My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck. Module 10 Spring Festival Unit 2 My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.

What traditions do you know about Spring Festival?

put up lanterns

set off fireworks

Put up couplets

have a traditional family dinner

1 Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and talk about what’s happening. ① ② ③

cleaning What’s Li Shan’s mother doing? Picture 1 What’s Li Shan’s mother doing? She’s ________(clean) the house. cleaning

traditional on What are Li Shan’s family doing? Picture 2 What are Li Shan’s family doing? They are having a __________ family dinner _____the evening before spring Festival. traditional on

are visiting Picture 3 What are they doing? They _____ ______ (visit) relatives and friends. are visiting

Activity2 Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1. ① ② ③ B C A

Scanning: A B 1. What is the passage mainly about? A. Spring Festival. B. Christmas. 2. When does Spring Festival usually come ? A. In January B. In February. C. Both A and B. A B

Read in details: Read paragraph 1 Read paragraph 2 important country Spring Festival is very __________ in my _________. _______ Chrismas, it happens every year, but not _____ the same day. important country Like on Read paragraph 2 1.What do they always do before the festival? 2. What’s on the table?

Read paragraph 3 Read paragraph 4 How are the people celebrating on the Spring Festival evening? Having a traditional family dinner and watching a special programme on TV. Read paragraph 4 What does a hongbao mean? It means lucky money.

3 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expression from the box. celebrate dumpling few luck mean programme sweep away traditional celebrate We (1)_______ Spring Festival in January. A (2)____ days before Spring Festival we clean our homes and (3)__________ all the bad (4)____. (5)__________ food, such as jiaozi—a kind of (6)________. We usually watch a special (7)__________ on television, and parents usually give their children a hongbao. It ______ lucky monkey. few sweep away luck traditional dumpling programme means

Writing 假如你是王丽，春节到了，你想给你的国 外的朋友Jim写一封信。告诉他你和你的家人 正在为新年做哪些准备。 make lanterns clean the house learn a dragon dance put away things buy food cook the meal sweep the floor 资源库

Homework

Byebye!

Some festivals of foreign countries Thanksgiving Day Easter Christmas Festivals Carnival Halloween Mother’s Day Valentine’s Day

Look and Say 看图片和提示，用动词-ing形式完成句子。 We are _____________ _____________. decorating the Christmas tree We are _____________ _____________. singing They are ______ Christmas songs. Fenny is ______ a Christmas tree. buying buy

The students are _____________________. sweeping away the snow Lily is ___________________. opening a present box The children are __________ Little Tom’s ________. celebrating birthday

They are _____________________. learning a dragon dance The two children are _________________. setting off fireworks Linda is ________________________. decorating a Christmas tree