Transcript Festivals we enjoy

1. Festivals we enjoy
By Miss Friendy Luk
What festivals do we have
in Hong Kong?
Chinese New Year
Dragon Boat Festival
The SAR Establishment Day
New Year
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mother’s Day
Labour Day
National Day
Chung Yeung Festival
Valentine’s Day
Easter
Ching Ming
Father’s Day
Halloween
Christm
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When are these festivals?
Valentine’s Day
Christmas
Dragon Boat Festival
Ching Ming Festival
Mother’s Day
Easter
Mid-Autumn Festival
Chinese New Year
is
the fourteenth of
on Frebruary.
25th December.
June.
in April.
May.
Spring.
in Autumn.
Winter.
What do we do at these festivals?
count down
eat chocolate eggs
We get sweets
have parties
play lanterns
send flowers
New Year.
Easter.
at Halloween.
Christmas.
Mid-Autumn Festival.
on Mother’s Day.
Activity 1 (Text p.2)
 Tom is telling Beeno about
festivals in Hong Kong. Act Tom.
 Tips:
1. When are the festivals?
2. What do you do at the festivals?
Method 1
 E.g 1: Valentine’s Day – send roses and cards
 Valentine’s Day is on the fourteenth of February.
 We send roses and cards to the people we love.
 E.g.2: Dragon Boat Festival – watch dragon boat
races
 Dragon Boat Festival is in June.
 We …
 E.g.3: Ching Ming Festival – visit graves
 Ching Ming Festival in Spring.
 We…
Method 2
 E.g.1: Easter – eat chocolate eggs
 We eat chocolate eggs at Eater.
 E.g. 2:Valentine’s Day – send chocolates
 We send chocolates to people we love on
Valentine’s Day.
 Please act Tom and complete the exercises on p.2.
Which festival(s) do you like?
 My favorite festival is Chinese New Year.
 I like Christmas very much.
 I like Easter.
 I quite like Mid-Autumn Festival.
 I don’t like Ching Ming Festival very
much.
 I don’t like Chung Yeung Festival.
 I hate Halloween.
What do you like doing
at these festivals?
1. I like praying and singing Christmas *carols.
2. I like watching fireworks at Chinese New
Year.
3. I like eating moon cakes but I don’t like
burning candles at Mid-Autumn Festival.
4. I don’t like sitting in the hot sun or watching
dragon boat races at Dragon Boat Festival.
*Carols: religious songs that are sung at Christmas.
Comparison
What do you like to do at these
festivals?
I like to watch fireworks at Chinese
New Year.
What are they saying? (Text p.3)
The children are talking about
festivals in Hong Kong. What are
they saying?
Examples 1
Christmas
I like Christmas very much.
I like getting presents and singing
Christmas carols.
*Carols: religious songs that are sung at Christmas.
Comparison
 Christmas
 I like Christmas very much (Why?)
 because I like getting presents and
singing Christmas carols.
 *Because gives the reasons.
Example 2
Mid-Autumn Festival
I quite like Mid-Autumn Festival.
I like eating moon cakes but I
don’t like burning candles.
Example 3
Dragon Boat Festival
I don’t like Dragon Boat Festival
very much.
I don’t like sitting in the hot sun
or watching dragon boat races.
Activity 2 (Text p.3)
What are the children saying?
Please complete conversations in
pictures 4-5.
Activity 3
 Which festival(s) do YOU like and
which festival(s) don’t YOU like?
 What do YOU like and what don’t YOU
like doing at these festivals?
 Please tell your friends or teacher.
Reading: TRICK or TREAT (Text
p.4)
Prediction:
What is it about?
Which festival is it talking about?
 Halloween
Paragraph1
When is Halloween? (line 1)
What did people believe at
Halloween? (line 2)
What can witches do? (line 3)
Paragraph 2
What do people do at Halloween?
(line 1)
How do people dress? (line 1-2)
What do witches wear? (line 2)
How do witches ride on? (line 3)
Paragraph 3
What special game do children
play on Halloween night? (lines 12)
What is a ‘treat’? (line 5)
How do the children play tricks at
Halloween? (lines 6-7)
Paragraph 4
What do people use to make a
frightening face at Halloween?
(line 2)
How do people make a frightening
face with a pumpkin? (lines 2-5)
Paragraph 5
For your safety, what should or
shouldn’t you do at Halloween?
(lines 1-2)
Follow-up
Have you ever dressed up in a
*costume?
What did you wear?
Did you enjoy it?
*Costume: special clothing typical of a
certain period, country or profession,
especially used in plays or dramas.
Reading Activity (Text P.5)
Read the title and the first sentence
of the passage on p.5.
 A special day
 Every year we say ‘thank you’ to our
mothers…
Which special day do you think
passage is about? (Fill in the blank.)
Are You Right?
Please read the rest of the passage
on p.5 to check.
 It is about Mother’s Day.
Activity 4
Listen and sing an English
song (Jazz Chant) about
festivals –
“Holiday Chant”
Activity 5 (Text P.6)
Look at the calendar in your
student handbook.
Find the dates of the following
festivals for this year.
Results
Festivals
Dragon Boat Festival
Christmas
Ching Ming Festival
Easter
Mid-Autumn Festival
Chinese New Year
Date
4th June
25th December
5th April
18th – 21st April
11th September
1st February
Writing Activity (Text P.6)
You are going to make a book about
festivals in Hong Kong.
Look at the dates of the festivals.
Write the names of the festivals in
the order of their dates on the
contents page of your book.
Contents
1
2
3
4
5
6
Chinese New Year
Ching Ming Festival
Easter
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Christmas
Activity 6 (Text p.6)
Read the sentences about the
festivals on p.6.
Match them with the festivals on
the contents page. Write the
numbers in the boxes.
Which festival is it?
1. It is the birthday of Jesus Christ.
  Christmas
2. It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came
back to life.
  Easter
3. It is the day when the poet Wat Yuen died.
  Dragon Boat Festival
4. It is the day when we remember our dead
relatives.
  Ching Ming Festival
5. It is the day when people enjoy looking at the

full moon in autumn.
 Mid-Autumn Festival
6. It is the time when we celebrate the beginning
of the lunar new year. Children like getting red
packets very much at this festival.
  Chinese New Year
Halloween
BACK
 When is Halloween?
 It is on 31st October.
 What do people do at Halloween?
 People have parties and play games at
Halloween.
 What may you think of about Halloween?
 You may think of…
A House in the Dark
BACK
Bats
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Ghosts
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Witches
Riding on a broomstick
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Doing magic
Frightening Pumpkins
BACK
Sweets
BACK
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What else?
a vampire
a skeleton
a casket
a spook
a black cat
gravestones