Festivals and celebrations Happy Valentine’s Day Festivals and celebrations

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Festivals in China

Spring Festival

Time: late January and early February couplets

Time: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern show Lion dancing Dumpling ball Guessing riddles

Lantern Festival Festival of lanterns

Time: April, 5 th Ching Ming Festival /Tomb sweeping Festival

On Ching Ming Festival, we often go to sweep graves in honor of our ancestors.

Time: on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month Zongzi Qu Yuan

Dragon Boat Festival

Time: on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month mooncake Admire the full moon

Mid- Autumn Festival

Festivals and celebrations Spring Festival Spring Festivals , Spring Festivals Ching Ming Festival Festivals and celebrations Festivals of the Dead Dragon Boat Festival Festivals to Honor People Mid-autumn Festival Harvest Festivals

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Festivals of the Dead Obon Japan Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween some western countries Festivals to Honor People Dragon Boat Festival China Columus Day USA Festival to honor Gandi India

Harvest Festivals Thanksgiving Day European and other countries Mid-autumn festival China and Japan Spring Festivals Spring Festival China Easter Some western countries Cherry Blossom Festival Japan

Careful reading Para1 and para 6 What’s the function of para 1 and para 6? Para.1: Introduce the festivals in general （总 体上） Para 2: sum up （总结）the text.

Festivals of the Dead 1 What are festivals of the dead usually for? 2 Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different? Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people. They all honor the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’ graves . The Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead and eat special food.

Harvest Festivals 1 What makes autumn festivals happy events? Because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.

Spring Festivals 1 What do spring festivals celebrate? 2 What do people usually do at spring festivals? They celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring. People usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.

foreign festivals

Happy Valentine’s Day

Christmas Post-reading

Thanksgiving Day in America is a time to offer thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November.

On October 31 children in countries like the US and Canada celebrate Halloween. Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. All Hallows All Saints’ Day November 1

Easter will be celebrated on Sunday March 27, 2005. Easter is the time of springtime festivals, a time for Christians to celebrate the life and resurrection of Christ. And a time of chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and colored eggs! Easter will be celebrated on Sunday March 27, 2005.

Celebrate or not ? Post-reading： discuss and write a passage about 120 words. Now , more and more people in China celebrate the foreign festivals, like Valentine’s Day, Christmas. What’s your opinion about this phenomenon? Celebrate or not ?

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