(共17张PPT)
Developing ideas
Unit 2
Let's celebrate!
software
adult
token
process
retired
exist
overseas
n.(计算机)软件
n. 成人,成年人
n. 象征,标志
n. (为达到某目标的)过程,进程
adj. 退休的
v. 存在,实际上有
adv. 在海外,在外国
occasion
editor
embrace
admit
effort
loss
eve
n. 场合,时刻
n. (报纸,杂志的)主编,编辑
v. 欣然接受,乐意采纳(新思
想,意见等)
v. (不情愿地)承认
n. 力气,精力
n. 失去,丧失
n. 前夕,前一天
Paste Spring Festival couplets and hang red lanterns
Receive/Give a red envelope
Play waist drum
Let off firecrackers/fireworks
What are the following Chinese Spring Festival traditions
What other Chinese Spring Festival traditions can you think of
other activities:
eat dumplings
pay a New Year visit
lion and dragon dancing
watch Spring Festival Gala
family reunion dinner
stay up late all night on New Year’s Eve
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thoroughly(彻底地) clean the house
paste the character ''fu'' /Spring Festival couplets
贴福字/春联
go to the temple fair 逛庙会
let off fireworks/firecrackers
放烟花/鞭炮
watch a lion dance 观看舞狮表演
watch the Spring Festival Gala 看春晚
have family reunion dinner on Spring Festival Eve 吃年夜饭
A family reunion dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have the dinner in a restaurant. Are you keen on this idea. Where do your family prefer to have reunion dinner At home Or in a restaurant
Let’s read the passage and find out other people’s point of view.
Read the letter on page 27 and answer the question.
What's Wang Peng's opinion
In his opinion, ________ or ________ we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesn't matter. Eating out may change the ________________________, but __________ between the family members sitting around the table together ________________.
remains the same
where
what
the form of this tradition
the love
Task 1
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.
Why does he think so
However, a retired teacher named Liu Yonghui thinks totally different. Let's find out his opinions.
1.What's Liu Yonghui's feeling about having the Spring Festival family dinner out
2.Why did he look forward to the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival most when he was a little boy
3. What do you think the retired teacher means by “To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself”
Read the letter on page 28 and answer the questions.
Task 2
He feels a bit unhappy.
It's not only for the delicious food that they seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity to have the whole family gathered together.
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.
Which of the two opinions do you agree with Why
Topic
Group A - Wang Peng
Group B - Liu Yonghui
Eating out for the Spring Festival family dinner only changes the form of this tradition…
It just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out…
Eating out is a good choice and 5._________ has nothing to do with 6._______ (lose) of traditions. We still have the dinner with the same people, just in a different place. The occasion is more 7._________without all that tiring cooking, and the dishes taste 8._________!
In my opinion, 9____________ we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesn't matter. Eating out may change the form of this tradition, but the love between the family members sitting around the table together 10.______ the same.
it
loss
enjoyable
better
what or where
remains
We have eaten out for the Spring Festival family dinner for the last three years, and we have enjoyed it 1.______________ eating at home. I don't understand why some people refuse 2._____________(embrace) the change.
Can't they admit that the 3.________________(preparation) for the dinner are hard work I really don't think it's worth the effort of spending so much time preparing for a single meal, and then another hour 4.____________the mess after it's over. We work all year, so why can't one day be about spending time with family and relaxing
no less than
to embrace
preparations
cleaning up
根据课文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
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
P22 3
Task 3
Work in groups. Give a talk about the importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese people.
P29 4
Think about why Chinese people value the Spring Festival family dinner and make notes.
Reasons
Organise your talk following the steps below.
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.
Give your talk to the class.
P22 3
How would you describe a Spring Festival family dinner to a friend from overseas
Q1
Q2
Write a passage about your opinions on the changes of Spring Festival traditions.