初三19-20学年第39期总第625期课件二

作者：刘晓倩

南京市第一中学江北新区分校

 

Remember the dead

 

 

Warm up

Do you know who these people are?  What happened to them?

They lost their lives in the fight against the novel coronavirus.

 

 

Pre-reading

Predict: Who do we remember?

 

 

Fast reading

 

Careful reading

Choose the correct answer:

1. The mourning period was held to _____.

A. remember family members and friends

B. remember those who died during the coronavirus outbreak

C. teach students about death

D. take the place of sweeping tombs

 

2. What do we know about the mourning period?

a. It started at 10 am and lasted for 30 minutes.

b. Air defense warning sirens went off.

c. National flags were lowered to half-mast.

d. Some activities were canceled nationwide.

e. National mourning periods are held often.

A. abc     B. abe     C. bcd      D. bde

 

3. Why don’t Chinese students know much about death?

A. Because they never attend their family members’ funerals.

B. Because they don’t take care of their pets.

C. Because they seldom watch movies or TV shows.

D. Because Chinese people see death as a taboo topic.

Do kids in other countries learn about death?

  

Cultural differences

 

4. What does Yuan Weixing try to tell us?

A. Our lives become worthless when facing an epidemic.

B. The deceased deserve to be respected.

C. We should have the right attitude toward life and death.

D. We don’t need to be careful when facing diseases.

 

5. What is the right attitude toward life and death?

According to Yuan Weixing, ...

 

Words in use

Completion.

More than 26.3 million people in China chose to mourn the deceased 1. t______ online platforms during the recent three-day holiday for Tomb-sweeping Day, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Tuesday.

To prevent large crowds and 2. r_____ cross-infection(交叉感染), China limited mass tomb-sweeping activities this year as it is fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. People wrote messages online 3. i______ of visiting cemeteries(墓地) to show 4. r________ to their deceased relatives.

Tomb-sweeping Day, also known as Qingming Festival, is one of the most important

5. t________ festivals for Chinese. During the period leading up to and after the day, people pay tribute(悼念) to the deceased and worship their ancestors by visiting tombs and making offerings.

The ministry reminded the public to strengthen personal protection and be cautious about fire 6. s_____ while burning paper money during the mourning ritual.

 

1. through    2. reduce     3. instead     4. respect     5. traditional               6. safety

 

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