Transcript Document 7479660

Unit1
Festivals
around the world
What kinds of festivals in China
do you know about?
Brainstorming
The Spring Festival
The Double
Ninth Festival
The Double
Seventh Festival
七夕节
重阳节
Tomb
Sweeping Day
festivals
The Lantern
Festival元宵节
清明节
The Dragon Boat Festival
端午节
The Mid-Autumn
Festival 中秋节
Spring Festival
Lantern Festival
清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。
借问酒家何处有，牧童遥指杏花村。------[唐] 杜牧
Tomb-Sweeping Day
April 5th
Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Day
What Chinese public holidays do you know ?
Children’s
Day
New Year’s
Day(元旦)
The
Youth Day
National Day
Holidays
International
Labour Day
International
Women’s Day
What festivals of foreign countries do you know?
Easter(Mar--Apirl)
Valentine’s Day
Christmas
Halloween
festivals
Oct.31
Father’s Day
June
Mother’s Day
May
Thanksgiving Day
November
Apirl Fool’s Day
Valentines
February 14th
Halloween
Easter
Thanksgiving Day
Foreign Festivals
名称
英文名称
月份
情人节
Valentine’s Day
2月14日
复活节
Easter
3月21日或此日后月圆的第一
个星期日
耶稣受难日
Good Friday
复活节前的星期五
愚人节
April Fool’s Day
4 月1日
母亲节
Mother’s Day
5月的第二个星期日
父亲节
Father’s Day
6月的第三个星期日
劳动节
Labor Day
5 月1日
万圣节
Halloween
10月31日
感恩节
Thanksgiving Day
11月的第四个星期4
斋节
Ramadan
穆斯林历的第9个月
圣诞节
Christmas Day
12月25日
Pre-reading
What festivals or celebrations do you
have in your city or town? What part
of a festival do you like best- the
activities, the music, the sights, the
food or the people who visit?
Reading
Scanning
How many types of festivals are
mentioned in the passage?
1. Ancient festivals
2. Festivals of the Dead
3. Festivals to Honor People
4. Harvest Festivals
5. Spring Festivals
What festivals are mentioned in
each paragraph?
P1. Ancient festivals
celebrate the end of the cold weather,
planting in spring and harvest in
autumn; celebrate when hunters catch
animals.
P 2. Festivals of the Dead
Japan -----Obon
Mexico------Day of the Dead
America------Halloween
P 3. Festivals to Honour People
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
(India)October 2
Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan
Columbus Day
P 4. Harvest Festivals
Harvest and Thanksgiving
Festival
Mid-Autumn festival
P 5. Spring Festivals
Spring festival
Carnival
Easter
Cheery Blossom Festival
Harvest Festivals
Comprehending
I. Read the passage and then fill
in the following chart.
1. Festivals of the Dead.
Purposes To honor the dead or satisfy the
ancestors
1________
Names
Halloween
2______
Obon The Day of 4_________
the Dead
Countries Japan
3_______
Mexico
Western
countries
Festivals
Obon
The Day
Halloween
of the Dead
Cleaning Eating
5______;
graves cakes with
lighting
8_____
bones on
Activities 6_______
incense them;
and lamps; offering
playing
food,
music
7______
flowers and
gifts to
9____
the dead
Children
10
_______
dress up
and ask
for
sweets
2. Festivals to Honour People
Match the person with the festival.
1. Qu Yuan
a
2. Christopher Columbus c
3. Mohandas Gandhi b
a. the Dragon Boat Festival
b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2
c. Columbus Day
3. Harvest Festivals
Choose the best answer.
Many activities can be held in harvest
festivals EXCEPT that people ___.
B
A. get together to have meals
B. decorate houses to admire the moon
C. win awards for their farm produce
D. enjoy mooncakes
4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks.
Meani
ngs
Names
Countries
To look forward to the end of
winter and to the coming of spring
The
1______
2
3
Cherry
Spring Carnivals
______
______ _____
Easter Blossom
Festival
______
Festival
China
Western Mainly
8 _____
Japan
countries religious
countries
Festivals
Spring Festival
Eating good
foods; giving
Activities children
4_____
lucky
money;
dragon
5________
dances and
______
carnivals
Carnivals
6________;
Parades
dancing in
the streets;
loud music;
colourful
7_________
________
clothing
II. Use the information from the
reading passage to answer the
following question.
1). What are festivals of the dead usually
for?
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.
2). What makes autumn festivals happy
events?
people are thankful that food is ready
for winter and the hard farm work is
finished.
3). What do people usually do at spring
festivals?
people usually have dances, carnivals
and other activities to celebrate the
end of winter and the coming of spring.
4).What is one important reason to
have festivals and celebrations?
we can enjoy life/ be proud of our
customs/ forget our work for a little
while.
5). Compare the festivals of the dead in
Mexico, Japan and China. What things
are similar? What things are different?
Similarities: clean their ancestors’
graves, and the Mexicans offer food,
flowers and gifts to the dead.
Differences: the Mexicans eat special
food that looks like bones, something
the Chinese and Japanese do not do.
III. True or False
1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their
food.
F
2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to
T
honor the dead.
3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a
lot in China.
T
4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the
end of autumn.
F
5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F
Which festivals you think are the
most important and which are the
most fun.
Homework
1. Go over the text after class and
find the sentences that you don’t
understand
2. Finish exercise “discovering useful
words and expressions” on Page 4.
(Ex1, 2 and 3)
3. Find out as much information as
possible about festivals around the
world.