1. Unit 1 Festivals around the world
Reading

2. Chinese Festivals Festivals Time The Spring Festival
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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

3. The Double Seventh Festival September 10 The Double Ninth Festival
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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

4. 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

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

6. Talk to each other and find out: Which festival do you like most ?
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Pair work
Talk to each other and find out:
Which festival do you like most ?
Why？

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

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

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

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

11. When did ancient people celebrate ?
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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

12. 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

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

14. 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

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

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

17. Mahatma Gandhi( )
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.

18. 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.

19. Why are autumn festivals happy events?
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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

20. The Lunar Chinese New Year
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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

21. 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

22. What are the purposes of festivals?
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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

23. 1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food.
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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

24. 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

25. 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

26. When the festival takes place What the festival is for
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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

27. 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.

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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.