1. Module 8 Public holidays Unit 1 It’s the last day before the new school year begins.

2. Pronunciation and speaking.
Look at the ways of writing and saying the date.
You write
You say
1st January
The first of January or January the first

3. 1st January; 2nd February 8th March; 5th April 4th May; 1st June
Practise saying the following dates.
1st January; nd February
8th March; th April
4th May; st June
3rd July; nd August
10th September; 1st October
21st November;
9th December.

4. celebrate while Labour Day (May Day) labour season as soon as vacation
Words and expressions
celebrate
while
Labour Day
(May Day)
labour
season
as soon as
vacation

5. Listen and read
Tony: Do you have any plans for the May Day holiday, Betty?
Betty: My parents and I are going to visit some friends in Shandong Province. And while we’re staying with them, we’re going to spend a few days in Qingdao. We’ll stay there until 5th May.

6. Daming: Do you celebrate 1st May in the UK. Tony?
Tony: Well, we celebrate May Day, but the holiday is not always on 1st May. It’s the closest Monday to 1st May, and we only have one day off.
Betty: In the USA, Labour Day is a national holiday, but on a different date,too. It’s on the first Monday in September. And it’s the last day before the new school year begins.
Lingling: Do you do anything special ?

7. Betty: We go camping or we have a picnic somewhere nice, or go to the beach. But it’s also the end of the vacation season. When September comes, it starts to get cooler, so after Labour Day we start classes.
Daming: We also go back to school as soon as the May Day holiday is over.

8. Lingling: True, but our weather gets better, and then we only have a few weeks before the start of the summer holidays.
Betty: Right ! So let’s enjoy ourselves until we go back to school.

9. Focus …and we only have one day off. ……我们只放一天假。
I’m taking a week off over Christmas.圣诞节期间我会休假一星期。

10. Focus 2.Do you do anything special ?
We go camping or we have a picnic somewhere nice…
anything special 和somewhere nice中，分别用来修饰 anything和 somewhere 的形容词special 和nice都被放在后面。形容词一般应放在它所修饰的名词之前，但当形容词修饰由 some， any， every， no等构成的复合不定代词时须后置。如：
Tell me something interesting.

11. Focus 3.So let’s enjoy ourselves until we go back to school.
enjoy oneself 意思是“做自己喜欢的事情；觉得很享受某种气氛或所做事情”，如：
I must say I am really enjoying myself at the moment.

12. Listening and reading Complete the table. The UK The USA China
Date of May Day\Labor Day
The closest
Monday to 1st May
Length of holiday
7days

13. Choose the best answer.
Lingling and Sally will leave Qingdao on ____ May.
a. 1st b. 3rd c. 5th
2. The Americans celebrate Labour Day ____May Day in China.
a. on the same day as b.earlier than c. later than
3. American children go back to school _____.
a. on 1st September b. on the first Monday of September
c. the day after Labour Day
4. Lingling thinks that after May Day in China,_____.
a. it’s the start of the summer holiday
b. everyone enjoys themselves
c. the weather gets better

14. Choose the best answer 1.Betty will leave Qingdao on( )May.
A 1st B 3rd C 5th
2.The Americans celebrate Labour Day( )
May Day in China.
A on the same day as B earlier than
C later than

15. 3. American children go back to school( )
A on 1st September
B on the first Monday of September
C the day after Labour Day
4. Lingling thinks that after May Day in China,( )
A it’s the start of the summer holiday
B everyone enjoys themselves
C the weather gets better

16. homework 1. Copy the new words. 2. Complete the sentences with
your own information.(page124)