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Unit3 Shopping
Culture Understanding
Warm up!
Do you know any Online Shopping Days?
你知道哪些网络购物节呢?
Watch a video about Black Friday shopping day.
Think and Discuss:
Online shopping is very popular in China.
What do you think is the reason for that?
网购在中国很流行,你认为背后的原因是什么?
课文原文
Online Shopping Days
The Internet is changing the way we shop. For most of the modern history, people went to markets, stores and malls to get what they wanted. But in recent years, more and more people choose to go shopping on the Internet. To encourage online shopping, some online stores offer huge discounts on special days of the year, and some of these special days have become big shopping days for people around the world.
Big Shopping Days in the West
One of them is the Black Friday shopping day. It is the day after Thanksgiving. It has long been a big in-store (商店内的) shopping day of the year in Western countries. Since 2019, it has also become the biggest online shopping day in the United States. Cyber (网络的) Monday is another huge online shopping holiday in the West. It is on the Monday after the Thanksgiving weekend.
Double Eleven and 6.18 in China
Double Eleven is one of the best-known online shopping days in China. It began in 2009 and is set on November 11th every year. 6.18 is China’s mid-year (年中的) online shopping event. The first 6.18 was on June 18th, 2010. Today, Double Eleven and 6.18 are two of the largest online shopping days in the world.
课文原文及翻译
Online Shopping Days
The Internet is changing the way we shop. For most of the modern history, people went to markets, stores and malls to get what they wanted. But in recent years, more and more people choose to go shopping on the Internet. To encourage online shopping, some online stores offer huge discounts on special days of the year, and some of these special days have become big shopping days for people around the world.
互联网正在改变我们的生活方式。在现在历史的大部分时间里,
人们去市场、商店以及商场购买他们想要的东西。但在最近几年,
越来越多人选择在互联网上购物。为了鼓励网络