新标准初中英语八年级(上):UNIT1 New Year's Eve

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[00:00.00]Module 14 FESTIVE¹ SEASONS
[00:06.08]UNIT 1 What do you do on New Year's Eve?
[00:11.56]1 Listen and read.Then say.
[00:15.65]This is our last week at school,Tan Mei!
[00:19.53]Yes,I'm looking forward to
[00:21.40]the Spring Festival holiday.
[00:24.28]What do you do during the Spring Festival?
[00:27.89]We get together with my aunts,
[00:30.25]uncles and cousins.
[00:32.23]We all visit our grandparents in their village
[00:36.24]and we have special meals together.
[00:39.53]The best meal is the dinner
[00:41.66]on the Spring Festival's Eve.
[00:44.94]Is that like our New Year's Eve?
[00:48.25]Yes,I think so.
[00:49.58]It's the night before the first
[00:52.24]day of the Spring Festival.
[00:55.33]You have fireworks² on the first day
[00:57.42]of the Spring Festival,don't you?
[01:00.76]Yes,they're really beautiful.
[01:03.00]We have firecrackers,too.
[01:05.23]They're great.Really noisy!
[01:08.34]And I like the dragon and lion dances,too.
[01:13.23]Tell me about New Year's Eve in England,Peter.
[01:18.20]On New Year's Eve,
[01:20.14]we count down the time until midnight³,
[01:23.65]Then at midnight,we sing special songs,
[01:27.84]and cheer and clap⁴ to welcome the new year.
[01:31.71]Everyone shouts,"Happy New Year!
[01:34.86]That's like Christmas,isn't it?
[01:37.77]No,it isn't.
[01:38.82]At Christmas,we eat special food,
[01:41.77]sing songs and give presents.
[01:44.43]We say.'Merry Christmas'to each other
[01:46.91]but we don't count down the time to midnight.
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