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B2U3 Festivals and Customs (Students’ Guide)
Extended Reading----A precious family dinner
Learning Aims
By the end of this section, you will be able to:
1. grasp the main content and detailed information of the article;
2. know more about the customs of the Chinese New Year;
3. understand the deep meaning of the family dinner on the Chinese New Year’s Eve.
Lead-in
Watch a video in which people are hugging each other and express your own opinions based on your own comprehension.
Where are these people heading? Why are they hugging each other?
I Fast Reading
Read the article quickly for the first time and answer the following questions.
(1) What is the article about?
(2) How often do Luo’s family reunite?
(3) What has changed about Luo’s journey back to his hometown? What does this change imply?
II Close Readingcheerful and proud
after dinner
set off firecrackers; watch the colorful fireworks
close to midnight
worried and hopeful
stay up late; watch the Spring Festival Gala; eat snacks; chat with each other; make dumplings
in the house
Time
on the way back home
during the dinner
after dinner
Place
in the house
in the house
outside the house
Action
Feeling
III Further Thinking
Read the last paragraph and find out what is the true meaning of celebrating the Spring Festival.
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