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Unit 3 Festivals and customs
Extended reading
A precious family dinner
What will you think of when you see it?
Step1 Lead-in
Let’s guess
What will you think of when you see it?
A precious family dinner
precious
Para 1-2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
Task1 Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
Step 2Fast reading
Family dinner
Para 1-2
Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
Back home
Para 3
Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
preparations
Para 4
Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
Staying up late
Para 5
Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
Celebration
Para 6
Skimming
Find out the main idea for each scene.
Divide the passage into three parts.
flashback
Paras 1-2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
during the dinner
before the dinner
after the dinner
flashback
emphasize the dinner and draw readers’ attention.
1.Read for traditions
Task 2 Scanning
Step 3 Careful reading
2.Read for feelings
3.Read for theme
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1. Besides having a family dinner ,what other traditions do Luo Yan's family observe?
2.What are the cultural meanings of these customs?
Task1 Spring Festival traditions
Task 2 Scanning
Step 3 Careful reading
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Before dinner
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Paper-cuttings
the New Year
paintings
Spring Festival couplets
Everything represents joy, luck and happiness.
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Have a fish on the plate.
In chinese, fish means getting more.
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After dinner
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Watch the Spring Festival Gala while eating snacks, chatting with each other
Make dumplings
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Set off fireworks
They are celebrating their good fortune, celebrating their family’s togetherness, and celebrating their nation’s strength.
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family
togetherness
good
fortune
national
strength
Because our well-being is closely connected with our country.
Why are they celebrating their nation’s strength?
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Can you list more traditions with good wishes ?
Group competition
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Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Respect and pass on our traditions!
1. Analyze their feelings in different periods and think about why they feel so.
Task2 Luo Yan’s family’s feelings
excited
before dinner
during dinner
after dinner
happy
warm
eager
hopeful and worried
Luo Yan’s family’s feelings
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During dinner
How do they feel ? Why?
They feel happy.
Because they are enjoying the
carefully-prepared dinner and they are happy with their reunion after long separation.
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How do they feel ? Why?
Before dinner
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On their arrival, they find Luo’s parents eagerly waiting for them. Their home has been specially decorated for the joyous occasion.
They feel excited
After dinner
How does Luo Yan feel ? Why?
Luo Yan feels worried about his ageing parents.
He also feels hopeful
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1.How often do Luo Yan go back home?
2.What are the changes in Luo’s Journey back home?
3.What makes Luo Yan’s family still travel back every year when the journey was long and boring?
4.What does “home” mean to Luo Yan?
Task3 Read for the theme
1.How often do Luo Yan and his family go back home?
They go back home once a year.
2.What are the changes in Luo’s Journey back home?
In the past
long
tiring
At present
convenient
faster
the rapid development in modern______________ of China.
transportation
3.What makes Luo Yan’s family still travel back every year when the journey was long and boring?
They travel back for their dream of “three generations under the same roof.”
4.What does “home” mean to Luo Yan?
Home is where all family members are
together.
Why is the 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.
Step4 Post-reading Story telling
Share your story about “A Round Table”
Following aspects are included:
How do your family usually do to celebrate the Spring Festival?
What is your feeling?
What does the Spring Festival mean to your family?
Show Time
What “HOME” means to You?
warmth, comfort, love, support, understanding, encouragement, concern
Home is where __________________________
Home is a place where___________________________________
Eest or west, home is best
we can feel a sense of warmth.
we can have a rest physically and mentally.
Step 5 Further thinking
soldiers
doctors
policemen
conductors
builders
astronauts
the heroes who build our counrty during the Spring Festival
Home is the smallest country and the coutry is made up of millions of homes
China is home to every Chinese!
What you have learnt today?
Step6 Summary
Your friend David is interested in the Spring Festival and you can choose one of the following ways to introduce it:
Write a short passage ;
Draw a poster ;
Step7 Homework
Thank you !
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