Period 1&2 Warming
up and Reading I
The Dragon Boat Festival
The Double Ninth Festival
The Spring Festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
The Lantern Festival
The Middle
Autumn Festival
The Double
Seventh Festival
What kinds of festivals in China do you know about?
Brainstorming
festivals
Warming up-I(5m)
International Women’s Day
New Year’s Day
Children’s Day
National Day
The Youth Day
International Labour Day
What Chinese public holidays do you know ?
Holidays
festivals
Christmas
Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Carnival
Easter
Thanksgiving Day
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
Halloween
What festivals of foreign countries do you know?

FESTIVALS
Food
Work
Visit
Dress up
Singing
Dancing
Watching TV
Memory
Fun
Jiaozi
Fruit
Date
Choose one of the festivals, and think about:
(2)What people should do or should not do
(1)When the festival comes
(3)Why the festival is liked by people
Warming up-II(3m)
What is your favourite festival? Why?
Which part of it do you like best - the music,
the things to see, the visits or the food?

Tips :
My favourite … is …
I like … best.
I prefer ….
I enjoy/like….
Oral Practice
Pre- reading(3m):
Spring Festival
Spring Festival couplets
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS
Reading
1. How many parts is the passage divided into?
Fast reading
2. Which festivals are mentioned in the passage?
Six parts.
Reading-I (5m)
Obon
Japan
Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
USA
Mahatma Gandhi Day
India
Mid-autumn Festival
China/Japan
Spring Festival
China
Carnival
Easter
Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan
Thanksgiving festivals
Read the passage again and then fill in the following form:
Reading-II (10m)
To celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Sometimes after hunters had caught animals
To honor the dead or to satisfy 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
Food is gathered for the winter. A season of agricultural work is over.
Decorate churches and town halls, have meals, admire the moon, enjoy mooncakes.
To look forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring.
Eat delicious food, give lucky money, have carnivals.
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 the _________ in case they might _____ _______, while other festivals are held to honor famous people, such as _________ _______ ______ and Columbus Day.
celebrations
Boat Festival
Dragon
harm
do
ancestors
honor
festivals
ancient
Reading-III (8m)
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
Further Contact
Do you know the names of the following festivals?
Which countries do they come from?
After reading(6m)
Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day is named for________________, an early Christian churchman who reportedly helped young lovers. More than 2000 years ago, the ancient Romans celebrated a holiday for________. As part of the celebration, girls wrote their names on pieces of paper and put them in a large container. Boys picked one out .The girl whose name was written on the paper became his lover.
Saint Valentine
lovers
Halloween is from __________, which is celebrated on____________. People would dance at the fancy ball and wear __________________ ___________________________________________
in order to __________away spirits looking for bodies to possess.
Halloween
America
October 31
ghost costumes ( clothes), false faces and witches' hats,
frighten
Costume Ball
halloween costumes
Carved Pumpkin Lantern
Halloween Parade(游行）
Apple Bobbing
Trick-or-Treat
Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection(复活) of _____________on the ______day after his Crucifixion（死于十字架上）. For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family.
Jesus Christ
third
Easter
on a ______between March 22 and April 25 /
Easter bunnies (rabbits) 复活节兔
Egg hunts (复活节蛋)
Sunday
The first Sunday after the
full moon following a spring
equinox（春分）
White lily
-- purity(纯洁)
Speckled eggs
Foreign Festivals
名称
1. starve
1) starve : to cause a person or an animal to
suffer severely or die from hunger挨饿，饿死
Language points
Millions of people starved to death during the war.
The homeless children are starving for love.
When will the dinner be ready?
I’ m starving.
3) 感觉很饿（仅用于进行时）
2)starve for sth 渴望获得某物，缺乏
starvation n.
die of starvation: starve to death
starvation wages
不够维持基本生活的工资
2. Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year.
mean后可以跟不定式的复合结构。
I never meant him to work for us.
3. honor
v. = respect sb.
Will you honor me with a visit?
如蒙造访，十分荣幸。
honored guests 贵宾
I feel highly honored
by the kind things you said about me.
honor un.
show honor to sb＝ show respect to sb.
honor cn.
带来光荣的人/物
Liu Xiang is an honor to our country.
4. satisfy
vt. 使满意
Nothing satisfies him; he is always complaining.
The government tries its best to satisfy
people’s needs.

satisfaction n. 满意、令人满意的人/物
satisfied (人)满意的
satisfying/ satisfactory令人满意的
The teacher was satisfied with his satisfying/
satisfactory answer.
5. harm :
1) n. damage, injury 损坏，伤害
do harm to …＝ harm
Smoking does harm to our health.
do more harm than good弊大于利
If we try to solve the problem in this way,
it will do more harm than good.
vt. cause harm to
The event harmed his reputation.
come to harm
I will go with her to make sure she comes to no harm.
我要跟她一同去以免她受到伤害。
受到伤害
6. in memory of
= as a way of remembering
The monument was built
in memory of the little hero.
The museum was built
in memory of the famous scientist.
in praise of
in honor of
in celebration of
in search of
歌颂
为纪念
为庆祝
为寻找
7. dress up vi . 穿上盛装
There is no need to dress up; come as you are.
dress (sb) up in sth/ as sb 化装打扮
Children love dressing up.
She dressed herself up as a monster.
dress vi 穿衣， 打扮
Waiting for a moment; I’m dressing.
She dresses well (on very little money.)
dress vt.
dress sb. in…
It takes time to dress the baby.
The old lady is neatly dressed in black.

8. play a trick on…
捉弄
The naughty boy loves playing tricks on others.
trick 玩笑、 恶作剧、 诡计
do/perform a trick 玩把戏
9. custom n. 风俗、习俗
So many countries, so many customs.
Social customs are different from country to country.
It is the custom (for sb) to do sth
做…….是一种习俗/惯例
It is the custom for the Japanese to take off
their shoes when they get into a hall.
It is the custom for an Arab to stand close to
his friend when talking.
custom

habit
“风俗习惯”－社会或团体许多人长期
形成的习惯
一个人的习惯习性
10. award n.
1) thing or amount awarded 奖金奖品
she showed us the athletics awards she had won.

2) decision to give sth, made by a judge, etc
裁定决定
the award of a scholarship 奖学金颁发决定

3) money paid to a student at university,
etc to help meet living costs, grant 助学金
玛丽没有申请奖学金的资格.
Mary is not eligible for an award.
award v. 颁发给予
award sth (to sb.)
award sb. Sth
裁判员判断决赛双方分数相同.
The judges awarded both finalists equal points.
11.admire vt.
1) 钦佩赞赏羡慕
admire sb/sth (for sth)
They admired our garden.
I admire him for his success in business.
2) express admiration of (sb/sth)
表示赞赏夸奖…
难道你不想夸夸我的新房子吗？
Aren’t you going to admire my new house?
n. admirer: person who admires sb/sth
I’m not a great admirer of her work.
admiration
12. look forward to (doing )sth
anticipate sth with pleasure
I am looking forward to seeing you again.

13. as though/if
It looks as if it is going to rain.
I treat you as if I were your mother.
He looks as though he were ill.
They behaved as though nothing had happened.
Assignment
Collect as much information about festivals as possible. Think about the questions in Part 2 “pre-reading” and then preview the next part about reading to get the main idea.