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课件网) Unit 2 Let’s celebrate! Developing ideas by Ada Developing ideas 1.Look at the pictures and talk about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. paste spring festival couplets 贴春联 pocket money 压岁钱 hang red lanterns 挂灯笼 shoots off firecrackers 放鞭炮 Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. During the Spring Festival, every family is busy cleaning house in the hope of getting rid of defilements and preventing diseases. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. Wishes for wealth,health and longevity are conveyed through paper cuttings. For example, during the Chinese New Year,the character“fu”is pasted upside down on the door to express people's wish for the coming of good luck. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. All family members will sit together and make dumplings with happiness at the Spring Festival’s eve. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. Every family will paste spring festival couplets to express a good luck for a promising future. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. On the New Year's Eve,every family stays up late to welcome the New Year’s coming. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. At twelve o'clock, when a new year drives off the old, every family will shoot off firecrackers to greet new days and send off old ones. Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. Following the New Year's Eve is the first day of the Spring Festival, a day for paying a New Year call , during which people will be busy in giving best wishes to one another by saying such auspicious phrases as "Happy New Year" . Developing ideas Let’s learn something about Chinese Spring Festival traditions. In New Year's days, elders will put some money in a red pocket (yasuiqian) and give it to children as a gift. 2. Read the passage and find out each person’s point of view. Social insights A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have dinner in a restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea. What do our readers think Wang Peng Liu Yonghui Developing ideas Time for a change Developing ideas Time for a change 2. Read the passage and find out each person’s point of view. Eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner only changes the form of this tradition, but the love between the family members remains the same. Wang Peng Liu Yonghui It just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. The process of preparing the dinner together is more important than the dinner itself. 3.Read the sentences from the passage and decide if they are facts(F)or opi ... ...
