Unit 3 Celebrations Reading Club & Check Your Progress 课件 2023-2024学年高一英语北师大版（2019）必修第一册

Unit 3 Reading Club & Check Your Progress 新 课 导 入 Let’s talk Do you know these dishes? Are they typical to your area? 课 堂 学 习 ◆ Reading Club 1 Festival Menu Food plays a major role in celebrations in China. Spring Festival dishes are full of special cultural meanings, and are seen as a way for people to express their hopes and wishes for the coming year. Are any of the following cuisines typical to your area? Do you know the meaning of each dish? Look and Say. Deep-fried fish in sweet and sour sauce Chinese dumplings It literally means a surplus of food and symbolises plentiful wealth. It is believed that they will bring wealth and prosperity. Eight Treasure rice pudding Four Joy meatballs It means good luck, happiness and fortune. It means blessing, wealth, longevity and happiness. General Understanding Read the text and answer the following questions. Which Spring Festival dishes are believed to bring fortune? 1 Deep-fried fish in sweet and sour sauce, Chinese dumplings, Eight Treasure rice pudding, and Four Joy meatballs are believed to bring fortune. Which dishes symbolise happiness in the new year? 2 Eight Treasure rice pudding and Four Joy meatballs symbolise happiness in the new year. Critical Thinking What cultural meanings can you infer from the names of the dishes? 3 You can answer like this: Wealth and prosperity is highly prized in Chinese culture as dishes such as deep-fried fish and jiaozi have word play and meanings related to these ideas. ◆ Reading Club 2 The Un-Birthday Gift Introduction adaptation from Chapter 6: Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking-Glass a version of original story that has been rewritten to be easier or to use different languages Lewis Carroll He was born in 1832 in England and died in 1898. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass a mathematician and photographer General Understanding Read the text and answer the following questions. Who do you think Lewis Carroll wrote the story for? 1 I think Lewi