1、Lead-inLead-inWhat is your favourite traditional Chinese festival?Look at the picture on page 40 and Look at the picture on page 40 and answer.answer.Which festival is the picture about?How do you know that?Title Title predictionprediction Global readingGlobal readingRead the article and choose the
2、best answer.Read the article and choose the best answer.How is the article organized?How is the article organized?A.In order of time.A.In order of time.B.With the change in the place.B.With the change in the place.C.With the development of feeling.C.With the development of feeling.D.All the above.D.
3、All the above.D D Read the article again and fill in the table.Read the article again and fill in the table.TimeOn the way back homeDuring the dinner_ dinnerClose to _PlaceOn the _In the houseFeeling_HappyWorried and _trainExcitedIn the houseAfterhopefulmidnightProudOutside the house1.How does Luo Y
4、an with his wife and son come back to his parents?2.What are cooked on the Chinese New Years Eve?3.What do the family do at midnight?Detailed reading:A few years ago,their journey was long and tiring.But now they come back by high-speed train,which costs only five-hour.Chicken,duck,pork,fish and veg
5、etables.They gather around the television to watch the Spring Festival Gala,while eating snacks,chatting with each other and making dumplings that they will eat at the very start of the new year.Further readingFurther readingStepStep 5 5 Characteristics Characteristics of a feature articleof a featu
6、re articleWhat do you think of the description of the scene?What tense does the author use?Why?The scene is vividly described,with a lot of details.The author uses the present tense to show what is happening in Luo Yans family to make readers feel as if they were on the scene.On the Chinese New Year
7、s Eve throughout China,the same thing happens in other families.Vivid descriptions to help readers picture the scene in their minds How does the family feel?Can you find more sentences which show the feeling of the family?They feel happy and excited.Yans son,Bofeng,happily takes a bite of the chicke
8、n his grandfather has selected for him.(para.1,lines 46)During the five-hour trip,they chatted excitedly with each other,their minds full of thoughts about their sweet home.(para.3,lines 1516)On their arrival,they find Luos parents eagerly waiting for them.(para.4,line 17)Rich feelings to make reade
9、rs involved in the story and sense how the characters feelWhat does the last sentence of the feature article imply?It implies that Chinese people are living a happy life and feel proud of their great country.It also suggests that every familys happiness contributes to the countrys greatness and the
10、countrys strength guarantees every familys happiness.Deep meanings to show the theme and give readers a sense of identity Critical thinkingDiscussionDiscussion1.What Spring Festival traditions do you observe?What are their meanings?I go back to my hometown,visit my extended family and get red packet
11、s!The Chinese New Year is a time of family reunion.The annual reunion dinner with members of my extended family is the biggest event of the festival.We eat Spring Festival cakes,or niangao,which symbolize increasing prosperity in each coming year.Red packets received from the elderly symbolize good
12、luck and fortune.DiscussionDiscussion2.Why do the Chinese people attach so much importance to reunion during the Spring Festival?The answer to this question is deeply rooted in the traditional Chinese culture,which is characterized by a sense of family,or a sense of belonging.The concept of family h
13、as a great influence on the Chinese people,and three generations living under the same roof is good proof of a thriving family.Even if family members live apart,they must get back home at the Spring Festival and bring new year greetings to the family elders.They tell the family about their experienc
14、es and achievements while away from home,feeling content that they can bring glory to the family.Family reunions are also good occasions when children learn about their cultural inheritance,who will pass it down to their own children after they grow up.Traditionally,there are ceremonies of offering
15、sacrifices to ancestors and people exchange new year greetings with their relatives and friends.Brought up in this harmonious atmosphere,children will naturally follow this tradition.DiscussionDiscussion3.Luo Yan says,“Home is where all family members are together.”Do you agree?Why or why not?4.With
16、 the development of society,many extended families have been replaced with nuclear families.What problems might this cause?Do you know some traditions of the Spring Festival?Discuss with your partners and list some.小孩小孩你别馋,过了腊八就是年。腊八粥喝几天,哩哩啦啦二十三。二十三糖瓜粘,二十四扫房子。二十五做豆腐,二十六煮煮肉。二十七杀年鸡,二十八把面发。二十九蒸馒头,三十晚上玩
17、一宿。大年初一扭一扭。the dinner on New Years Eve the dinner on New Years Eve have have dumplingsdumplingspaste spring coupletspaste spring coupletssweeping the dustsweeping the dustget Lucky money;get Lucky money;set off fireworksset off fireworksDiscussion Which custom of the Spring Festival do you like best?Why?Group work
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