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Understanding ideas—Reading
　　　　　Study of the Text　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
What: The text primarily centres around the author’s unique celebration of the Spring Festival in the UK with her British friend, Emilia. It details the decision to prepare a Chinese dinner for Emilia, the challenges faced during the cooking process, the decoration of the dining room. Key elements like the special dishes and the atmosphere during the meal are also highlighted.
Why: The main aims are to deepen students’ understanding of Chinese New Year traditions and culture. It aims to enhance their reading comprehension skills, critical thinking, and language usage. Encouraging innovation in tradition-following. Overall, it strives to provide a holistic learning experience for students.
How: The teaching material is comprehensive and sequential. It commences with visual aids and questions to introduce the topic. Prediction activities engage students’ prior knowledge. Detailed reading is followed to extract specific information. Thought-provoking questions and further thinking tasks prompt in-depth analysis.
　　　　　Teaching Objectives　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
1.learn more about the Chinese New Year.
2.understand the passage and the cultural meanings behind it.
3.give some new ideas about how to follow the traditions and think of a new way to celebrate it.
　　　　　Teaching Process　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Teaching Objectives Teaching Activities Effectiveness Evaluation
1.To learn more about the Chinese New Year.　 Step 1　Look and Say T: Which festival or holiday is it S: Tomb Sweeping Day/May Day/National Day/The Dragon Boat Festival/The Lantern Festival/The Spring Festival… T: Which festival is the biggest traditional festival in China S: The Spring Festival. Step 2　Thinking T: When is the Spring Festival S: It’s on the first day of the first lunar month. T: What do people eat S: Dumplings, chicken, fish and so on. Learn what is known and unknown about the Spring Festival based on how well the students answer the questions.　
Purpose To introduce students to the significance of the Spring Festival as China’s biggest traditional festival, fostering cultural awareness through identifying its timing and traditional foods, promoting engagement and understanding.
2.To understand the passage and the cultural meanings behind it. Step 3　Prediction 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 ◎Key: They are celebrating the Spring Festival and having a family reunion dinner. 2.What’s on the table ◎Key: Some Chinese dishes. Step 4　While-reading(详见课件资源) Read Para.1 and answer. 1.Where did the writer celebrate the Spring Festival ◎Key: In the UK. 2.How did she celebrate this festival ◎Key: She treated her British friend, Emilia, to a Chinese dinner. Read Para.2 and answer. 1.Did the writer make it Why ◎Key: No. Because she often watched Grandma cook, but she never cooked anything herself. 2.How did she solve the problem ◎Key: Her whole family came to her help on the phone. 3.What was the result ◎Key: She became a chef in one hour. 4.What dishes did the writer make for the festival Can you guess ◎Key: Maybe traditional Chinese dishes. Read Paras.3—5 and answer. 1.What was the last dish ◎Key: The lion’s head—a pork meatball. 2.Why did she make this dish ◎Key: Because its round shape stands for family reunions. 3.What did Emilia think of it ◎Key: Shocked—love/like. 4.Did they enjoy their meal How do you know ◎Key: Yes.Because the smell of the dishes and their laughter filled the room. The writer felt like she was back home. According to students’ prediction, evaluate their ability to use situational cues to reason the text content. Learn how students understand the text from how well they answer the questions.
Purpose To deepen students’ understanding of the Spring Festival celebrations, these steps involve predictive reading, visual analysis, and detailed text comprehension. Students practise inferring information, analyzing cultural elements, and summarizing events, fostering critical thinking and cultural sensitivity.
3.To give some new ideas about how to follow the traditions and think of a new way to celebrate it. Step 5　Post-reading 1.Choose the writer’s words after the meal. a.I don’t like having the Spring Festival alone. b.I miss my family so much. c.It’s really a special and happy Spring Festival. 2.Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage. Step 6　Further-thinking 1.What is unusual about the writer’s Spring Festival 　 2.Read and put the following sentences in order.(详见课件资源) 1)With family’s help, the author learned to cook and made cucumber flowers. 2)Emilia decorated the dining room with balloons and lanterns.　 3)The author decided to treat Emilia to a Chinese dinner. 4)The author served the “lion’s head” dish, and Emilia was shocked at first. 5)The author faced the challenge of cooking for the first time.　 6)Emilia tasted the dish and loved it. 7)They shared laughter and the room was filled with the aroma of the food. The author felt a sense of home and reunion. Step 7　Language Points Step 8　Exercise Observe whether the students can summarize the meaning of the Spring Festival in their discussion. 　
Purpose To enhance students’ reading, thinking and language skills through various activities like understanding the text, analyzing characters’ thoughts and sequencing events.To focus on familiarizing them with key language points.
Homework Finish the reading task on your task paper.
　　　　　Teaching Reflection　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　








Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year is the most important of all the holidays for the Chinese. It is defined to be the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar. Unlike the Christian New Year, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
Normally, the celebration will start from the New Year’s Eve and will last for about 15 days until the middle of the first month. Before the celebration, people will normally do a complete cleaning of the house and housewares. After the cleaning, people will decorate the house to welcome the New Year. Most of the decorations are red in colour. The most popular traditional decorations of the New Year are upside down fu, duilian, lanterns, year painting, paper-cuttings, door gods, etc. Most paper-cutting pieces are posted on windows and some are placed on the wall and the front door.
　　This festivity is the time for family reunion.Families get together and have a big meal, which is the most important part of the Chinese New Year celebration. Dumplings are the most traditional food. People will normally visit relatives and friends, do some shopping, watch traditional Chinese shows, launch fireworks, and plan for the coming year. Fireworks will be launched to celebrate the coming of the New Year as well as to drive away the evil. In China, working professionals will normally have 7 days off to celebrate. After the family reunion, some Chinese families may take the chance to visit tourist destinations.
Children like the festival very much, because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes. They can set off firecrackers. They can also get some money from their parents. This money is given to children for good luck.(It is believed that the money in the red packet will suppress the evil from the children, keep them healthy, and give them a long life.) They can watch TV, watch dragon and lion dances.
The New Year Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival. On the Lantern Festival, we usually eat rice dumplings.They are round so they bring us good luck.
词汇拓展
①housewares n. 家用器皿　　　　 ②decoration n. 装饰物
③door gods 门神 ④festivity n. 欢庆
⑤fireworks n. 烟花 ⑥working professionals 职业人士

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