1. Book 3 Unit 1 Festivals around the world
Warming up & Reading

2. Lead-in
Try to guess what festival is it?

3. The Spring Festival

4. The Lantern’s Festival
Dumpling ball

5. The Mid- Autumn Festival

6. The Dragon Boat Festival

7. Christmas

8. Valentine’s Day

9. April Fools day
Thanksgiving day

10. Picture and festival

11. Picture and festival

12. Pictures and festivals

13. Discussion: Talk about the Chinese traditional festivals in
Warming up
Discussion:
Talk about the Chinese
traditional festivals in
groups/pairs

14. Discussion Festival Time What it celebrates What people do
The Mid-Autumn Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival
The Ching Ming Festival

15. Sum up: How many types can we sort out the festivals into? Warming up
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honor People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals

16. Reading
Skimming:
Skim the passage and fill in the chart

17. Festivals to honor people
Types
Names
Countries
Festivals of
the dead
Obon
Day of the Dead
West countries
Festivals to honor people
China
Columbus Day
Festival for Gandhi
Harvest Festivals
Europe
China&Japan
Spring
Festivals
Spring Festival
Easter
Japan
Japan
Mexico
Halloween
Dragon Boat ~
USA
India
Thanksgiving
Mid-autumn
China
Western countries
Cherry Blossom ~

18. Reading
Scanning:
Scan the passage and find out
the structure of it

19. Reading Detail reading: Read Para.1&6 carefully and answer the
questions:
1.What may be origins of today’s festivals?
2.Can you summarize Para.6 with one sentence?
Religions, seasons, special people
and events
Why do people have festivals?

20. Reading Detail reading: Read Para 2&3 Work in pairs Design questions
Ask and answer in turn

21. Detail reading Paragraph 2: Festivals of the Dead Japan Obon
Country
Name of Festival
When?
Japan
Obon
(Mid July/August)
Mexico
the Day of the Dead
Early November
Western
countries
Halloween
(October 31)

22. Paragraph 3: Festivals to Honor People
country
name of festival
when
for whom

23. Thanksgiving Day Paragraph 4: Harvest festivals Decorate…with…
How to celebrate
Decorate…with…
Get together to…
Thanksgiving
Day 1) 2) 3)
European countries
Some people might win awards for farm
produce
Harvest Festivals
Mid-autumn festival
China & Japan
Admire the moon enjoy mooncakes
and

24. Lucky money; dragon dances; carnivals; family celebrations…
Paragraph 5: Spring Festivals
China
Western countries
Japan
Spring
Festival
Easter
Cherry
Blossom
carnivals
For what?
Dumplings, fish
and meat
Food
What people do
The return of Jesus;
the coming of spring
Lucky money; dragon dances; carnivals;
family celebrations…

25. scanning F T F F The ancient people needn’t worry about starvation.
T or F
The ancient people needn’t worry about starvation.
Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead.
Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honour a lot in China.
Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.
Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. F T T F F

26. Obon
People should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music.

27. Halloween
Children dress in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”

28. In memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America
Columbus Day in the USA
In memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America

29. Mahandas Gandhi Day
October 2 is a national festival in India to honor Mahandas Candhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain

30. Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to commemorate the harvest.

31. Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.
Carnival

32. the Cherry Blossom Festival
Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic.

33. Moral Learning
Discussion:
Why does China extend traditional
festival holidays, while shorten public
holidays?

34. Discussion: Moral Learning 1.Value our culture;
2.Arouse pride in our nation;
3.Enjoy more holidays;
4.Reduce traffic pressure.