unit 3 lesson 1 Chinese Seasonal Festivals
exercise 4
■ students discuss in pairs and tell the class their opinions.
language power: the word corner on page 79 gives
further practice in vocabulary (clothes).
grammar
the passive (i)
exercise 5
■ students identify that the passive is used when we don’t know or there is no need to say who the “doer” of an action is.
■ students then do the exercise, finding the sentences in the text and completing the verbs.
■ refer students to grammar summary 5 to make sure they understand how to use the passive correctly.
■ for further practice, ask students to answer questions about their school (or town), e.g. “when are school examinations held?
when are school reports written? where is football played?
when are bells rung? when was this classroom cleaned? when was this school built?”
answers
1. are made 2. were, organized
exercise 6
■ have students look at the given sentences and ask them what tenses are used in them.
■ encourage students to draw rules for the formation of the passive forms. ask them to refer grammar summary 1,3,4 and 5 on pages 92?c93.
answers
1. has been arranged
2. is being collected
3. was being painted
exercise 7
■ ask students if they have heard of the water festival.
■ students read the text to find out about the festival. then read the text again and complete the verbs.
answers
1. is celebrated 2. is splashed 3. are carried
4. are told 5. is related 6. are washed
7. are raced 8. are launched
■ have students close their books and ask them to say what they can remember about the festival.
exercise 8
■ students work in pairs, changing the sentences into the passive. answers
1. my health is being affected by stress.
2. people are being moved out of the houses.
3. the mini-helicopter has already been invented by him.
4. the forest fire has been put out by them.
5. the car was being repaired when i got there.
6. the house was being decorated when the accident happened
vocabulary
exercise 9
■ students may need to go back to the text to review the words before they start filling in the blanks.
answers
1. is lit 2. has decorated
3. mark 4. celebrate