Module 10 Spring Festival
Unit 2 My mother’s cleaning our houses and sweeping away bad luck
Teaching analysis
Teaching aims
1. To match photos with paragraphs and match questions with paragraphs
2. To get information from the reading material about the Spring Festival
3. To make notes and write sentences
4. To learn to write paragraphs
Teaching important and difficult points
1.Key vocabulary:
Christmas, February, January, before, sweep away, luck, mean, table, celebrate, traditional, dumpling, programmer, sweater, coat, lucky, tree, tell
2. Key phrase:
good luck, bad luck, decorate … with…, have a haircut, on New Year’s Day, a kind of at midnight, a few, at Lantern Festival, all the year round, on Spring Festival’s Eve, sweep away
3. Key structures:
1) My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
2) We are celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
3) I am eating jiaozi—a kind of dumpling.
4) My parents and I are visiting my uncles and aunts.
5) We are wearing new sweaters and coats.
Teaching type
Reading and writing.
Teaching measure
Interactive approach 
Teaching tools
Recorder, OHP, video
Teaching procedures
Chapter 1 Lead-in : Warming up
Step 1 Warming-up
1. Review the text of Unit 1.
2. Show some pictures, ask the students to look at the pictures, then talk something about the pictures.
3. Introduce the new words.
4. Read the new words.
Chapter 2 The students can learn by themselves, and ask some questions about the study.
Step 2 Work in pairs.
1. Read through the example sentences in Activity 1.
  —What’s Li Shan’s mother doing?
  —She’s cleaning the house.
2. Look at the pictures and talk about what’s happening.
Step 3 Group work
1. Listen to the passage and answer the questions.
1) Who is cleaning the house?
2) Who gives Li Shan a Hongbao? 
Keys: Li Shan’s mother is cleaning the house.
    Li Shan’s uncles and aunts.
2. Read the passage and match the paragraphs with the pictures in Activity 1.
3. Check with a partner.
4. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys: 1 2 3
Chapter 3 The students can learn the main point with the help of the teacher, and solve the problems.
Step 4 Reading.
1. Play the recording.
2. Ask the students to read through the passage.
Read the passage and complete the sentences.
1) People usually _____ houses and sweep away ___________ before Spring Festival.
2) After the traditional family dinner, people usually watch a ________ on TV.
3) In China, hongbao means _______ money.
Keys: 1. clean; bad; luck  2. special programme  3. lucky
3. Complete the passage with the correct words and expression from the box in Activity 3.
celebrate      dumpling      few      luck mean        programme            sweep away        traditional
We (1) ________ Spring Festival in January or February. 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 jiaozi – a kind of (6) _________. We usually watch a special (7) __________ on television, and parents usually give their children a hongbao. It (8) ______ lucky money.
4. Check with a partner.
5. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys:
1celebrate  2.few  3.sweep away  4.luck  5traditional
6dumplings  7.programme  8. Means
Read the passage together.
Step 5 Writing and speaking.
1. Look at the notes about Christmas in Britain.
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
e) get lots of food ready
f) sing Christmas songs
g) say Merry Christmas to family and friends
h) have a Christmas tree
2. Match the notes with the headings.
Getting ready Presents Traditional things on Christmas Day
3. Call back the answers from the whole class.
Keys:
Getting ready: a, e
Presents: c, d
Traditional things on Christmas Day: b, c, d, f, g, h
4. Read the phrases together.
5. Learning to learn
When you write new words, write them under headings, in groups or in a word map. Use pictures and drawings.
Step 6 Language points
1. My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.
sweep away是动词短语，意为“扫去”。如果宾语为名词，可放在away之前或之后；如果宾语为代词，只能放在sweep与away之间。
e.g.
—Who would like to sweep the flowers away? / Who would like to sweep away the flowers?
—I’d like to sweep them away.
谁去把这些花打扫了？
我去打扫。
根据汉语意思完成英语句子。
(1)它太脏了。请把它扫走。
  It’s too dirty. Please ________________.
(2)请把这些纸扫走。
Please_____________________________________________.
Keys:
sweep it away    sweep away the paper/ sweep the paper away
2. We are celebrating Spring Festival with a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.
celebrate作动词，意为“庆祝”。celebrate的名词形式是celebration，意为“庆祝活动；典礼”。
e.g.
We celebrate our National Day every year. 
我们每年庆祝国庆。
When will the celebration start, Dad? 
爸爸，庆典什么时候开始？
用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
We are ___________ (celebrate) Linda’s birthday in the park.
Keys: celebrating
3. I am eating jiaozi -- a kind of dumpling.
kind可作名词，意为“种，种类”，a kind of意为“一种”。
E.g. Elephants are a kind of animal. 大象是一种动物。
Chapter 4 Effective practice, consolidate the knowledge(训练巩固)
Step 8 Do exercises
A. Translate these phrases into English.
myspring是什么意思1.好运  2.倒霉  3.新年里  4.一种　5.在午夜    6.在元宵节  7.一年到头  8.在除夕  9.扫去
Keys: 1.good luck  2.bad luck  3.on New Year’s Day 
4.a kind of 5.at midnight  6.at Lantern Festival 
7all the year round  8.on Spring Festival’s Eve  9. sweep away
B.单词拼写
1. It ____________ (意味着) happening.
2. There are lots of ____________ (饺子) on the plate.
Keys: 1. means  2. dumplings
C.完成句子。
1. 我们必须马上把树叶扫掉。
We must ___________ the leaves at once.
2. dumplings 是什么意思？
_________dumplings______?
3. 我们有好几天不打扫家居。
We __________ the house _____________.
4. 元宵全年带给我们好运。
Yuanxiao __________________________
Keys:
1sweep away  2. What do; mean
3. don’t clean; for a few days
4. 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)
__________________________________
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)
________________________________
Keys:1. No, he isn’t.
2. Is she sweeping the floor at the moment?
3. What are they getting ready for?
4. They go shopping for the presents and get lots of food ready.
Chapter 5 Summary evaluation, leak turnover
Step 7 Writing
1.Write sentences with the notes in Activity 4.Join two notes and write one sentence with and.
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 them.
→ They go shopping for presents and get lots of food ready.
2. 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.

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