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

Watch a video

Spring Festival Christmas Day What do you know about the Spring Festival What do you know about the Spring Festival ?

Talk about the questions: What traditions do you know? (food and decorations) Do you know the paper cut ? Do you often have a haircut ?

cleaning the house What is he doing ?

painting doors and windows red What is he doing ? Before Spring Festival, we clean the house and paint the doors red. We want to bring the good luck.

New year decorations Narcissus for New Year Decoration Chinese red lanterns Chinese couplets

On new year's eve A lion dance New Year activities

dumplings meatballs New Year cake Spring rolls New year food

set off firecrackers put up the lanterns What do people do?

a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.

Hong Bao or Red Packet wish a Happy New Year

—What’s Li Shan’s mother doing? —She’s cleaning the house. Look at the pictures and talk about what’s happening.

Listen and answer. 1. When does the Spring Festival usually come? 2. What should mother do before Spring Festival? 3. How are the people celebrating on the Spring Festival evening? Usually in February, but sometimes in January. Clean the house, sweep away bad luck and buy lots of food. Having a traditional family dinner and watching a special programme on TV.

Complete the passage with the correct words and expression from the box. celebrate dumplings few luck mean programme sweep away traditional We (1) _________ Spring Festival in January or February. A (2) ______ days before Spring Festival we clean celebrate few

our homes and (3) ____________ all the bad (4) _____. In the evening before Spring Festival we have a big family dinner. We eat lots of (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 (8) ________ lucky money. sweep away luck traditional dumplings means programme

1. with prep. 和，带有，用 She goes shopping with me. 她和我一起去逛街。 Uncle Li is a tall man with a long white beard. 李叔叔是一位留着长胡子的高个头男士。 We decorate the windows with paper cuts. 我们用剪纸装饰窗户。

2. It’s a few days before Spring Festival. a few 一些，表示肯定的概念，修饰 可数名词复数。 few 作形容词，表 示否定的概念, 为 “ 几乎没有 ” ，修饰 可数名词复数。 拓展： few, a few, little, a little 这四个词 都有 “ 一点儿 ” 的意思，其用法既有相同 之处, 又有相异之处。读下面例子并总结：

Few people know it. 很少有人知道此事。 There’s little milk in the glass. 杯里几乎没有牛奶了。 A few people know it. 有一些人知道此事。 There’s a little milk in the glass. 杯里还有一点牛奶。

【结论】 few 意为 “ 很少；几乎没 有 ” ，表否定含义 修饰 _____ 名 词复数 a few 意为 “ 几个；有一些 ” ， 表肯定含义 little 意为 “ 很少；几乎没 有 ” ，表否定含义 修饰 _______ 名词 a little 意为 “ 一点；一些 ” ， 表肯定含义 不可数 可数

【运用】 请根据句意选用 few, a few, little 或 a little 填空。 1. There are _____ books on the desk. You can borrow one. 2. We have ____ rain this spring. The trees and grass don’t grow well. a few little

3. There are ___ new words in the text, but I don’t understand it. 4. — May I talk with you, Lucy? — Sure, but only ______ time. I am very busy. a little few

The notes about Christmas in Britain. a) go shopping for presents b) have a traditional family dinner c) open presents on Christmas Day d) put the presents next to the Christmas tree

Learning to learn e) get lots of food ready f) sing Christmas songs g) say Merry Christmas to family and friends h) have a Christmas tree When you write new words, write them under headings, in groups or in a word map. Use pictures and drawings.

Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain. Match the notes with the headings. Getting ready ____________ Presents ____________ Traditional things on Christmas Day ________________________________ a, d, e, h a, c, d b, c, f, g, h Check Answers

Join two notes and write one sentence with and. For example: go shopping for presents; get lots of food ready They go shopping for presents and they get lots of food ready. You can leave out the second they. They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready. Write sentences

Choose one of the headings in Activity 4 and write about Christmas in Britain. Getting ready People go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.

A. Translate these phrases into English. good luck bad luck Happy New Year a kind of 1. 好运 2. 倒霉 3. 新年快乐 4. 一种 5. 在午夜 6. 在元宵节 7. 一年到头 8. 在除夕 9. 扫去 at midnight at Lantern Festival all the year round on Spring Festival’s Eve sweep away

B. 单词拼写 1. We are ________ ( 涂漆 ) the wall together. 2. It ________ ( 意味着 ) happening. 3. There are lots of __________ ( 饺 子 ) on the plate. 4. __________ ( 每个人 ) has his own problems. painting means dumplings Everyone

C. 完成句子。 1. 我们必须马上把树叶扫掉。 We must ___________ the leaves at once. 2. 他们用鲜花装饰房间。 They _________ the house ___________. sweep away decorate with flowers

3. dumplings 是什么意思？ _________ dumplings ______? 4. 我们有好几天不打扫家居。 We _________ the house ____________. 5. 元宵全年带给我们好运。 Yuanxiao ________________________ ________________________________. What do mean don’t clean for a few days brings us good luck all the year round

D. 按要求改写句子。 1. Is your uncle making lanterns? ( 否定回答 ) _________________________________ 2. She’s sweeping the floor at the moment. ( 一般疑问句 ) __________________________________ No, he isn’t. Is she sweeping the floor at the moment?

3. They’re getting ready for the Lantern Festival. ( 划线部分提问 ) ________________________________ 4. They go shopping for presents. They get lots of food ready. ( 用 and 合成一句话 ) ________________________________ What are they getting ready for? They go shopping for the presents and get lots of food ready.

下图是一个德国人以图解析中西文化差 异，请大家说说中西方人的不同之处。 看图说话 the Chinese Westerners At Spring Festival, the family have dinner together in China. On Christmas Day, westerners have Christmas dinner with their family and friends.

Homework 要求 : 主要用现在进行时。 tradition, paint, decorate, paper cut, dumpling, fireworks, all the year round 发挥想象，连词成文 ( 字 ).