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1、Reading Comprehension,Part II,Book 3-Unit 13,Pre-reading Task Comprehension Work Language Work,Reading Comprehension,Book 3-Unit 13,Return to Menu,Pre-reading Task,Do you like the Spring Festival best? Do you think it is less festive than before? Do you think its necessary to keep our traditional cu
2、lture? What should we do to keep the most important traditional Chinese festivalthe Spring Festival?,Discuss the following questions.,Book 3-Unit 13,Discovering the Spring Festival,house cleaning, shopping sprees for the Spring Festival, stay up all night/late on New Years Eve to guard against possi
3、ble evils, temple fairs, setting off fireworks,New Year couplets, paper cut-out pictures, paper cuts, Yang Liuqing woodblock painting, Chinese New Year pictures, Chinese knots, Chinese lantern, upside-down Fu,some taboos that are out of practice; new ways of celebrations: traveling, eating out in re
4、staurants on Lunar New Years eve, etc; ban on fireworks in cities,the legend of the monster Year (nian), the legend of the God of Wealth, the Gate God in Chinese myth,Book 3-Unit 13,For years, people believe that they should not get a haircut during the first two days of the Lunar New Year, as this
5、could cause the death of someone in the family. Another old convention told that bad luck would shadow anyone who shed blood on New Years Day. Another New Years no-no is using scissors and kitchen knives. Therefore, in the past, many tailors stopped work for a few days. The entire house should be cl
6、eaned before New Years Day. On New Years Eve, all brooms, brushes, dusters, dustpans and other cleaning equipment are put away. Sweeping or dusting should not be done on New Years Day for fear that good fortune will be swept away.,Taboos,Book 3-Unit 13,5. Everyone should refrain from using foul lang
7、uage and bad or unlucky words. Negative terms and the word “four“/SI/, which sounds like the word for death, are not to be uttered. Death and dying are never mentioned and ghost stories are totally taboo. References to the past year are also avoided, as everything should be turned toward the New Yea
8、r and a new beginning. On New Years Day, people are not supposed to wash their hair because it would mean washing away good luck for the New Year.,Book 3-Unit 13,Greetings,Best wishes for the year to come! Good luck in the year ahead! May you come into a good fortune! Live long and prosper. May many
9、 fortunes find their way to you! I wish you longevity and health.,Book 3-Unit 13,Comprehension Work,Text Summary Text Organization Question Discussion Difficult Sentences Story Reproduction,Book 3-Unit 13,Listen to the recording and fill in the blanks to complete the summary of the text.,Motivated b
10、y _of her childhood, the writer _ on a small French-owned island called Guadeloupe. The success-ful celebration not only _ _in this foreign land, but also stirred up _.,organized a Chinese New Years party,New Year spirit,recreated the Chinese lunar,the local peoples interest in Chinese culture,the f
11、ond memories,Text Summary,Book 3-Unit 13,Text Organization,1st Paragraph,2nd Paragraph,3rd Paragraph,4th and 5th Paragraphs,The writer prepares for the Chinese New Year party, shopping for food and seeking help from her friends.,The party turns out to be a great success, with a rich variety of inter
12、national dishes. The observance of the old Chinese custom of giving children red envelopes was greatly appreciated by the kids at the party.,The writer, after experiencing a miserable Chinese Lunar New Year on Guadeloupe with no activities and no Chinese food, decides to recreate the Chinese Lunar N
13、ew Year spirit in the foreign land.,The writer recalls how her family celebrated the Chinese Lunar New Year when she was little.,Book 3-Unit 13,Question Discussion,In the writers family what should children do and not do right before the Lunar New Year? 2. What were the family busy with before New Y
14、ears Eve?,Before the Lunar New Year, children should eat some sweets so as to say some sweet words. They should not fight, nor make any disturbances so as not to cause the Kitchen God to report unfavorably on the family to the Jade Emperor.,The family would make an offering to the Kitchen God. Then,
15、 Mom would start the busy process of making New Year foods. Dad would prepare some Chinese New Year couplets. The whole family would take part in a big New Year house cleaning.,Book 3-Unit 13,3. What was the writers happiest memory of the Lunar New Year? 4. Why does the writer call her last New Year
16、 “the most miserable New Year of our life”?,Her happiest memory was of the New Year dinner and especially of the money in red envelopes being handed out to kids.,The writer and her husband spent a most miserable New Year on the Caribbean island of French Guade-loupe which was devoid of Chinese people, foods, and the Chinese New Years spirit. The couple ate mildewed
