外研版新标准初二英语上册第12模块课文内容.docVIP

MODULE 12 Traditional life Unit 1 You must wait and open it later. 3 Listen and read. Betty: Stop chatting, everyone. Here she comes! Happy birthday, Lingling. Lingling: Oh, you remembered! Darning: Weve got you a present. Lingling: Oh, thank you. Tony: You can open it! Get a move on! Lingling: Oh no! I mustnt open it now. Later! Betty: Hang on! In the USA, when someone gives you a present, you must open it immediately. Lingling: No, in China you must wait and open it later. Darning: And remember: When you accept a present, you must use both hands. Sally: Both hands! In Britain we can use one hand! Darning: Thats right. And you must wrap hongbao in red paper because its lucky. You cant use white, blue or black. Lingling: You mustnt do any cleaning on the first day of the Chinese New Year. Darning: And you cant cut your hair. Sally: You cant be serious! Lingling: And you mustnt break anything. Its bad luck! Anyway, relax! Traditions in England are strange, too! Tony: And you must eat lots of jiaozi! Sally: What s jiaozi? Betty: Just wait and see! Stop chatting. Oh, you remembered! Get a move on! Hang on! Thats right, You cant be serious! Its bad luck. Just wait and see. 4 Check (√) what you must and mustnt / cant do in China. 1 Open a present when you receive it. 2 Use both hands when you accept a present. 3 Wrap hongbao in red paper. 4 Wrap hongbao in white, blue or black. 5 Do cleaning on the first day of the Chinese New Year. 6 Cut your hair at Spring Festival. 7 Break something at Spring Festival. 8 Eat lots of dumplings at Spring Festival. Now listen again and check. 5 Complete the sentences with the words in the box. accept immediately lucky remember strange tradition wrap 1 When you do something , you do it now, not later. 2 Before you give someone a present, you it in paper. 3 When someone gives you a present and you take it, you it. 4 Its important to the birthdays of fam