1. Unit 9
Time to celebrate!

2. Warming up

3. The Chinese festivals

4. Brainstorming Chinese Festivals Festival National Day Children’s Day
Army Day
Festival
International Labour Day
New Year’s Day
Teacher’s Day
The Youth Day
Duan Wu Festival
(Dragon Boat Festival)
Mid-Autumn
Festival
International Women’s Day

5. Spring Festival

6. dumpling

7. Festival of lanterns

8. The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival.

9. Dragon Boat Festival

10. The seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie, or Chinese Valentine's Day.

11. Mid- Autumn Festival
On the fifteenth day of the 8th lunar month

12. Mooncakes

13. Festivals in foreign countries

14. Brainstorming festivals of foreign countries Thanksgiving Day Easter
Christmas
festivals
Father’s Day
Carnival
Mother’s Day
Halloween
Valentine’s Day
Fool’s Day

15. Happy Valentine’s Day

16.                                          
                                         
April Fool's Day
On April 1st

17. Mother's Day
the 2nd Sunday in May

18. Thanksgiving Day
on the 4th Thursday of November

19. Halloween the 31st of October the time of Ghosts, Goblins妖精,
Spooks幽灵 Witches巫婆
Halloween is celebrated
the 31st of October

20. Cherry Blossom Festival
(March 15- April 15)

21. Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan

22. Christmas

23. Ancient Festivals Harvest festivals Name Time Obon October 2 Why
The 5th,May
October 2
Why
Celebrate
What people do
Dragon boat races
Ancient Festivals
Festivals to honour people
Harvest festivals
Festival of the dead
The end of cold weather/when hunters could catch animals
The Day of Dead
autumn
Halloween
Honour
Qu Yuan, Mahatma
Gandhi
Food is gathered
for the winter/
Agricultural
work is over
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Decorate churches…
Lit fire and make music
Admire moon, give mooncakes