1、Unit 3 Festivals and customs Extended reading A precious family dinner1.He made a small f in the property boom. 2.The Spring Festival comes to an end when the L Festival is finished. 3.A r is a puzzle or joke in which you ask a question that seems to be nonsense but has a clever or amusing answer. 4
2、.He was suddenly struck with such a sense of loss that his eyes were filled with t. 5.He has given up his freewheeling lifestyle to (定居) down with his baby daughter. 6.With so many people around, it wasnt c to have a long talk with him. 7.The annual rings (代表) the amount of wood formed each year. Re
3、ading Read the passage quickly and find out the answers to the following questions:1. What does the passage talk about?The passage talks about the celebration of Chinese New Year of Luo Yans family.Reading 2. How often do Luos family reunite?They reunite once a year. 3. What is the change in Luos jo
4、urney back home?It used to be a long and tiring one while now it takes only 5 hours to reach his home town. Reading 4. What does this change imply?It implies the high speed of development in modern transportation of China. It also implies how powerful our country is. .Read the passage on P3940 quick
5、ly and fill in the following blanks with suitable words.语 篇 理 解精读演练 萃取文本精华long andtiringconvenientdecoratedoccasiondinnereatingchattingfuturetogethernessstrength重点词汇1： 重点词汇2 ： 重点词汇3 ： 重点词汇4 ： 重点句型1： 重点句型2： 重点句型3： Go through the feature article again and summarize it orally with the help of the chart
6、 on Page 40.Time Place Feeling On the way back homeDuring the dinner After dinnerClose tomidnight On the train In the house Outside thehouse Exited Happy Worried and hopefulReading It is just past five oclock on the Chinese New Years Eve, and the dinner table is already covered with white china plat
7、es, full of all sorts of 1(dish): chicken, duck, pork, fish and vegetables. Many people have settled in big cities, far away from their hometown. Once a year, however, they travel back for the Spring Festival, for2 dream of “three generations under the same roof”. The high-speed train has made it mu
8、ch 3(convenient)for them to go back home. Already their home 4(decorate) for the joyous occasion. From the neat designs of the paper-cuttings on the windows, 5 the Spring Festival couplets on the door, and to the New Year paintings on the wall, everything 6(represent) joy, luck and happiness. After
9、dinner, the hours until midnight go7(slow) by. The whole family are going to stay up late on the New Years Eve. They gather around the television 8(watch) the New Years programme, while eating snacks, chatting with each other and making dumplings, 9 they will eat at the very start of the new year. A
10、s midnight approaches, people begin to set off firecrackers. All over the country, people 10(celebrate) their good fortune,celebrating their familys togetherness, and celebrating their nations strength. What is the special meaning of doing these activities like watching TV, eating snacks, and making
11、 dumplings together on such an occasion?Can you make up other sentences to describe what home is for you?Home is where _.Home is a place _.Reading AppreciationHomeworkWrite an essay on the changes of activities in which the Chinese people celebrate the Chinese New Year and your attitudes towards these changes.
