外研版初中英语七年级上册 Module 10 Unit 2My mother’s cleani

Module 10 Spring FestivalUnit 2 My mother’s cleaning our house and sweeping away bad luck.

What do you know about the Spring Festival ?

Spring Festival

Christmas Day

Talk about the questions:

What traditions do you know? (food and decorations) Do you know the paper cut Do you often have a haircut ? ?

What is he doing ?

cleaning the house

What is he doing ?

painting doors and windows redBefore Spring Festival, we clean the house and paint the doors red. We want to bring the good luck.

New year decorations

Narcissus for New Year Decoration

Chinese couplets

Chinese red lanterns

New Year activities

On new year's eve

A lion dance

New year foodNew Year cake

dumplings

meatballs Spring rolls

What do people do?

put up the lanterns

set off firecrackers

a traditional family dinner on the evening before Spring Festival.

Hong Bao or Red Packet

wish a Happy New Year

Look at the pictures and talk about what’shappening.

—What’s Li Shan’s mother doing? —She’s cleaning the house.

备注：见视频Module 10 Unit 2 Activity 2

Listen and answer.1. When does the Spring Festival usually come?Usually in February, but sometimes in January.

2. What should mother do before Spring Festival? 3. How are the people celebrating on the Spring Festival evening?Having a traditional family dinner and watching a special programme on TV. Clean the house, sweep away bad luck and buy lots of food.

Complete the passage with the correct words and expression from the box. celebrate dumplings few luck mean programme sweep away traditional We (1) _________ celebrate Spring Festival in

January or February. A (2) ______ fewdays before Spring Festival we clean

our homes and (3) ____________ sweep away all the bad (4) _____. luck In the evening before Spring Festival we have a big family dinner. We eat lots of (5)traditional _________ food, such as jiaozi – a kind of (6)dumplings __________. We usually watch a special (7) ___________ programme on television, and parents usually give their children a hongbao. It means lucky money. (8) ________

1. with prep. 和，带有，用 She goes shopping with me. 她和我一起去逛街。 Uncle Li is a tall man with a long white beard. 李叔叔是一位留着长胡子的高个头男士。 We decorate the windows with paper cuts. 我们用剪纸装饰窗户。

2. It’s a few days before Spring Festival. a few一些，表示肯定的概念，修 饰可数名词复数。few作形容词， 表示否定的概念, 为“几乎没有”, 修饰可数名词复数。

拓展：few, a few, little, a little这四个词都有“一点儿”的意思，其用法既有相同 之处,又有相异之处。读下面例子并总结：