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课件网) Unit 4 Time to Celebrate Starting out Understanding ideas 文化目标 Different countries have their own festivals and holidays. Let's explore different ways to celebrate. How do we follow traditions What are some new ways to celebrate festivals and holidays Why can't some people spend festivals and holidays with their loved ones By the end of this unit, you will make a poster about a festival or a holiday. 语言目标 use words and expressions in the unit to talk about festivals and holidays. use adverbs of frequency and the simple present tense to talk about ways to celebrate festivals and holidays. introduce different festivals and holidays as well as their culture Warm-up Mid-autumn Day National Day the Lantern Festival? the Spring Festival? What preparations we need to make before the Spring Festival. Cleaning and tidying up our homes. Shopping for new year's goods. Hang whip Paper-cuts for Window Decoration Lucky Character What preparations we need to make before the Spring Festival. On the Laba Festival, people drink Laba porridge. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people offer sacrifices to the Kitchen God. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, people clean and dust their houses. On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, people grind beans to make tofu. On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, people slaughter pigs and cut meat. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, people make cakes, steam buns and paste paper-cuts. On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, people go to the graves to offer sacrifices to ancestors, paste door gods, paste Spring Festival couplets and stay up late to see the new year in. Starting out Look at the pictures and answer the questions. 1 What are the festivals in the pictures 2 What do you know about these festivals 1 What other festivals or holidays around the world do you know 2 Which one do you think is the most special Why Understanding Ideas Look at the picture on the right and answer the questions. Use the words and expressions to help you. 1 What are the people doing 2 What is on the table Spring Festival dish dinner family reunion The people are having a family reunion or a dinner together. On the table there is a Spring Festival dish, plates, cups, and possibly some other dining essentials like cutlery. An unusual 1 It was my first Spring Festival in the UK. I wanted to treat my British friend, Emilia, to a Chinese dinner. She is a nice girl. Sometimes, she cooks for me. 2 However, I just couldn't make it. I often watched Grandma cook, but I never cooked anything myself. It was midnight in China, time for dumplings. But my whole family came to my help on the phone. And I became a chef in one hour! I even made some cucumber flowers. An unusual 3 After Emilia hung balloons and lanterns in the dining room, I put the last dish on the table. "This is the lion's head!" "Are you joking Isn't that against the law " Emilia was shocked. I laughed. "It ... ...
