Unit 3 Celebration Period 1 Reading&Vocabulary

Objectives Students will be able to use the new vocabulary properly; introduce an important festival orally with the related words in this lesson.

Step 1 Warm-up Look at the pictures on Page 35 and ask students the question: What are they celebrating? In which situations do people hold celebrations? (guide the students to use Key Words on P35)

Graduation

Winning a scholarship

Step 2 Lead-in Listen to the tape and write down the five celebrations. What other Chinese festivals do you know? When are they celebrated?

spring summer autumn winter Spring Festival Women’s Day February Spring Festival spring Women’s Day March Qingming festival April May May Day summer June the Children’s Day July the foundation of… August Birthday of the army autumn September the Mid-Autumn Day October the National Day November winter December January the New Year’s Day

Which festival is celebrated?

Step 3 Skimming What do the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival mark? Why is the Mid-Autumn Festival so important?

Step 4 Scanning Read the texts and fill in the table with the information you read from the texts.

Typical activity or food Season& date/ month Festivals The Mid- Autumn Festival Moon cakes, Meet in the evening and watch the moon September or October

Typical activity or food Season& date/ month Festivals The Lantern Festival The fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar Sweet dumplings

Season& date/ month Typical activity or food Festivals The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar The Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi, Dragon boat races

How to introduce a festival Step 5 Summary How to introduce a festival Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Introduction: when the festival is celebrated Typical activities or food How did the festival start?

Step 6 Fill in the blanks Nowadays, there are many different kinds of moon cakes _________ fruit, coffee, chocolate and even ice-cream moon cakes. including

great writings / include William Shakespeare’s great writings include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and so on.

earthquake / buildings In another story, a town was almost _________ but the light from many lanterns saved it. destroyed The earthquake destroyed all the buildings. earthquake / buildings

The story was about a god who wanted to __________ the town. burn down the fire / some buildings The fire burnt down some buildings.

In the past, lanterns were usually lit by candles and _________ with pictures of birds, animals and flowers and etc. decorated the Christmas tree/ lights and colorful ribbons The Christmas tree is decorated with lights and colorful ribbons.

Look! The waiter is serving his customers. Sweet dumplings are boiled and _______ in hot water. served waiter / customers Look! The waiter is serving his customers.

Step 7 Practice Group work Introduce a festival which is most important in China for children, or for young people, or for old people, or for women and men.

How to introduce a festival Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Introduction: when the festival is celebrated Typical activities or food How did the festival start?

Homework Read the passage again and do Exercise 5 on P79. Write an introduction of the festival that your group talked about in class, trying to use the related words learned in this lesson.

Thank you