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UNIT3 LESSON1 SPRING FESTIVAL
Li Na
Dengzhou No.1 Senior High School
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To comb and acquire different experiences of three
characters before and during Spring Festival
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To infer the meaning of Spring Festival to them and
explain the significance of Spring Festival to Chinese culture
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To use language and knowledge learned to introduce our
experiences, feelings and views of last Spring Festival
Learning objectives
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To love and carry forward Chinese traditional culture
How do people celebrate Spring festival ?
Before reading: watch a video
Activities
Clean the house from top to bottom
do shopping for the Spring Festival
put up
couplets and decorations
set off firecrackers
watch the Spring Festival Gala
have a family reunion dinner
Read the notes from the editor and look at the three pictures, and try to make predictions of the main idea of the text.
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
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.
Task 1: Fast reading
While-reading
The passage is mainly____________________ ______________________________________ ___________________________________
about three readers’
accounts of how they spend Spring Festival
and their experiences and views about it.
Task 2: Careful reading
Reading strategies for your reference.
Pay attention to the key words in the passages
(1) Signal words &phrases, which are closely linked to the logic of the passages, for example, firstly, secondly, thirdly, now, then, next, before, during...
(2) Verb words and phrases, which are related to one’s actions and behavior when he or she does something.
(3) Ad