1. Festivals we enjoy

1. 1. Festivals we enjoy By Miss Friendy Luk

2. What festivals do we have in Hong Kong? Chinese New Year National Day The SAR Establishment Day Dragon Boat Festival Chung Yeung Festival New Year Valentine’s Day Father’s Day Mid-Autumn Festival Halloween Easter Mother’s Day Christmas Ching Ming Festival Labour Day

3. When are these festivals?

4. What do we do at these festivals?

5. Activity 1 (Text p.2) • Tom is telling Beeno about festivals in Hong Kong. Act Tom. • Tips: • When are the festivals? • What do you do at the festivals?

6. Method 1 • E.g 1: Valentine’s Day – send roses and cards • Valentine’s Day is on the fourteenth ofFebruary. • We send roses and cards to the people we love. • E.g.2: Dragon Boat Festival – watch dragon boat races • Dragon Boat Festival is in June. • We … • E.g.3: Ching Ming Festival – visit graves • Ching Ming Festival in Spring. • We…

7. Method 2 • E.g.1: Easter – eat chocolate eggs • We eat chocolate eggs at Eater. • E.g. 2:Valentine’s Day – send chocolates • We send chocolates to people we love on Valentine’s Day. • Please act Tom and complete the exercises on p.2.

8. Which festival(s) do you like? • My favorite festival is Chinese New Year. • I like Christmas very much. • I like Easter. • I quite like Mid-Autumn Festival. • I don’t like Ching Ming Festival very much. • I don’t like Chung Yeung Festival. • I hate Halloween.

9. What do you like doing at these festivals? • I like prayingand singing Christmas *carols. • I like watching fireworks at Chinese New Year. • I like eating moon cakes but I don’t like burning candles at Mid-Autumn Festival. • I don’t like sitting in the hot sun or watching dragon boat races at Dragon Boat Festival. • *Carols: religious songs that are sung at Christmas.

10. Comparison • What do you like to do at these festivals? • I like to watch fireworks at Chinese New Year.

11. What are they saying? (Text p.3) • The children are talking about festivals in Hong Kong. What are they saying?

12. Examples 1 • Christmas • I like Christmas very much. • I like getting presents and singing Christmas carols. • *Carols: religious songs that are sung at Christmas.

13. Comparison • Christmas • I like Christmas very much (Why?) • because I like getting presents and singing Christmas carols. • *Because gives the reasons.

14. Example 2 • Mid-Autumn Festival • I quite like Mid-Autumn Festival. • I like eating moon cakes but I don’t like burning candles.

15. Example 3 • Dragon Boat Festival • I don’t like Dragon Boat Festival very much. • I don’t like sitting in the hot sun or watching dragon boat races.

16. Activity 2 (Text p.3) • What are the children saying? • Please complete conversations in pictures 4-5.

17. Activity 3 • Which festival(s) do YOU like and which festival(s) don’t YOU like? • What do YOU like and what don’t YOU like doing at these festivals? • Please tell your friends or teacher.

18. Reading: TRICK or TREAT (Text p.4) • Prediction: • What is it about? • Which festival is it talking about? •  Halloween

19. Paragraph1 • When is Halloween? (line 1) • What did people believe at Halloween? (line 2) • What can witches do? (line 3)

20. Paragraph 2 • What do people do at Halloween? (line 1) • How do people dress? (line 1-2) • What do witches wear? (line 2) • How do witches ride on? (line 3)

21. Paragraph 3 • What special game do children play on Halloween night? (lines 1-2) • What is a ‘treat’? (line 5) • How do the children play tricks at Halloween? (lines 6-7)

22. Paragraph 4 • What do people use to make a frightening face at Halloween? (line 2) • How do people make a frightening face with a pumpkin? (lines 2-5)

23. Paragraph 5 • For your safety, what should or shouldn’t you do at Halloween? (lines 1-2)

24. Follow-up • Have you ever dressed up in a *costume? • What did you wear? • Did you enjoy it? *Costume: special clothing typical of a certain period, country or profession, especially used in plays or dramas.

25. Reading Activity (Text P.5) • Read the title and the first sentence of the passage on p.5. • A special day • Every year we say ‘thank you’ to our mothers… • Which special day do you think passage is about? (Fill in the blank.)

26. Are You Right? • Please read the rest of the passage on p.5 to check. •  It is about Mother’s Day.

27. Activity 4 • Listen and sing an English song (Jazz Chant) about festivals – • “Holiday Chant”

30. Activity 5 (Text P.6) • Look at the calendar in your student handbook. • Find the dates of the following festivals for this year.

31. Results

32. Writing Activity (Text P.6) • You are going to make a book about festivals in Hong Kong. • Look at the dates of the festivals. Write the names of the festivals in the order of their dates on the contents page of your book.

33. Contents • 1 Chinese New Year • 2 Ching Ming Festival • 3 Easter • 4 Dragon Boat Festival • 5 Mid-Autumn Festival • 6 Christmas

34. Activity 6 (Text p.6) • Read the sentences about the festivals on p.6. • Match them with the festivals on the contents page. Write the numbers in the boxes.

35. Which festival is it? • It is the birthday of Jesus Christ. •  Christmas 2. It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life. •  Easter • It is the day when the poet Wat Yuen died. •  Dragon Boat Festival 4. It is the day when we remember our dead relatives. •  Ching Ming Festival

36. 5. It is the day when people enjoy looking at the full moon in autumn. •  Mid-Autumn Festival 6. It is the time when we celebrate the beginning of the lunar new year. Children like getting red packets very much at this festival. •  Chinese New Year

37. Halloween BACK • When is Halloween? • It is on 31st October. • What do people do at Halloween? • People have parties and play games at Halloween. • What may you think of about Halloween? • You may think of…

38. A House in the Dark BACK

39. Bats BACK

40. Ghosts BACK

41. Witches BACK Riding on a broomstick Doing magic

42. Frightening Pumpkins BACK

43. Sweets BACK

44. What else? BACK a vampire a skeleton a casket a spook gravestones a black cat