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Lesson 2 Holidays /Traveling

Lesson 2 Holidays /Traveling. Pre-class preparation: Vocabulary concerning holidays/festivals Activities you do during vacation What you like about (what you can get from) these activities. vocabulary. 新年 New Year 元旦 New Year’s Day 春节 Lunar New Near

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Lesson 2 Holidays /Traveling

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  1. Lesson 2 Holidays /Traveling Pre-class preparation: Vocabulary concerning holidays/festivals Activities you do during vacation What you like about (what you can get from) these activities

  2. vocabulary 新年New Year 元旦New Year’s Day 春节Lunar New Near International Women’s Day妇女节Tree-planting Day植树节 (International) Labor Day/ May Day(国际)劳动节/五一劳动节 Youth Day青年节 (International) Children’s Day anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China七一/中国共产党建党纪念日 Army Day/August 1/anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army八一建军节/八一/建军节 Teacher’s Day教师节 (thank-teacher card) National Day/October 1国庆节/十一 gala parade 庆祝游行 float 彩车 placard标语牌 banner横幅 illuminations 灯饰

  3. Traditional festivals 春节Spring Festival 除夕New Year’s Eve 灶王爷kitchen god 门神door-god 爆竹firecracker 鞭炮a string of small firecrackers 钟馗Zhong Kui, a deity supposed to be a chaser of demons 大扫除year-end household cleaning窗花paper-cut for window decoration 年画New Year picture 吉祥文字auspicious words 春联Spring Festival couplets (conveying best wishes for the year) 上/下联the first/second line of a couplet 横批a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription 压岁钱money given to children as a Lunar New Year gift 年夜饭family reunion dinner on Lunar New Year’s Eve 拜年paying a New Year call

  4. 庙会temple fair; fair 社火village theatrical performance 狮子舞lion dance 龙灯舞dragon lantern dance 耍猴monkey show 踩高跷walking on stilts 观灯viewing the lantern 灯谜lantern riddles (solve riddles ) 糖葫芦sugar-coated haws on a stick 跑旱船boat that runs on land (a folk dance) 风车pinwheel 清明节Tomb-sweeping Festival; Qingming paying respect to the dead扫墓 revolutionary martyr’s cemetery烈士陵园 the tomb of a revolutionary martyr烈士墓 wreath花圈 cinerary casket骨灰盒 paper money纸钱 spring outing踏青/春游

  5. 端午节Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race龙舟赛 realgar wine (to ward off poisonous creatures)雄黄酒 A pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves粽子 moon cake月饼 enjoying the full moon赏月 重阳节Double Ninth Festival 登高hill climbing 赏菊enjoying chrysanthemum 腊八节the Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month) 腊八粥laba porridge (rice porridge with beans, nuts and dried fruit, eaten on the Laba Festival)

  6. Sites for supplementary reading http://www.insightin.com/reading/reading_of_week_history.shtml ( some holidays in US) http://www.xiangtan.co.uk/usaholidays.htm (American holidays and festivals) http://www.insightin.com/reading/read.php?id=165 (celebration of the Chinese New Year)

  7. Holidays 1. How do you usually spend your holidays? 2. How did you spend the spring Festival/May Day? 3. What do you think is the best way to spend your holidays? And why? 4. What were some of your Spring Festivals like as a child? 5. How do you prefer to spend your holidays, with your parents or with your friends? Why? 6. Do you think we have too many holidays? Why do you think that way?

  8. A-1 Please talk about the advantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Advantages ---- more time to relax: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. lto travel lto pursue one’s hobbies lto visit friends lto read, etc.

  9. A-2 Please talk about the advantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Advantages ----more time to study lto review one’s lessons lto learn English lto broaden one’s horizons through visiting museums, art galleries, exhibitions, etc.

  10. A-3 Please talk about the disadvantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Disadvantages: ----negative effect on study: Too much play makes idle minds. lless time for study ltendency to forget what has been learned, esp. English lpost-holiday fatigue

  11. A-4 Please talk about the disadvantages of week-long holidays according to the outline given below: Disadvantages: ----pressure on students who are financially disadvantaged lno money for travelling lno money to eat out lfeeling of inferiority lstrong feeling of loneliness

  12. As a student, do you prefer week-long holidays or shorter holidays?

  13. 1. During the discussion, why did you say that …? 2. What do you think of students who sleep away the whole day in their dormitories? 3. Do you think that frequent holidays will make people lazy? Why/Why not? 4. What do you think of our government’s decision to lengthen holidays? 5. Do you think week-long holidays will increase pressure on transportation? Why/Why not? 6. Do you think we have too many holidays? Why do you think that way?

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