Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!Section B 2a-2e课件(共24张PPT)

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Unit 2
I think that mooncakes are delicious!
Section B 2a-2e
Chinese Festivals
Spring Festival
Lantern Festival
Children’s
Day
National Day
Dragon Boat Festival
The Double Ninth Day
Warming-up
Brainstorming
Look and say something about your favorite festivals.
Chinese Spring Festival
get red packets
let off fireworks
watch the lion dance
Warming-up
Mid-Autumn Festival
eat mooncakes
enjoy the moon
tell the story of Chang’e
Warming-up
Western Festivals
Easter
Valentine’s Day
Fool’s Day
Halloween
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas
Warming-up
Try to match each festival with the correct date.
Christmas
April Fool’s Day
Halloween
St. Valentine’s Day
Thanksgiving
Fourth Thursday in November
February 14th
April 1st
October 31st
December 25th
Warming-up
Santa Claus
gifts
a Christmas card
a Christmas tree
Look and say something about Christmas.
Pre-reading
Symbols
Date
Pre-reading
2a What do you know about Christmas Discuss in groups
and create a mind map.
Activities
Stories
Christmas
2b Read the passage about Christmas and answer
the questions.
1. What are the common things that people think of for Christmas
2. Who wrote A Christmas Carol
3. What is the true meaning of Christmas
People usually think about gifts, Christmas trees and Santa Claus.
Charles Dickens.
The true spirit of Christmas is treating everyone with kindness and warmth and spreading love and joy everywhere we go.
While-reading
While-reading
Fill in the blanks according to the passage.
Christmas trees
love and joy
mean
A Christmas Carol
how others are spending
Christmas
kindness and warmth
What does Scrooge see when he’s with ... the Ghost of Christmas Past
the Ghost of Christmas Present
the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
his happier days as a child.
how others are spending Christmas that year.
nobody cares when he dies.
2c Read the passage again and complete the chart.
While-reading
Post-reading
Think and learn
Reading strategy-
所谓推断，就是根据阅读材料中所提供的信息，推断出未知的信息。即把有关的文字作为已知部分，从中推断出未知部分。据以推断的有关文字可能是词或句子，也可能是若干句子，甚至是全文。问题的答案一般针对文章内容和读者应有的常识，文章中虽然没有明确的答案，但读者在理解全文的基础上可以进行推理和判断其答案。
INFERRING
This means you have to
“read between the lines” to get the meanings that are not clearly stated in a text.
1. Why does Scrooge hate Christmas
Because he is mean and only thinks about himself. He doesn’t treat others nicely, and he only cares about whether he can make more money.
2. Does Scrooge have a lot of friends Why or why not
No, he doesn’t. Because he isn’t nice to people, and never laughs or smiles. He is mean and only thinks about himself.
3. Why was Jacob Marley punished after he died
Because he wasn’t nice to others and only cared about money.
2d Answer the questions. Some answers need to be inferred.
Post-reading
4. Does Jacob Marley want to help Scrooge How do you know
Yes, he does. Because Marley’s ghost tries to warn Scrooge to change his
ways so as not to end up like him.
5. How does Scrooge feel when he wakes up on Christmas Day
He was scared in his sleep and he is surprised and happy to have a chance
to change his life, because it is only the next morning.
6. What does Scrooge do after seeing the three spirits
He changes his ways and becomes a better person.
Post-reading
2e What do you think the three ghosts say to Scrooge when they
visit him In groups of four, make a conversation between the
three ghosts and Scrooge. Role-play the conversation in front
of the class.
Post-reading
Language points
Post-reading
1. But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas: the
importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us.
(1) lie 作动词，意为“平躺；处于”。
e.g. She is lying in bed with a bad cold.
(2) lie 作动词，还可意为“说谎”，lie to sb. 意为“对某人说谎”。
e.g. I would never lie to you.
(3) lie 还可作名词，意为“谎言”，tell a lie意为“说谎”。
e.g. I know he told a lie.
2. He is mean and only thinks about himself.
mean adj. 意为“吝啬，刻薄”
e.g. Don’t be so mean to your younger brother.
mean v. 意为“意味着”
e.g. It means that your answer is right.
meaning n. 意为“意思”
e.g. What’s the meaning of this word
Post-reading
3. He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up
like him.
warn 作及物动词，意为“警告；告诫”
常用结构有：
warn sb. (not) to do sth. 意为“告诫某人（不要）做某事”
warn sb. of/about sth. 意为“警告某人注意某事”
warn sb. against doing sth. 意为“告诫某人不要做某事”
e.g. I warned her not to go near that dog.
Post-reading
4. Marley used to be just like Scrooge, so he was punished after he died.
(1) used to do sth. 意为“过去常常”
【拓展】
be used to doing sth. 意为“习惯做……”
be used to do sth.= be used for doing sth. 意为“被用来……”
e.g. I used to play football when I was a child.
(2) punish v. 意为“处罚；惩罚”
punish 作及物动词，punish sb. for ( doing) sth. 意为“因（做）某事而处罚某人”。
e.g. The teacher treated the naughty boys patiently instead of punishing them.
Post-reading
5. First, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him back to his childhood and
reminds Scrooge of his happier days as a child.
remind sb. of sth. 意为“使某人回想起……”
remind sb. to do sth. 意为“提醒某人做某事”
e.g. The old photo reminds me of my grandma.
Post-reading
6. He decides to change his life and promises to be a better person.
(1) decide to do sth. 意为“决定去做某事”
否定形式：decide not to do sth.
e.g. The mean old man decided to treat others nicely.
(2) promise v. 意为“允诺；答应”
【拓展】：promise to do sth. 意为“许诺做某事”；promise sb. sth. 或
promise sth. to sb. 意为“许诺某物给某人”；promise sb. to do sth. 意为
“许诺/答应某人做某事”。
e.g. He promised the money to his son.
Post-reading
Key words and phrases:
Christmas, lie, novel, dead, business, punish, warn, end up, present, warmth, spread, warn sb. to do sth. remind …of…, used to do sth. change one’s life
Key sentences:
A Christmas Carol is a famous novel written by Charles Dickens.
He is mean and only thinks about himself.
He decided to change his life and promises to be a better person..
But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas: the importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us.
Marley used to be just like Scrooge, so he was punished after he died.
He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up like him.
Summary
Homework
Read the passage in 2b.
Make sentences with the new words and expressions.
Preview Section B 3a-Self Check.
Goodbye！