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Festivals and customs
Unit 3
Extended reading-Assessment
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目标
By the end of this section, students will be able to:
1. grasp the content of the article and write a summary;
2. know more about the customs of the Chinese New Year;
3. understand the deep meaning of the family dinner on the Chinese New Year’s
Eve.
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Spring Festival
When can you hear the song?
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What Spring Festival traditions do you observe? What are their meanings?
the arrival of happiness and good fortune
put up Spring Festival couplets
Discussion
sweep the dust
sweeping away bad luck in the past year
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New Year’s Eve dinner
famliy reunion
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Match each paragrah .
Para 3
Para 4
Para 1
Para 2
Para 5
Para 6
Task one
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While-reading
Match each paragraph with its proper key word.
dishes; journey home; happy atmosphere
decorations; entertainment; celebrations
dishes
happy atmosphere
journey home
decorations
entertainment
celebrations
During dinner
Before dinner
After dinner
Q1: What writing technique is used here?
Flashback (倒叙).
Q2: What’s the function of this writing technique?
To attract readers’ interest;
To emphasize the importance of the dinner.
time order
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Q1: What changes have they gone through in their journey?
The journey used to be _________ and _________.
But now the_______________has made it more __________.
long
tiring
convenient
development of modern transportation
the nation’s strength
contrast
Para.3
high-speed train
imply?
Q2: How do they feel during the trip? ___________________________________
Excited.
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Q3: What does the family decorate the house with?
__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Q4: What do they represent?
_________________________________________________
Q5: What does “fish”
mean? _________________________________________
Paper-cuttings on the windows, Spring Festival couplets on the door and New year paintings on the wall.
Joy, luck and happiness.
Plenty—may you get more than you wish every year.
Para.4
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Q1: What do Luo Yan’s family members do during the dinner?
Luo Yan:___________ the cover of a large bowl
___________ in the rich smell of the soup
His wife & mother: _________________ the dishes
His son: ___________ a bite of the chicken
His father: ___________ chicken for Baofeng
lifts
breathes
prepare
takes
selects
action description:use a series of verbs to make scenes vivid
Para.1
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Para.2
Q2: How do Luo Yan’s family feel?
happy
feeling description:
rich feelings can get readers involved
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Para.5
Q1: What do Luo’s family do after the dinner?
_____________ late on the Chinese New Year’s Eve;
gather to watch ___________________________;
eat snacks, _____ with each other and make __________;
______________ the firecrackers and fireworks.
stay up
the Spring Festival Gala
chat
dumplings
set off
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Luo Yan
hopeful
(be able to come back home more frequently;
might live with his parents together in the future)
worried
(the aging parents;
not keep his parents company)
Q2: How does Luo Yan feel when he talks about his plan for the future?
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Q3: What is Luo Yan’s hope and what is home in his mind?
Luo’s hope
I hope we won’t have to be separated again.
Why?
Home is .
where all family members are together
Home provides us a sense of togetherness, a sense of reunion, a sense of family and a sense of belonging.
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Para.6
Q4: What is the true meaning of celebrating Spring Festival all over the country?
They are celebrating their good fortune,
their family’s togetherness
and their nation’s strength.
parallelism:
to highlight the strong emotions
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Post-reading
Discussion
Why is the family dinner “precious”?
Because it is carefully prepared and full of family’s love.
Because Luo Yan lives far away from home and they come back once a year, so it is a rare chance for him to have dinner with his parents.
Because Luo Yan’s parents are getting older, which means they are having fewer chance to have reunion dinner.
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Discussion
With time passing by, there are many changes of the ways to celebrate the Spring Festival, can you think of some of the changes?
send red packets in person
send red packets
by Wechat
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pay a visit
through video calls
set off fireworks
Fireworks are banned
in some districts.
The ways to celebrate the Spring Festival may have changed. But the meanings of it haven’t changed.
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Homework
Write a essay to introduce Spring Festival.
Your American friend, Jennifer, has sent you an email and expressed interest in how the Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival. Write back to introduce the festival.
Dear Jennifer,
I am happy you would like to learn about the Spring Festival. Nowadays, we celebrate the festival in many different ways. ___________________________
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________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
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Yours,
Li Hua
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Unit 3 Festivals and customs
Project and Assessment
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Lead in
Since we have learnt some traditions about festivals, please think about what festival is. Give your own definitions.
Festival:
a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances
a periodic commemoration, anniversary, or celebration
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Project
What foreign festivals do you know around the world?
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Foreign festivals
Spain La Tomatina
Brazil The Rio Carnival
Sweden Midsummer’s Day
Thailand Yi Peng Lantern Festival
Mexico The Day of Dead
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What foreign festivals do you know around the world? Then in groups, choose a festival to research.
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About research:
Internet (time-saving, not reliable)
Interview (interesting, not precise)
Library/e-library (reliable and numerous, not easy to summary key information)
Notes (key information, too general)
…
Project
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As a group, research your chosen festival. Use the ideas in the mind map below to help you.
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Project
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The belief behind Day of the Dead practices is that spirits return to the world of the living for one day of the year to be with their families.
Dressing up in costumes, singing and dancing…
Project
Bread in bone shape, calaveras (a kind of candy)
The Day of the Dead
Movie: Coco (2019)
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Making slides
As a group, put together your information to make your PPT slides. Use the example below to help you. Then present your PPT slides to the rest of the class.
PowerPoint slides:
A series of pictures or pages of information, often displayed on screen. These are for creating, presenting and sharing presentations.
B
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Making slides
Making PPT slides
To make good PPT slides, you should:
Highlight the most important content and not put too much information on one slide;
Use letters of different sizes and colors to bring your slides to life;
Include pictures, charts, sound effects and videos where necessary.
How do you evaluate these two slides?
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Making slides
a cute cartoon pattern with national clothing and accessory, to attract audiences
different style of words
Highlight the most important points
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Making slides
A typical custom pattern to decorate slides
abstract from a famous literature
Contents are compressed in two slides with attractive pictures and well-organised structure.
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Presentation
As a group, put together your information to make your PPT slides. Use the example below to help you. Then present your PPT slides to the rest of the class.
B
Criterion of PowerPoint
Contents Visual effects Innovation
comprehensive
well-organized
proper material
… pictures
slides’ effects
stable displays
… creative design
original
distinctive style
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10 10 10
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Assessment
In pairs, rank your performance level in the following areas from 1 to 5. Write down your own assessment in the column “Me” and ask your partner to write down his/her assessment of your performance in the column “Partner”.
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Assessment
If improvement is required for some of the areas above, make an action plan.
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Further study
Read Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory to learn the story of a seven-year-old narrator and an elderly woman. It focuses on country life, friendship and the joy of giving during the Christmas season, and has become a holiday classic.
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Further study
The documentary Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth is about five TV show hosts who come to China to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Watch this documentary to follow their journeys as they experience different Chinese New Year celebrations and traditions around the country.
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Homework
Make a PPT to introduce a Chinese custom of China, and presents your PPT next class.
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Thank you~
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春节序曲
中国人民解放军军乐团
中国礼仪庆典大全之春节喜庆篇, track 2, disc 1
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