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Unit 3 Celebrations
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
Reading
What does Spring Festival mean to you?
★ Use the phrases and example (P52 Ex.2) to help you.
The meaning of Spring Festival for me
red envelope
/ packet
feast
reunion
团聚、团圆
presents
★ Example: My family celebrates Spring Festival by making
dumplings together. / I am looking forward to this day because …
3
let off
firecrackers
4
put up the
couplets
5
paper cutting
have more than to spend
be rich
happiness arrives
6
Clean the house from top to bottom
7
Wear new and red clothes
8
Learning objectives
1. To summarize the main ideas of articles.
2. To improve reading skills of skimming and scanning.
3. To understand the cultures and customs behind Spring Festival.
1. Develop reading skills through the tasks from the outline paper.
2. Introduce Spring Festival to others in English correctly.
Key and difficult points
Listen and finish exercise
Ex.3
Fast reading
Read the three readers' accounts. Use a few words to summarise the meaning of Spring Festival for each account.
Tom Jenkins
a 16-year-old
exchange student
living in Nanjing
Xu Gang
a 28-year-old
computer engineer working in Shanghai
Li Yan
a 70-year-old
grandmother from Heilongjiang
Tom Jenkins coming home and being with family
Xu Gang excitement and a lot of fun
Li Yan family gathering with children and
grandchildren
Ex.3
Careful reading
Tom Xu Gang Li Yan
Where and with whom with his host family in Nanjing
Preparations before Spring Festival
Activities during Spring Festival
cleaning
attaching Fu
fireworks
big dinner
with parents in Shanxi
booking tickets
choosing gifts
chatting
hotpot
with family
in Heilongjiang
getting ready for kid`s homecoming
preparing dishes
family gathering
eating Jiao zi
Ex.4 on Page54.
Tom Jenkins
Xu Gang
Li Yan
Fireworks were being let off across the city, suddenly lighting up the night sky.
The moment I got on the train, I was surrounded by Shanxi accents.
Our house buzzes with activities when everyone comes home. Our grandchildren run around shouting and playing, and the adults gather around the table to talk about the past year.
Careful reading
Ex.5 on Page54.
Cloze
Tom Jenkins spent his first Spring Festival with his host family. A week before the the host mother Mrs Chen began preparations. She 1________ the dirt of 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
Cloze
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.
flights
accents
fill him in on
entire
surrounded
Cloze
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.
retired
buzzes
spirit
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