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Unit1 Festivals around the world

Unit1 Festivals around the world. What kinds of festivals in China do you know about?. Brainstorming. The Double Seventh Festival 七夕节. The Spring Festival. The Double Ninth Festival 重阳节. The Lantern Festival 元宵节. festivals. Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节. The Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节.

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Unit1 Festivals around the world

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  1. Unit1 Festivals around the world

  2. What kinds of festivals in China do you know about? Brainstorming The Double Seventh Festival 七夕节 The Spring Festival The Double Ninth Festival 重阳节 The Lantern Festival元宵节 festivals Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节 The Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节 The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节

  3. Spring Festival Lantern Festival

  4. 清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。借问酒家何处有，牧童遥指杏花村。------[唐] 杜牧 Tomb-Sweeping Day April 5th

  5. Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Day

  6. What Chinese public holidays do you know ? National Day Children’s Day International Labour Day New Year’s Day(元旦) Holidays International Women’s Day The Youth Day

  7. What festivals of foreign countries do you know? Easter(Mar--Apirl) Valentine’s Day Christmas festivals Halloween Oct.31 Father’s Day June Mother’s Day May Apirl Fool’s Day Thanksgiving Day November

  8. Valentines February 14th

  9. Halloween Pumpkin light

  10. Easter Thanksgiving Day

  11. Foreign Festivals

  12. Pre-reading What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?

  13. Reading

  14. Scanning How many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage? 1. Ancient festivals 2. Festivals of the Dead 3. Festivals to Honor People 4. Harvest Festivals 5. Spring Festivals

  15. Skimming What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph? P1.Ancient festivals celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.

  16. P 2. Festivals of the Dead Japan -----Obon Mexico------Day of the Dead America------Halloween P 3. Festivals to Honour People Dragon Boat Festival Columbus Day (India)October 2

  17. Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan

  18. Columbus Day

  19. P 4. Harvest Festivals Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival Mid-Autumn festival P 5. Spring Festivals Spring festival Carnival Easter Cheery Blossom Festival

  20. Harvest Festivals

  21. Comprehending I. Read the passage and then fill in the following chart.

  22. 1. Festivals of the Dead. ancestors Halloween Obon Mexico

  23. The Day of the Dead Festivals Obon Halloween graves bones dress up incense music gifts

  24. 2. Festivals to Honour People Match the person with the festival. 1. Qu Yuan 2. Christopher Columbus 3. Mohandas Gandhi a. the Dragon Boat Festival b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2 c. Columbus Day a c b

  25. 3. Harvest Festivals Choose the best answer. Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people ___. A. get together to have meals B. decorate houses to admire the moon C. win awards for their farm produce D. enjoy mooncakes B B. decorate houses to admire the moon

  26. 4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks. The Spring Festival Carnivals Easter Japan

  27. Carnivals Festivals Spring Festival Parades lucky colourful clothing dragon dances

  28. II. Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following question. 1). What are festivals of the dead usually for? Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.

  29. 2). What makes autumn festivals happy events? people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished. 3). What do people usually do at spring festivals? people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.

  30. 4).What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations? we can enjoy life/ be proud of our customs/ forget our work for a little while.

  31. 5). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different? Similarities: clean their ancestors’ graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. Differences: the Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do.

  32. III. True or False F 1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. 2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. T 3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. 4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. 5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. T F F

  33. Discussion Which festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun.

  34. Homework 1. Go over the text after class and find the sentences that you don’t understand

  35. 2. Finish exercise “discovering useful words and expressions” on Page 4. (Ex1, 2 and 3) 3. Find out as much information as possible about festivals around the world.

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