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课件网) Unit 3 Celebrations Lesson 1 Spring Festival What are they about lion dance lucky money have the family reunion dinner pay a new year call character Fu / jiaozi Listening task 1 Listen to a dialogue about celebrations and underline the text builders you hear. (Before listening, read the text builders carefully) I love celebrating _____. It is celebrated _____ _____. We usually celebrate it by _____ _____. Usually, children play with lanterns while the adults sit together,_____ _____. Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month having a family dinner and eating moon cakes, chatting and enjoying the moon. Pair Work Use the text builder to talk about your favourite festival or occasion, like: I love celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. We usually celebrate it by having a family dinner and… Amid the boom of firecrackers a year has come to an end, and the spring wind has wafted warm breath to the wine. -- Wang Anshi 爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏 ———王安石《元日》 What does Spring Festival mean to you What words immediately come to your mind for describing its meaning Pair work: Ask each other in pairs “what do you do to celebrate spring festival ”, then report to the class about what your partners have answered. Use the following phrases to help you. to have a family gathering to get together to prepare snacks to make dumplings to put up decorations to let off fireworks 1.First reading: （5’）Read the three readers’ accounts. Use a few words to summarize the meaning of Spring Festival for each account. Give your reasons. 2. Read again. （10）Find out each person’s experience of Spring Festival in the three accounts. Take notes. Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Where and with whom Preparations before Spring Festival Activities during Spring Festival Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Where and with whom with his host family in Nanjing at parents’ home at home Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Preparations before Spring Festival getting ready for children coming back, buying things and preparing dishes booking travel tickets and choosing gifts for parents cleaning the house, attached Fu upside down to the front door Tom Xu Gang Li Yan Activities during Spring Festival setting off and watching fireworks chatting with his parents and having hotpot children running / shouting/ playing, adults talking / making jiaozi together What can you infer from Xu Gang’s and Li Yan’s accounts What does it mean in Chinese culture Post-reading: Think and share Family reunion is the central theme of both accounts. This shows the importance of family in Chinese culture. Tom Jenkins spent his first Spring Festival with his host family. A week before the festival, the host mother Mrs Chen began preparations. She 1._____the dirt of the house from the top to bottom to make it ready for the new year. She also 2._____the Chinese 3._____Fu 4._____on the front door to wel ... ...
