新视界大学英语综合教程3unit8PPT课件

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Task
◇se the passage within 8 minutes to get a rough idea about it.
◇Answer the questions of Activity 2 and 3 on page 171.
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➋ Check (✓) the traditions which the writer describes in the passage.
B: Well, I suppose you expect me to say Christmas, but actually I didn’t enjoy Christmas much. It seemed to go on so long, and I just found it too boring. And then New Year came too quickly afterwards. I didn’t have any money left to enjoy it – even if I like joining hands and shouting Auld Lang Syne at midnight with total strangers. No, what I liked most were the English festivals, like May Day morning in Oxford – that was
1 Which is your favourite festival, and why? The Spring Festival is my favourite by far. It is so nice the way it brings the family together and, of course, I love the new clothes and the red envelopes! The food is another point in favour of the festival.
• I don’t much like the Qingming Festival. I am not saying they aren’t a good idea – we should remember the dead, but it isn’t very pleasant going to crowded cemeteries with smoke everywhere.
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➌ Look at the title of the passage and check (✓) the things you expect to read about. ☐ 1 going shopping with the family ☐ 2 buying presents ☐ 3 parking the car ☐ 4 sending Christmas cards ☐ 5 singing Christmas songs ☐ 6 feeling under stress
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2 Which festivals don’t you like, and why?
• I don’t like Christmas. We have enough of our own festivals. Christmas is just an excuse for more shopping.
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Now listen again and correct the information.
Answer: boring commercial ; money energy ; shouting singing ; funny strange ; December November ; enter blow up
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➊ Listen and underline any words or expressions which are different from what you hear.
A: So, looking back over the year, which are the festivals you’ve enjoyed most in the UK?
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rather funny – and Bonfire Night, with fireworks on a cold December evening. That was atmospheric. The English remember the night a man called Guy Fawkes tried to enter the Houses of Parliament back in the 1600s. The only thing is I don’t understand whether they are celebrating the fact that he was caught, or that he tried to do it.
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➋ Work in pairs and discuss the questions. 1 Which is your favourite festival, and why? 2 Which festivals don’t you like, and why?
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