内容正文:
U3Celebrations
Lesson1 Spring Festival
Step1:Before the class,let’s think about the following three questions:
1. What does Spring Festival mean to you?
2. What words immediately come to your mind for describing its meaning?
3. How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival?Use the Phrases to help you.
①to have a family gathering ② to prepare snacks ③to make dumplings
④ to put up decorations ⑤to let off fireworks ⑥to put up couplets
Step2:Read the text carefully and get the main idea of the text.
This passage is about three readers' accounts based on their personal experience, sharing their different views about Spring Festival.
Step3:Scan the text quickly again and find out the main idea of each person.
Tom:Spring Festival means excitement and fun.
Xu Gang:Coming home and being with his entire family is the most important part of Spring Festival.
Li Yan:Spring Festival is the joy of a family gathering.
Step4:Read the text carefully and judge the following sentences “T” or “F”
1.The passage shows the three readers’ accounts about how to spend their Spring Festival. T
2.The Chinese character Fu attached upside down to our front door shows happiness arrives. T
3.The moment Xu Gang gets on the train, he was surrounded by Shaanxi accents. F
4.Xu Gang dislikes his parents tell what’s been happening in the past year. F
5.Li Yan is glad to make preparations for her children’s homecoming. T
文中重点:
1. come to one’s mind 突然出现在某人的脑海中;想到,想起
2. describe(v.)描述---description(n.)---descriptive(adj.)
3. It was my first time spending Spring Festival in China with my host family.
It is/was my first time (that) have/has+done /had+done
4.First, the house was cleaned from top to bottom. My host mother Mrs Chen said this was to sweep away the dirt of the past year and get ready for the new year.
from top to bottom从上到下;从头到脚=>thoroughly/completely
sweep away清除,扫走
get/be ready for=>be/get prepared for=>make preparations for为......做准备
to sweep away the dirt of the past year and