Unit 8 课时2 Reading and critical thinking（同步课件）-【上好课】2024-2025学年七年级英语上册同步精品课堂（沪外教版2024）

nullReading and critical thinking Holidays and festivals Unit Lisa’s Chinese New Year Reading Chinese New Year is important to all Chinese people. Lisa is a Chinese girl and she lives in the UK with her family. Let’s read the article and find out what she did with her parents on Chinese New Year. Read and order Put the events in time order. Lisa greeted her grandparents over a video call. The family ate jiaozi together. The family watched the Chinese lion dance. The family had some sweet snacks. Lisa received a red envelop from Mum. 1 2 3 4 5 When we come across a word we don’t know, we can keep reading and guess its meaning. For example, if we don’t know the word “envelope” in “a red envelope”, we may recognise it as a noun because it follows the adjective “red”. The next sentence tells us there is money in it. From this, we can guess what envelope means! Subskill Guessing unknown words. 1 Lisa and her grandparents probably live in different places. _____________________________________ 2 Lots of people went to watch the parade in Chinatown. _____________________________________ Read and find out Find clues to the following statements. She bowed to them over the video call ... (lines 4–5) It was almost impossible for Lisa to move. (lines 16–17) 3 Lisa didn’t enjoy the loud noise from the fireworks. ________________________________________ 4 Lisa’s family has their own way of celebrating the festival. ________________________________________ Read and find out Find clues to the following statements. Lisa covered her ears. (lines 19) ... had crispy almond cookies, her favourite snacks. It was a family tradition to end their new year celebration with sweet snacks. (lines 23-26) Fill in the chart with details from the text to describe the celebration of Chinese New Year. Read and complete Chinatown parade; excited crowds;Chinese lion dance and the fireworks. fireworks’ loud noise jiaozi and crispy almond cookies sweet memories and expecting smoke from fireworks; the fragrance of jiaozi having traditional food singing and dancing setting off fireworks watching the Chinatown parade dressing up watching light shows buying flowers cleaning the house shopping decorating the house having a party watching the Spring Festival gala Tick the ways Lisa and her parents celebrated Chinese New Year. Read and tick having traditional food singing and dancing setting off fireworks watching the Chinatown parade dressing up watching light shows buying flowers cleaning the house shopping decorating the house having a party watching the Spring Festival gala What do you usually do to celebrate Chinese New Year ? Tick Compare your ways of celebrating Chinese New Year with Lisa’s and complete the Venn chart. Compare and complete What is a Venn diagram? Compare and complete What is a Venn diagram? A venn diagram is a simple visual tool that uses circles to show how different groups or sets are related. Each circle represents a group, and where circles overlap, it shows shared elements between the groups. This method was developed by John Venn and is helpful for illustrating similarities and differences in a clear way. It's often used in science, math, and education to compare categories like animal species or product offerings. Compare and complete What is a Venn diagram? Compare your ways of celebrating Chinese New Year with Lisa’s and complete the Venn chart. Compare and complete My ways of celebrating Chinese New Year Lisa’s ways of celebrating Chinese New Year having traditional food dressing up shopping cleaning the house watching the Spring Festival gala watching the Chinatown parade Chinese New Year is coming. List your own ways to make the celebration of this coming New Year more enjoyable and unforgettable. Think and list e.g. setting goals for the new year and sharing them with my family designing handmade Chinese New Year greeting cards Chinese New Year is coming. List your own ways to make the celebration of this coming New Year more enjoyable and unforgettable. Think and list making jiaozi with my parents and putting peanuts or coins inside jiaozi having a new year party with my friends in the yard/ restaurant 1 n_____________ a loud and usually not nice sound 2 t_____________ something that has not changed for a long time 3 r_____________ to go or come back 4 m_____________ a very short period of time 5 i_____________ not possible Write the words from the text. Exercises noise tradition return moment impossible The prefix im- means “not”. It is usually used to create adjectives that have a negative or opposite meaning to the base word, e.g. impossible. Prifix:-im immaterial‌：无关紧要的，非实体的。 ‌immature‌：不成熟的，未完全发展的。 ‌immeasurable‌：不可测量的，无限的。 ‌impolite‌：无礼的，粗鲁的。 ‌immutable‌：不变的，不可变的。 ‌impatient‌：焦躁的，不耐心的。 ‌immoral‌：不道德的。 immortal‌：不朽的。 ‌improper‌：不合适的。 ‌imbalance‌：不平衡。 ‌impurity‌：不纯的。 ‌impersonal‌：不个人化的。 Nian was a monster and it came out every New Year’s Eve to eat villagers. It was 1___________ for people to find very good ways to keep themselves safe. One day an old man came and taught people how to drive away the monster. The villagers took his advice. When Nian came to the village at night, it heard the loud 2_________ and saw the red colour. Complete the story about Nian. Exercises impossible noise It was very afraid and ran away in a 3___________ . All the villagers were excited when they knew this. Nian never 4 ___________ to the village after that night. Now Chinese people still keep the 5 ___________ like fireworks, red envelopes and loud lion dances during the Chinese New Year. Complete the story about Nian. Exercises moment returned tradition People celebrate Chinese New Year with great excitement. They clean the house and decorate it with Spring Festival couplets. In the evening, people set off fireworks to 1______________ any bad luck. Families 2______________ to enjoy a special dinner. Complete the passage about Chinese New Year traditions. Exercises scare off gather around They also exchange red envelopes for good luck. In the streets, 3__________________ watch lion dances and light shows. Everyone enjoys the 4________________ Chinese New Year brings. Complete the passage about Chinese New Year traditions. Exercises excited crowds sweet moments Homework Do you like celebrating Chinese New Year? Which part of the activities do you like/ hate the most? Write down you ideas in your notes. Lavf58.12.100 $$