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Unit 3 Language in use
Module 10 Spring Festival
Are you getting ready for Spring Festival What’s your mother doing She’s cleaning the house.
I’m eating jiaozi.
Language practice
现在进行时
1. 表示说话时正在发生或者进行的动作。
We are preparing for Spring Festival.
I am writing a letter.
We are enjoying our trip.
2. 表示在现在相对较长一段时间内正在进行的动作,
但是说话那一刻不一定在做。
He is building his own house.
David is teaching English and learning Chinese
in Beijing.
常与现在进行时连用的时间状语有: now, at the moment。另外, 以Look, Listen等开头的祈使句常常是现在进行时态的句子。
Listen! Who is singing over there
What are they doing
They are making big lanterns.
What are they doing
They’re cleaning the classroom.
They’re celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
They’re watching TV.
She is sweeping the floor.
She is cooking the meal in the kitchen.
What is he/ she doing
He is playing games.
She is buying things.
1 Work in pairs
Students A: Choose a picture. Say what
the people are doing.
Students B: Guess which
picture Students
A is describing.
A: They are watching TV.
B: Is it Picture 4
A: Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t.
Lingling’s mother / learning a lion dance
— Is Lingling’s mother learning a lion dance
— No, she isn’t.
2 Write questions and short answers.
Is Lingling’s mother cleaning the house
Yes, she is.
1. Lingling’s mother / cleaning the house
2. Lingling’s father / making lanterns
—Is Lingling’s father making lanterns
—No, he isn’t.
—Is Lingling’s aunt cooking the meal
—No, she isn’t.
3. Lingling’s aunt / cooking the meal
4. Lingling’s grandma / sweeping the floor
—Is Lingling’s grandma sweeping the floor
—No, she isn’t.
5. Daming and Betty / learning a lion dance
—Are Daming and Betty learning a lion dance
—Yes, they are.
6. Lingling’s family / getting ready for Spring
Festival
—Are Lingling’s family getting ready for
Spring Festival
—Yes, they are.
3 Write questions and answers about the pictures
in Activity 1.
— What’s the boy doing
— He is using a computer.
— What’s the girl doing
— She is learning to making jiaozi.
— What’s the girl doing
— She is making red lanterns.
— What are they doing
— They’re watching TV.
— What are they doing
— They’re learning a lion
dance.
4 Complete the passage with the correct form
of the words and expression in brackets.
At the moment, we (1) ________________ (get ready) for Spring Festival. We (2) _____________ (clean) the house and we (3) _____________ (sweep) the floor. My mother (4) _________ (cook) a meal. My father doesn’t (5) ______ (work) today.
are getting ready
are cleaning
are sweeping
is cooking
work
We always (6) _____ (buy) new clothes for Spring Festival. We always (7) ____ (get) presents from our family and friends. Spring Festival finishes at Lantern Festival, and we often (8) ____ (eat) yuanxiao on that day.
buy
get
eat
5 Work in pairs. Find four things that you both
do at Spring Festival and report to the class.
Around the world
Christmas and Father Christmas
Christmas is the most important festival in most Western countries. Children usually like Christmas a lot because of Father Christmas, Santa Claus.
He is a fat man with long white beard and he wears a red suit. He visits people on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and gives presents to children, so they love him very much.
Module task: Writing a letter about Spring
Festival to a foreign student
6 Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions
about what you and your family are doing
for Spring Festival at the moment.
— What are you and your family doing for Spring
Festival at the moment
— My mother is cooking.
7 Write notes about your Spring Festival.
Use the headings to help you.
Getting ready
Food
Presents
Traditions
Getting ready Food Presents Traditions
go shopping for presents buy lots of food give new clothes eat jiaozi
get lots of food ready make jiaozi give hongbao buy new clothes
… wash food
materials … have a traditional family dinner
what you’re doing for Spring Festival at
the moment.
8 Write a letter to a friend saying:
what you usually do.
……
Use your notes in Activities 6 and 7.
Dear …
Here in China it’s Spring Festival and we’re getting ready.
My mother is …
Usually we … and we …
Tell me about a festival in your country.
Love from,
______ (your name)
Dear Linda,
Here in China it’s Spring Festival and we’re getting
ready. My mother is cleaning the house and my father is helping her. Usually we have a big family dinner and watch a special TV programme in the evening to
celebrate the festival.
Tell me about a festival in your country.
Love from,
Lucy
Possible answer