Unit 1
Festivals around the world
Guessing game
Christmas Day
Mid-Autumn festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
Valentine’s Day
Chinese festivals or
holiday
Lantern Festival
The Dragon Boat Day
Tomb Sweeping Day
The Spring Festival
Double-ninth Day
New Year’s Day
Women’s Day
International Labor Day
Children’s Day
National Day
1、What kinds of Chinese festivals or holiday do you know?
Brainstorm
foreign festivals
2、what kinds of foreign festivals do you know?
Christmas Day
Thanksgiving Day
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
April Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Easter
Halloween
what's your favourite festivals and why?
Work in pairs
Tips:

activities fun
singing dancing
visit food
dess up music
memory
scanning
How many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?
1. Festivals of the Dead
2. Festivals to Honor the People
3. Harvest Festivals
4. Spring Festivals
Fill in the following chart according to the passage
skimming
Obon
Japan
Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
America
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
Mahatma Gandhi Day
China
USA
India
Thanksgiving Festival
Mid-Autumn festival
Spring festival
Carnival
Easter
Cherry Blossom Festival
China
Japan
Group working
1、What's the purpose of festivals?

2、How do peopole celebrate?
(use key words / 4 students in a group)
Type 1
Festivals of the dead
to honour the dead
to satisfy the ancestors.
Purpose:
Obon 盂兰盆节
clean the graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.
Light lamps and play music to lead the ancestors back to earth.
Offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead
Food in shape of skull and cakes with "bone" on them
The Day of the Dead 亡灵节
Type 2
Festivals to Honour People
Purpose:
be held to honour famous people
old beliefs
spirits of dead people
Halloween 万圣节
dress up
play a trick on
Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
USA
National Festival
India
Type 3
Harvest Fstivals
Purpose:

People are grateful for the harvest /
for the end of the agricultural work /
award for farm produce
Harvest Fstivals
rooster/cock
decorate churches and town hall.
get together to have meals.
Thanksgiving Day
Mid-Autumn festival
people admire the moon and enjoy the mooncake
Type 4
Spring Festivals
purpose：

the most energetic and important festivals / look forward to the end of winter/
to the coming of spring
people eat dumplings/ dragon dances
children may get lucky money/
families celebration the lunar New Year together.
the spring Festival 春节
Easter
dancing day and night
colourful clothing
religious and social festival for Christians
return of Jesus
Cherry Blossom Festival
is covered with cherry tree flowers /
looks as though it might be the sea of pink snow.
Retell the text by filling the following blanks:

There are all kinds of festivals and ___________ around the world ,which are held for different reasons . The were mainly held at three times a year---the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn .Some festivals are held to _______ the dead or satisfy and _______ in case they might __________ ,while other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods such as _____________________and Columbus Day.
celebrations
honor
please
do harm
Dragon Boat Festival
Retelling
Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy
events because the food is _________ for the
winter and because a season of ____________
work is over ,to which Mid autumn festival
belongs .And the most energetic and important
festivals are the ones that look forward to the
end of winter and to the _______ to spring such
as the _______ New Year ,at which people have a very good day .
gathered
agricultural
coming
lunar
Discussing
Many pepole today would like to celebrate foreigh festivals rather than Chinese traditional festivals.what's your opinion about this situation?
For example: Valentine’s Day Vs. Qiqiao Festival

which one do you prefer?

why?
Homework
1、Search five festivals on the internet,collect more details as possible.Please focus on the origin,story ,time and activities.(share them in the next class)

2、Make sentences about the importent frases we have learned today.(hand in the next class)

3、Preview the next part of "Learning about language"