Transcript Document 7360105

• Who do you think in China should have a
festival to be honoured? Why?
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• 1.Some festivals are held to honour the
dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who
might return either to help or to do harm.
• 2. Obon\ Qingming Festival
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People should go to clean graves and
light incense in memory of their ancestors.
• 3. Halloween
• It is now a children’s festival, when they
can dress up and go to their neighbour’s
home to ask for sweets. If they don’t have
any sweets, they will play a trick on others.
• 4. The Dragon Boat Festival in China
honours the famous ancient poet, Quyuan.
• 5. Mid-autumn Day takes place on the
15th day of the 8th lunar month. It
celebrates harvest and the beauty of full
moon. People often get together to admire
the moon and enjoy mooncakes.
• 6. Spring Festival is the most energetic
and important festival that look forward to
the end of winter and the coming of spring.
During the festival, people eat dumplings,
fish and meat and may give children lucky
money in red paper. People get together to
celebrate the lunar New Year. Children like
to set off firecrackers.
• 7. Easter is an important religious and
social festival for Christians around the
world. It celebrates the return of Jesus
from the dead and the coming of spring
and new life.
• 8. People love to get together to eat, drink
and have fun with each other. Festivals let
us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and
forget our work for a little while.
Spring Festival
important
when
last
cleaning , decorate
On New Year’s Eve,
dinner,
the Spring Festival programme,
fireworks,
firecrackers
money
Easter
 In April
 It is the time when Jesus
Christ died and came back
to life.
 Christians around the
world, celebrate
 Eat chocolate eggs
 Play with toy bunny
 eat hot cross buns
the most important , in western countries.
Celebrate, together with
the gifts, in the stockings , at night.
cards or gifts
Read the following descriptions about
western festivals and guess which festival
they convey?
It is one of the most important festivals in
western countries.
People usually celebrate it together with
their family members.
A kind-hearted old man put the gifts in the
stockings for children secretly at night.
People send cards or gifts to
others.
Reading-III (8m)
Retell the text by filling the following blanks:
There are all kinds of festivals and celebrations
__________
around the world, which are held for different
festivals were mainly held
ancient _________
reasons. The _______
at three times a year--- the end of the cold winter,
planting in spring and harvest in autumn.Some
festivals are held to honor
_____ the dead or satisfy the
ancestors in case they might _____
do _______,
harm
_________
while other festivals are held to honor famous
Dragon _______
Boat Festival
people, such as _________
______ and
Columbus Day.
Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy
gathered for the
events because the food is _________
agricultural
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
coming of spring, such
end of winter and to the ______
lunar New Year, at which people have a
as the ______
very good time.
1.产生
1.take place
2.为了纪念 （怀念）2. in memory of
3.（使）盛装
3. dress up
4.耍阴谋，诡计
4. play a trick
5.期望
5.look forward to
6.日日夜夜
6. day and light
7.仿佛/好像
7. as if /as thought
8.与…开玩笑
8. have fun with
9. 出现
9. turn up
10.遵守诺言
10. keep up one’s worlds
11. 屏住呼吸
11. hold one’s breath