Review
为……做准备
春节
制作灯笼
打扫房子
扫地
收拾东西
做饭
学舞龙
get ready for
Spring Festival
make lanterns
clean the house
sweep the floor
put things away
cook the meal
learn a dragon dance
Module 10 Spring Festival Unit 2
My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
Christmas
February
January
before
sweep away
luck
table
n.圣诞节
n.二月
n.一月
Prep.在……之前
扫去
n.运气
n.桌子
/?kr?sm?s/
/?febru?ri/
/?d??nju?ri/
/b??f?:/
/swi:p ??wei/
/l?k/
/?te?bl/
Words and expressions
celebrate
traditional
dumpling
programme
sweater
coat
v.庆祝
Adj.传统的
n.饺子
n.(电视) 节目
n.厚运动衫
n.外套
/?sel?bre?t/
/tr??d??n?l/
/?d?mpl??/
/?pr??gr?m/
/?swet?/
/k??t/
mean
lucky
merry
merry Christmas
tell
v.意思是
Adj.幸运的
Adj.愉快的
圣诞快乐
v.讲;告诉
/mi:n/
/?l?ki/
/?meri/
/tel/
Warming up
What do you get ready for Spring Festival?
What do you do during Spring Festival?
Reading and vocabulary
Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and talk about what's happening.
—What's Li Shan's
mother doing?
—She's cleaning
the house.
have a family dinner
visit the girl's uncles and aunts
—What's Li Shan's
mother doing?
—She's cleaning
the house.
—What are they
doing?
—They are having a
family dinner.
—What are they doing?
—They are visiting the
girl's uncles and aunts.
A
B
C
2. Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1.
Find out the key phrases:
在同一天
在二月
看一看
第一张(图片)
几天
扫走霉运
欢庆春节
一顿传统的家庭晚宴
收红包
压岁钱
on the same day
in February
have a look at
the first one
a few days
sweep away bad luck
celebrate Spring Festival
a traditional family dinner
get a hongbao
lucky money
在除夕夜
on the evening before Spring Festival
观看特别节目
watch a special programme
A Here's the first one! It's a few days before Spring Festival. My mother's cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck. Look at the food on the table! We always buy a lot of
food before the festival.
Q1. What is her mother doing before Spring Festival?
She is
Q2.What do they always buy before the festival?
They always buy
cleaning their house and sweeping away bad luck.
a lot of food before the festival.
B Oh, I love this photo. We are celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival. There's so much delicious food. I am eating jiaozi -- a kind of dumpling. After the dinner, we usually watch a special programme on TV.
Q1:What is she eating?
She is eating
Q2:What do they usually watch on TV?
They usually watch
jiaozi– a kind of dumpling.
a special programme on TV.
C In this photo, my parents and I are visiting my uncles and aunts. We are wearing new sweaters and coats. I always get a hongbao. It
means lucky money.
Q1:What are they wearing?
They are wearing
Q2: What does “hongbao” mean?
It means
What does…mean?=What’s the meaning of..? ……是什么意思?
new sweaters and coats.
lucky money.
We (1) _______ Spring Festival in January
or February. A (2) _______days before Spring Festival we clean our homes and (3) _______
_____all the bad 4 ____. On the evening before Spring Festival we have a big family dinner.
celebrate
few
celebrate dumplings few luck mean programme sweep away traditional
sweep
luck
3
away
Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expression from the box.
We eat lots of (5) ____________food, such as jiaozi – a kind of (6) __________. We usually watch a special (7) __________ on television, and parents usually give their children a
hongbao. It (8) _____ lucky money.
traditional
dumpling
programme
means
celebrate dumplings few luck mean programme sweep away traditional
3
Find out the key phrases:
在同一天
在二月
看一看
第一张(图片)
几天
扫走霉运
欢庆春节
一顿传统的家庭晚宴
收红包
压岁钱
on the same day
in February
have a look at
the first one
a few days
sweep away bad luck
celebrate Spring Festival
a traditional family dinner
get a hongbao
lucky money
在除夕夜
on the evening before Spring Festival
观看特别节目
watch a special programme
单项填空。
1. What does the word _____?
A. mean B. is meaning C. are meaning D. means
2. Christmas always comes _____ December 25th.
A. in B. at C. before D. on
3. It’s half past seven. The Browns _____ dinner.
A. are having B. is having C. have D. has
4. —Good _____, Lingling!
—Thank you. I’m always a _____ girl.
A. luck ;luck B. lucky;lucky C. lucky;luck D. luck;lucky
5. I want to buy that mobile phone,but I don’t have so _____ money.
A. many B. little C. much D. few
6. There are too many books on our desks, so the teacher asks us to____.
A. put it away B. put away it C. put them away D. put away them
a) go shopping for presents
b) have a traditional family dinner
c) open presents on Christmas Day
d) put the presents next to the Christmas tree
e) get lots of food ready
f) sing Christmas songs
g) say Merry Christmas to family and friends
h) have a Christmas tree
Learning to learn
When you write new words,write them under headings,in groups or in a word map. Use pictures and drawings.
Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain. Match the notes with the headings.
4
Writing
Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain. Match the notes with the headings.
?Getting ready ________________
?Presents ________________
?Traditional things on Christmas Day ________________
a) d) e) h)
a) c) d)
b) c) f) g) h)
1. There is lots of ____________ (传统的)
food at Spring Festival.
2. People from northern China like eating
_________(饺子).
3. It’s ____________ (困难的) to wake my
brother up on weekends.
4. How do you ___________ (庆祝) Spring
Festival?
traditional
dumplings
hard/difficult
celebrate
Homework
1. Recite the passage on page 62.
2. Write a short passage about festivals
in China or other countries.
few
很少;几乎没有
表否定含义
修饰____
名词复数
a few
几个;有一些
表肯定含义
little
很少;几乎没有
表否定含义
修饰______
名词
a little
一点;一些
表肯定含义
不可数
可数
few, a few, little, a little
1. There’re ______books. You can borrow one.
2. We have ____ rain this spring. The trees and grass don’t grow well.
3. There are ___ new words in the text, but
I don’t understand it.
4. -May I talk with you, Lucy?
-Sure, but only _____ time. I’m very busy.
a few
little
few
a little
用few, a few, little, a little填空
celebrate
clean
have
get
visit
wear
mean
sweep
celebrating
cleaning
having
getting
visiting
wearing
meaning
sweeping