内容正文:
Unit 3 Celebrations
1. What festival is it?
2. What do people do during the festival ?
Watch a video and answer the following questions.
What else do people do to prepare and celebrate Spring Festival?
Brainstorming
book train tickets or flights
Spring Festival travel rush 春运
Clean the house from top to bottom
do shopping for the Spring Festival
write couplets
put up
couplets
prepare snacks
offer sacrifices to ancestors 祭祀祖先
make dumplings
have a family reunion dinner
watch the Spring Festival Gala
let off fireworks
give red envelopes (lucky money) to kids
Learning
PART 01
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We would like to collect
some accounts about
Spring Festival, looking
forward to your accounts!
Notes from the editor:
Spring Festival in China is an important tradition in China. It has unique meanings. However, people may understand it differently, including those from other culture. Here are three readers’ accounts to our magazine, in which the readers shared their experiences and views about it.
Tom Jenkins
a 16-year-old
exchange student
living in Nanjing
Xu Gang
a 28-year-old
computer engineer
working in Shanghai
Li Yan
a 70-year-old
grandmother
from Heilongjiang
There are three readers’ accounts to the magazine.
Fast reading
The three accounts all follow the order(顺序) of __________
Can you find any evidence(证据)?
time
Tom:
Preparations began a week before the festival.
First ,……Next…
The greatest excitement began the night before Spring Festival.
Xu Gang
…weeks before Spring Festival …
The moment I get on the train…
When I get home…
Li Yan
…weeks before Spring Festival …
…when everyone comes home.
They all share a similar structure, which is
1.preparations before the Spring Festival
2.activities during the Spring Festival
3.meaning of the Spring Festival
Find out each person’s experience of Spring Festival in the three accounts.
1. The house was cleaned from top to bottom
1. to sweep away the dirt of the past year and get ready for the new year
2. the Chinese cha