Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious!2c Role-play conversations between Wu Ming and Harry. Use the information in 2a and 2b or make up your own conversations. A: What did you do on your vacation? B: I visited my cousins. I think that we ate five meals a day! Ive put on five pounds! A: I guess the food was delicious, right? 2d Role-play the conversation. Clara: Guess what? Im going to Chiang Mai in two weeks. Ben: Wow, sounds like fun! But I believe that April is the hottest month of the year there. Clara: Yes, thats true. But theres a Water Festival from April 13th to 15th. Ben: I wonder if its similar to the water festival of the Dai people in Yunnan Province. Clara: Yes, I think so. This is the time of the Thai New Year. People go on the streets to throw water at each other. Ben: Cool! But why do they do that? Clara: Because the new year is a time for cleaning and washing away bad things. Then youll have good luck in the new year.Full Moon, Full FeelingsChinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes have the shape of a full moon on mid-autumn night. They carry peoples wishes to the families they love and miss. There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Change is the most touching. Change was Hou Yis beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Change. However, a bad man, Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Change refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Change could come back!After this, people started the tradition of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families. 3b Read the passage . Put the events in the correct order.Feng Meng tried to steal the medicine.A goddess thanked Hou Yi by giving him a magic medicine.Change refused to give Feng Meng the medicine and drank it all.Hou Yi shot down the nine suns and saved the people on the earth.Hou Yi was very sad and watched the moon at night, and wished his wife could come back.As a result, Change became light and flew up to the sky.Hou Yi planned to drink the medicine with his wife.Grammar Focus I know that the Water Festival is really fun. I wonder if theyll have the races again next year. I wonder whether June is a good time to visit Hong Kong. I believe that April is the hottest month in Thailand. What fun the Water Festival is! How fantastic the dragon boat teams were! How pretty the dragon boats were! How delicious the food is in Hong Kong!4a Write sentences using the words given. e.g. think/Lantern Festival/beautiful I think that the Lantern Festival is beautiful. 1. dont know/whether/he/come home/for the festival 2. believe/Water Festival/most/fun 3. wonder/if/mooncakes/delicious 4. how/exciting/races 5. what/interesting/city找出文章中的宾语从句： Dear Xia Yu, Do you know that there are two special days for parents in America? One is Mothers Day on the second Sunday of May and the other is Fathers Day on the third Sunday of June. On these two days, American children often give gifts to their parents or take them out for lunch or dinner. Common gift s are fl owers and cards for mothers and shirts or ties for fathers. I heard that it is becoming more and more popular to celebrate Mothers Day and Fathers Day in China. I wonder if children over there also give similar gift s to their parents. I believe that there are many ways to show our love. Actually, we dont have to spend a lot of money. It is also a good idea to help parents to do something instead. June2a Do you know when these special days are? Try to match each day with the correct date. Christmas Fourth Thursday in November April Fools Day February 14th Halloween April 1st St. Valentines Day October 31st Thanksgiving December 25th2b Read the passage about Christmas and answer the questions. 1. What are the common things that people think of for Christmas? 2. Who wrote A Christmas Carol? 3. What is the true meaning or spirit of Christmas?The Spirit of Christmas Many would agree that when we think of Christmas, we probably think of gifts,Christmas trees and Santa Claus. But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas: the importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us. The story in A Christmas Carol is perhaps the best example of this.A Christmas Carol is a famous novel written by Charles Dickens. It is about an old man named Scrooge who never laughs or smiles. He is mean