1. Festivals around the world
Unit 1
Festivals around the world

2. Chinese festivals do you know?
What
Chinese festivals do you know?
National Day
Lantern festival
New Year …
Qingming Festival
FESTIVAL
Army Day
Mid-Autumn
Festival
May Day
Children’s Day
Spring Festival
Teachers’
Day
Dragon
Boat
Festival
Double Nine Festival

3. Choose one of the Chinese festivals, and think about
When the festival comes
What people should do or should not do
Why the festival is liked by people
Food
Date
Work
Fruit
Visit
Jiaozi
FESTIVALS
Fun
Dress up
Memory
Singing
Watching TV
Dancing

4. Can you guess these festivals?
Christmas

5. Halloween
masks
pumpkins
dress up

6. witch
wizard
angel
devil
saint
sweets
“trick or treat?”
candy

7. Obon 日本
盂兰盆节
lamps
ancestor

8. Chocolate
Valentine’s Day

9. Thanksgiving
turkey

10. Why would people celebrate at these three times of the year?
Why do you think music and fire or light are used in festivals?
What kind of things are done to honour the dead?
Ancient Festivals
What do you think about the Mexican
practice of making cakes with skulls and bones?
Mexican Day
of the Dead

12. Columbus Day Do you know any harvest celebrations in China?
the Dragon Boat Festival
What festivals or celebrations can you think of
that honour famous people or important events?
Columbus Day
Do you know any harvest
celebrations in China?
Harvest Festival

13. Bunny
Easter eggs

14. fires, music parades Festivals Purpose How to celebrate
Ancient Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
-- Obon
-- The Day of the Dead
in Mexico
-- Halloween
Festivals to Honour People
--the Dragon Boat Festival
-- the Columbus Day
Harvest Festivals
-- Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals
-- Mid-Autumn Festival
Warm weather harvest and food
fires, music
Lamps, music
In memory of the dead
Food, flowers, gifts
dress up , sweets, tricks
Honor Quyuan
Dragon boat race, zongzi
In memory of Christopher Columbus
parades
Europe:Decorate, meals, win awards
Food and harvest
admire the moon, mooncakes

15. Spring Festivals
dumplings, fish, meat, lucky money, dragon & lion dances, family reunion
--Chinese Spring Festival
The end of winter, the coming of spring
carnivals(parades, dancing, music, colourful clothing)
--Some western countries:
The return of Jesus, the coming of spring
--Easter
Eggs, bunny
--Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival
Cherry tree flowers, the coming of spring
Eat, drink, have fun with each other

16. Answer the questions in Ex. 1 P3 Learning about language
homework:
Recite paragraph 1
Modal verbs P91

17. Language points honour the dead 2. do harm to sb = harm sb
3. in memory of
eg: This museum was built in memory of the great
president.
4. dress up
5. play a trick (on sb)
6.win awards for
7.admire sb/ sth (for sth)
eg: I admire him for his success in business.

18. 8.look forward to (doing) sth
9. as though= as if
10. have fun with
11. be proud of
12. for a little while