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课件网) Unit 4 Time to celebrate Starting out & Understanding ideas (Reading) Chinese New Year the Lantern Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Double-Ninth Festival National Day traditional Chinese festivals Which is the biggest traditional festival in China Chinese New Year, or we can say the Spring Festival. When is it What do people eat It’s on the first day of the first lunar month. Dumplings, chicken, fish and so on. What do people do clean their house put up couplets get some lucky money watch the Spring Festival Gala wear new clothes have a family reunion dinner How do you feel An unusual Spring Festival What do you want to know about this passage Try to ask some questions with the help of activity 1 in groups of 4. 1. Where did the writer celebrate the Spring Festival 2. How did she celebrate this festival In the UK. She treated her British friend, Emilia, to a Chinese dinner. Read Para 1 and answer. 1. Did the writer make it 2. How did she celebrate this festival No. Because she often watched Grandma cook, but she never cooked anything herself. Read Para 2 and answer. Her whole family came to her help on the phone. 3. What is the result 4. What dishes did the writer make for the festival Can you guess She became a chef in one hour. Read Para 2 and answer. Maybe one traditional Chinese dishes. Read Para 3-4 and answer. 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. How do they prepare for the Spring Festival Emilia She _____ in the dining room. The writer She _____ on the table. hung balloons and lanterns put the last dish 204 1. What is the last dish The pork meatball. 3. What did Emilia think of it be _____ at the name 2. Why did she make this dish Because it’s round shape stands for family reunions. _____ the taste shocked love/like She thought it _____ the law. was against At first Finally Then Did they enjoy their meal How do you know Yes. Because _____ and _____ filled the room. The writer felt like she _____. Read Para 5 and answer. the smell of the dishes their laughter was back home Choose the writer’s words after the meal. How did the writer feel after the meal Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Spring Festival Chinese dinner midnight whole family Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. dish shocked back home What is unusual about the writer’s Spring Festival What is unusual about the writer’s Spring Festival place people food It’s unusual for the writer because it was her first time to celebrate the Spring Festival in the UK. She learnt to cook her family’s traditional dishes for the first time. What is your family’s traditional dish for the Spring Festival Can you cook it What other ways of celebrating the Spring Festival does yo ... ...
