4B Unit 1 New Year fun

Unit 1 New Year fun Listen and chant The children are talking about Chinese New Year. What are they saying? Didi, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like watching fireworks and getting red packets! It's cold outside. I need a jacket. Coco, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like visiting temple fairs and watching lion dances! I stand in the street. I clap my hands. Witchy, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like writing couplets and paper-cutting! I buy yellow flowers. I eat dumplings. Didi, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like watching fireworks and getting red packets! It's cold outside. I need a jacket. Coco, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like visiting temple fairs and watching lion dances! I stand in the street. I clap my hands. Witchy, what do you like doing at Chinese New Year? I like writing couplets and paper-cutting! I buy yellow flowers. I eat dumplings.

Read Harry's cousin Le Yi is going to visit Harry's family at Chinese New Year. She wrote Harry a letter to tell him about her plan. Read it with Harry. 20 January Dear Harry, How are you? I am going to visit Rainbow City with my parents at Chinese New Year! We are going to stay for 10 days. On the first day, we are going to do some shopping. Mum wants to buy some new clothes for me. At night, we are going to visit the flower market. Then we are going to visit you and some other relatives for a few days. We are going to watch the lion dance and the fireworks, too. Do the fireworks start at eight o'clock or half past eight? I saw some beautiful paper-cuttings in your online photo album. Whose paper-cuttings are those? Are they Holly's? I want to buy some, too! I think the trip is going to be very exciting. What are you going to do at Chinese New Year? Is Aunt Eva going to make some dumplings this year? Her dumplings are delicious! We are going to be in Rainbow City on 5 February. Our train leaves at a quarter past eight in the morning and arrives at about a quarter to ten. Are you going to meet us at the station? See you soon. From, Le Yi Word building a flower market a lion dance a temple fair couplets dumplings fireworks paper-cuttings red packets

Grammar time 1 We use ‘be + going to’to talk about actions in the future. What am I going to do? I am going to visit the flower market. What are you going to do? You are going to watch the fireworks. What is he going to buy? He is going to buy some new clothes. What is she going to buy? She is going to buy some new clothes. 2 We use noun phrases to tell the time. eight o'clock a quarter past eight half past eight a quarter to nine We use ‘whose' to ask about the owner of something. Whose red packet is this? It is Harry's. Whose paper-cuttings are those? They are Holly's. Listen and write Harry's mum is preparing presents for relatives and friends for Chinese New Year. Listen to what Harry and his mum say. Write.

Phonics time a- Listen to the sentences. Say them aloud. Thinking about Chinese New Year, I go across the street to another address. When I arrive, I get a red packet from my grandma and grandpa. Thinking about Chinese New Year, I go across the street to another address. When I arrive, I get a red packet from my grandma and grandpa. Your friend shows you some word cards. Listen to the words. Circle the ones with the same ‘a-' sound as ‘across'.