1. Unit5 Amazing things!
Task

2. Which is your favourite festival?
Mid-Autumn Festival
Christmas
Thanksgiving Day
Children’s Day
Which is your favourite festival?
Why do you like it?
Halloween
May Day
Spring Festival
Teachers’ Day

3. Talk about your favourite festivals
Pair work:
Talk about your favourite festivals
A: Which is your favourite festival?
B: I like/love…
A: Why do you like It?
B: Because…

4. What is Halloween?
It’s is an important holiday
in the USA.

5. Who celebrate it?
People in the USA.

6. When is it?
It’s on October 31.

7. Halloween
What is Halloween?
How do people celebrate Halloween?
dress up
an important festival in China
wear masks
people in the USA celebrate it
paint their faces
on October 31
make pumpkin lanterns
play a game called “trick or treat”
have a party

8. What is the most important festival in China?
The Spring Festival

9. How do we usually celebrate this festival?
put up spring couplets and Chinese lanterns
dumplings
Family members get together and have a big family dinner.

10. What else do we usually do to celebrate this festival?
wear new clothes
visit the relatives and friends
Adults give red packets to children.
成年人

11. let off and enjoy fireworks
watch wonderful TV programs
lion dance

12. how what who when Spring Festival Writing plan
What is the Spring Festival?
How do people celebrate the Spring Festival?
how
what
families members get together
an important
holiday in China
have a big dinner
who
most Chinese
families celebrate it
watch TV (the spring festival Gala)
get presents (get red packets and new clothes)
when
always in January or February
let off fireworks

13. The Spring Festival is an important holiday in China
The Spring Festival is an important holiday in China. Most Chinese families (1)_________ it.
It is always in (2)_________ or (3)__________. It is often cold at this time of year, but people are happy. Family members (4)___________ and then have a big (5)________.
celebrate
January
February
get together
dinner

14. watch TV
After dinner, people like to (6)__________. There is a great Spring Festival Gala on TV every year.
Children have lots of fun on this day. We get presents. Usually our parents get (7) _______ ready for us, and we get (8)___________ from our grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles. We like to let off (9)_________ at night . They are really wonderful!
一场大型春节晚会
presents
red packets
fireworks

15. How to write about your favourite festival?
Para 1.What is the festival?
Who celebrate it?
Para 2. When is it?
How do people celebrate it ?

16. Useful expressions …is an important holiday in/for It is in / on…
It is .., but…
There is /are ...on TV…
We / they like to …
Usually we get …
…have lots of fun…

17. The most important festival in Christian country 信基督教的
Christmas
The most important festival in Christian country 信基督教的
On 25 December
Have Christmas presents
Sing Christmas songs
Christmas stockings and Christmas cards
Mid-Autumn festival
A Chinese traditional festival 传统的
In September or October
Family members get together
Eat moon cakes
Have dinner with the family
Enjoy the moon

18. 中国的一个重要节日 春节联欢晚会 在夜晚放焰火 在一年的这个时候 为我们准备新衣服 从祖父母那得到红包
an important holiday in China
the Spring Festival Gala
let off = set off fire works at night
at this time of year
get new clothes
ready for us
get red packets from our grandparents

19. Homework
Write a composition about Chinese New Year.

20. On December 25th
Buy a big Christmas tree.
Father Christmas
Get a lot of cards and presents
Say “Merry Christmas”

21. rice dumpling
have dragon boat races
Dragon Boat Festival
in June
in memory of Qu Yuan

22. enjoy the full moon Mid-Autumn Festival get together 相聚 eat mooncakes
in September or October
get together 相聚
eat mooncakes
enjoy the full moon
tell the story of Chang’e

23. Halloween chocolates candies make pumpkin lanterns play a game called
on October 31st
chocolates
candies
make pumpkin lanterns
play a game called
trick or treat
have a party
dress up

24. Teacher’ Day On September 10th thank teachers Visit your old teachers
Give teachers some flowers and cards

25. eat dumplings Spring Festival get red packets with lucky money in them
in January
or February
eat dumplings
get red packets with
lucky money in them
visit relatives