Unit 1 Festivals around the world Reading

Chinese Festivals Festivals Time The Spring Festival 2018/8/9 Chinese Festivals Festivals Time The Spring Festival The Lantern Festival Tree-planting Day The Qingming Festival Lunar January 1 Lunar January 15 March 12 April 4 - 6

The Double Seventh Festival September 10 The Double Ninth Festival 2018/8/9 Chinese Festivals Festivals Time Lunar May 5 The Double Seventh Festival September 10 The Double Ninth Festival October 1 The Dragon-boat Festival Lunar July 7 Teachers’ Day Lunar September 9 National Day

Foreign and international festivals Time New Year’s Day February 14 Fool’s Day May 1 January 1 Valentine’s Day April 1 Labour’s Day

Foreign and international festivals Time Children’s Day Halloween The fourth Thursday in November December 25 June 1 October 31 Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day

Talk to each other and find out: Which festival do you like most ? 2018/8/9 Pair work Talk to each other and find out: Which festival do you like most ? Why？

Fast reading How many festivals are mentioned in the passage? What are they? 12

Festivals Countries Japan Obon Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween China Dragon Boat Festival USA Columbus Day Mahatma Gandhi Day India

Festivals Countries Thanksgiving festivals China/Japan Mid-autumn Festival China Spring Festival Carnival Easter Cherry Blossom Festival Japan

Ancient festivals Festivals of the dead festivals Festivals to honour people Harvest festivals Spring festivals

When did ancient people celebrate ? 2018/8/9 When did ancient people celebrate ? at the end of winter When good weather returned a good harvest animals caught When they wanted a year of plenty

What? the end of the cold weather, planting in spring , or harvest in autumn when hunters could catch animals How? lit fires and made music Ancient festivals

When do people celebrate now? When they welcome a new year When families get together When they achieve great success When something pleasant happens …

The meaning of the festivals Festivals of the Dead Country Name of the festivals What people do The meaning of the festivals Halloween light lamps Japan Obon play music To honor the dead , or satisfy and please the ancestors eat food Day of the Dead offer sth to the dead Mexico ask for sweets dress up and frighten people

Dragon Boat Festival ________ the famous ancient ______, Qu Yuan. honours poet

in memory of Columbus Day is ______________ the ________ of Christopher Columbus in America. arrival

Mahatma Gandhi(1869-1948) Gandhi, Indian national leader, was born on October 2, 1869, and educated in law in London． gain Mahatma Gandhi helped _________ India’s independence from Britain.

Any other festivals which are meant to honour people in China Any other festivals which are meant to honour people in China? Who is honoured? Tree-planting Day; Sun Yetsun.

Why are autumn festivals happy events? 2018/8/9 Harvest Festivals Why are autumn festivals happy events? 2. What do people do to celebrate it? Because people are grateful and happy and a season of agricultural work is over. In European countries, it is the custom to decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit; get together to have meals, win awards for their animals, flowers, fruit and vegetables; admire the moon

The Lunar Chinese New Year 2018/8/9 Spring Festivals Festivals Country What to do The Lunar Chinese New Year Carnivals The Cherry Blossom Festival Eat dumplings, fish and meat Give lucky money Dragon dances China Parades, dancing , loud music , colourful clothing Christian countries Enjoy the cherry tree flowers Japan

1. At the spring Festival in China, people ________ food, children may _________ lucky money, and families ________ the lunar New Year together. get eat celebrate 2. Easter celebrate the ________ of Jesus for Christian and it also celebrate the __________ of spring. return coming 3. In the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan, the country _______________ cherry tree flowers so that it looks _________ it might be the sea of pink snow. is covered with as though

What are the purposes of festivals? 2018/8/9 What are the purposes of festivals? To have fun with each other Festivals To let us enjoy life To be proud of our customs To forget our daily life for a little while To honour the dead To honour famous people To celebrate harvest To welcome a new year and look forward to the future To ask people to pay attention to something

1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. 2018/8/9 True or False 1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. 2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. 3. Qu Yuan was a great poet whom people honor a lot in China. 4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. 5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. 6. There is pink snow in spring in Japan. F T T F F F

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 for 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 please honor ancestors do harm Dragon Boat Festival

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

When the festival takes place What the festival is for 2018/8/9 Group work Festivals are created. Now you’ve got the chance to create a new festival. Discuss in groups, make a plan: When the festival takes place What the festival is for What people do at the festival What people eat at the festival

Peace Day It takes place every year on January 2, the day after the New Year’s Day. At the beginning of a new year, we create such a festival in order to call for peace, to make the world a better place for everyone. People have to learn about foreign countries on that day. The TVs and newspapers will be all about foreign countries. And people are asked to eat foreign food on that day. And they are asked to talk about peace with their families, friends, and so on.

2018/8/9 Homework Find out useful words and expressions and finish the exercises in Learning about Language accordingly. Write an introduction of the festival your group have created.