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Unit One
FESTIVALS
Learn
new words
Spring Festival
Lantern Festival
Women’s Day
May Day
Children’s Day
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-autumn Festival
National Day
Army Day
Chinese festivals
and holidays
Festivals
Chinese Festivals
Lantern Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
Mid-Autumn Day
SpringFestival
Double-ninth
National Day
May 1st
Foreign Festivals
Christmas Day
Thanksgiving Day
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
April Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Easter
Halloween
Carnival
In April
It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life.
Eat chocolate eggs
Easter
Christmas Day
On December 25th
It is the birthday of Jesus Christ
Go to the parties and churches , give cards and presents to our friends and relatives
Valentine’s Day
In February

People send roses and cards to the people they love.
Dragon Boat Festival
In June
The day that the poet Qu Yuan died
Eat rice dumplings and watch boat races
Tomb Sweeping Day
In April

The day we remember our dead relatives

Visit graves
Mother’s Day
In May

We give flowers and presents to our mothers.
Mid-autumn Festival
In September
The day we enjoy the full moon
Play lanterns and eat moon cakes
on the fifteenth day of the new year ( 15th, in the lunar calendar)
lanterns: symbols of good fortune, happiness and health.
“dragon” and “lion ” dances
Lantern Festival
How many festivals do you know in China?
Read
new words
Festivals
& Celebrations
Reading
Which festivals are mentioned in the passage?
Listening & Skimming
Task 1
Obon
Japan
the Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
the Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
USA
Mahatma Gandhi Day
India
the Mid-autumn Festival
China/Japan
the Spring Festival
China
Carnival
Easter
Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan
Thanksgiving festivals
Festivals of the dead
Festivals to honour people
Harvest festivals
Spring festivals
western countries
western countries
western countries
European countries
Scanning
1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?
Answer the following questions:
2.What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?
3. Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?
4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?
5. Name three things people do at Spring Festival.
Task 2
1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?
a. The end of The cold weather;
b. planting in spring and harvest in autumn;
c. When hunters could catch animals.
2.What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?
People should go to clean the graves, light incense, lamps and play music.
3. Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?
To honor Ganhdi who helped gain Indian’s independence from Britain.
4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?
Decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruits; people get together to have meals.
5. Name three things people do at Spring Festival.
eat dumplings, fish, meat; give children lucky money; dragon dances; visit family members
Careful - Reading
Enjoy some pictures and get to know the festivals mentioned in the passage.
Task 3
in Japan
Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house to lead the ancestors back to home.
Obon
When the festival is over, thousands of lanterns are placed into the water and they drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world.
The Day of the Dead in Mexico
People offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Toys, decorations, and candies in the shape of skulls, are sold in the market-places to honor ancestors.
Halloween Parade
Halloween
In the US and Europe
The jack-o’-lantern is the most common symbol of Halloween.
children dress in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
boat and beat drums to scare fish away
to honour the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan
threw glutinous rice dumplings into the sea to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body.
Columbus Day in the USA
in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America
October 2 is a national festival in India to honour Mahatma Candhi
Mahatma Gandhi Day
Gandhi is the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain
Harvest Festivals
People are grateful because their food is ________
for the winter, and because a season of __________
work is over.
gathered
agricultural
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to commemorate the harvest.
The traditional Thanksgiving food---roasting turkey, corn and pumpkin pies with ice-cream.
The Mid-Autumn Festival
late January or early February
Time:
couplets
Spring Festivals
Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.
Carnival
Easter is an important religious and social festival in Christian countries.
It celebrates the return of Jesus for Christians and the coming of spring.
Egg hunts
Easter bunny
Easter egg
the Cherry Blossom Festival
Every April when the country is covered with cherry flowers.
Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic.
Task 4 Comprehending
Read the passage again. Finish the following activities.
Use the information from the passage to answer the questions.
What are festivals of the dead usually for?

What makes autumn festivals happy events?
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.
Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
Use the information from the passage to answer the questions.
3. What do people usually do at spring festivals?

4. What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?
At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life / be proud of our customs / forget our work for a little while.
Free talking
Based on the reading passage, what do most festivals seem to have in common?
food
music
entertainment
being with family and friends
lights or fire
dance
remembering events or people
To celebrate the the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
Lit fires and made music.
To honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors.
Light lamps,play music,eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up
For their great contributions to the society or the country.
Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi.
Food is gathered for the winter. A season of agricultural work is over.
Decorate churches and town halls, have big meals, admire the moon,eat moon cakes.
To celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have carnivals.
Task 5 Retell the text
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 ______ the _________ in case they might _____ _______, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods, such as _________ _______ ______ and Columbus Day.
celebrations
Boat Festival
Dragon
harm
do
ancestors
please
honor
festivals
ancient
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 ______ of spring, such as the ______ New Year, at which people have a very good time.
agricultural
gathered
lunar
coming
Assignment
Collect as much information about festivals as possible.
Homework
1.Recite the short passage
2.Read the text for
the language points
Goodbye!