Revision of Vocabulary: festival , Spring Festival, ready, get ready for, clean, cook, meal, learn, dragon, dragon dance, lantern, Lantern Festival, sweep, sweep away, floor, happen , help, at work

What traditions do you have at Unit2: What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival

Vocabulary: tradition, bad, luck, paint, mean, decorate, paper cut, give, New Year, New Year’s Eve, dumpling, sweet, pudding, fireworks, few, a few, want, week, round, all the year round, bring, colour, something, cut, Christmas long

Work in pairs. Look at the photos and say what’s happening

Read the paragraphs and match them to the pictures. We have lots of traditions. First, we clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. It means good luck. We usually decorate the doors and windows with paper cuts. We also buy clothes and everyone has a haircut.

B: Our parents and grandparents give us New Year presents. They are usually new clothes. On New Year’s Day, we put on our new clothes and visit our family and friends. There is dragon and lion dancing.

C The family has dinner and we eat jiaozi- a kind of dumplings, or a sweet rice pudding. We watch TV and at midnight there are usually fireworks. We don’t clean the house for a few days. We don’t want to sweep away good luck. And we have lots of food for good luck.

D The New Year Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival after two weeks. We usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao. They are round and so they brings us good luck all the year round.

Answer the questions below: 1. What do you do in the Spring Festival? 2. When does the Spring Festival finish? 3. What do you do on Spring Festival’s Eve? 4. What traditions do you have at the Spring Festival?

Speaking: Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain on P11. Match the notes with the headings. Imitate the text and make sentences by using the notes. For example: In Britain, there are lots of traditions, they go shopping for presents, and they ….

Homework: 1. 抄写单词从”tradition” 到”bring” 3遍; 2. 熟读课文.