Who do you think in China should have a festival to be honoured? Why?

1.Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 2. Obon\ Qingming Festival People should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.

3. Halloween It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbour’s home to ask for sweets. If they don’t have any sweets, they will play a trick on others.

4. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the famous ancient poet, Quyuan. 5. Mid-autumn Day takes place on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It celebrates harvest and the beauty of full moon. People often get together to admire the moon and enjoy mooncakes.

6. Spring Festival is the most energetic and important festival that look forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring. During the festival, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children lucky money in red paper. People get together to celebrate the lunar New Year. Children like to set off firecrackers.

7. Easter is an important religious and social festival for Christians around the world. It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life.

8. People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other. Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our work for a little while.

Spring Festival when last cleaning, decorate On New Year’s Eve, dinner, the Spring Festival programme, fireworks, firecrackers money important

 In April  It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life.  Christians around the world, celebrate  Eat chocolate eggs  Play with toy bunny  eat hot cross buns Easter

the most important, in western countries. Celebrate, together with cards or gifts the gifts, in the stockings, at night.

Read the following descriptions about western festivals and guess which festival they convey? It is one of the most important festivals in western countries. People usually celebrate it together with their family members. People send cards or gifts to others. A kind-hearted old man put the gifts in the stockings for children secretly at night.

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 the _________ in case they might _____ _______, while other festivals are held to honor famous people, such as _________ _______ ______ and Columbus Day. celebrations Boat FestivalDragon harmdoancestors honor festivals ancient Reading-III (8m)

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. agricultural gathered lunar coming

1. 产生 2. 为了纪念 （怀念） 3. （使）盛装 4. 耍阴谋，诡计 5. 期望 6. 日日夜夜 7. 仿佛 / 好像 8. 与 … 开玩笑 9. 出现 10. 遵守诺言 11. 屏住呼吸 1.take place 2. in memory of 3. dress up 4. play a trick 5.look forward to 6. day and light 7. as if /as thought 8. have fun with 9. turn up 10. keep up one’s worlds 11. hold one’s breath