Module 10 Spring Festival

Unit 2My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away

bad luck.

Watch a video

Spring Festival Christmas Day

What do you know about the Spring FestivalWhat 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

Narcissus for New Year Decoration

Chinese red lanterns

Chinese red lanterns

Chinese coupletsChinese couplets

On new year's eve On new year's eve

A lion danceA lion dance

New Year activitiesNew Year activities

dumplingsdumplings

meatballsmeatballs

New Year cake New Year cake

Spring rollsSpring rolls

New year foodNew year food

set off firecrackers set off firecrackers

put up the lanterns put up the lanterns

What do people do?What do people do?

a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.

Hong Bao or Red Packet Hong Bao or Red Packet

wish a Happy New Yearwish 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.Listen and answer.1. When does the Spring Festival usually 1. When does the Spring Festival usually

come?come?

2. What should mother do before Spring 2. What should mother do before Spring Festival?Festival?

3. How are the people celebrating on the 3. How are the people celebrating on the Spring Festival evening?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 Spri

ng Festival we have a big family dinner.

We eat lots of (5) _________ food, such a

s jiaozi – a kind of (6) __________. We us

ually watch a special (7) ___________ on

television, and parents usually give their

children a hongbao. It (8) ________ luck

y 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 Festi

val.

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 des

k. You can borrow one.

2. We have ____ rain this spring. Th

e trees and grass don’t grow well.

a few

little

3. There are ___ new words in the te

xt, 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 learnLearning 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 sentencesWrite 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 ow

n problems.

painting

meansdumplings

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

聚会活动

At Spring Festival, the family have dinner together

in China.

On Christmas Day, westerners have Christmas dinner with their

family and friends.

HomeworkHomework

要求 : 主要用现在进行时。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 (50-100字 ).