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Unit 6 Celebrating the Big Days
Exploring the Topic:
Theme Reading
(Celebrating the Spring Festival)
Learning objectives
1. 运用阅读策略,将已读和已知建立联系,谈论春节;
2. 运用思维技能,梳理叙述节日活动的顺序;
3. 了解春节的文化内涵及其对中国人的特殊意义。
A. Match the festivals (a-f) with the pictures.
Review
e. Dragon Boat Festival
a. Double Ninth Festival
c. Mid-Autumn Festival
b. Spring Festival
d. Tomb-sweeping Day
f. Lantern Festival
a
b
c
d
e
f
Watch the video and answer the question:
What are people doing in the poem?
What are people doing in the poem?
set off fireworks
have a drink
put up Spring Festival couplets
放烟花
喝酒
贴春联
Guess which festival it is?
The Spring Festival.
What else do people often do during the Spring Festival?
clean up the house
打扫房间
eat dumplings
吃饺子
wear new clothes
穿新衣服
visit relatives and friends
拜访亲朋好友
have a big meal
吃一顿大餐
get lucky money
得到压岁钱
watch the Spring
Festival TV show
看春节电视节目
Activity 1 Pair work.
Match the activities with the pictures.
1
22
3
4
having a big meal
getting lucky money
watching the Spring Festival TV show
putting up Spring Festival couplets
4
3
1
2
吃一顿大餐
看春晚
收到压岁钱
贴春联
What do people often do during the Spring Festival?
Guess: What Festival is Kangkang’s family celebrating?
Skim the text and underline the main idea.
Activity 2
It’s the last day of the Chinese lunar year, and we are having celebrations to welcome the Spring Festival.
Look, my father is putting up the Spring Festival couplets. And here in the kitchen, my mother is making some delicious dishes with my aunts.
Now, it’s time for dinner. We are having a big meal. Everybody is eating and drinking happily. And at the table, my grandparents give some lucky money to my young cousins and me. Finally, here comes the TV show for the Spring Festival! All the Chinese around the world watch the show and welcome the Chinese New Year together.
We all enjoy the family time and are excited to spend the Spring Festival holiday together.
What I read: _____________________________________________
What I read: _____________________________________________
What I know: ____________________________________________
What I know: ____________________________________________
Now I understand: ________________________________________
Now I understand: ________________________________________
Our family are having celebrations to welcome the
Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival is important for Chinese.
All the Chinese around the world celebrate to
welcome the Spring Festival.
Activity 2
Read the text and make connections.
It's the last day of the Chinese lunar year, and we are having celebrations to welcome the Spring Festival.
All the Chinese around the world watch the show and welcome the Chinese New Year together.
Q: When is the New Year's Eve(除夕)?
The last day of the Chinese lunar year.
It's the last day of the Chinese lunar year, and we are
having celebrations to welcome the Spring Festival.
setting
Careful reading
Read paragraph 1 to find out the main idea.
Then answer the questions.
最后一天
举行庆祝活动
Look, my father is putting up the Spring Festival couplets. 1.And here in the kitchen, my mother is making some delicious dishes with my aunts. 2.Now, it's time for dinner. We are having a big meal. 3.Everybody is eating and drinking happily. And at the table, my grandparents give some lucky money to my young cousins and me. 4.Finally, here comes the TV show for the Spring Festival! All the Chinese around the world watch the show and welcome the Chinese New Year together.
在厨房里
吃一顿大餐
在餐桌旁
=all over the world 全世界
It’s time for sth. “到某事的时间了”
张贴春联
做一些美味的菜肴
Read paragraph 2 to find out the main idea. Then finish Activity 4.
celebrations
Activity 4
Complete the plot chart according to Para. 2.
Father ______________
____________________
Mother ______________
____________________
____________________
______________________________________
___________________
___________________
___________________
____________________________________
__________________
__________________
__________________
Beginning
Middle
End
is putting up the
Spring Festival couplets.
is making some delicious food with my aunts
We are having a big
meal.
My grandparents give some lucky money to
my young cousins and me.
All the Chinese around the world watch the TV show and welcome the Chinese New Year together.
How does the author feel about the Spring Festival?
He is excited to spend the Spring Festival holiday together.
5.We all enjoy the family time and are excited to spend the Spring Festival holiday together.
be excited to do sth.
很高兴/激动做某事
Read paragraph 3 to find out the main idea.
Then answer the question.
feelings
Activity 3
Read the text again and mark T (True) or F (False).
1. The text is about the celebrations during the long Spring Festival.
2. The Chinese New Year is on the first day of every year.
3. The author has a big family.
4. Some of the author’s cousins can’t get lucky money.
( )
( )
( )
( )
T
F
T
F
lunar
All
can
n. 作者
It's the last day of the Chinese lunar year, and we are having celebrations to welcome the Spring Festival.
Look, my father is putting up the Spring Festival couplets. And here in the kitchen, my mother is making some delicious dishes with my aunts. Now, it's time for dinner. We are having a big meal. Everybody is eating and drinking happily. And at the table, my grandparents give some lucky money to my young cousins and me.
1.Do you think the Spring Festival is a holiday of family time?Why?
Post-reading: Discuss in groups
2.What do you like best about the Spring Festival?
Post-reading: Discuss in groups
Summary
We have learnt:
1. some activities about the Spring Festival.
2. how to put the celebrations in the right order with the help of plot chart.
We can:
have a better understanding of the importance of the Spring Festival.
homework
1.Write your own festival story.
2. Draw an english poster about festivals.
龙辞旧岁 蛇舞新春
Thank you!
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