1、1.To know Chinese Spring Festival traditions and understand the importance of the Spring Festival family dinner for Chinese.2.To understand why Chinese people value the Spring Festival family reunion dinner.3.To tell the difference between fact and opinion.Having family dinnerLetting off fireworksPa
2、sting coupletsCleaning the houseVisiting relativesGiving and receiving red envelopesSpring FestivalLead-in:Answer the following questions according to the video.1.What does people usualy do when Chinese Spring Festival is approaching?They are busy purchasing goods,cooking traditional food,cleaning t
3、he house,making _ and hanging spring festival pictures.2.What does people do during the Chinese Spring Festival?On Chun Jie,Lunar New Years Day,people in new clothes visit each other and _ to send good wishes.3.What is the main activity on Chun Jie?Having_ is the main activity on ChunJie.Lead-in:Ans
4、wer the following questions according to the video.1.What does people usualy do when Chinese Spring Festival is approaching?They are busy purchasing goods,cooking traditional food,cleaning the house,making _ and hanging spring festival pictures.Spring Festival couplets2.What does people do during th
5、e Chinese Spring Festival?On Chun Jie,Lunar New Years Day,people in new clothes visit each other and _ to send good wishes.give money to kids3.What is the main activity on Chun Jie?Having_ is the main activity on ChunJie.a family dinnerFast-reading:Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks.W
6、hile-reading:Read the first letter to answer the following questions.Why does Wang Peng choose to eat out for the Spring Festival family dinner?1.The preparations for the dinner are_.2.It i s not_ the effort.3.We cant have one day be about_.1.Eating out_loss of traditions.2.The occassion is_and the
7、dishes_.hard workworthspending time with family and relaxinghas nothing to do withmore enjoyabletaste betterWhile-reading:Read the first letter to answer the following question.Why does Wang Peng think eating out still remains the tradition?Eating out may change the form of this tradition,but the lo
8、ve between the family members remains the same.While-reading:Read the second letter to answer the following questions.Read Para.2 and underline the Verbs describing the authors actions and his famliy members actionsAll these verbs show the authors sweet members of childhood on the eve of Spring Fest
9、ival.While-reading:Read the second letter to answer the following questions.What do you think the retired teacher means by“To me,the process is even more important than the dinner itself”?For him,the sweet memories of having the whole family getting together and preparing for the dinner are more imp
10、ortant than the delicious food itself.Post-reading:How does second writer present his opinion?Letter 2Para.1 Opinion eating at homePara.2 Give some FactsPara.3 ConclusionTime for a Change?(Whether people choose to eat out or not during the Spring Festival?)Post reading-tell the difference between fa
11、ct and opinion.1.Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions.2.what or where we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesnt matter.3.it just wont feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.4.Id get under my mothers feet in the kitchen,watching her make dumplings.5.
12、Shed put tokens in some dumplings.OOOFFRead the sentences from the passage and decide if they are facts(F)or opinions(O).Which of the two opinions do you agree with?Why?Group WorkWhat is the significance of celebrating the Spring Festival？ThanksJoyReunionSatisfactoryCareMemorySpring FestivalWhere and what we eat doesnt matter.What matters is the love between family members.HomeworkWrite a passage about your opinions on eating out or at home.
