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Thinking
What’s the main idea of this video
This video mainly talks about/focuses on
Spring Festival
Unit 3 Celebrations
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
Learning objectives
1. To read for general understanding and specific information
2. To have a deeper understanding of the Spring Festival
3. To express personal experience of the Spring Festival
Example:
My family celebrate Spring Festival by making dumplings together.
Use phrases to help you.
to prepare snacks
to put up decorations
to let off fireworks
to prepare and receive lucky money
to have a big dinner
How do you and your family celebrate Spring Festival
Free talk
Tom Jenkins
a 16-year-old
exchange student
living in Nanjing
Xu Gang
a 28-year-old
computer engineer working in Shanghai
Li Yan
a 70-year-old grandmother from Heilongjiang
Prediction
What kind of traditions may make him excited
Will Xu Gang need to prepare something before Spring Festival
What kind of preparation is needed
Which activities might Li Yan value
1. In which order did these three writers organize their passages
Fast-reading: multiple choice
2. What’s the main idea of these three accounts
In which order did these three writers organize their passages
Fast-reading: order
A. General-to-Specific Structure
B. Time Order
C. Spatial Order
B.
B. how a foreign feel about Spring Festival
Fast-reading: main idea
A. own experiences of celebrating Spring Festival
Tom Jenkins
Xu Gang
Li Yan
C. how the old feel about Spring Festival
A.
1. Where do they spend Spring Festival
2. Who do they spend the festival with
3. What do they do before and during the festival
Careful reading: detailed information
Where Who Preparation Activities
the house was cleaned from top to bottom
the Chinese character Fu was attached upside down
host family
Nanjing
firework
sat together to enjoy a big dinner
Tom Jenkins
Where Who Preparation Activities
book tickets
choose gifts for his parents
his parents;
his family
Shanxi
have hotpot
talk of old times
fill me in on
Xu Gang
Where Who Preparation Activities
think about: what children would like to eat
what they need to buy
children;
grandchildren;
her family
Heilongjiang
what dishes need to be prepared
children: run around, shouting and playing
Li Yan
adult: talk about the past; jiaozi are made
have jiaozi
fun; excitement
Matching: feeling/meaning
family
Tom Jenkins
Xu Gang
Li Yan
Question 1: What kind of tense (时态) is mainly used in Tom’s account What about Xu Gang and Li Yan
Reading for thinking
Tom:
past tense
一般过去时态
Xu Gang and Li Yan:
present tense
一般现在时态
vs.
表示过去某个特定时间发生且已结束的动作或状态,与现在没有直接联系。
描述普遍真理、习惯性动作或当前状态,强调动作的常态性、反复性或不受时间限制的特性。
Tom
a past experience → cool/interesting activities
Xu Gang and Li Yan
a yearly routine → regular activities
Why?
Question 2: Why didn’t Tom mention a specific dish
Reading for thinking
Tom:
a big dinner
Xu Gang and Li Yan:
hotpot , jiaozi
vs.
delicious taste
food itself
↓
a comfort of homesickness
↓
a sign of wishes
It is not what we eat, but who we eat it with that counts.
Reading for thinking
Tom Jenkins
Xu Gang
Li Yan
What caused these difference
These three narrators are different in:
age
gender
identity
nationality
living place
different views/understanding of the Spring Festival
Reading for thinking
Question 3: With time pass by, the ways of celebrating Spring Festival have changed. Which ways of celebration have changed
Nowadays more and more families have New Year’s Eve Dinner at restaurant instead of eating at home.
Reading for thinking
Question 3: With time pass by, the ways of celebrating Spring Festival have changed. Which ways of celebration have changed
During the Spring Festival, many choose to travel to enjoy beautiful scenery and different customs and traditions.
Tourists
Throughout history, some of the original customs have changed, but the spirit of the festival – the spirit of family – has largely been kept. Most of the important Spring Festival traditions are still being practiced by people across the country.
Reading for Thinking
Different views/understanding of the Spring Festival;
Different ways of celebration
Spring
Festival
Same/unchanged spirit:
family reunion
family gathering
being together
love
care
best wishes
Happy Chinese New year
Summary
1. Different experiences about the Spring Festival from different people who come from different places and are at different ages.
2. People may hold different views of the Spring Festival and celebrate it in various ways, but its core spirit — family, or we can say family reunion and family gathering — remains unchanged.
1. Finish Activity 7 on page 54.
Homework
2. Express your own experience of the Spring Festival, including where, who, before the festival and during the festival.
Use expressions on the hand out to help you organize your writing.
Write at least 3 sentences.
Example:
1. Before the Spring Festival, my family stock up for the Spring Festival. I feel busy.
2. During the Spring Festival, my family pay New Year calls to our relatives and friends. I feel tired but happy.
3. I spend the Spring Festival with my parents at Dingyuan County (定远县).
Expressions about Spring Festival you can use:
do house cleaning 打扫房子
Homework
enjoy bilibili Chinese New Year Gala 观看哔哩哔哩拜年纪
watch animes/cartoons 看动漫/看番
play video games 打游戏
stock up for the Spring Festival 采买年货
pay New Year calls 拜年(强调登门拜访)
Thanks for cooperation!
Have a nice day!