Unit 3 Celebrations Lesson 1 Spring Festival 课件- 2023-2024学年高一英语北师大版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 3 Lesson 1 Spring Festival Reading 新 课 导 入 Let’s talk ◆ What does Spring Festival mean to you? ◆ What words immediately come to your mind for describing its meaning? 课 堂 学 习 Pre-reading How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival? Use the phrases to help you. 2 to have a family gathering to get together to prepare snacks to make dumplings to put up decorations to let off fireworks Read the three readers' accounts. Use a few words to summarise the meaning of Spring Festival for each account. Give your reasons. 3 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. Fast-reading ※ For Tom, Spring Festival means excitement and a lot of fun. ※ For Xu Gang, coming home and being with his entire family is the most important part of the Spring Festival. ※ For Li Yan, Spring Festival is family time. Careful-reading Read again. Find out each person's experience of the Spring Festival in the three accounts. Take notes. 4 Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Where and with whom with his host family in Nanjing Preparations before Spring Festival at parents' home at home cleaning the house, attaching Fu upside down to the front door booking travel tickets and choosing gifts for parents getting ready for children coming back, buying things and preparing dishes Activities during Spring Festival Tom Xu Gang Li Yan setting off and watching fireworks, enjoying a big dinner chatting with his parents and having hotpot children running /shouting/ playing, adults talking/making jiaozi together Post-reading Pair Work Find at least three descriptive sentences in the accounts that provide a vivid picture of Spring Festival. Share with your partner. Group Work What can you infer from Xu Gang’s and Li Yan’s accounts? What doe