1. 辽宁省高中课堂教学展示研讨会
沈阳市第五十一中学 刘 健

2.
The Spring Festival VS
Christmas Day

3. gifts What you have known about them food special customs time origin
celebrating
home
decorating
special
customs
time
food
gifts
origin

4. Spring Festival gifts food customs origin celebrating time jiaozi
the 1st day of the lunar month
time
monster Nian
origin
gift money; new clothes
gifts
celebrating
food
customs
jiaozi
home decorating
staying up late
on New Year’s Eve
paper-cutting

5. Christmas Day Jesus Christ December 25th Christmas tree
gifts and cards
Christmas party

6. Christmas carols(songs)
Words’ Family
stockings
Christmas pudding
Paper-cutting
turkey and ham
 going to church
Santa Claus
Christmas carols(songs)
gift money
Spring Festival Gala
sacrifice to ancestors
New year's visit
Spring Festival couplets
staying-up eve of festival
Christmas tree
firework and firecrackers
Christmas Eve
red envelopes
family reunion dinner文字
Spring Festival Eve
Christmas cap

7. What does the festival food stands for?
farewell to the old
and
welcome the new
richness
family reunion
fortune
higher and higher
surplus year after year

8. Do you want to know more about the similarities and differences between the two festivals?

9. Skim the passage for the main idea & structure
It is ...
an________ B
A. narrition(记叙文）
B. exposition(说明文）
C. argumentation（议论文）
about________ A
A.festivals
B.eating customs
C.travel experience
A. the differences between China and western countries.
B. the different customes of Spring Festival and Chistmas.
C. the cultural differences of Spring Festival and Chistmas.
to tell ______ C

10. Scan the passage for the main idea of each paragraph
topic
para2
Origins
para3
structure
body
Ways
para4
Customs
para5
conclusion

11. 03 02 Careful reading and discussion 01
What are the similarities of the two festivals? 02
Why are people’s values different in celebrating the two festivals? 01
What do people value most in the two festivals?

12. Summary time origin celebrating home decorating festival food gifts
1st day of the 1st lunar month
December 25th
time
sacrifice to gods and ancestors and the beginning of a new one
celebrate Jesus birthday
origin
celebrating
clean the indoors and outdoors of our homes
decorate homes and churches with evergreens
home decorating
jiaozi
turkey and ham
festival food
money wrapped up in red paper
gifts
gifts from Santa
set off fireworks
75%
77%
special customs
Santa Claus

13. Why? Christmas Spring festival
Design your ideal spring festival or Christmas
Why?
time
decorating
food gifts
customs…
elements that should be kept or developed
Christmas
Spring festival
Paper-cutting
Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival Gala
Staying-up-eve of festival
New year’s visit
Gift money
Firework and fire crackers
Christmas tree
Stockings
Santa Claus
Turkey and ham
Christmas pudding
Going to church
Christmas Eve

14. What we have learnt Festival is a wonderful part of daily life.
Even though the forms of festivals are various from one another,they all stand for wisdom, experience or treasure handed down from the ancient people.
Festivals belong to a certain nation, and also belong to all the human being.
Despite the different origins, backgrounds and social structures, human beings always have the same beautiful feelings in pursuit for love and happiness.

15. Homework：
Write down your ideal Spring festival or Christmas in about 100 words. Time, homedecorating, activities, customes and the reasons for your design should be included in your essay.

16. Christmas and Spring Festival
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