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Module 4 Carnival Module 4 Carnival Introduction and Reading
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Can you name the following festivals or
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The Spring Festival (lunar January 1) couplet fireworks paper- cuts lucky/ gift money
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The Lantern Festival (Lunar January 15) lion /dragon dance riddles written on lanterns exhibit of lanterns rice glue ball /
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Ching Ming Festival / Tomb-sweeping Day (Lunar April 5)...) rebirth of nature celebrat it with picnics, and kite flying sweep and weed graves honor ancestors
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Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar May 5) rice dumplings Dragon Boat race
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Double Seventh Festival (Lunar July 7 Cowherd Girl Weaver the Milky Way magpie
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Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar August 15) Chang E flying to the moon moon cake
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Double Ninth Festival Lunar September 9 ascending a height enjoying the flourishing chrysanthemum
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New Year Eve (Lunar December 31)
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festivals festivals in China The Dragon Boat Festival The Double Ninth Festival The Spring Festival Qingming The Lantern Festival The Middle Autumn Festival The Double Seventh Festival Ghost Festival
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Other holidays Teachers DAY Children's Day
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What is your favorite Chinese festival? What do you do this day? Why do you like it? wear special clothes eat special food give or receive gifts have a holiday from school take part in a traditional ceremony dance and listen to music enjoy yourself with friends or family
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festivals festivals in other countries Christmas Fools Day Valentines Day Carnival Easter Thanksgiving Day Mothers Day Fathers Day Halloween
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Christmas (25th December) This is a Christian festival which comes in the middle of winter. reindeer sleigh Santa Claus
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Valentines Day Feb. 14th
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April Fool s Day (April 1)
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Holi This is a festival of color, which marks the beginning of spring in India.
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Thanksgiving Day (The th Thursday in November) turkey pumpkin pie This is when Americans remember the hard times when they first arrived in the country.
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This festival is at the end of October, when ghosts come out. Halloween (31th. October/ 1st Nobember) ( All Saints' Day )
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Jack-o-Lantern
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Trick-or-Treat on Halloween
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Dunking For Apples
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Halloween Parade
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Easter (March 23 to April 25) This is a Christian holiday in March or April when Christians remember the death of Christ and his return to life. Easter Bunny Easter eggs
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Carnival
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Reading The Magic of the Mask
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Lisening the passage and check the topics it mentions. 1.Different carnivals 2.The orgins of carnival 3.Spencial food 4.Carnival in Venice
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Read the whole passage and generalize the main idea of each paragraph. Para1. People s general imperssion of carmival. Para2. The meaning of carnival and how it was celebrated in history. Para3. Carnival in Venice and the problem it caused when people celebrated it.
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Para4. The law about wearing masks. Para5. The revival of the tradition of celebration carvinal. Para6. How canival is celebrated in Venice today and the feature of the carnival in Venice.
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Read the passage again and do exercise 2. Answers: ccbabbbb
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Exercise 3 and 4 Ex. 3 1.confusing 2.excitement 3.mask 4.mystery 5.magic 6. costume 7. crowd 8. tradition 9. atmosphere Ex. 4 abbbabbb
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Group competition Give us the information about carnival as much as you can.
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Test about the Reading
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Test 1 1.Think of carnival, and you think of crowds, c________, and confusion. 2.As time passed, however, the carnival period was e________. 3.But in the late 1970s the tradition was r_______ by students. 4.If the key to Rio is music and movement, then in Venice it is the m_______. 5.If the masks comeoff, the m____ is lost. ostumses xtended evived ystery agic
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Test 2 At the beginning of the carnival in Venice, ordinary people wearing masks could pretend to be rich and ________, While famous people could have romantic adventures in ________. Later, People who wore masks could not carry ________ or enter a church. At the end of the 18th, masks were banned completely, and carnival became a _______. In the late 1970s, the tradition revived. Today, when you ______ through the street, you can see thousands of masks- ______ or frightening, sad or _______. important secret firearms memery wonder elegantamusing
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Homework Exercises on page 86 and 87 in the Work book
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