Unit 4 Lesson 1 Starting out+Reading（讲解课件）-【优翼·学练优】2025-2026学年新教材七年级英语上册同步备课（外研版2024）

Special festivals and holidays around the world. There are different festivals and holidays . all around the world. Here are three interesting ones. Song crown is the traditional new year in thailand. IT takes place in mid April. During some crn, people have a happy water fight. They throw water at each other to wash away bad luck. Carnival is a festival in brazil. IT usually happens in late february. People wear right clothes and dance to music. There are big cars with flowers in the street. Mid summer is a holiday in sweden. IT happens on a friday between the ninety and the twenty fifth of june. IT is a celebration for the longest day of the year. People dance and wear flowers. IT is a time to enjoy summer. Unusual university treat, realize dumpling, whole cucumber, hang balloon, lantern dish, joke against the law, shocked, love pork, round shape, reunion, peace, knife, smell, fill Christmas waste, throw away pollution, plastic, celebrate meal, duty, shine, usually break, emergency, miss, thirsty, chAllenge, patient situation, regret, decision support, medical firework. Special festivals and holidays around the world. There are different festivals and holidays . all around the world. Here are three interesting ones. Song crown is the traditional new year in thailand. IT takes place in mid April. During some crn, people have a happy water fight. They throw water at each other to wash away bad luck. Carnival is a festival in brazil. IT usually happens in late february. People wear right clothes and dance to music. There are big cars with flowers in the street. Mid summer is a holiday in sweden. IT happens on a friday between the ninety and the twenty fifth of june. IT is a celebration for the longest day of the year. People dance and wear flowers. IT is a time to enjoy summer. An unusual spring festival. This is my first year of university in the U. K. My english friend melia is a nice girl. Sometimes he cooks british food for me. Today is the spring festival, so I want to treat her to a chinese dinner at home. I often watch grandma cook. I never realized cooking was so difficult, how I wise to have four hands. Now, IT is midnight in china. Time for dumplings. My whole family come to help me on the phone step by step. They teach me, I even make some cucumber flowers. After a mila hangs balloons and lanterns in the dining room, I put the last dish on the table. This is the lions head. Are you joking? Isn't that against the law? A mila is shocked. I love. It's a poke me ball. My family always have IT at the spring festival. Its round shape stands for family reunions. Try IT a mila, cuts a piece of IT with her knife and puts IT into her mouth. I love IT SHE says the smell of the dishes and the sound of our laughing fill the room. I feel like I am back home. Unit 4 Time to celebrate Starting out + Reading Learning Objectives In this lesson you will: 1. talk about different festivals and holidays; 2. learn about the writer’s unusual Spring Festival experience; 3. disscuss your family’s traditional dish for the Spring Festival. Look and Say Starting out Look at the pictures, what are they doing? The girls are pouring water to each other. The people are having a horse race. The person is giving flowers to a family member who has passed away. Match the pictures with the expressions. Water-splashing Festival Tomb-sweeping Day Nadam Fair 泼水节 清明节 那达慕大会 What do you know about these festivals? The Water-Splashing Festival is the Dai people's most important festival in a year. People splash water on each other to express blessings and joy. Water-splashing Festival Tomb-sweeping Day Tomb-sweeping Day, also known as Qingming Festival, is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. It usually falls around April 5th. On this day, people visit the graves of their ancestors. They clean the tombs and offer food and flowers to show respect and memory for the dead. Nadam Fair The Nadam Fair is a traditional Mongolian(蒙古的) festival. It's a time for people to enjoy various sports, such as wrestling(摔跤), archery (射箭) and horse racing. What other festivals or holidays in China do you know? Spring Festival Dragon-boat Festival National Day March 3rd of Zhuang ethnic group 三月三 Torch Festival Mid-autumn Festival Look at the picture and answer the questions. (1) What other festivals or holidays around the world do you know? Christmas Halloween Thanksgiving Day April Fool’s Day Easter (2) Which one do you think is the most special? Why? I think Christmas is the most special. There are many fun traditions like decorating Christmas trees, baking cookies, and singing Christmas songs, which make the holiday special. Understanding ideas Look and Say What are the people doing? dish The people are having a family reunion dinner during the Spring Festival. They are smiling and waving at the camera, enjoying their time together. Spring Festival dinner family reunion What is on the table? There are many delicious dishes on the table. Pre-reading Look at the picture and the title, can you predict what the passage is about? An unusual Spring Festival Why is the Spring Festival unusual? While-reading 1 It is my first year of university in the UK. My English friend, Emilia, is a nice girl. Sometimes, she cooks British food for me. Today is the Spring Festival, so I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner. 2 At home, I often watch Grandma cook. I never realised cooking was so difficult. How I wish to have four hands now! 3 It is midnight in China- time for dumplings. My whole family come to help me on the phone. Step by step, they teach me. I even make some cucumber flowers. 4 After Emilia hangs balloons and lanterns in the dining room, I put the last dish on the table. “This is the lion's head!” 5 “Are you joking? Isn't that against the law?” Emilia is shocked. 6 I laugh. “It's a pork meatball. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. Its round shape stands for family reunions. Try it!” 7 Emilia cuts a piece of it with her knife and puts it into her mouth. “I love it!”she says. The smell of the dishes and the sound of our laughing fill the room. 8 I feel like I am back home.________________________________ Read the passage. What does the writer do during the Spring Festival? The writer treats her English friend Emilia to a Chinese dinner, cooks Chinese food with her family's help on the phone, and decorates the dining room with Emilia during the Spring Festival. Choose the best ending of the passage. a I don’t like having the Spring Festival all by myself. b I miss my family so much. c It's really an unusual but happy Spring Festival. Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. The writer's problem: Today is 1. ____________. I want to cook a 2.___________ for Emilia. But cooking is so difficult for me. The writer's solution: At midnight in China, my 3.______________ come to help me on the phone. Spring Festival Chinese dinner whole family The result: I show the last 4._______________to Emilia. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. She is 5.___________  at the name of the dish, but she likes its taste. We enjoy the dinner and laugh. I feel like I am 6._______________. dish shocked back home 1.Why does Emilia think “lion’s head” is against the law at first? Read again, then answer the questions. 2.What is the special meaning behind the “lion’s head” dish? Its round shape stands for family reunions. Because she thinks the dish is made of a real lion’s head. 3.Why does the writer say it’s an unusual Spring Festival? Because the writer spends the Spring Festival in a foreign country with her English friend, not with her family in China. Her family helps her cook Chinese food over the phone, and she shares the festival with a foreign friend, which is different from the usual way. Are there any other dishes that people usually have during the Spring Festival? “鱼” 和”余” 的发音相同，吃鱼就寓意着 “年年有余”。 “年糕”听起来像是“年年高升”，象征着进步和成长。。 Think and Share 1.What is unusual about the writer's Spring Festival? What's the common way of celebrating the Spring Festival? How does the writer celebrate the Spring Festival? It ’s her first time to spend the Spring Festival abroad and she learns to cook a traditional Spring Festival dish for her friend with the help of her family over the phone. 2.What is your family's traditional dish for the Spring Festival? Can you cook it? (Answers will vary.) steamed fish spring rolls jiaozi Language Points 1. ...I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner. treat v.请客、款待、招待 We treated her to lunch at the hotel. E.g. I treated myself to a new coat. 我想请我的英国朋友Emilia吃一顿中式晚餐。 treat sb. to sth.意为“款待/招待某人……"。 1.treat v.当做，看待 E.g. I treat my dog as my friend. 2.treat v.治疗，医治 E.g. My mother took me to the hospital. The doctor treated me. 3.treat v.对待 【拓展】 E.g.I treat my brother well. treat sb. as sth.把……看作…… treat sb. 治疗某人 2. This is the lion's head! “狮子头"一般指“红烧狮子头"，是一道淮扬名菜，因其形状犹如雄狮之首而得名。在中国文化中，圆形象征着圆满、团圆，所以“狮子头”象征着家庭团聚，红火团圆。 这是狮子头! 3. Isn't that against the law? 本句是反问句。文中Emilia想表达的实际上是一个肯定的观点，她几乎确定那件事是违法的。但为了确认，使用了疑问的口吻。这是反问句常见的用法，即表现形式像是一个问题，但实际上是对某个观点的强烈声明或者确认。 那难道不是违法的吗? E.g.Who wouldn't want a clean environment? 此外，反问句还经常用于抱怨。 E.g.Can't you see what's happening? 4.Its round shape stands for family reunions. 它圆圆的形状象征着阖家团圆。 stand for意为“代表，表示"。 E.g.What does ATM stand for? 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