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Unit 3 Festivals and customs
Extended reading
A precious family dinner
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What Spring Festival traditions do you know?
Have a family reunion dinner.
Paste the paper-cuttings on windows.
Paste the Spring Festival couplets.
Paste the New Year paintings.
Have a fish dish.
Make dumplings.
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Watch the Spring Festival Gala
Set off firecrackers.
Send red packets to kids.
What Spring Festival traditions do you know?
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Where are these people heading? Why are they hugging each other?
They are heading back to their hometowns to meet their beloved ones they have not seen for a long time.
With Spring Festival coming, they are eager to be reunited with their family members and millions of people will join the stream of coming home. They are so happy and excited to have a family reunion.
Luo Yan, he and his family also come back home to celebrate the Spring Festival. Let’s learn a precious family dinner in Luo’s family.
Thinking
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(1)What is the article about?
Maybe once a year.
(2)How often do Luo’s family reunite?
This article is about Luo Yan’s happy family dinner on the Chinese New Year’s Eve.
Close reading
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What has changed about Luo’s journey back to his hometown? What does this change imply?
It used to be a long and tiring journey a few years ago, but it takes only 5 hours to reach his hometown now owing to the high-speed train.
It implies the fast development of modern transportation in China. It also highlights the great development and changes happening in our country.
Close reading
(3) Read para. 3 and answer the questions:
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Read the feature article again and complete the chart.
Time
Place
Action
Feeling
Close reading
cheerful and proud
happy
after dinner
Luo Yan lifts the cover of a large bowl to breathe in the rich smell; Bofeng happily takes a bite of the chicken.
in the house
during the dinner
on the way back home
on the train
chatted excitedly; thought about the