Module 10 Unit 2 My mothers cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck. By Wang Yan

Revision

What do Chinese people do at Spring Festival?

Do somethings buy clothes sweep the floor set off fireworks have a family dinner learn a lion dance Brainstorming decorate the doors …

Look and say. Whats Li Shans mother doing? before the festival Shes cleaning the house.

What are Li Shans family doing? Look and say. on the evening before the festival /on Spring Festivals Eve They are having a traditional family dinner.

Look and say. What are they doing? They are visiting friends and relatives. on New Years Day

Reading

Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1. A BC

Read Para1 and answer questions. 1) Is Christmas very important in China? 2) Does Spring Festival happen on the same day every year? 3) When does Spring Festival come? No, not very important. No, it doesnt. It comes in January or February.

Read ParaA and find out the things they do before Spring Festival. A Q: Why is Li Shans mother cleaning the house? Because she wants to sweep away bad luck.

Read ParaB and find out the things they do on Spring Festivals Eve. B have a traditional family dinner eat jiaozi– a kind of dumpling watch a special TV programme Spring Festival Gala Evening

Read ParaC and find out the things they do on Lunar New Years Day. C Q: What does a hongbao mean ? It means lucky money.

Read the passage after the tape and pay attention to the pronunciation of the new words.

Christmas February January before sweep away luck table celebrate n. prep. …… n. v. Words and expressions Read and circle.

traditional dumpling programme sweater coat mean lucky merry Merry Christmas! adj. n. n. ( ) n. v. adj. ! Words and expressions ;

celebrate dumpling few luck mean programme sweep away traditional Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expression from the box. We (1)_______ Spring Festival in January. A (2)____ days before Spring Festival we clean 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 jiaozia kind of (6)________. We usually watch a special (7)__________ on television, and parents usually give their children a hongbao. It (8) ______ lucky monkey. celebrate few sweep away luck traditional dumpling programme means

Summary

Writing

Suppose 2013 Spring Festival is coming in a week. Your family is getting ready for it. Please write an to your pen friend, Jack to tell him about the traditions of Spring Festival and what your family are doing now Jack

Dear Jack, How is everything going? I am very happy because 2013 Spring Festival is coming soon. Best wishes! Yours

1. Read the passage. 2. Practise the vocabulary. 3. Practise Present continuous. 4. Complete the .