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课件网) 春节 Unit 3 Celebrations Lesson 1 Spring Festival Learning objectives To master some words and expressions about Spring Festival. To learn about the meaning, custom and some common activities of Spring Festival. To understand the true spirit of Spring Festival. Spring Festival the beginning of a new year China's biggest festival a day for family reunion … to have a family gathering to get together to prepare snacks to make dumplings to put up decorations to let off fireworks How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival My family celebrates Spring Festival by making dumplings together. to watch the Spring Festival Gala to visit relatives and friends to watch dragon or lion dance to express greetings and get lucky money from seniors Read the notes from the editor and look at the three pictures, and try to make predictions of the main idea of the text. 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 Notes from the editor: Spring Festival is an important tradition in China. It has unique meanings. However, people may understand it differently, including those from other cultures. Here are three readers’ accounts to our magazine, in which the readers shared their experiences and views about it. Activity1 prediction How does each part of the passage mainly develop A．By giving examples. B．By following the order of time. C．By giving explanations. D．By comparison. √ Activity 2 Fast reading Can you find any evidence（证据） The time order of accounts a week before the festival the night before Spring Festival first,……Next weeks before Spring Festival When I get home The moment I get on the train weeks before Spring Festival when everyone comes home. Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Where and with whom Preparations before Spring Festival Activities during Spring Festival cleaning the house, attaching Fu upside down to the front door setting off and watching fireworks, enjoying a big dinner at his parents’ home booking travel tickets and choosing gifts for his parents at home children running/ shouting/ playing, adults talking / making jiaozi together 1. Find out each person’s experience of Spring Festival in the three accounts. with his host family in Nanjing chatting with his parents and having hotpot getting ready for children coming back, buying things and preparing dishes Activity 3 Detailed reading 2. How did Tom Jenkins feel when he talked about Spring Festival What did Spring Festival mean to him excited expectant funny happy Spring Festival meant excitement and a lot fun. How did Xu Gang feel when he talked about Spring Festival What did Spring Festival mean to him desperate expectant familiar great wonderful Spring Festival means coming home and being with his family. How did Li Yan feel when she talked about Spring Festival What did Spring Festival mean to ... ...
