1. Review the Phrases 1. 为 … 做准备 2. 春节 3. 打扫房子 4. 做饭 5. 学习舞龙 6. 制作灯笼 7. 扫地 8. 发生了什么事？ 9. 在工作 10. 此刻 get ready for the Spring Festival clean the house cook the meal learn dragon dance make lanterns sweep the floor What’s happening? at work at this moment

2. Unit2 What traditions do you have at Spring Festival?

3. Traditions of Spring Festival lantern dumpling lucky money paper cut couplet round Tangyuan

4. have a haircutpaint puddingsweet rice pudding

5. light fireworks Lantern Festival dragon and lion dancing buy new clothes

6. tradition n. 传统 bad adj. 坏的，不好的 luck n. 运气 paint v. 涂，绘画 mean v. 意思是，意味 decorate v. 装饰 decoration n. 装饰 paper cut 剪纸 everyone pron. 每个人 New Words Learning

7. haircut n. 理发 give v. 给 New Year 新年 New Year’s Eve 新年前夜 dumpling n. 饺子，团子 sweet adj. 甜的 pudding n. 布丁，甜点心 fireworks n. （复）烟花 few n. 不多，很少 a few 一些 want v. 要，想要 = some + 可名复 want sth. 想要某物 want to do sth. 想做某事

8. week n. 星期 round adj. 圆的 all the year round 一年到头 bring v. 带来 colour n. 颜色 something n. 某事 cut v. 剪，切 Christmas n. 圣诞节 long adj. 长的

9. Fast reading Scan the passage quickly and finish: P10-A2. Match the photos and the paragraphs. P10-A3. Match the questions and the paragraphs.

10. 1.Why do we clean our houses before Spring Festival? Because we want to sweep away bad luck. 2.Which color means good luck? Red means good luck. 3.What do we use to decorate the doors and windows? We decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. Careful reading Read Para A carefully. Think about 3 questions as follows:

11. Underline the key phrases in Para A. 1.lots of traditions 2.sweep away. 3.paint / colour….red 4.It means sth.( doing sth.) decorate ….with….. 5.have a haircut= cut one’s hair 很多传统 扫除 …. 把 … 涂成 … 颜色 用 … 装饰 … 理发 意思是

12. 1 What kind of presents do we usually get? We usually get new clothes. 2 When do we put on our new clothes? We usually put on our new clothes on New Year’s Day. Read Para B carefully. Think about 2 questions as follows:

13. 1.New Year presents 2.on New Year’s Day on New Year’s Eve 3. put on new clothes 在新年 在除夕 穿上新衣服 新年礼物 Notes for Para B

14. 1.What do we eat for Spring Festival? We eat jiaozi or a sweet rice pudding. 2.Why don’t we clean our houses for a few days? Because we don’t want to sweep away good luck. Read Para C carefully. Think about 2 questions as follows:

15. 1. a kind of dumpling 2.at midnight 3.There are fireworks. 4. for a few days 一种饺子 在午夜 有烟花 几天 Underline the key phrases in Para C.

16. 1. When does Spring Festival finish? It finishes at Lantern Festival. 2. What do we eat for Lantern Festival? We eat yuanxiao. 3. What’s the meaning of yuanxiao? It means we could get good luck all the year round. 找重点短语 Read Para D carefully. Think about 3 questions as follows:

17. 1. at Lantern Festival 2. a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao 3. bring sb. sth./ bring sth. to sb. 4. all the year round 在元宵节 一种叫做元宵的米饺子 把 … 带给 …. 一年到头 Notes for Para D

18. 1.We often _______ our windows red at Spring Festival. 2.I usually ________ my room with trees and pictures. 3.Every student ______ a haircut at the beginning of the new term. 4.Yuanxiao ______ us good _____ ______ the year _________. paint decorate has brings luckall round Exercise

19. Review the Phrases 1. 许多传统 2. 扫去厄运 3. 把 … 涂成红色 4. 在新年 5. 剪头发 6. 把窗户用剪纸装饰 7. 在午夜 8. 在元宵节 9. 一种饺子 10. 给我们带来好运 11. 全年 lots of traditions sweep away bad luck paint…red on New Year’s Day decorate the window with paper cut at midnight at Lantern Festival a kind of dumplings bring us good luck have a haircut all the year round

20. 1. We have ____ food. A. lots of B. a few C. many 2.There ____ dragon and lion dancing. A. is B. are C. be 3. Everyone ____ a haircut. A. is B. has C. there is 4. Red ____ good luck. A. means B. meaning C. mean 5. The New Year Festival finishes _____ the Lantern Festival after 2 weeks. A. at B. in C. on

21. Translation 1. 中国有很多传统。 2. 我们不想把好运气扫除掉。 3. 除夕晚上有很多的烟花。 China has lots of traditions. =There are lots of traditions in China. We don’t want to sweep away good luck. There are lots of fireworks on New Year’s Eve.

22. P95-12 Join 2 notes and write 1 sentence with and  mother’s shop----buy clothes  Fathers decorate windows---paint doors  Everyone eat dumplings---sweet rice pudding  Children wear new clothes---do dragon dances  Young people get presents---go to parties

23. Homework 1. 小屋 M2U2 2.