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B2U2 Let’s Celebrate
Developing Ideas
Time for a Change
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Activity 1 Look at the pictures and talk about Chinese Spring Festival traditions (P26).
paste
Spring
Festival
Couplets
hang
red
lanterns
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set off firecrackers
receive red envelopes
/lucky money
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go to the temple fair
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Brainstorm on more actvities
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do a thorough cleaning
pay a New Year visit
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have a family reunion dinner
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1. stay up late on New Year’s Eve
2. pay a New Year visit
3. go to temple fairs
4. clean and decorate homes
5. shop at New Year’s Market
6. watch the Spring Festival Gala
7. give and receive red envelopes
8. set off fireworks and firecrackers
9. have a family reunion dinner
……
Activity 2. Which Chinese Spring Festival activity is your favorite and why?
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Activity 2-1 Read the passage and find out each person’s point of view (P26).
A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Some people choose to have the dinner in a restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea.
What do our readers think?
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Wang Peng’s point of view:
Find out each person’s point of view.
We have eaten out for the Spring Festival family dinner for the past three years, and we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home.
experiences
facts
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Wang Peng’s point of view:
Find out each person’s point of view.
I don’t understand why some people refuse to embrace the change.
I really don’t think it’s worth the effort of…
…why can’t one day be about spending time with family and relaxing?
In my opinion, what or where….doesn’t matter
Opinions can be identified by “feel, believe” and “think”.
opinions
Wang peng is for/in favor of eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner.
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Find out each person’s point of view.
Liu Yonghui’s point of view
…my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town…
…I would run around the house, listening to….
In the evening, all of us would sit…, enjoying…and being together…
We toasted… we laughed…
facts
but I’m a bit unhappy about it.
…the dinner was what I looked forward to most.
…the homemade dishes tasted more delicious that anything cooked by a top chef.
I hope…will still value …
To me, …is even more important than…
opinions
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Find out each person’s point of view.
Liu Yonghui’s point of view
Liu Yonghui is against eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner.
opinions
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Time to change
Do not change
The process is more
important.
Spring Festival
family dinner
It is convenient and
delicious to eat out.
Summary
Liu
Wang
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Activity2-2 Tell Facts (F) From Opinions (O)
A fact is something that exists or has happened, for example, an object, event or experience. Facts are statements that can be proved by evidence.
An opinion can be a general or individual view, belief or impression. Opinions can sometimes be identified by the presence of words such as “feel”, “believe” and “think”.
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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. ____
… it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. ____
I’d get under my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. ____
She’d put tokens in some dumplings… ____
O
O
O
F
F
Activity2-3 Decide if the sentences are facts (F) or opinions (O).
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Think Share
What do you think the retired teacher mean by “To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself ”?
Which of the two opinions do you agree with? Why?
Can you think of any other change of Chinese festival traditions? What do you think of the change?
Activity3-1
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1. have a family reunion dinner
2. pay a New Year visit
3. give and receive red envelopes
4. set off fireworks and firecrackers
5. stay up late on New Year’s Eve
6. go to temple fairs
7. clean and decorate homes
8. shop at New Year’s Market
9. watch the Spring Festival Gala
……
Activity 3-1 Can you think of any other change of Chinese spring festival traditions? What do you think of the change?
have a family dinner in a restaurant.
send New Year’s greetings via online platforms.
give and receive digital red envelopes
play digital fireworks
go on a New Year trip
……
traditional activities
changes
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the Spring Festival
point of view
a family dinner
be keen on
eat out
for the last three years
embrace a change
be worth the effort of doing sth.
prepare for
clean up
have nothing to do with
in one's opinion / eye(s) / view
Spring Festival Eve
a software engineer
春节
观点
家庭聚餐;年夜饭
喜欢
外出就餐
近三年来
欣然接受变化
值得花费力气做某事
为……做准备
(把……)打扫干净
和……无关
在某人看来
除夕夜
软件工程师
P26-27
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look forward to
not only ... but (also) ...
gather together
under sb's feet
make dumplings
homemade dishes
a top chef
a retired teacher
loss of tradition
personal experience
P28-29
期盼
不仅……而且……
聚在一起
阻碍/妨碍某人(工作等);碍手碍脚
包饺子
家常菜
顶级厨师
退休教师
传统丢失
个人经历
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