1. Unit1 Festivals around the world
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2. Review of the festivals
Find out the right festival for the sentence?

3. It is the birthday of Jesus Christ.
Easter
New Year
Christmas

4. It is the day that we remember the poet Qu Yuan.
Ching Ming
Festival
Dragon Boat
Festival
Chong Yang
Festival

5. People send roses and cards to the people they love.
Halloween's
Day
Valentine's Day
Mother's Day

6. It is on the third Sunday in June.
Father's Day
Mother's Day
Dragon Boat
Festival

7. We watch dragon dances and get lucky money.
New Year
Dragon Boat
Festival
Chinese New Year

8. Warming Up When does the Spring Festival take place?
What does it celebrate?
What do people usually do in the Spring
Festival?
Do you know some other festivals in China?

9. Lead-in Festival Time Celebration Activity Lunar New Year
give money in red paper to children
arrival of spring
January or
February
see dragon dances
Spring Festival
the end of winter
eat fish, prawns and dumplings
reunion with family and relatives
visit family members
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10. Reading
Festivals
& Celebrations

11. Scanning 1. How many parts is the passage divided into? Six parts.
2. How many types of festivals are mentioned
in the passage?

12. Scanning How many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?
1. Ancient festivals
2. Festivals of the Dead
3. Festivals to Honor People
4. Harvest Festivals
5. Spring Festivals

13. Skimming What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?
P1. Ancient festivals
P 2. Festivals of the Dead
Japan -----Obon
Mexico------Day of the Dead
America------Halloween

14. P 3. Festivals to Honour People
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
(India)October 2

15. P 4. Harvest Festivals
Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival
Mid-Autumn festival
P 5. Spring Festivals
Spring festival
Carnival
Easter
Cheery Blossom Festival

16. Scanning
Answer the following questions:
1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?
2.What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?
3. Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?
4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?
5. Name three things people do at Spring Festival.

17. 1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in Ancient Times?
a. The end of The cold weather;
b. planting in spring and harvest in autumn;
c. When hunters could catch animals.
2.What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?
People should go to clean the graves, light incense, lamps and play music.

18. 3. Why does Indian have a national festival on October 2?
To honor Ganhdi who helped gain Indian’s independence from Britain.
4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?
Decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruits; people get together to have meals.
5. Name three things people do at Spring Festival.
eat dumplings, fish, meat; give children lucky money; dragon dances; visit family members

19. Careful - Reading
Enjoy some pictures and get to know the festivals mentioned in the passage.

20. Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house to lead the ancestors back to home.
Obon
When the festival is over, thousands of lanterns are placed into the water and they drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world.
in Japan

21. The Day of the Dead in Mexico
People offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Toys, decorations, and candies in the shape of skulls, are sold in the market-places to honor ancestors.

22. Halloween In the US and Europe
The jack-o’-lantern is the most common symbol of Halloween.
children dress in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”
Halloween Parade

23. DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL boat and beat drums to scare fish away
threw glutinous rice dumplings into the sea to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body.
to honour the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan

24. in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America
Columbus Day in the USA
in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America

25. Mohandas Gandhi Day
October 2 is a national festival in India to honour Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi is the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain

26. Harvest Festivals
People are grateful because their food is ________for the winter, and because a season of __________work is over.
gathered
agricultural

27. Thanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to commemorate the harvest.
Thanksgiving Day
The traditional Thanksgiving food---roasting turkey, corn and pumpkin pies with ice-cream.

28. The Mid-Autumn Festival

29. Time:
late January or early February
couplets
Spring Festivals

30. Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.
Carnival

31. Easter is an important religious and social festival in Christian countries.
It celebrates the return of Jesus for Christians and the coming of spring.
Egg hunts
Easter egg
Easter bunny

32. the Cherry Blossom Festival
Every April when the country is covered with cherry flowers.
Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic.
the Cherry Blossom Festival

33. Read the passage again. Finish the following activities.
Comprehending
Read the passage again. Finish the following activities.

34. Comprehending
Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following question.
1). What are festivals of the dead usually for?
Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.

35. 2). What makes autumn festivals happy events?
people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
3). What do people usually do at spring festivals?
people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.

36. 4).What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?
we can enjoy life/ be proud of our customs/ forget our work for a little while.

37. 5). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China
5). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?
Similarities: clean their ancestors’ graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Differences: the Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do.

38. 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. F T
3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who 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. T F F

39. Retell the text by filling the following blanks:
celebrations
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.
ancient
festivals
honor
ancestors
please do
harm
Dragon
Boat Festival

40. 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

41. Discussing My favourite festival What is your favourite festival? Why?
When is it?
What is the festival about?
How long can we have for holiday?
What do we usually do in the festival?

42. Homework
1. Go over the text after class and find the sentences that you don’t understand
2. Finish exercise “discovering useful words and expressions” on Page 4. (Ex1, 2 and 3)
3. Find out as much information as possible about festivals around the world.