1. Unit 3 Celebration
Period 1 Reading&Vocabulary

2. Objectives Students will be able to use the new vocabulary properly;
introduce an important festival orally with the related words in this lesson.

3. Step 1 Warm-up
Look at the pictures on Page 35 and ask students the question: What are they celebrating?
In which situations do people hold celebrations? (guide the students to use Key Words on P35)

4. Graduation

5. Winning a scholarship

6. Step 2 Lead-in
Listen to the tape and write down the five celebrations.
What other Chinese festivals do you know? When are they celebrated?

7. spring summer autumn winter Spring Festival Women’s Day
February
Spring Festival
spring
Women’s Day
March
Qingming festival
April
May
May Day
summer
June
the Children’s Day
July
the foundation of…
August
Birthday of the army
autumn
September
the Mid-Autumn Day
October
the National Day
November
winter
December
January
the New Year’s Day

8. Which festival is celebrated?

9. Step 3 Skimming
What do the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival mark?
Why is the Mid-Autumn Festival so important?

10. Step 4 Scanning
Read the texts and fill in the table with the information you read from the texts.

11. Typical
activity or food
Season& date/ month
Festivals
The Mid- Autumn Festival
Moon cakes,
Meet in the evening and watch the moon
September or
October

12. Typical
activity or food
Season& date/ month
Festivals
The Lantern Festival
The fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar
Sweet
dumplings

13. Season& date/ month
Typical
activity or food
Festivals
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
The Dragon Boat Festival
Zongzi,
Dragon boat races

14. How to introduce a festival
Step 5 Summary
How to introduce a festival
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Introduction: when the
festival is celebrated
Typical activities or food
How did the festival start?

15. Step 6 Fill in the blanks
Nowadays, there are many different kinds of moon cakes _________ fruit, coffee, chocolate and even ice-cream moon cakes.
including

16. great writings / include
William Shakespeare’s great writings include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and so on.

17. earthquake / buildings
In another story, a town was almost _________ but the light from many lanterns saved it.
destroyed
The earthquake destroyed all the buildings.
earthquake / buildings

18. The story was about a god who wanted to __________ the town. burn down
the fire / some buildings
The fire burnt down some buildings.

19. In the past, lanterns were usually lit by candles and _________ with pictures of birds, animals and flowers and etc.
decorated
the Christmas tree/ lights and colorful ribbons
The Christmas tree is decorated with lights and colorful ribbons.

20. Look! The waiter is serving his customers.
Sweet dumplings are boiled and _______ in hot water.
served
waiter / customers
Look! The waiter is serving his customers.

21. Step 7 Practice Group work
Introduce a festival which is most important in China for children, or for young people, or for old people, or for women and men.

22. How to introduce a festival
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Introduction: when the
festival is celebrated
Typical activities or food
How did the festival start?

23. Homework Read the passage again and do Exercise 5 on P79.
Write an introduction of the festival that your group talked about in class, trying to use the related words learned in this lesson.

24. Thank you