festival?
Warming up
Warming up
How much do you know about Mid-autumn Festival?
enjoy the full moon
eat mooncakes
It falls on August 15th on the lunar calendar(农历).
Warming up
How much do you know about Mid-autumn Festival?
families get together
have a big dinner
They started in Tang Dynasty.
Now, we still celebrate it.
People have been celebrating it ____ ________.
for centuries
When did people start to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
for hundreds of years.
Hou Yi shot down the nine suns
A goddess thanked Hou Yi and
gave him magic medicine
Hou Yi planned to drink the medicine with his wife
Pang Meng tried to steal the medicine.
Chang’e refused to give Pang Meng the medicine and drank it all.
As a result, Chang’e became light and flew up to the sky.
Pre-reading
传统民间故事
Chang’e flew up to the moon
嫦娥奔月
There are many traditional folk stories.
What story is the reading about?
Match the main idea of each paragraph.
Fast-reading
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 3
The story of Chang’e and Hou Yi
How people celebrate this festival?
General introduction about the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Paragraph 1
Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the shape of a full