(共26张PPT)
Unit 2 Let’s celebrate!
Developing ideas
Time for a Change
By the end of class, we are able to:
1. learn about Chinese Spring Festival traditions;
2. know the type of the passage and distinguish a fact and an opinion in the passage;
3. express own comments on different opinions.
Learning objectives
Spring Festival
set off fireworks
receive a red envelope
put up lanterns and couplets
play flower-drum
Do you know other activities at the Spring Festival
Lion dance
Go to the temple fair
Clean the house
Pay a New Year visit
Watch the Spring Festival Gala
Learn relevant expressions about the traditions of the Spring Festival.
pay a New Year visit
family dinner
make dumplings
clean up the house
eating out
eating
at home
Time for a Change
What do you think of the family dinner
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Wang peng, software engineer
Liu Yonghui, retired teacher
___________________________
___________________________
It just won’t feel like Spring Festival
having the dinner out.
We have eaten for...we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home.
eating
at home
eating out
Scan the first paragraph of each letter and find out the two persons’ point of view.
.
Reading
Opinion Time for a Change
Wang Peng: eating (1) ____ Para. 1: He enjoys eating out (2) _______ than eating at home.
Para. 2: The preparations for the dinner are (3) ___________.
Para. 3: Eating out has nothing to do with (4) ______ of traditions.
Para. 4: The love between the family members remains (5) ________.
Read the passage quickly and find out each person’s point of view.
Read the passage quickly and find out each person’s point of view.
Opinion Time for a Change
Wang Peng: eating (1) ____ Para. 1: He enjoys eating out (2) _______ than eating at home.
Para. 2: The preparations for the dinner are (3) ___________.
Para. 3: Eating out has nothing to do with (4) ______ of traditions.
Para. 4: The love between the family members remains (5) ________.
out
no less
hard work
loss
the same
Reading
Reading
Opinion Time for a Change
Liu Yonghui: eating (6) _______ Para. 1: He was (7) __________ about having the dinner out.
Para. 2: The happy memory of the dinner on the
(8) ______of Spring Festival.
Para. 3: The (9) _________ is more important than the dinner itself.
Opinion Time for a Change
Liu Yonghui: eating (6) _______ Para. 1: He was (7) __________ about having the dinner out.
Para. 2: The happy memory of the dinner on the
(8) ______of Spring Festival.
Para. 3: The (9) _________ is more important than the dinner itself.
at home
eve
process
unhappy
Reading
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Reasons for
eating out
The preparations for the dinner are _________.
It is not _______the effort.
It should be a day to
_________________________
Eating out _________________ loss of tradition.
The occasion is ____________ and the dishes ___________.
___________of eating at home
___________of eating out
Advantages
more enjoyable
spend time with family and relax
has nothing to do with
hard work
taste better
worth
Disadvantages
What is a fact
What is an opinion
Answer the questions about the fact and the opinion.
Reading
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
Read the sentences from the passage and decide if they are
facts (F) or opinions (O).
Reading
Application
Facts:
1. We have eaten out for the Spring Festival
family dinner for last three years …
2. … my son has booked a table at the best
restaurant in town.
3. In the evening, all of us would sit around
the table, enjoying the food and being
together again.
…
Opinions:
1. I really don’t think it’s
worth the effort of spending
so much time preparing for
a single meal …
2. To me, the process is even
more important than the
dinner itself.
…
Read the passage to get more facts and opinions in the passage.
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Read para. 2 of
the second letter
and find out the
verbs describing the
author’s actions and
his family members’ actions.
When I was a little boy
look forward to
run around
listen to
get under mother’s feet
wactch
My mother
put tokens in
All of us
sit around
enjoy
toast
be together
All these verbs show the auhor’s ____________ of childhood on the eve of Spring Festival.
sweet memories
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
①What can remain the same though eating out in paragraph 4 from letter 1
②What is more important to Liu Yonghui in paragraph 3 from letter 2
Read the passage carefully and answer the following questions:
.
The love between the family members are the same.
To him, the process is even more important.
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and idea of the two letters.
Read the article again and figure out its structure(结构).
________
________
Paragraph
Part
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Part. 1
Part. 2
Part. 3
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Restatement(重申) of author’s opinion
Reason
Opinion
Strucutre
The basic structure of a short argumentation.
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
an introduction of the topic and state your opinions
evidence or facts to support the opinion
conclude your idea
Introduction (Para. 1)
1._________ the change-----three years’ experience of eating out proves we enjoy it 2.________ than eating at home.
Embrace
no less
Body(Para. 2-3)
advantages of eating out
disadvantages of eating at home
It takes so much time to prepare for a
single meal and clean up the mess,
(1) same people but different place
(2) more enjoyable occasion without
tiring cooking
(3) tastier dishes
What are they
What are they
comparison
Conclusion(Para. 4)
What does eating out change What is the same
the form of the tradition
the love between family members
ead the first paragraph of the two letters and make a prediction about the main idea of the two letters.
Where and what we eat doesn’t matter. The love between family members remains the same.
我们吃什么,哪里吃不重要。重要的是亲人间的爱一成不变
假定你是李华,你的英国朋友John来信询问中国人过春节的风俗习惯。请你结合自己家乡的实际情况给他回信,内容包括:
1.春节的简介;
2.过节的风俗习惯;
3.邀请他来中国过春节。
注意:
1.词数80左右;
2.可以适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
3.信的开头已为你写好
Homework
Healthy and Happy
New Year!