外研版英语七年级上Module 10 Spring Festival Unit 2 教案（1课时）

Warming up
Good morning, class! We are having the Spring Festival soon. We have lots of traditions at the Spring Festival. We clean our houses and sweep away bad luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with red paper cuts. We also buy new clothes and everyone has a haircut. On New Year’s Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. Our parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents give us lucky money as presents. The family has dinner and we eat lots of food, including jiaozi. We watch TV and at midnight there are often fireworks. At the Lantern Festival two weeks after the New Year’s Day, we eat a kind of rice dumping named yuanxiao. They are round and so they bring us good luck all the year round. What other traditions can you think of at the Spring Festival? Are there any special traditions in your hometown? How do your family usually spend the Spring Festival? Please turn to page 74 and start our new lesson together.
■Reading and vocabulary
In Photo 4 a grandfather is showing his grandson a New Year present, a new clothes. The little boy is very excited to receive his present.
Photo 1→We have lots of traditions at Spring Festival. We paint doors and windows red. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts.
Photo 2→On Spring Festival’s Eve the family has dinner and we eat jiaozi--- a kind of dumpling. We watch TV and at midnight there are usually fireworks.
Photo 3→The New Year Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival after two weeks. We usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao. They are round and so they bring us good luck all the year round.
Photo 4→Our parents and grandparents give us New Year presents. They are usually new clothes. On New Year’s Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends.
2 Match the photos and the paragraphs.
The paragraphs are about people’s traditions spending the Spring Festival. Please match the photos above and the paragraphs below after reading.
Now let’s read the paragraphs. While reading try to cut(断句)/ the sentences into parts, blacken（涂黑）the predicates, shade（加影）the connectives and underline（划线）the expressions.
Photo 1→ paragraph A Photo 2→ paragraph C
Photo 3→ paragraph D Photo 4→ paragraph B
Write as they do. (仿写)
A We have lots of things to do. We buy food and drinks in the supermarkets. We buy Christmas trees. We usually decorate our house with colorful flowers. We send friends and family Christmas cards.
B Our aunts and uncles give us Christmas presents. They are usually new toys. On Christmas Day, we visit our family and friends. There is Christmas singing in church.
C The family has dinner and we eat turkey--- a kind of chicken. We stay together with family and friends. We listen to Christmas music. We give each other presents.
D On Christmas Day, we open our presents. The presents are around the Christmas tree. We are happy to get the presents.
Now write all the expressions in your Expression Book.
have lots of traditions, clean our houses, sweep away bad luck, paint doors and windows red, good luck, decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts, have a haircut, give sb. New Year presents, on New Year’s Day, put on, lion dancing, a kind of dumpling, a sweet rice pudding, at midnight, for a few days, have lots of food for good luck, the New Year Festival, at the Lantern Festival, after two weeks, a kind of rice dumpling, bring sb. good luck, all the year round
3 Match the questions and the paragraphs.
Hi, class! I would like you to try to answer the questions below. Don’t look at the paragraphs at first. Try to say what you remember about the paragraphs. It’s OK if you can’t remember the exact sentences. Just say what you want to say in your own words. Let me make an example for you. What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve? We make dumplings and lots of food. At night, we watch the special New Year’s program on TV and usually have a lot of fun. At midnight there are always fireworks. I often dare not fire a firework myself. We usually sleep very late on Spring Festival’s Eve.
1 What do you do in the Spring Festival?
Our parents and grandparents give us New Year presents. They are usually new clothes. On New Year’s Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. There is dragon and lion dancing.
2 When does the Spring Festival finish?
The New Year Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival after two weeks. We usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao. They are round and so they bring us good luck all the year round.
3 What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve?
The family has dinner and we eat jiaozi — a kind of dumpling, or a sweet rice pudding. We watch TV and at midnight there are usually fireworks. We don’t clean the house for a few days. We don’t want to sweep away good luck. And we have lots of food for good luck.
4 What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?
We have lots of traditions. First, we clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. We also buy clothes and everyone has a haircut.
4 Read the passage and answer the questions. You can use Chinese.
Hi, class! Do you know all the answers to the questions below? If you don’t, you can search for the answers online after class. You can also answer these questions in Chinese if you want to. What is a haircut? It is a Chinese tradition. We should have our hair cut before New Year. It brings good luck to us. What are paper cuts? Paper cut is a traditional Chinese art. The skillful artiest make beautiful patterns from paper. We often put paper cuts on windows at the Spring Festival.
bad luck door dumpling good luck fireworks haircut
midnight paper cut rice pudding sweet traditions window
1 Red means good luck. What colour is red?
2 What is good luck and bad luck?
3 Where are the doors and windows in your classroom?
4 There are paper cuts on the doors and windows. What are paper cuts?
5 Decorate is something you do to doors and windows at New Year. What does it mean?
6 You can cut hair. What is a haircut?
7 What do dumpling and sweet rice pudding mean?
8 When is midnight? Twelve o’clock in the morning or twelve o’clock at night?
9 There are fireworks at midnight on New Year’s Eve. What are fireworks?
■Writing
5 Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain. Match the notes with the headings.
We know a lot about Chinese traditions at the Spring Festival now. What are the traditions on Christmas in the West? The western people also get ready for Christmas. They go shopping for presents for their family before the Christmas Eve. They decorate homes and put a Christmas tree in their homes. They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner together. They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents on Christmas Day. Usually children get up early and are in a hurry to open their presents. They sing Christmas songs in church and say Merry Christmas to family and friends.
Getting ready: a go shopping for presents f get lots of food ready
Decorations: d decorate homes j have a Christmas tree
Food: b eat Christmas pudding h have Christmas dinner
Presents: e put the presents next to the Christmas tree c open our presents on Christmas Day
Traditions: g sing Christmas songs i say “Happy Christmas” to family and friends
6 Join two notes and write one sentence with and.
Do you know how to join two sentences together with and? I go swimming. I do practices. I go swimming and do practices. They are eating ice creams. They are drinking beers. They are eating ice creams and drinking beers. She is doing homework. She is listening to music. She is doing homework and listening to music.
go shopping for presents; get lots of food ready
→They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready.
→They go shopping for food and get lots of food ready.
They decorate homes and have a Christmas tree.
They eat Christmas pudding and have Christmas dinner.
They put the presents next to the Christmas tree and open their presents on Christmas Day.
They sing Christmas songs and say “Happy Christmas” to family and friends.
7 Write five paragraphs describing Christmas in Britain. Use the sentences you wrote in Activity 6 and the headings in Activity 5.
Here is your today’s homework. Please go online and search for information of Christmas in Britain. Read the information first. After reading, turn off the computer and write down several paragraphs about Christmas in Britain in your own words. You can write about how they prepare for the festival, how they decorate homes, what they eat at the festival, how they send each other presents and what are the traditions on Christmas Day. Of course, you can also write other things bout Christmas in Britain.
Before the Christmas Day, we get ready for it. We go shopping for presents for our friends and family. We go shopping for food and drink. We buy Christmas trees in shops. We decorate the tree with bells, candies and balls, etc. We send our friends greeting cards.
On Christmas Eve, families get together to celebrate the night. We have a big dinner. We have Christmas turkey and puddings. We put presents around the Christmas tree.
On Christmas day, we get up early. We open our presents around the Christmas tree. We are very happy to get our presents. We visit our friends and family and say “Merry Christmas” to them.
Children are usually interested in Father Christmas. He is a fat old man with a long white beard and wears a red suit and a red hat. He gives presents to the children. Children love him very much.
Christmas is the important festival in the western countries. It is also the most important festival in Britain. It is to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.