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Unit 2 Let’s celebrate!
Developing ideas &
Presenting ideas
Developing ideas
Look at the pictures and talk about Chinese Spring Festival traditions.
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Social Insights
A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have the dinner in are restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea. What do our readers think
Read the passage and find out each person's point of view.
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Time for a Change
Dear Editor,
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. I don't understand why some people refuse to embrace the change.
Can't they admit that the preparations 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 cleaning up the mess after it's over. We work all year, so why can't one day be about spending time with family and relaxing
Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions. We still have the dinner with the same people, just in a different place. The occasion is more enjoyable without all that tiring cooking. and the dishes taste better!
In my opinion, what or where 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 remains the same.
Wang Peng, software engineer
Dear Editor,
For this year's Spring Festival family dinner, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town, but I'm a bit unhappy about it. For me, it just won't feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.
When I was a little boy, the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was what I looked forward to most. 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. I would run around the house, listening to the adults chatting about their year. I'd get under my mother's feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings.
She'd put tokens in some dumplings: candies for a sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, enjoying the food and being together again. We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef.
I hope my children and their children will still value our memories of preparing the dinner together. To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself.
Liu Yonghui, retired teacher
Read the sentences from the passage and decide if they are facts (F) or opinions (O).
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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
A fact is something that exists or has happened, for example, an object, event or experience. Facts are statements that can be proved by evidence. An opinion can be a general or individual view, belief or impression. Opinions can sometimes be identified by the presence of words such as “feel”, “believe” and “think”.
Learning to learn
Think & share
1 What do you think the retired teacher means by "To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself"
2 Which of the two opinions do you agree with Why
3 How would you describe a Spring Festival family dinner to a friend from overseas
4 Can you think of any other Chinese festival traditions Share them with the class.
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Work in groups. Give a talk about the importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese people.
1 Think about why Chinese people value the Spring Festival family dinner and make notes.
2 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.
3 Give your talk to the class.
Writing a letter to express ideas
Read the editorial column and answer the questions.
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Chinese Spring Festival Going Global
Nowadays, more and more countries around the world are holding celebrations for Chinese Spring Festival. What’s more, not only are these attended and enjoyed by Chinese citizens living abroad, but by many other nationalities. too.
With colourful decorations of lanterns and lamps. shopping centres have been organising events and activities to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival for years, while concerts and other performances are also proving a big success. Tickets for the 2017 Grand Chinese New Year Concert ir St Petersburg sold out, with 90% of the audience local Russians.
People are also discovering the fun of interacting with the celebrations, rather than simply watching as part of an audience. To celebrate the 2017 festival. over 1.000 Ghanaian junior high school students got up on stage to perform Chinese songs and dances. Students in New York City, meanwhile, have since 2016 been able to enioy an official day's holiday for Chinese Spring Festival.
lt seems that Chinese Spring Festival is becoming a global celebration of joy and love. What do you think of this phenomenon Write to us to share your opinion!
1 Which countries are mentioned and how do they celebrate Chinese Spring Festival
2 Which event would you most like to attend Why
3 Why do you think Chinese Spring Festival is “going global”
Complete the notes to help organise your ideas.
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Now write a letter to the editor to express your ideas. Use the expressions in the box to help you.
In my opinion / For me...
I (don't) think...
On the contrary...
It's not only..., but…
I hope...
Useful expressions
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Share your letter with the class.
Presenting ideas
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Look at the pictures and answer the questions.
1 Do you know any of these days
2 Why do you think people create these days
Think of a special day you would like to plete the table to help organise your ideas.
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Work in groups. Talk about your ideas following the steps below.
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1 Say what day you would like to create and when it is.
2 State why you would like to create it.
3 Talk about special activities to celebrate it.
Now discuss and decide on a winning day.
Present your special day to the class. Use the expressions in the box to help you.
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Our day is called..
It celebrates...
It could be held on...
Everyone would...
The activities include…
Useful expressions
Reflection
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