2. How did you spend your Spring Festival?

3. Spring Festival When? Delicious food Visit friends and relatives Dress up Watching the Spring Festival programme Have fun with ‘Red packet’

4. The Spring Festival may take place in February. It is on lunar 1st of January. At the Spring Festival, people have plenty of food and fruit, and may give children lucky money in red paper. People studying or working in other cities and countries will look forward to seeing their relatives and friends, so that they will come back and have fun with them. People,especially children,will dress up during the Spring Festival. On New Year’s Eve, people will a dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackers

5. Lantern Festival/YuanXiao Festival Women’s Day Labor Day Children’s Day Dragon Boat Festival Mid-autumn Festival National Day Army Day festivals Chinese

6. Festivals TimeWhat does it celebrate? What do people do? Spring festival springThe arrival of spring and the new year get together, watch TV and eat dumplings, give money in red paper to children, visit family members Dragon-Boat Festival Lantern Festival Mid-Autumn Day Try to make a report to introduce the festivals according to the example:

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

8. Time:The fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern show Lion dancing Guessing riddles Dumpling ball

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

10. Time: on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month

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

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

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

15. 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

16. St. Valentine’s Day April Fools’ Day Mother’s Day Halloween Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day Easter ( 14th February) (1st April ) (the second Sunday in may) (31st October) (The last Thursday in November) (25th December) (April)

17. Carnival

18. Look at the picture on P6. New words Trinidad : an island in Cuba ( 古巴 ) Parade Carnival Degree Parking lot Award Costume

19. The first conversation is between Li Mei and Carla 1. what is the advice that Carla give Li Mei? and why? Carla tells Li Mei she should wear comfortable shoes, light and cool clothes and a hat.

20. 1. What do they find when they arrive at the park. 2.Why is it important for them to have water? 3. Why can’t they hear each other? 4. Why do they plan to meet at the parking lot? The second conversation is among Carla, Li Mei, Hari and Wu Ping

21. 1. What do they find when they arrive at the park. They arrive at the park and find the boys, big bands, dancers and musicians on trucks. 2.Why is it important for them to have water? Because it is very hot(25°C)

22. 3. Why can’t they hear each other? Because the music is very loud/ the louder speakers make it impossible to hear. 4. Why do they plan to meet at the parking lot? They plan to meet at the parking lot so they don’t get lost in the crowd then they will go and see the winners.

23. What is your favourite holiday of the year? Why?

24. Assignment 1. 预习 reading 部分 ( 写在预习本上 ) 文章中提到哪些国家的哪些节日 2. 独立完成 P3 的 EX1( 书上 ) 3. 熟读单词并先记部分单词词组.

25. Mid-Autumn Day Christmas Day Spring Festival Halloween Halloween Dragon-Boat Festival Thanksgiving Day National Day St. Valentine’s Day When does the festival take place? What is the festival for? What do people do during the festival? Try to make a report to introduce the festivals according to the following questions:

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

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

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

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

30. FestivalsCountries ObonJapan Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween Dragon Boat FestivalChina Columbus DayUSA Mahatma Gandhi Day India Mid-autumn Festival China/Japan Spring Festival China Carnival Easter Cherry Blossom Festival Japan Thanksgiving festivals

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

32. FestivalsPurposeHow 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. To honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors. 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

33. FestivalsPurposeHow 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.

34. 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 Boat FestivalDragon harm do ancestors please honor festivalsancient

35. 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

36. 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.

37. 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