unit2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!_电子课本2014年秋九年级新目标
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U
NIT
2
I
think that mooncakes are
delicious!
Language Goal:
Give a personal
reaction
1a
Match the pictures with the descriptions.
1.
2.
3.
4.
The Water Festival in
Thailand
The Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong
Chinese Spring Festival in Beijing
The
Lantern Festival in Jiangxi
a
b
c
I loved
the races!
But I guess that it
was a
little crowded.
d
What a great
day!
What did you
like best?
1b
Listen and circle T for true or F for false.
1. Bill thinks that the races were not that
interesting to watch. T F
2. Mary thinks
that the teams were fantastic. T F
3. Bill
wonders whether they’ll have the sweet rice
dumplings again next year. T F
4. Bill and
Mary believe that they’ll be back next year to
watch the races.
1c
Talk about the
festivals in 1a.
A:
What do you like best
about the Dragon Boat Festival?
B:
I
T
F
love the races. I think that they’re fun to
watch.
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UNIT
2
2a
Listen to the conversation
between Wu Ming and Harry and circle the
correct words in the sentences.
1. Wu Ming
and Harry are cousins strangers friends.
2.
Wu Ming went to Singapore Hong Kong Macao for
his vacation.
3. He visited his relatives
friends classmates.
4. He enjoyed eating out
shopping the Dragon Boat Festival best.
2b
Wu Ming did a lot of fun activities,
but these also have down sides.
Listen again
and fill in the chart.
Fun activities
Eating out
Shopping
Dragon Boat
Festival in June
Down sides
2c
Role-play conversations between Wu Ming and Harry.
Use the
information in 2a and 2b or make up
your own conversations.
A:
What did you
do on your vacation?
B:
I visited my
cousins. I think that we ate five meals a day!
I’ve put
on five pounds!
A:
I guess
the food was delicious, right?
2d
Role-play the conversation.
Clara:
Guess
what? I’m going to Chiang
Mai in two weeks.
Ben:
Wow, sounds like fun! But I believe
that April is the hottest month of the
year there.
Clara:
Yes, that’s true. But
there’s a Water
Festival from April 13th to
15th.
Ben:
I wonder if it’s similar to
the water
festival of the Dai people in
Yunnan Province.
Clara:
Yes, I think so.
This is the time of the Thai New Year. People go
on the
streets to throw water at each other.
Ben:
Cool! But why do they do that?
Clara:
Because the new year is a time for
cleaning and washing away bad
things. Then
you’ll have good luck in the new year.
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I think that mooncakes
are delicious! UNIT 2
3a
Read the
passage about Mid-Autumn Festival and answer the
questions.
1. How do people celebrate Mid-
Autumn Festival?
2. What do mooncakes look
like? What meaning do they carry?
3. What
story is the reading about?
Full Moon, Full
Feelings
Chinese people have been celebrating
Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying
mooncakes
for centuries. Mooncakes have the shape of a full
moon on
mid-autumn night. They carry people’s
wishes to the families they love and miss.
There are many traditional folk stories about
this festival. However, most people
think
that the story of Chang’e is the most touching.
Chang’e was Hou Yi’s beautiful wife.
After
Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him
a magic medicine to thank him.
Whoever drank
this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to
drink it with Chang’e.
However, a bad man,
Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi
was not home.
Chang’e refused to give it to
him and drank it all. She became very light and
flew up to the
moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he
called out her name to the moon every night. One
night, he
found that the
moon was so
bright and round that he could see his wife
there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits
and desserts
in the garden. How he wished
that Chang’e could come
back!
After
this, people started the tradition of admiring the
moon and sharing mooncakes with their
families.
3b
Read the passage
again. Put the events in the correct order.
Feng Meng tried to steal the medicine.
A
goddess thanked Hou Yi by giving him a magic
medicine.
Chang’e refused to give Feng Meng
the medicine and drank it all.
1
Hou Yi
shot down the nine suns and saved the people on
the earth.
Hou Yi was very sad and watched
the moon at night, and wished his
wife could
come back.
As a result, Chang’e became light
and flew up to the sky.
Hou Yi planned to
drink the medicine with his wife.
3c
Without looking at the passage, try to complete
the sentences with the
correct words.
1. People like to a the full moon on Mid-
Autumn night.
2. The story of Chang’e is one
of many t folk stories.
3. Hou Yi got a m
medicine for shooting down the nine suns.
4.
Feng Meng wanted to s the medicine.
5. Hou Yi
l out fruits and desserts in the garden.
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UNIT 2
Grammar
F o c u s
I know that the Water Festival
is really fun.
I wonder if they’ll have the
races again next
year.
I wonder whether
June is a good time to visit
Hong Kong.
I
believe that April is the hottest month in
Thailand.
4a
What fun the Water
Festival is!
How fantastic the dragon boat
teams
were!
How pretty the dragon boats
were!
How delicious the food is in Hong
Kong!
Write sentences using the words
given.
e.g. thinkLantern Festivalbeautiful
1. don’t knowwhetherhecome homefor the
festival
2. believeWater Festivalmostfun
3. wonderifmooncakesdelicious
4.
howexcitingraces
5. whatinterestingcity
I think that the Lantern Festival is
beautiful.
4b
Read the passage
below and underline the objective clauses. Then
write your own sentences about Mother’s Day
and Father’s Day using
objective clauses.
Dear Xia Yu,
Do you know that there are
two special days for parents in America? One is
Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May and
the other is Father’s Day on
the third Sunday
of June. On these two days, American children
often give gifts
to their parents or take
them out for lunch or dinner. Common gifts are
flowers
and cards for mothers and shirts or
ties for fathers. I heard that it is becoming
more and more popular to celebrate Mother’s
Day and Father’s Day in China. I
wonder if
children over there also give similar gifts to
their parents. I believe that
there are many
ways to show our love. Actually, we don’t have to
spend a lot of
money. It is also a good idea
to help parents to do something instead.
June
4c
Which festival do you like best? Ask
your group and report to the class.
e.g.
In our group, David’s favorite festival is ...
He thinks that ...
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I think that mooncakes are delicious!
1a
UNIT 2
Look at the pictures and words
related to Halloween.
What do you think this
festival is about?
scary dress up haunted
house black cat candy
ghost trick or
treat October spider
1b
Listen and answer the questions.
1. Where
is Halloween popular?
2. When do people
celebrate Halloween?
3. What does Wu Yu think
of this festival?
1c
Listen and fill
in the blanks.
1. Many people make their look
scary. They may
the lights and light candles.
They also put
things like spiders and ghosts
around the doors and
2. Little kids and even
parents as ghosts or black cats. They
can also
as fun things like characters.
3. Parents take
their children the neighborhood to ask for
and
treats.
4. “Trick or treat” means kids will
a trick on you if you
don’t them a treat.
1d
What do you think of
Halloween? Discuss your
ideas with a
partner.
What do
you think of
Halloween?
I guess
it’s quite fun.
But I wonder whether
I’d be too scared.
I think
it’s a fun
festival!
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UNIT 2
2a
Do you know when these special days are? Try to
match each day with
the correct date.
Christmas
April Fool’s Day
Halloween
St. Valentine’s Day
Thanksgiving
Fourth Thursday in November
February 14th
April 1st
October 31st
December 25th
2b
Read the passage about Christmas and
answer the questions.
1. What are the common
things that people think of for Christmas?
2.
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
3. What is the
true meaning or spirit of Christmas?
The
Spirit of Christmas
INFERRING
Many would
agree that when we think of
“read between the
lines” to
Christmas, we probably think of
gifts,
get the meanings that are
Christmas trees and Santa Claus. But behind
not clearly stated in a text.
all these
things lies the true meaning of
Christmas:
the importance of sharing and
giving love and
joy to people around us. The story in A Christmas
Carol is perhaps the
best example of this.
A Christmas Carol is a famous novel written by
Charles Dickens. It is about an old
man named
Scrooge who never laughs or smiles. He is mean and
only thinks about
himself, and doesn’t treat
others nicely. He just cares about whether he can
make
more money. And he hates Christmas. One
Christmas Eve, Scrooge sees the ghost
of
Jacob Marley, his dead business partner. Marley
used to be just like Scrooge, so
he was
punished after he died. He warns Scrooge to change
his ways if he doesn’t
want to end up like
him. He also tells Scrooge to expect three spirits
to visit him.
That night, three ghosts visit
Scrooge. First, the Ghost of Christmas Past takes
him back to his childhood and reminds Scrooge
of his happier days as a child.
Then the
second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present,
takes him to see how
others are spending
Christmas this year. Everyone is
happy, even
poor people. The last one, the Ghost of
Christmas Yet to Come, takes him to the
future. He
sees that he is dead but nobody
cares. Scrooge is so
scared that he wakes up
in his bed and finds out it is
already the
next morning on Christmas Day!
He decides to
change his life and promises to be a
better
person. He happily celebrates Christmas with his
relatives. He also gives gifts to people in
need.
He now treats everyone with kindness
and warmth,
spreading love and joy everywhere
he goes. And that is the
true spirit of
Christmas!
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This means you have
to
I think that
mooncakes are delicious!
2c
Read the
passage again and complete the chart.
UNIT 2
What does Scrooge see when he’s with ...
the Ghost of Christmas Past?
the Ghost of
Christmas Present?
the Ghost of Christmas Yet
to Come?
2d
Answer the questions.
Some answers need to be inferred.
1. Why does
Scrooge hate Christmas?
2. Does Scrooge have
a lot of friends? Why or why not?
3. Why was
Jacob Marley punished after he died?
4. Does
Jacob Marley want to help Scrooge? How do you
know?
5. What does Scrooge do after seeing
the three spirits?
2e
What else
do you know about Christmas? Make a list of things
that you
know about this festival with your
group. Use the questions to help you.
When is
this festival?
Why do people celebrate it?
Who do they celebrate it with?
Do they
eat or drink anything special?
What other
things do they do as part of the celebrations? Do
you know any old stories about this festival?
How do people feel when they celebrate it?
3a
Your English-speaking pen
pal wants to know about your favorite
Chinese festival. Make some notes about the
festival.
What is the name of the festival?
When is it?
What do people eat?
What
do people do?
Why do you like it so much?
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UNIT 2
3b
Write a letter to your pen pal and
tell
himher about your favorite Chinese
festival. Use your notes in 3a.
Dear
...,
My favorite Chinese festival is ... It is
celebrated inon ...
During this festival,
people ... They eat ...
It is my favorite
festival because ... It
makes me feel ...
In your letter:
First, introduce the
festival and
when it is celebrated.
en
talk about what people do
and eat.
Finally, explain why you like it
best and
how it makes you feel.
Self Check
1
Complete the passage with the words in
the box.
Many Western countries celebrate
Easter. This holiday is always on
a Sunday
March 22nd and April 25th. It celebrates the
birth of new life. Hens eggs, giving birth to
life. So an egg
garden
spread
is a
symbol of new life. A popular activity during
Easter is to hide eggs
between around your
home or for friends or to find.
treats
These can be real eggs, but they are more
often chocolate eggs. Not
business
only
do people them around in different hiding places
for
lay
an egg hunt, but they also give
out these as gifts. So just
relatives
like
Christmas, Easter creates good for supermarkets
and
chocolate stores.
2
Rewrite
these sentences as exclamations.
1. The
mooncakes are delicious. ➠ How
2. The festival
will be fun. ➠ What
3. This concert is boring.
➠ How
4. I’m really excited. ➠ How
5. The
band played really loud music. ➠ What
3
Make sentences about a festivalfestivals you
like using these
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!
!
!
words + thatwhetherif.
I think
I
know
I believe
I wonder
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