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Unit 3 Celebrations
Topic Talk&Lesson 1
高中英语北师大版2019必修第一册
Topic Talk
To read and talk about celebrations
To listen and read for general understanding
To listen for specific information and understanding words in context
To discuss quotes on celebrations
Choose a festival or a special occasion that you like. Talk about when and how it is celebrated.
Lead-in
Dragon-Boat Festival
Lantern Festival
Spring Festival
Double-Seventh Festival
Tomb-Sweeping Day
Mid-Autumn Festival
Double Ninth Festival
National Holiday
Graduation ceremony
Wedding ceremony
Read the Text Builder carefully. Then listen to the dialogue and complete it by underlining the words or expressions you hear.
Listen and Complete the Text Builder(Ex.2)
I love celebrating ___.
It is celebrated ___.
Festivals or Occasions
Spring Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Dragon-Boat Festival
birthdays, graduations
Underline the words or expressions you hear.
Time
on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month
at the start of the lunar year
on the first day of the year
on the 25th of December
when somebody graduates from secondary school / university
Listen and Complete the Text Builder
We usually celebrate it by ___. Usually, children play with lanterns while the adults sit together, ___.
Underline the words or expressions you hear.
Activities
going to a restaurant / our grandparents’ house
having a family dinner / a party/ a barbecue
eating moon cakes / jiaozi / sticky rice balls
watching fireworks eating dessert / turkey / cakes
giving cards / presents offering congratulations / good wishes
chatting and enjoying the moon
Festival or Occasion
Time
Activities
Mid-Autumn Festival.
on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
having a family dinner
and eating moon cakes.
chatting and enjoying the moon.
I love celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
We usually celebrate it by having a family dinner and eating moon cakes.
Usually, children play with lanterns while the adults sit together, chatting and enjoying the moon.
Group Discussion(Ex.3)
Use the Text Builder to talk about your favourite festival or occasion.
Festival
or
Occasion
Name
Time / Date
Activities
Origin / Legend
Food
Example
I love celebrating the Mid-Autumn festival. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. We usually celebrate it by having a family dinner and…
1. What are Jenny’s friends going to do for her? Why?
They want to hold a surprise party.
2. What are they going to make and give Jenny at the party?
They are going to make a monster cake to give Jenny a surprise. surprise.
3. What will Jenny do at the party?
She will blow out the candles and make a wish.
Use the language you have learnt to write a short paragraph about a traditional Chinese festival to a foreign friend.Then share it in groups.
Listen to the dialogue and answer the questions.(Ex.4)
Use the language you have learnt to write a short paragraph about a traditional Chinese festival to a foreign friend. (Ex.5)
1. Spring Festival:
spring festival couplets (对联)
paper-cuttings (剪纸)
firecrackers (爆竹)
give New Year’s greetings (拜年)
family reunion dinner (团圆饭)
2. Qingming Festival:
tomb sweeping (扫墓)
offer sacrifices to ancestors (祭祖)
3. Chinese Valentine’s Day:
a cowherd and a weaving girl (牛郎织女)
magpies (喜鹊)
words and phrases
Amid the boom of firecrackers a year has come to an end, and the spring wind has wafted warm breath to the wine.
—Wang Anshi
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.
— Benjamin Franklin
QUOTE … UNQUOTE
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
— Edna Ferber
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
—Charles Lamb
QUOTE … UNQUOTE
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
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To read and talk about the spring festival
To read for general understanding
To read for specific information and understanding words in contextTo learn about and practice the passive voice
To express personal experience of the spring festival
LLearning Objectives
Contents
1. Lead in
2. Pre-reading
3. While Reading
4. Post Reading
5. Summary
6. Grammar Focus
7. Homework
01.Lead-in
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book tickets to go home
do shopping for food and clothes
put up couplets
make dumplings
have a family reunion dinner
clean the house from bottom to top
stay up late
receive/give lucky money in red envelopes
watch the Spring Festival Gala
visit relatives and friends
watch lion and dragon dances
1.What does Spring Festival mean to you?What words immeadiately comes to you mind for describing its meaning?
02.Pre-reading
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2.How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival? Use the phrases to help you.
to have a family gathering
to get together
to prepare snacks
to make dumplings
to put up decorations
to let off fireworks
Example: My family
celebrates Spring
Festival by making
dumplings together.
03.While-reading
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3.Read the three readers' accounts. Use a few words to summarise the meaning of Spring Festival for each account. Give your reasons.
For Tom, Spring Festival means excitement and a lot of fun.
For Xu Gang, coming home and being with entire family
are most important part of the Spring Festival.
For Li Yan, Spring Festival is family time.
Where and with whom
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
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Where and with whom
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
Where and with whom
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
Intensive Reading: Fill in the blanks
Tom Xu Gang Li Yan
Where and with whom
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
with his host family in Nanjing
getting ready for children coming back, buying things and preparing dishes
at home
cleaning the house, attached Fu upside down to the front door
booking travel tickets and choosing gifts for parents
setting off and watching fireworks
at parents’ home
chatting with his parents and having hotpot
children running / shouting / playing, adults talking / making jiaozi together
4.Read again. Find out each person's experience of Spring Festival in the three accounts. Take notes.
04.Post-reading
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5.Pair Work
①Find at least three descriptive sentences in the accounts that provide a vivid picture of Spring Festival. Share with your partner.
Fireworks were being let off across the city, suddenly lighting up the night sky. When I was a kid, Spring Festival was all about firecrackers, sweets and decorations. As I get older, coming home and being with my entire family is the most important part of it. Our house buzzes with activities when everyone comes home.
②Do they have the same feeling about the Spring Festival? What does Spring Festival mean to each one ?
No, they don’t have the same feeling about the Spring Festival.
For Tom, Spring Festival means excitement and a lot of fun.
For Xu Gang, coming home and being with his entire family are the most important part of the Spring Festival.
For Li Yan, Spring Festival is family time.
Group Work Think and share
Family reunion is the central theme of both accounts. This shows the importance of family in Chinese culture.
What can you infer from Xu Gang's and Li Yan's accounts? What does it mean in Chinese culture?
05.Summary
Xu Gang usually books the ticket of trains or 5. ________ for his trip home weeks before Spring Festival. When he gets on the train, he is 6. __________ by Shanxi 7. ________. When he gets home, his parents always 8._____________ what happened to the people he knows. Being with his 9. _______ family is the most important part of Spring Festival for him.
Post-reading: Summary and practice
flights
surrounded
accents
fill him in on
entire
Tom Jenkins spent his first Spring Festival with his host family. A week before the festival, the host mother Mrs Chen began preparations. She 1. ________ the dirt of the house from top to bottom to make it ready for the new year. She also 2. _________ the Chinese 3. ________ Fu 4. __________ on the front door to welcome happiness. Tom also learnt that playing fireworks was to scare away the monster Nian.
swept
attached
character
upside down
Li Yan and her husband are 10. ________. They start preparing for their family’s return weeks before Spring Festival. When everyone gets home, their house 11. ________ with activities. One of their favourite family traditions is to make Jiaozi.
Family being together is one of the 12. ________ of Spring Festival throughout history.
Summary and practice
retired
buzzes
spirit
07.Grammar Focus
the passive
Look at the following examples. Find out the structure of passive voice, and underline more examples in the texts.
Focus on Language: The Passive
1. The house was cleaned from top to bottom.
2. It is believed that when Fu is put upside down, happiness arrives.
3. Train tickets or flights have to be booked as early as possible.
4. The spirit of the festival—the spirit of family—has largely been kept.
Spring Festival is highly valued by every Chinese family.
Fireworks were being let off across the city.
I am surrounded by Shanxi accents.
Great fun is also enjoyed in the kitchen as jiaozi are being made.
...
More examples in the texts
时态 现在时 过去时 将来时 过去将来时
一般式 am/is/are
done was/were
done will/shall be
done would/should
be done
进行式 am/is/are
being done was/were
being done
完成式 have/has
been done had
been done will/shall
have been
done would/
should have
been done
1.使用被动语态时应注意的几个问题
(1)主动变为被动时双宾语的变化。
My friend gave me an interesting book on my birthday.
我的朋友在我生日那天给了我一本有趣的书。
→An interesting book was given to me (by my friend) on my birthday.→I was given an interesting book (by my friend) on my birthday.
(2)主动变为被动时,宾语成主语;(作补语的)不定式前需加to(位置不变)。
The boss made him work all day long.老板让他整天工作。
→He was made to work all day long (by the boss).老板让他整天工作。
(3)短语动词变被动语态时,勿要掉“尾巴”。
The children were taken good care of (by her).孩子们被她照顾得很好。
Your pronunciation and spelling should be paid attention to.
你的发音和拼写应该注意。
(4)情态动词,be going to,be to,be sure to,have to等结构变为被动语态时,只需将它们后面的动词原形变为“be+过去分词”。
We can repair this watch in two days.我们可以在两天内把这块表修好。
→This watch can be repaired in two days.这只表两天就能修好。
(5)当句子的谓语为say,believe,expect,think,know,write,consider,report等时,被动语态有两种形式:①谓语动词用被动语态,动词不定式作主语补足语。②用it作形式主语,真正的主语在后面用主语从句来表示。
People say he is a smart boy.人们说他是个聪明的男孩。
→He is said to be a smart boy.据说他是个聪明的男孩。
→It is said that he is a smart boy.据说他是个聪明的男孩。
【温馨提示】类似句型有:
It is said/known/suggested/believed/hoped/thought that...
2.不能用被动语态的几种情况
(1)表示状态的谓语动词,如:last,hold,contain,fit,cost等。
(2)表示归属的动词或短语,如have,own,belong to等。
(3)表示“希望、意图、喜好”的动词,如:wish,want,hope,like,love,hate等。
(4)宾语是反身代词或相互代词时谓语动词用主动语态,不能用被动语态。
(5)宾语是同源宾语、动词不定式、动词的-ing形式等,谓语动词不用被动语态。
3.主动形式表示被动意义
(1)当连系动词feel,look,smell,taste,sound等后面接形容词时;当cut,read,sell,wear,write,wash等作为不及物动词表示主语内在“品质”或“性能”时;当动词表示“开始,结束,关,停,转,启动”等时。
The flowers smell sweet.
花儿散发着芳香。
This kind of cloth washes easily.
这种布料容易洗。
(2)当break out,take place,shut off,turn off,work out等动词表示“发生,关闭,制定”等时。
The lamps on the wall turned off.
墙上的灯熄灭了。
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Choose a proper option for each situation. Explain why.
1.My friend George draws landscape pictures. __________
A. He sells them for money. B. They are sold by him for money.
2. There’s somebody behind us. __________
A. I think we’re being followed. B. I think someone is following us.
3. This orange juice tastes awful. __________
A. I think someone has left it outside the fridge for a long time.
B. I think it’s been left outside the fridge for a long time.
4. Tommy takes good care of his car. __________
A. He washes the car every week.
B. The car is washed by him every week.
5. The old lady rented an old house. __________
A. Somebody built it in 1900. B. It was built in 1900.
A
A
B
A
B
They make moon cakes with bean paste.
___________________________________________________
2. They were showing her around New York yesterday morning.
___________________________________________________
3. They say that she is one of the greatest living writers.
___________________________________________________
4. This is an imitation of the painting, because someone destroyed the
original.
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________
Moon cakes with bean paste are made by them.
She was being showed around New York by them yesterday morning.
It is said that she is one of the greatest living writers.
This is an imitation of the painting, because the original was
destroyed by someone.
Language and Grammar: Passive Voice
Rewrite the sentences in passive voice.
5. Strong winds blew off the roofs of many houses in the area.
________________________________________________________
6. The children gave the foreign guests a warm welcome.
________________________________________________________
7. They are translating the film into several foreign languages.
________________________________________________________
8. One of her former students invited her to give a speech at the conference.
________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________
The roofs of many houses were blown off by strong winds in the area.
The foreign guests were given a warm welcome by the children.
The film is being translated by them into several foreign languages.
She was invited by one of her former students to give a speech at the conference.
Rewrite the sentences in passive voice.
1. It means we have the chance to obtain information about how the moon______________ (construct)
2. When fat and salt ____________ (remove) from food, the food tastes as if is missing something.
3. Steam engines __________ (use) to pull the carriages and it must have been fairly unpleasant for the passengers, with all the smoke and noise.
4. Every day he makes sure that fresh vegetables and high quality oil __________ (use) for cooking.
is constructed
are removed
were used
are used
Language and Grammar: Fill in the blanks
Write an essay about your last Spring Festival with no more than 150 words.
Homework
Where and with whom did you spend it?
What preparations did you make?
What activities did you do?
How do you feel about it?
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