内容正文:
Time for a Change?
Unit 2—developing ideas
What are the children doing in the pictures?
see-think-relate
hang red lanterns
paste the Chinese character “fu” to the door
paste Spring Festival couplets
paste the Chinese character “fu” upside down
let off firecrackers
play the drums
receive a red envelope/ lucky money
fireworks
What festival do you think they are celebrating?
What other traditons do you know about this festival?
Spring Festival
other traditons
thoroughly clean the house
pay a New Year visit
watch a lion/ dragon dance
watch Spring Festival Gala; stay up (the whole night)
have a family reunion dinner on the eve of Spring Festival
Where do you have a family dinner?
at home?
in a restaurant?
or
social insights
A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate spring festival. Nowadays some people choose to have dinner in a restaurant but not everyone is keen on this idea. What do our readers think?
Time for a Change ?
like it a lot and are very enthusiastic about it
?
Read the passage quickly and find out:
the source of this passage
each person’s point of view
the arguments given by the two writers
a column in a magazine or newspaper
list
Eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner only changes the form of this tradition, but the love between family members remains the same.
each person’s point of view
It just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. The process of preparing dinner together is more important than the dinner itself.
Liu Yonghui, a retired teacher
Wang Peng, a software engineer
the arguments
Wang Peng, a software engineer
We have enjoyed it no less than eating at home.
Preparations for the dinner are hard work. I really don’t think it’s worth the effort.
Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions.
What or where we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesn’t matter. The love ... remains the same.
不低于,一样
is not connected
the arguments
Liu Yonghui, a retired teacher
When I was a lit