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Unit 3
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
Reading
新 课 导 入
Let’s talk
◆ What does Spring Festival mean to you
◆ What words immediately come to your mind for
describing its meaning
课 堂 学 习
Pre-reading
How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival Use the phrases to help you.
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to have a family gathering
to get together
to prepare snacks
to make dumplings
to put up decorations
to let off fireworks
Read the three readers' accounts. Use a few words to summarise the meaning of Spring Festival for each account. Give your reasons.
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Notes from the editor: Spring Festival is an important tradition in China. It has unique meanings. However, people may understand it differently, including those from other cultures. Here are three readers' accounts to our magazine, in which the readers shared their experiences and views about it.
Fast-reading
※ For Tom, Spring Festival means excitement and a lot of fun.
※ For Xu Gang, coming home and being with his entire family is the most
important part of the Spring Festival.
※ For Li Yan, Spring Festival is family time.
Careful-reading
Read again. Find out each person's experience of the Spring Festival in the three accounts. Take notes.
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Tom Xu Gang Li Yan
Where and with whom with his host family in Nanjing
Preparations before Spring Festival
at parents' home
at home
cleaning the house, attaching Fu upside down to the front door
booking travel
tickets and
choosing gifts for
parents
getting ready for children coming back, buying things and preparing dishes
Activities during Spring Festival
Tom Xu Gang Li Yan
setting off and watching fireworks, enjoying a big dinner
chatting with his
parents and having hotpot
children running /shouting/ playing, adults talking/making jiaozi together
Post-reading
Pair Work
Find at least three descriptive sentences in the accounts that provide a vivid picture of Spring Festival. Share with your partner.
Group Work
What can you infer from Xu Gang’s and Li Yan’s accounts What does it mean in Chinese culture
Complete the information with the words or phrases you have learnt.
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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 top to bottom to make it ready for the new year. She also 2_______ the Chinese 3________ Fu 4____________ on the front door to welcome happiness. Tom also learnt that playing fireworks was to scare away the monster Nian.
Xu Gang usually books the ticket of trains or 5_______ for his trip home weeks before Spring Festival. When he gets on the train, he is 6_________ by Shanxi 7________. When he gets home, his parents always 8___________ what happened to the people he knows. Being with his 9_____ family is the most important part of Spring Festival for him.
Li Yan and her husband are 10_______. They start preparing for their family's return weeks before Spring Festival. When everyone gets home, their house 11______ with activities. One of their favourite family traditions is to make jaozi.
Family being together is one of the 12______ of Spring Festival throughout history.
swept
attached
character
upside down
flights
surrounded
accents
fill him in on
entire
retired
buzzes
spirit
3.主动形式表示被动意义
(1)当连系动词feel,look,smell,taste,sound等后面接形容词时;当cut,read,sell,wear,write,wash等作为不及物动词表示主语内在“品质”或“性能”时;当动词表示“开始,结束,关,停,转,启动”等时。
The flowers smell sweet.
花儿散发着芳香。
This kind of cloth washes easily.
这种布料容易洗。
(2)当break out,take place,shut off,turn off,work out等动词表示“发生,关闭,制定”等时。
The lamps on the wall turned off.
墙上的灯熄灭了。
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Choose a proper option for each situation. Explain why.
1.My friend George draws landscape pictures. __________
A. He sells them for money. B. They are sold by him for money.
2. There’s somebody behind us. __________
A. I think we’re being followed. B. I think someone is following us.
3. This orange juice tastes awful. __________
A. I think someone has left it outside the fridge for a long time.
B. I think it’s been left outside the fridge for a long time.
4. Tommy takes good care of his car. __________
A. He washes the car every week. B. The car is washed by him every week.
5. The old lady rented an old house. __________
A. Somebody built it in 1900. B. It was built in 1900.
A
A
B
A
B
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Read the news report. Rewrite the underlined sections in passive voice.
(1) The Lantern Show in Datong, a historic city in northern China, is attracting tens of thousands of visitors during the Spring Festival holiday.
The Lantern Show exhibits over 60 series of lanterns, among which 12 are ice lanterns.
(2) People mix traditional lanterns with ice lanterns to create a special and happy atmosphere. The show usually starts from the fifth day of the Spring Festival. Besides the Lantern Show, people can also enjoy many other activities, including traditional operas and lantern riddle guessing games.
Tens of thousands of visitors are being attracted by the Lantern Show in Datong, a historic city in northern China, during the Spring Festival holiday.
Traditional lanterns and ice lanterns are mixed to create a special and happy atmosphere.
(3) Last year, the government rebuilt the ancient walls in this city and (4) this year, the government organised the Lantern Show under the ancient walls for the first time. The newly built ancient walls have now become a calling card for the city.
Officials say that over 80,000 people visited the show on the first day. (5) They expect more people to visit in the coming days. The Lantern Show ends on 16 February.
The ancient walls in this city were rebuilt by the government last year.
The Lantern Show was organised by the government under the ancient walls for the first time this year.
More people are expected to visit in the coming days.
1. People grow rice in the south of the country.
2. They destroyed the building.
3. They will send cars abroad by sea.
4. We are painting the rooms.
5. This time last year we were planting trees here.
Can you transform the following active voice into passive voice quickly now
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