Unit 9 Time to celebrate!
Warming up
The Chinese festivals
Brainstorming Chinese Festivals Festival National Day Children’s Day Army Day Festival International Labour Day New Year’s Day Teacher’s Day The Youth Day Duan Wu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) Mid-Autumn Festival International Women’s Day
Spring Festival
dumpling
Festival of lanterns
The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival
The seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie, or Chinese Valentine's Day.
Mid- Autumn Festival On the fifteenth day of the 8th lunar month
Mooncakes
Festivals in foreign countries
Brainstorming festivals of foreign countries Thanksgiving Day Easter Christmas festivals Father’s Day Carnival Mother’s Day Halloween Valentine’s Day Fool’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day
April Fool's Day On April 1st
Mother's Day the 2nd Sunday in May
Thanksgiving Day on the 4th Thursday of November
Halloween the 31st of October the time of Ghosts, Goblins妖精, Spooks幽灵 Witches巫婆 Halloween is celebrated the 31st of October
Cherry Blossom Festival (March 15- April 15)
Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan
Christmas
Ancient Festivals Harvest festivals Name Time Obon October 2 Why The 5th,May October 2 Why Celebrate What people do Dragon boat races Ancient Festivals Festivals to honour people Harvest festivals Festival of the dead The end of cold weather/when hunters could catch animals The Day of Dead autumn Halloween Honour Qu Yuan, Mahatma Gandhi Food is gathered for the winter/ Agricultural work is over Line 1 Line 4 Decorate churches… Lit fire and make music Admire moon, give mooncakes