(共20张PPT)
Unit2 Let’s Celebrate
Developing ideas-reading
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CONTENTS
Developing ideas
Homework
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Work in group and discuss these questions
1. What Spring Festival traditions do the pictures show
Activity 1
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Let off firecrackers
Paste spring festival couplets
Giving lucky money
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2. Please watch the video, Do you know any other Spring Festival traditions
Traditions
of Spring
Festival
Decorations
Activities
Food
Gifts
Red lanterns
Fu characters
Couplets
Thorough cleaning
Spring Festival Gala
Red envelopes.
gift money
Dumplings
Fish
Chicken
Rice cake
Visiting relatives or friends
New Year visits
Family dinner at home
What kinds celebration do you like best Tell your reasons.
How do you understand the name of this section – Social Insights
What is the meaning of the title – Time for a Change
Social insights
Time for a Change
Read the passage and find out each person’s
point of view.
Wang Peng (software engineer)
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.
Activity 2
Read the passage and find out each person’s point of view.
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.
Liu Yonghui (retired teacher)
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... _____
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F
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F
How did Wang Peng show his point of view
Opinion
Childhood memory
Opinion
Opinion
Advantages
Disadvantages
Opinion
Wang Peng’s Letter VS Liu Yonghui’s Letter
Think and share
Think about why Chinese people value the Spring Festival family dinner and make notes of your ideas.
Step 5: Practical application
Reason 1: It is a tradition which has been kept for thousands of years.
Reason 2: Chinese people value the importance of home and the respect to the elders.
Reason 3: The family dinner provides an opportunity for people to express their love to family members.
Reason 4: People enjoy the well-prepared delicious food and some specific food has certain symbolic lucky meanings.
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 summarizing the main points in your talk.
Organize your talk
Please organize your talk and polish it before sharing it with your classmates.
Homework
Structure
The importance of the Spring Festival family dinner
The reasons why it is important
Your personal experience
Summary of the main points
Facts and Opinions
A fact: an object, event or experience, statements proved by evidence
An opinion: a general or individual view, belief or impression