Chinese New Year celebrations 7A Unit 3 Integrated skills

Free talk: What festivals do you know? Which is your favourite festival? And why?

How do we celebrate Chinese New Year? A traditional( 传统的 )festival in China Spring festival Chinese New Year

paper-cuts lanterns Traditional activities

Chun Lian Happy Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year Celebrations ∕.se´librei ʃ ə n∕

Spring Festival Gala/`ga:l ə / Evening

1 Watch fireworks excited Be excited at sth Be excited to do sth

let off firecrackers/’ krækə /

What do people do? watch the lion dance

Traditional Chinese food dumplings niangao(new year cake)

A: What t_______ Chinese festival do you like? B: Of course, Chinese New Year. A: What do you do? B: On Chinese New Year ’ s Eve, we watch TV from 8pm to m _______.Then we play f________and eat d _________. A: Are you e_______ about these ？ B: Yes. We can also get red p______ from our parents and watch the L_____ Dance. A: How wonderful it is! raditional idnight ireworksumplings xcited ackets ion Talk about Spring Festival with your partner

Read & learn: 1.traditional festivals/food 2.play fireworks 3.watch the lion dance 4.from 8 to midnight 5.feel excited 6.get red packets

Chinatown Chinatown How do the Chinese people in New York Celebrate Chinese New Year? Read the poster and answer the questions.

Read a poster (P50/A)

Read and answer 1.Where is Chinatown? 2.Do they have a Halloween party ? In NewYork. No. They have a Chinese New Year party.

3.How do they celebrate Chinese New Year? Activities eat Watch watch enjoy Chinese food the Lion dance fireworks music and dance

Listen and finish the table below. ActivityTimePlace Chinese food Music and dance Announcement / ə ’ naunsm ə nt/ 通告 take place 发生..\2.mp3..\2.mp3 Lion dance from 9 p.m.-midnight Fireworks 8 p.m.

Listen and finish the table below. ActivityTimePlace Chinese food Restaurant 8 p.m. Music and dance announcement 通告 take place 发生..\2.mp3..\2.mp3 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Lion dance from 9 p.m.-midnight Fireworks Peel Mott Street 1 p.m. Wang’s Chinese Community/‘k ə mju:niti / Center

Wang’s Restaurant Peel Street Mott Street Listen and mark 1p.m.2p.m.---5p.m.8p.m.9p.m.---midnight

Millie (in Beijing, China) Wendy (in the USA) Halloween ··· Chinese New Year

Gong He Xin Xi! I am on holiday in_______I want to see the _______________ party here. There are lots of interesting things here. I am going to watch the __________.It is my first time to see it and I am very excited. After that,I am going to eat some traditional ___________. At night, there will be ________in Chinatown. What do you do for Chinese New Year in Beijing? Lots of love Wendy. New York Chinese New Year Lion dance Chinese food fireworks January 13th Dear Millie

We are always Chinese. We should be proud of ( 以 … 为豪 ) our motherland.

1. Which is Millie ’ s favorite day in the year? 2. When is Millie ’ s birthday? 3. Why does she like her birthday so much? 4. Who gives her the presents? Her birthday is her favorite day. It’s on 3rd October. She always has a party and she gets lots of presents. Her parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

Please tell Wendy about your favourite festivals. Wendy: Hello! ··· You ： Hello ， Wendy! Wendy: Which is your favourite festival in a year? You: _________ is my favourite festival. Wendy: When is it? You: It ’ s _____________. Wendy: Why do you like it? You: Because____________________. Wendy: How do you celebrate ______? You: We do a lot of things. ________________ Wendy: That sounds so interesting! Thank you! You: You are welcome.

On December 25th Make a Christmas tree Sing Christmas songs Make Christmas cards and give them to friends Children put stockings at the end of their beds ···

Group work: Write a letter! Please write a letter to Wendy, tell her about the festivals in China. To ： Wendy (the USA) From ： ··· (Dantu Experimental School, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu,China)

October, 27th Dear Wendy, Thank you for your letter! Do you want to know the festivals in China? Let me tell you about ···