内容正文:
Time for a Change?
Unit 2
Let’s celebrate!
Developing ideas
Activity 1 Watch a video and answer the question.
What traditions or activities do we have to celebrate Spring Festival ?
What traditions do we have to celebrate Spring Festival?
cook traditional food; clean the house
make Spring Festival couplets
hang Spring Festival pictures
set off fireworks /firecrackers
have a family dinner
give money to kids to send good wishes
go to the temple fair; enjoy lantern exhibition
Activity 2
Read the introduction and answer the questions.
1. What is the topic?
Socail Insights
(社会观察)
2.Where can we read this article?
A column(专栏) in a magazine/newspaper
Different views on a family dinner.
Time for a change?
Activity 3 Scan the two letters and find out the two persons’ point of view.
.
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Wang peng, software engineer
Liu Yonghui, retired teacher
___________________________
___________________________
It just won’t feel like Spring Festival
having the dinner out.
We have eaten out...we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home.
embrace the change
eating
at home
eating out
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Reasons for
eating out
The preparations for the dinner are _________.
It is not _______the effort.
It should be a day to
_________________________
Eating out _________________ loss of tradition.
The occasion is ____________ and the dishes ___________.
___________of eating at home
___________of eating out
Advantages
more enjoyable
spend time with family and relax
has nothing to do with
hard work
tastes better
worth
Disadvantages
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Read para. 2 of
the second letter
and find out the
verbs describing the
author’s actions and
his family members’ actions.
When I was