1. Unit One
FESTIVALS

2. How did you spend your Spring Festival?

3. Spring Festival on the first day of the lunar year last fifteen days
do spring cleaning , decorate their houses
On New Year’s Eve, dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackers
get lucky money
Lantern Festival

4. Spring Festival
Spring Festival comes at the turn of a Chinese lunar year and is celebrated all over the country. On the day of the Lunar New Year people get up early and wear all kinds of new clothes. In the north, most families prepare jiaozi (dumplings) on the Eve as special food, while in the south sticky-sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao is served. Crackers are fired everywhere when the clock strikes twelve, as a signal of saying good-bye to the old year and welcoming the New Year in. Fireworks are lit to drive away evil spirits. People watch the CCTV special Spring Festival programs, sing and dance until the small hours of the morning.

5. How many festivals do you know in China?
Time
What does it celebrate?
What do people do?
Spring festival
spring
The arrival of spring and the new year
get together, watch TV and eat dumplings, give money in red paper to children, visit family members

6. Lantern Festival New Year’s Day Women’s Day National Day May Day
Chinese festivals
and holidays
National Day
May Day
Army Day
Children’s Day
Mid-autumn Festival
Dragon Boat Festival

7. Festivals Foreign Festivals Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day
Chinese Festivals
Lantern Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
Mid-Autumn Day
New Year’s Day
Double-ninth
National Day
May 1st
Foreign Festivals
Christmas Day
Thanksgiving Day
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
April Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Easter
Halloween

8. Easter
In April
It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life.
Eat chocolate eggs

9. It is the birthday of Jesus Christ
Christmas Day
On December 25th
It is the birthday of Jesus Christ
Go to the parties and churches , give cards and presents to our friends and relatives

10. People send roses and cards to the people they love.
Valentine’s Day
In February
People send roses and cards to the people they love.

11. Dragon Boat Festival In June The day that the poet Qu Yuan died
Eat rice dumplings and watch boat races

12. Ching Ming Festival In April The day we remember our dead relatives
Visit graves

13. Mother’s Day
In May
We give flowers and presents to our mothers.

14. Mid-autumn Festival In September The day we enjoy the full moon
Play lanterns and eat moon cakes

15. Lantern Festival
on the fifteenth day of the new year ( 15th, in the lunar calendar)
lanterns: symbols of good fortune, happiness and health.
“dragon” and “lion ” dances

16. Pre-reading 1.What’s you favourite holiday of the year?
2.What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town?

17. Reading You are given 5 minutes to read the passage
quickly and try to remember different kinds of
festivals mentioned in the text.

18. Harvest Festivals Spring Festivals
Task 1
Obon
Festivals of the Dead
Day of the Dead
Cherry Blossom Festival
Festivals to Honour People
Halloween
Dragon Boat Festival
Harvest Festivals
Columbus Day
Easter
Spring Festivals
Thanksgiving

19. 1. How many parts is the passage divided into?
Task 2
1. How many parts is the passage divided into?
Six parts.
2. Which festivals are mentioned in the passage?

20. Thanksgiving festivals Mid-autumn Festival China/Japan Spring Festival
Countries
Obon
Japan
Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
USA
Mahatma Gandhi Day
India
Thanksgiving festivals
Mid-autumn Festival
China/Japan
Spring Festival
China
Carnival
Easter
Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan

21. Reading again
Read the passage again and then fill in the following form:

22. Festivals Purpose How to celebrate Ancient Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
To celebrate the the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
Lit fires and made music.
Light lamps,play music,eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up
To honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors.

23. Festivals to Honour People
Purpose
How to celebrate
Festivals to Honour People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals
For their great contributions to the society or the country.
Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi.
Food is gathered for the winter. A season of agricultural work is over.
Decorate churches and town halls, have big meals, admire the moon,eat moon cakes.
To celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have carnivals.

24. Retell the text by filling the following blanks:
There are all kinds of festivals and __________ around the world, which are held for different reasons. The _______ _________ were mainly held at three times a year--- the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.Some festivals are held to _____ the dead or satisfy and ______ the _________ in case they might _____ _______, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods, such as _________ _______ ______ and Columbus Day.
celebrations
ancient
festivals
honor
please
ancestors
harm do
Dragon
Boat Festival

25. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because the food is _________ for the winter and because a season of ___________work is over,to which Mid autumn festival belongs.And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ______ of spring, such as the ______ New Year, at which people have a very good time.
gathered
agricultural
coming
lunar

26. Assignment
Collect as much information about festivals as possible.