1、Unit 3 Festivals and customsExtended readingLead-inHave a free talk.Q 1:For many Chinese people,what is the most important festival?the Spring FestivalQ2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.have a reunion dinner on Chinese New Years Eve除夕夜吃年夜饭除夕夜吃年夜饭 fishMay you
2、 get more than you wish for every year.年年有余年年有余rice cakeMay you get higher on working and learning year by year.年年高升年年高升Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.have a reunion dinner on Chinese New Years Eve除夕夜吃年夜饭除夕夜吃年夜饭 eight treasures riceBe happy and prosperou
3、s.恭喜发财恭喜发财sweet rice ballMay you have a great family reunion.团团圆圆团团圆圆Q2:How do your family celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.decorate the windows with paper-cuttings贴窗花贴窗花Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.put up the Spring Festival couplets on
4、the door贴对联贴对联Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.put up the New Years paintings on the wall贴年画贴年画Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.stay up late 守岁守岁Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a
5、free talk.watch the Spring Festival Gala看春晚看春晚Q2:How do your family usually celebrate the Spring Festival?Have a free talk.set off fireworks/firecrackers 燃放烟花燃放烟花/爆竹爆竹Watch a videoWatch a video and answer the question.Q:Who are mentioned in the video?Watch a video and answer the question.Q:Who are m
6、entioned in the video?Luo Yan and his familyRead the articleRead the article and complete the table.TimeMain eventsOn the way back home1.They_ excitedly with each other,full of thoughts about their 2._.Before the dinnerTheir home has been specially 3._.During the dinnerThe dinner table is full of 4.
7、_.Luo Yan 5._ the rich smell of the soup.Bofeng takes a 6._ of the chicken.After dinnerThey gather around to watch 7._,eating,chatting and 8._.Luo Yan talks about his 9._.Close to midnightThey set off 10._ outside.chattedsweet homedecorated all sorts of dishesbreathes inbitethe Spring Festival Galam
8、aking dumplingsplan for the futurefirecrackersRead Para.2 and find out the phrases to describe the feelings.P2Q:Can you find the words and phrases that describe their feelings?,and he is full of joy and excitement.(L7-8)Indeed,the whole family could not be happier to be together.(L8),their happy fac
9、es fill the air with warmth while merry laughterrings throughout the house.(L9-10)Writing tip:Use diverse(多样化的多样化的)language to enrich your writing.can not be+adj.to do 再再也不为过也不为过 =very+adj.+to do Q:According to Para.2,what is their dream?“three generations under the same roof”三代同堂三代同堂Read Para.3 and
10、 answer the questions.P3Q1:How was their journey back to their home just a few years ago?It was long and tiring.Q2:What has changed that situation?The high-speed train has made it more convenient to go back home.Read Para.3 and answer the questions.Q3:What writing technique is used here?Flashback(倒叙
11、倒叙).A flashback is a break from the regular narrative in which characters are taken back in time to an event which occurred before the present date in the narrative.倒叙是指从常规叙述中脱离出来，倒叙是指从常规叙述中脱离出来，人物被带回至当前叙事之前的时间。人物被带回至当前叙事之前的时间。Read Para.3 and answer the questions.Q4:What are the writing effects by u
12、sing a flashback here?Providing the background information.Reflecting the social changes through individual experience.With the technological development,it is more convenient for people to reunite with family members even though they are far away from each other.Read the sentences in Para.5 with em
13、otions and analyze Luo Yans feelings.“I hope we wont have to be separated again,”he says,looking at his aging parents.“My parents are getting old,and we should spendmore time with them.Well come back home more frequently andwe are also considering taking them to the city to live with us.Afterall,hom
14、e is where all family members are together.”Q:How does Luo Yan feel when he talks about his plan for the future?Luo Yansorry(not keep his parents company;not come back home frequently)hopeful(be able to come back home more frequently;might live with his parents together in the future)worried(the agi
15、ng parents)Read the sentences in Para.6 and answer the questions.All over the country,people are celebrating their good fortune,celebrating their familys togetherness,and celebrating their nations strength.Q1:What does the Spring Festival represent?Q2:What rhetoric device(修辞手法修辞手法)is used here?A.met
16、aphor 暗喻暗喻 B.simile 明喻明喻 C.parallelism 排比排比 D.hyperbole 夸张夸张Q3:Why does the author change his perspective(视角视角)of writing from Luo Yans family to all over the country?To reflect the big from the small.以小见大以小见大Post-readingLearn about the text type.Feature article(新闻特写新闻特写/专题报道专题报道):A feature article
17、is much more than a collection of bare facts.Its a special-interest article abounding with details that makes for pleasurable reading.While a hard news article focuses on exactly what happened,when and to whom,a feature article typically adds a dimension of human interest.新闻特写不仅仅只报道简单的事实。它是一种充满了特别的、
18、趣味性的细节新闻特写不仅仅只报道简单的事实。它是一种充满了特别的、趣味性的细节的文章。除了像典型的新闻报道一样包含的文章。除了像典型的新闻报道一样包含时间、地点、人物时间、地点、人物等基本信息，、等基本信息，、新闻特写还典型地增加了新闻特写还典型地增加了人文趣味人文趣味的维度。的维度。Learn about the text type.Feature article(新闻特写新闻特写/专题报道专题报道):l Appealing to(吸引吸引)reader interests.l Including in-depth(深度的深度的)reporting on a news event.l Tak
19、ing a personal angle.l Loner than news stories.l Written with several photos.Further thinking.Q:With time passing by,there are many changes of the ways to celebrate the Spring Festival,can you think of some of the changes?send red envelopes in personsend red envelopes by Wechatpay a visit torelative
20、s(亲戚亲戚)and friendspay a visitthrough video callsset off fireworksFireworks are banned in some districts.watch the Spring Festival Galawatch otherOnline GalasThe ways to celebrate the Spring Festival may have changed.But the meanings of it havent changed.a joyful occasiona vital ritual(一种重要的仪式一种重要的仪式)a representative of traditional cultureCustoms tell a man who he is,where he belongs,what he must do.Robert A.Heinlein
