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Unit 4 Time to celebrate
第2课时 Understanding ideas
What is your favourite traditional Chinese festivals
Lead in
Dragon Boat Festival
the Spring Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Tomb-sweeping Day
Dongzhi Festival
What are these traditional Chinese festivals
Lantern Festival
What do you usually do at the Spring Festival
clean the house
stay up late
go New Year shopping
put up the spring couplets
have a big dinner
get lucky money
Lead in
What do you usually do during the Spring Festival What do you often eat
A few days before the Spring Festival, we clean the house and cook a lot of food.
In the evening before the Spring Festival, my family get together and have a big meal. We often have fish and dumplings on the table. We also set off fireworks.
On the first day of the Chinese New Year, we wear new clothes and visit our relatives and friends.
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Lead-in
What dish (菜) do you often eat at the Spring Festival
I often eat ____________________________.
surplus
wealth (财富)
family reunion
wealth (财富)
a higher position (地位)
longevity (长寿)
Lead in
/ri ju nj n/
1. Can you guess what festival it is
The Spring Festival.
2. What are the people doing
3. What is on the table
They are having a dinner together and enjoying family reunion in the Spring Festival.
There are many dishes like fish and vegetables on the table.
Use the words and expressions to describe the picture.
Spring Festival
dinner
family reunion
dish
The family celebrates the Spring Festival and has a family reunion dinner. We can see
many Chinese dishes.
They are having a video
chat with someone. They
are so happy.
Guess: what did the writer do during the Spring Festival
not usual
Why is the Spring Festival unusual
Before-reading
Background: The lion’s head
People in Jiang Su province usually eat the lion's head. It’s a ______ /p k/ meatball. It is big and _________ /ra nd/, like a lion's head. Its _______ shape stands for family______________ /ri ju nj n/.
So it is a popular ______ /d / for festivals like the Spring Festival.
pork
round
reunion
round
dish
While-reading
1.What text type is this passage
2.How many parts are there
3.What is the main idea of each paragraph
A story.
Three parts.
The result
The writer’s solution
The writer’s problem
para.1
para.2-3
para.4-8
Scan and check
4 After Emilia hangs balloons and lanterns in the dining room, I put the last dish on the table. "This is the lion's head!"
5 "Are you joking Isn't that against the law " Emilia is shocked.
6 I laugh. "It's a pork meatball. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. Its round shape stands for family reunions. Try it!"
7 Emilia cuts a piece of it with her knife and puts it into her mouth. "I love it!" she says. The smell of the dishes and the sound of our laughing fill the room.
8 I feel like I am back home. ___________________
1 It is my first year of university in the UK. My English friend, Emilia, is a nice girl. Sometimes, she cooks British food for me. Today is the Spring Festival, so I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner.
2 At home, I often watch Grandma cook. I never realised cooking was so difficult. How I wish to have four hands now!
3 It is midnight in China - time for dumplings. My whole family come to help me on the phone. Step by step, they teach me. I even make some cucumber flowers.
What does the writer do during the Spring Festival
The writer wants to __________ her British friend to a Chinese dinner .
treat (款待)
Reading tip 1 (Scanning 扫读)
Read the story quickly to find out what she really does. Don't read every word. Just look for action words (verbs 动词) that tell us what she does.
While-reading
1.Where did the writer celebrate the Spring Festival
2.How did she celebrate this festival
She treats her British friend, Emilia, to a Chinese dinner.
In the UK.
Read Para. 1, and answer questions.
1 It is my first year of university in the UK. My English friend, Emilia, is a nice girl. Sometimes, she cooks British food for me. Today is the Spring Festival, so I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner.
to do sth special for a person
1. Does the writer make it
2. How does she solve the problem
Read Para. 2-3, and answer questions.
3. What is the result
4. What dishes does the writer make for the festival
Can you guess
2 At home, I often watch Grandma cook. I never realised cooking was so difficult. How I wish to have four hands now!
3 It is midnight in China – time for dumplings. My whole family come to help me on the phone. Step by step, they teach me. I even make some cucumber flowers.
How I wish to do sth.
多么希望我能干某事
1. Does the writer make it
No. Because she often watches Grandma cook, but she never cooked anything herself.
2. How does she solve the problem
Her whole family come to her help on the phone.
Read Para. 2-3, and answer questions.
3. What is the result
She cooks well,even makes some cucumber flowers.
4. What dishes does the writer make for the festival
Can you guess
Maybe one traditional Chinese dishes.
What does Emilia do in the dining room
How does Emilia feel
about the last dish at
first
Read Paras. 4-5 and answer the questions.
She hangs balloons and lanterns.
She is shocked. She thinks it is against the law.
to put sth up
a traditional decoration for Spring Festival
surprised
204
1. What is the last dish
The pork meatball.
3. What does Emilia think of it
be _________ at the name
2. Why does she make this dish
Because its round shape stands for family reunions.
_________ the taste
shocked
love/like
She thinks it __________the law.
is against
Further-thinking
What’s the meaning of the last dish
How does Emilia feel
about the last dish at
last
Read Paras. 6-7 and answer the questions.
It’s round shape stands for family reunions.
She loves it.
meeting together
How does the writer feel at last Why
She feels like she is back home because the smell of the dishes and the sound of the laughing fill the room.
Read Paras. 7-8 and answer the question.
to make sth full
Read and choose(P66)
Choose the best ending of the passage.
a I don't like having the Spring Festival all by myself.
b I miss my family so much.
c It's really an unusual but happy Spring Festival.
c
8 I feel like I am back home. ___________________.
该活动需要我们进行推断来给出答案。推断（inferring）是仔细阅读语篇中作者提供的线索和信息，并将其联系起来，领会作者想要表达的意思。本题作者给出的线索如下：
The writer’s
problem
The writer’s
solution
The results
204
Spring Festival
Chinese dinner
whole family
4
Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage.
Complete the chart with the words and expressions from the passage.
The writer’s problem
Today is ___________________. I wanted to cook a ______________ for Emilia. But cooking is so difficult for me.
The writer’s solution
At midnight in China, my ____________ come to help me on the phone.
the Spring Festival
Chinese dinner
whole family
The result
I showed the last ______________ to Emilia. My family always have it at the Spring Festival. She is ______________ at the name of the dish, but she likes its taste. We enjoy the dinner and laugh. I feel like I am ______________.
dish
shocked
back home
该活动的结构：problem—solution—result结构完整地回答了问题：Why is it an unusual Spring Festival for the writer
Read the passage and put the following sentences in order.
1) With family's help, the author learns to cook and makes
cucumber flowers.
2) Emilia decorates the dining room with balloons and lanterns.
3) The author decides to treat Emilia to a Chinese dinner.
4)The author serves the "lion's head" dish, and Emilia is
shocked at first.
5) The author faces the challenge of cooking for the first time.
6) Emilia tastes the dish and loves it.
7) They share laughter and the room fills with the smell of the
dishes. The author feels a sense of home and reunion.
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2
3
4
5
6
7
Retell the passage. You can use the following structures and expressions.
The writer’s problem
The writer’s solution
The result
Spring Festival, treat her to a Chinese dinner, cooking is so difficult
my whole family, teach, on the phone
hang balloons and lanterns, the lion’s head, shocked, round shape stands for family reunion, feel like
Think and Share
1.What is unusual about the writer's Spring Festival
It is her first time to spend the Spring Festival abroad and she learns to cook a traditional Spring Festival dish for her friend.
2.What is your family's traditional dish for the Spring Festival
Can you cook it
Dumplings. Yes, I can.
3. The writer wants to treat her friend Emilia to some Chinese dishes. Besides, Emilia cooks British food for her, are there any other reasons why she cook the meal What can you learn from her
Show love and thanks to Emilia;
Share her culture and let Emilia taste real Chinese dishes;
Make the feel of the Spring Festival
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Learning to think for question 1 What’s the common way of celebrating the Spring Festival
Fireworks Display
It's like a big show in the sky where fireworks go "boom" and "sparkle" in lots of bright colors.
This is like getting a special gift. Older family members give younger ones small red envelopes with money inside.
Red Envelopes (Hóngbāo):
Everyone cleans their house really well to get rid of bad luck.
Cleaning
Learning to think for question 1 What’s the common way of celebrating the Spring Festival
Family Reunion Dinner
This is a big meal where all the family comes together to eat special foods that are supposed to bring good luck
It's fun to wear new clothes, especially if they're red. Red is a very lucky color, and everyone looks nice in their new outfits.
Wearing New Clothes
They dance and play, making it look like the dragons and lions are really alive.
Dragon and Lion Dances
How does your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival
hang lanterns/ paste spring couplets on the doors
enjoy the Spring Festival Gala
have big meals/ make and eat dumplings together
set fireworks
get and send red packets
visit relatives and friends
go to the Temple Fair (庙会)
People in different countries have different ways to celebrate the festivals or holidays. But there is one thing in common, that is, they all carry people’s best wishes and good luck for the coming year and their loved ones.
给我做英国食物
招待她一顿中式晚餐
我们全家人
在电话上帮我
一步步地
挂气球和灯笼
餐厅
违反法律
代表
家庭团聚
一块，一片
充满整个房间
感觉像
Spring Festival
family reunion
in the UK
Treat my British friend
a Chinese dinner
cook sth for sb
the whole family
on the phone
春节
家庭团聚
在英国
招待我的英国朋友
一顿中式晚餐
为某人做饭
全家
在电话上
Try to translate these phrases into Chinese.
the dining room
the last dish
on the table
the lion’s head
against the law
be shocked
a pork meatball
stand for
feel like
餐厅
最后一道菜
在桌子上
狮子头
违法
吃惊
猪肉丸
代表
感觉像
Language points
1. An unusual Spring Festival 一个不同寻常的春节
unusual可以作为定语或者表语使用。
（1）作为定语时，通常放在名词前面，表示这个名词具有不寻常的特征。an unusual idea（一个不寻常的想法）、an unusual experience（一次不寻常的经历）。
（2）作为表语时，通常放在be动词后面，表示主语具有不寻常的特征。
e.g.:今天的天气很不寻常。
The weather is unusual today.
与unusual有关的词：
2. Today is the Spring Festival,so I want to treat her to a Chinese dinner. 今天是春节，所以我想请她吃一顿中式晚餐。
I’ll treat you to coffee after work.下班后我请你喝咖啡。
He treats everyone with kindness.他对所有人都很友善。
The doctor treated her for a throat infection.
医生为她治疗喉咙感染。
2. Isn’t that against the law 那难道不是违法的吗？
本句是反问句。文中 Emilia 想表达的实际上是一个肯定的观点，
她几乎确定那件事是违法的。但为了确认，使用了疑问的口吻。
这是反问句常见的用法，即表现形式像是一个问题，但实际上
是对某个观点的强烈声明或者确认。又如：
Who wouldn’t want a clean environment
谁不想要个干净的环境呢？
此外，反问句还经常用于抱怨。例如：
Can’t you see what’s happening
你难道看不出发生了什么吗？
( )1. I will treat you _____McDonald’s because you treat me your close friend.
A. to B. with C. on D. for
( )2. “It's time to _______ the dishes and start your homework.”
A. wash B. washed C. washing D. to wash
( )3. That's ___ usual way. Please try a new one.
A. the B.an C./ D. a
( )4. —What does your sister buy for your mother on Mother’s Day
— _______ . She makes a card for her.
A. Nothing B. Something C. Anything D. Everything
( )5. —I’m so worried about what you said just now.
—Haha, don’t worry. It’s only a ______.
A. way B. joke C. message D. novel
A
D
D
A
B
I.单项选择
Exercise
1. 现在是吃午饭的时候了。
It’s time _______ _______ lunch.
2. 如果你努力学习，你就能在这次考试中取得成功。
If you study hard, you can ______ ______ in the English exam.
3. 它圆圆的形状代表着家庭团圆。
Its round shape ______ ______ family reunion.
4. I watch a football match. （改为否定句）
I _______ _______ a football match.
5. I buy something for my mother on her birthday. （改为一般疑问句）
Doyou _______ _________ for my mother on her birthday？
to eat
make it
stand for
don’t watch
buy anything
Ⅱ.完成句子
Exercise
I CAN
介绍传统节日的名称、主要活动和特色食物。
介绍一起庆祝节日的人。
描述庆祝节日的感受。
正确使用本版块所学的核心词汇和表达。
Must do
Finish the workbook
Retell the writer’s unusual Spring Festival.
Choose to do
3. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Homework
Homework
a. Why was Emilia shocked at first
b. What does the "lion's head" really mean
c. How did the writer feel at the end Why

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