(共37张PPT)
Unit 2
Let’s celebrate!
BOOK2
Developing ideas
场合,时刻 n.
(报纸、杂志的)主编,编辑 n.
(不情愿地)承认 v.
力气,精力 n.
失去,丧失 n.
前夕,前一天 n.
成人,成年人 n.
(为达到某目标的)过程,进程 n.
退休的 adj.
存在,实际上有 v.
在海外,在外国 adv.
全球的,全世界的 adj.
公民,市民 n.
国籍;民族 n.
听众,观众 n.
Step 1 Review new words
occasion
editor
admit
effort
loss
eve
adult
process
retired
exist
overseas
global
citizen
nationality
audience
embrace v.
software n.
token n.
interact v.
joy n.
phenomenon n.
phenomena pl.
欣然接受,乐意采纳(新思想、意见等)
(计算机)软件
象征,标志
互动
欢欣,愉快,喜悦
现象
_____________ is to Chinese what Christmas is to westerners.
The Spring Festival
Watch and think:
Jointly produced by China and the United Kingdom, the BBC documentary , entitled "Chinese New Year, the Biggest Celebration on Earth" , is the largest and most in-depth chronicle of Spring Festival by foreign media. It records the experiences of five British presenters as they immerse themselves in the Lunar New Year festivities to experience Spring-Festival culture.
由中英联合制作的电视系列专题片《中国新年,全球最大的盛会》,纪录了五位英国主持人沉浸在中国新年中的特殊体验,是迄今为止国外媒体对中国春节文化最大规模、最深入的一次纪录,它讲述了发生在中国广袤土地上的春节故事和丰富多彩的春节习俗。
Activity 1
Tick the Chinese Festival traditions mentioned in the video
Put up/Paste Spring Festival couplets and hang red lanterns
Receive a red packet
Play waist drum
Let off/set off firecrackers鞭炮/fireworks烟花
Look and talk :
the Spring Festival customs in English
Guo-nian/have the Spring Festival
thoroughly clean the cleaning
do Spring Festival shopping
have family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve
pay a New Year's
visit
watch Spring Festival Gala on TV
Many a custom accompanies the Spring Festival. Some are still followed today, but others have weakened or changed.
A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have the dinner in a restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea.
Socail Insights
(社会观察)
专栏文章
Step 2 Read
Developing ideas
Activity 2
Read the passage quickly and find out each person’s point of view.
Read the passage and find out each person's point of view.
Wang Peng Liu Yonghui
Eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner only changes the form of this tradition, but the love between the family members remains the same.
It just won't feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. The process of preparing the dinner together is more important than the dinner itself.
Read the first passage and fill the form
Name of the person
opinions
evidence
Wang Peng
Enjoy eating out on Spring Festival
1.Preprations for dinner are hard work and they take too much time and effort.
2. The occasion is more enjoyable without all that tiring cooking and the dishes taste better.
Eating out may change the form of the tradition but the love remains the same.
conclusion
(sofeware engineer)
Read the passage on Page 20 and choose the best answer.
1.What is the main idea of the passage
A.Eating at home is really tiring.
B.It is important to choose a good place to eat.
C.Eating out is the best way to have the Spring Festival dinner.
D.Eating out doesn’t change the love between family members.
2.What does the writer mean by saying “we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home” in Paragraph 1
A.The writer doesn’t like eating out.
B.The writer doesn’t like eating at home.
C.Both eating at home and eating out are enjoyable.
D.Eating at home is more enjoyable than eating out.
3.Why does eating out have nothing to do with loss of traditions
A.Because the dishes taste better.
B.Because we eat in a different place.
C.Because we can avoid the tiring cooking.
D.Because we still celebrate it with our family.
Read the second passage and fill the form
Name of the person
opinions
reasons
Liu Yonghui
Prefer to have dinner at home
The dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat,but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together.
The process is even more important than dinner itself.
conclusion
(retired teacher)
Read the passage on Page 21 and choose the best answer.
1.Why is the writer unhappy about eating the Spring Festival family dinner out
A.Because he thinks it lacks the feeling of the Spring Festival.
B.Because his son booked a table without his permission.
C.Because he can cook delicious food himself.
D.Because it is too expensive.
2.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to Paragraph 2
A.The writer’s mother made dumplings in the kitchen.
B.The writer’s mother put candies and peanuts into the dumplings to make them more delicious.
C.Adults often chatted with each other in the Spring Festival.
D.The home made dishes tasted the most delicious to the writer.
Activity 3
What is a fact
What is an opinion
Read the sentences from the passage and decide if they are facts (F) or opinions (O).
1. Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions. _____
2. ... what or where we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesn’t matter. _____
3. ... it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. _____
4. I’d get under my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. _____
5 She’d put tokens in some dumplings... _____
O
O
O
F
F
Learn to find the facts to support opinions.
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Opinion
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Facts
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more
facts
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Time for a change
WangPeng
Liu Yonghui
①The preparations for the dinner are hard work.
②It's not worth the effort of spending so much time preparing for a single meal and another hour cleaning up the mess after it's over.
③We could spend the preparation time with our family and relaxing.
④The occasion is more enjoyable without all that tiring cooking and the dishes taste better.
①It just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.
②It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together.
③We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef.
④The process is even more important than the dinner itself.
Think & Share:
What do you think the retired teacher means by “ To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself ”
For him, the sweet memories of having the whole family getting together and preparing for the dinner are more important than the delicious food itself.
Think & Share:
2.Which of the two opinions do you agree with Why
I’m sad that a lot of the old Spring festival have gone out of style. But my generation is creating new ones. Not worse, just different.
Possible version 1:
Think & Share:
I am in favor of Wang Peng’s opinion. Our world is developing and we need to change with the times. I think eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner is a good choice, because we can get rid of the tiring cooking and we needn’t clean up after the dinner, and the dishes taste better! Besides, I believe that eating out doesn’t change the love between family members.
Possible version 2:
Think & Share:
I I think both of the opinions are reasonable. Different people have different lifestyles. We can choose our favorite way to celebrate the festival. Besides, I don’t think the form of celebrating the festival matters so much. What matters most is the love between us.
Possible version 3:
Think & Share:
3.How would you describe a Spring Festival family dinner to a friend from overseas
People attach great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively "ji", "yu" and "doufu," mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness.
Think & Share:
4. Can you think of any other Chinese festival traditions Share them with the class.
The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes", both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass .
句意:最近三年,我家都是在外面吃年夜饭的,和在家吃比起来,在外面吃一样开心。
no less than “不少于,多达”
他有7个女儿之多。He has__________ seven daughters.
他至少有7个女儿。He has __________ seven daughters.
no more than “仅仅, 只有, 最多不超过”
not more than “不多于, 不超过”
not less than “不少于, 至少”
no less than
not less than
她只有3顶帽子。 She has ____________ three hats.
她至多有3顶帽子。She has ____________ three hats.
no more than
not more than
1
We have eaten out for the Spring Festival family dinner for the last three years, and we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home.
Difficult
Sentences
I really don’t think it’s worth the effort of spending so much time preparing for a single meal, and then another hour cleaning up the mess after it’s over.
句意:花这么长时间准备一顿饭,饭后再花一个小时收拾,我真心觉得不值。
worth n. 价值;财产;adj. 值……的
be worth sth 值……钱,拥有……价值的财产
be worth doing sth 值得做某事
例:这幅画值 500 美元。
The picture_______ $500.
is worth
这台钟简直不值得修理。The clock is hardly_____________.
worth repairing
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宾语从句
句意:在外面吃年夜饭是个挺好的选择,而且也谈不上丢弃传统。
have nothing to do with sb/sth 与某人、某事无关
例:
He said that he had nothing to do with the decision.
他说他和那个决定毫不相干。
From now on, my love has nothing to do with you .
从现在起,我的爱与你没有任何关系。
【拓展】
have something/ little/ much to do with sb/sth
与某人、某事有……关系
3
Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions.
句意:不仅可以吃到平时难以吃到的美食,而且全家人能有机会团聚在一起。
例:
1. Not only Zhou Xia but also her parents ____
fond of watching football matches.
2. Not only you but also he ___ tired of having
one examination after another.
not only...but (also)... “不仅,而且……”在句中常用来连接两个对等的成分,also可以省略。
当连接两个主语时,谓语动词遵循“就近原则”。
are
is
4
It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together.
Work in groups. Give a talk about the importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese people.
Step 1 Make notes
Activity 4
Step 2 Organise your talk and give it to the class
State the importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese people.
Explain why it is important.
Share your personal experience about the family dinner.
End by summarising the main points in your talk .
The Spring Festival family dinner is important for Chinese people because…
Take my personal experience as an example.
Therefore / In short / To sum up / In a word, …
Useful expressions
Possible version :
The importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese people
The Spring Festival family dinner is one of the most important and traditional ways of celebrating the Spring Festival, because it is not only for people to get together with their families, but also offers the time and space for people to relax themselves.
People usually eat dumolings.If somebody can find a coin in his dumplings, it means he’ll have good luck in the new year. And during the dinner, family members toast each other in order to wish for joy, peace, health and fortune for the coming year. We also express our gratitude to the elders.
Above all, the Spring Festival family dinner has a long history. It is a time for family reunion and a time for us to ring out the old year and ring in the new together.
There are a lot of traditional festivals in China and we have some traditional ways to celebrate them. Recently, the ways of the festival celebrations are changing along with the development of the society. In my opinion, no matter how we celebrate the festivals, the meaning of the traditional customs will last forever. We should remember the traditions and spread our traditional culture to the world.
Summary
Learning aims
1. Understand the main idea of the passage.
2. Enrich our knowledge of Chinese Spring Festival traditons.
3. Improve the abilities of reading English and analyzing the English sentence structures.
Good Bye