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Unit 2
My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
Module 10 Spring Festival
What traditions about the Spring Festival
do you know
(food and decorations)
cleaning the house
Before Spring Festival, we clean the house and paint the doors red. We want to bring the good luck.
New year decorations
Chinese couplets
Papercuts
Red lanterns
New year activities
Spring Festival Gala
Dragon and Lion dance
set off firecrackers
put up the lanterns
a traditional family dinner on the evening
before Spring Festival.
Hong Bao or Red Packet
wish a Happy New Year
New year food
dumplings
New Year cake
Spring rolls
Words and expressions
Christmas
n.圣诞节
February
n.二月
January
n.一月
before
prep.在……之前
sweep away
扫去
luck
n.运气
table
n.桌子
celebrate
v.庆祝
traditional
adj.传统的
dumpling
n.饺子；团子
programme
n.（电视）
节目
sweater
n.厚运动衫；
毛线衣
coat
n.外套
mean
v.意思是；
意味着
lucky
adj.幸运的
merry
adj.愉快的，
高兴的
Merry Christmas
圣诞快乐
Reading and vocabulary
1 Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and talk
about what’s happening.
—What’s Li Shan’s mother doing
—She’s cleaning the house.
We are celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
My parents and I are visiting
my uncles and aunts. We are wearing new sweaters and coats.
Listen and answer.
1. When does the Spring Festival usually come
2. What should mother do before Spring Festival
3. How are the people celebrating on the Spring
Festival evening
Usually in February, but sometimes in January.
Clean the house, sweep away bad luck and buy lots of food.
Having a traditional family dinner and watching a special programme on TV.
Read the passage and match the main idea with each paragraph.
Paragraph 1
Paragraph A
Paragraph B
Paragraph C
Before the New Year
On New Year’s Day
Introduce the Spring
Festival
On New Year’s Eve
I’m Li Shan from China. Spring Festival is very important in my country. Like Christmas, it happens every year, but not on the same day. It usually comes
in February, but sometimes it comes in January. I’ve got some photos of it. Have a look at them!
Here’s the first one! It’s a few days
before Spring Festival. My mother’s
cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck. Look at the food on the table! We always buy a lot of food before the festival.
A
在……
之前
扫去
Oh, I love this photo. We are celebrating
Spring Festival with a traditional family
dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
There’s so much delicious food. I am eating
jiaozi — a kind of dumpling. After the dinner,
we usually watch a special programme on TV.
B
庆祝
传统的
如此多的
In this photo, my parents and I are visiting my uncles and aunts. We are wearing new sweaters and coats. I always get a hongbao. It means lucky money.
C
意思是；
意味着
Read the passage and complete the table.
A few day before Spring Festival
On the evening before Spring Festival
On Spring Festival
clean the house
sweep away bad luck
buy a lot of food
celebrate with a dinner
eat jiaozi
visit uncles and aunts
wear new sweaters and coats
watch a special
programme on
TV
get a
hongbao
3 Complete the passage with the correct form of
the words and expression from the box.
celebrate dumpling few luck mean programme sweep away traditional
We (1) _________ Spring Festival in January or February. A (2) ______ days before Spring Festival we clean our homes and (3) ____________ all the
celebrate
few
sweep away
bad (4) _____. On the evening before Spring Festival we have a big family dinner. We eat lots of (5) ___________ food, such as jiaozi – a kind of (6) ____________. We usually watch a special (7) ____________ on television, and parents usually give their children a hongbao. It (8) ________ lucky money.
luck
traditional
dumpling
means
programme
1. It’s a few days before Spring Festival.
a few一些，表示肯定的概念，修饰可数名词复数。few作形容词，表示否定的概念，为“几乎没有”，修饰可数名词复数。
【拓展】few, a few, little, a little这四个词都有
“一点儿”的意思，其用法既有相同
之处, 又有相异之处。
Language points
例：Few people know it.
杯里还有一点牛奶。
很少有人知道此事。
There’s little milk in the glass.
杯里几乎没有牛奶了。
A few people know it.
有一些人知道此事。
There’s a little milk in the glass.
few “很少；几乎没有”，
表否定含义 修饰_____
名词复数
a few “几个；有一些”
表肯定含义
little “很少；几乎没有”，
表否定含义 修饰_______
名词
a little “一点；一些”，
表肯定含义
Summary
可数
不可数
Practice
请根据句意选用few, a few, little或a little填空。
1. There are _____ books on the desk. You can
borrow one.
2. We have _____ rain this spring. The trees and grass
don’t grow well.
a few
little
3. There are ____ new words in the text, but I don’t
understand it.
4. — May I talk with you, Lucy
— Sure, but only _______ time. I am very busy.
a little
few
2. …with a traditional family dinner on the evening
before Spring Festival.
We decorate the windows with paper cuts.
with prep. 和，带有，用
例：她和我一起去逛街。
She goes shopping with me.
李叔叔是一位留着长胡子的高个头男士。
Uncle Li is a tall man with a long white beard.
我们用剪纸装饰窗户。
Writing
4 Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain.
Match the notes with the headings.
When you write new words, write them under
headings, in groups or in a word map.
Use pictures and drawings.
Learning to learn
a) go shopping for presents
b) have a traditional family dinner
c) open presents on Christmas Day
Getting ready
Traditional things on Christmas Day
Presents
d) put the presents next to the Christmas tree
e) get lots of food ready
f) sing Christmas songs
g) say Merry Christmas to family and friends
h) have a Christmas tree
Getting ready ____________
Presents ____________
Traditional things on Christmas Day
________________________________
a, d, e, h
a, c, d
b, c, f, g, h
5 Write sentences with the notes in Activity 4.
Join two notes and write one sentence with and.
go shopping for presents; get lots of food ready
They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready.
You can leave out the second they.
They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
6 Choose one of the headings in Activity 4 and
write about Christmas in Britain.
Getting ready
People go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
put the presents next to the Christmas tree.
have a Christmas tree.
