(
课件网) Lesson 1 SpringFestival period one: reading Unit 3 Celebrations Teaching objectives To read and talk about the spring festival To train the students’ skimming and summarizing ability To read for specific information and understanding words in context To love and carry forward Chinese traditional culture Spring Festival What words immediately come to your mind for describing its meaning the beginning of a new year a chance for family reunion China's biggest festival … What else do people do to prepare and celebrate Spring Festival account: a description of an event or experience We are collecting some accounts about Spring Festival, looking forward to your accounts! 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 There are three readers’ accounts to the magazine. Predict what each writer will talk about Spring Festival. Match each writer with their understandings of Spring Festival. waiting for her children and grandchildren to come back home and celebrate Spring Festival together first experience of spending Spring Festival in China going back home every Spring Festival to celebrate it with his family. Tom Jenkins Xu Gang Li Yan The three accounts all follow the order(顺序） of _____ A. time B. space（空间） A Tom: Preparations began a week before the festival. First ,……Next… The greatest excitement began the night before Spring Festival. Xu Gang …weeks before Spring Festival … The moment I get on the train… When I get home… Li Yan …weeks before Spring Festival … …when everyone comes home. The three texts share a similar structure, which is 1.preparations before the Spring Festival 2.activities during the Spring Festival 3.meaning of the Spring Festival First- reading What are included in each text Underline(画底线标出) the key information , such as,where,with whom,preparations,activities,and feelings in each text. While-reading(scanning) where and with whom activities preparations feelings where and with whom preparations activities feelings where and with whom preparations feelings activities Different cultures T foreigners Chinese young generation Chinese old people Tom Jenkins Xu Gang Li Yan Why do they understand Spring Festival differently Thinking Different ages Different social experiences Throughout the history, some of the original customs have changed.What have changed What have been kept Further Thinking Nowadays, it is a fashion to grab red envelopes on Wechat during the Spring Festival. Now more and more families have New Year’s Eve Dinner at the restaurant instead of eating at home. During the Spring Festival, many families choose to travle. 1.Some of the original customs have changed, but the spirit of the festival-the spirit of family -has largely been kept. 3.每逢佳节倍思亲。 the joy of a family gathering 2.We should cherish our ... ...
