do you often give gifts to others when the festivals come? do you often receive gifts or money from...
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Do you often give gifts to others when the festivals come?Do you often receive gifts or money from others ？ How do you feel?
uncomfortableuncomfortablehappyhappy
disappointeddisappointed
surprisedsurprised
excitedexcited
embarrassedembarrassed
内疚的
scaredscared
guiltyguilty
Adjectives about feelings
1. Before You Read
Have you ever received money from others?
Giving money as a gift or receivingmoney is a usual way.
Giving and receivingmoney
makes people uncomfortable.
In China In western culture
It’s the thought that counts.
重在情谊
Receiving money makes me uncomfortable
九年级新目标
Unit 13
Reading
1. Make a prediction（预测） : What’s the article mainly about?
2. Quickly go through the article. Try to find out the topic sentence.
2. While You Read
3.Conclude the main idea of each paragraph.
Para 1: Receiving a gift can be difficult.
Para 2: Receiving a purse makes Xiaojing embarrassed.
Para 3: Receiving a sweater makes Han Ling unhappy.
Para 4: Receiving money makes John uncomfortable.
Para 5: Different people have different thoughts on
receiving gifts.
4. Read the passage and fill in the blanks
Who What How Why
Guo Guo XiaojingXiaojing
Han LingHan Ling
John John WilsonWilson
a purple purse embarrassed ugly
sweater unhappy different taste
money uncomfortable lazy
3. After You Read
Retell the story with the help of the following
Who What How WhyGuo Guo
XiaojingXiaojing
Han LingHan Ling
John John WilsonWilson
a purple purse
embarrassed ugly
sweater unhappy different taste
money uncomfortable lazy
You may begin your retelling like this:
Receiving a gift sometimes becomes very difficult. Here are three experiences.Guo Xiaojing once got a …Han Ling …John …So the art of receiving is even more …
Write about a gift that you have received.
1.What was the gift, who gave it to you and why?2. How did you feel when you opened it, and do you think the person who gave it thought carefully about it?
4. Go for it !
You may begin your writing like this:
… ago , I received a … from …
Homework
Go to the Internet after school and search for the different customs on giving and receiving gifts between Chinese and foreigners.