The Spring Festival is often called "Chinese New Year" by people in western countries, because people in China 1 the end of a lunar(农历)year, and the start of a new lunar year.

    At Spring Festival, people want to keep away from 2, so that the new year will 3 with good luck. There are a lot of 4 for the Spring Festival. People 5 their houses (before New Year's Day), cut their hair, and buy lots of new 6 to wear. They decorate their houses with couplets, paper-cuts and lanterns. The decorations are all 7, because red is a "lucky colour".

    Older people give young people red packets 8 money in them. People eat jiaozi for New Year and yuanxiao at Lantern Festival.

Then there's the dragon dance and fireworks. These are 9 to bring good luck for New Year. It's a great time and everyone feels 10.

提示：1）春节是中国人民的重要节日，是全家团聚的日子。

2）孩子们要穿新衣服，并和大人们一起走亲访友。

3）人人见面时互相问好，人人都喜欢春节。

4）参考词汇：亲戚 relative,  团聚get together。

Spring Festival

Spring Festival

    In China Spring Festival is the most important festival. It comes on the first day of the first lunar month（阴历月）.

    Before Spring Festival comes, people go out to buy things, such as meat, chicken, fish, fruit, sweets and new clothes. They clean their houses and decorate them. The Chinese character fu is a must. It is usually stuck（贴） upside down, which means "fu comes".

    The celebrations （庆祝） begin on the eve of the lunar New Year. The family get together for a bi g dinner. If a person is far from home, he will always try to get home for this big dinner. After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, chatting （聊天） and watching TV.

    During the holidays （节日）, they go to visit relatives and friends and exchange New Year greetings. They sit around talking and eating candies, cakes and all kinds of delicious food. Every family prepares something special. Each child will get money as a New Year gift. People in the north of China often eat dumplings for breakfast. People in the south often eat niangao because niangao means "higher and higher one year after another".

    The celebrations last （持续） 15 days. It will come to an end when Lantern Festival finishes.

A: Hi, Liu Tao.

B: Hi, Li Hua.

A: The winter holiday is coming.

B: I have to stay at home because my parents are very busy.

A: I want to go to Changchun to go skating with my parents.

B: Yes, I'd love to.

A: Great! We can play snowball and see ice engraving(冰雕).

B:

A: We are going there next Sunday.

B:

A: We can go there by plane.

B: Can you ask your parents to help me buy an air ticket?

A: No problem.

B: Thanks a lot.

My aunt is in the office.

My mother goes shopping lots of food.

your father in the kitchen?