1. Unit1
Festivals
around the world

3. What kinds of festivals in China do you know about?
Brainstorming
The Double
Seventh Festival
七夕节
The Spring Festival
The Double Ninth Festival
重阳节
The Lantern Festival元宵节
festivals
Tomb Sweeping Day
清明节
The Mid-Autumn
Festival 中秋节
The Dragon Boat Festival
端午节

4. Spring Festival
Lantern Festival

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day April 5th
清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂。 借问酒家何处有，牧童遥指杏花村。------[唐] 杜牧
Tomb-Sweeping Day
April 5th

6. Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Day

7. What Chinese public holidays do you know ?
National Day
Children’s Day
International Labour Day
New Year’s Day(元旦)
Holidays
International
Women’s Day
The Youth Day

8. What festivals of foreign countries do you know? Easter(Mar--Apirl)
Valentine’s Day
Christmas
festivals
Halloween
Oct.31
Father’s Day
June
Mother’s Day
May
Apirl Fool’s Day
Thanksgiving Day
November

9. Valentines
February 14th

10. Halloween
Pumpkin light

11. Easter
Thanksgiving Day

12. Foreign Festivals 名称 英文名称 月份 情人节 Valentine’s Day 2月14日 复活节 Easter
3月21日或此日后月圆的第一个星期日
耶稣受难日
Good Friday
复活节前的星期五
愚人节
April Fool’s Day
4 月1日
母亲节
Mother’s Day
5月的第二个星期日
父亲节
Father’s Day
6月的第三个星期日
劳动节
Labor Day
5 月1日
万圣节
Halloween
10月31日
感恩节
Thanksgiving Day
11月的第四个星期4 斋节
Ramadan
穆斯林历的第9个月
圣诞节
Christmas Day
12月25日

13. Pre-reading
What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?

14. Reading

15. 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

16. Skimming
What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?
P1. Ancient festivals
celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.

17. P 2. Festivals of the Dead
Japan -----Obon
Mexico------Day of the Dead
America------Halloween
P 3. Festivals to Honour People
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
(India)October 2

18. Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan

19. Columbus Day

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

21. Harvest Festivals

22. Comprehending
I. Read the passage and then fill in the following chart.

23. 1. Festivals of the Dead. Purposes
To honor the dead or satisfy the 1________
Names
2______
The Day of the Dead
4_________
Countries
Japan
3_______
Western countries
ancestors
Obon
Halloween
Mexico

24. Obon Festivals Activities
The Day
of the Dead
Festivals
Obon
Halloween
Activities
Cleaning 5______; lighting 6_______ and lamps; playing 7______
Eating cakes with 8_____ on them; offering food, flowers and 9____ to the dead
Children 10 _______ and ask for sweets
graves
bones
dress up
incense
music
gifts

25. 2. Festivals to Honour People
Match the person with the festival.
1. Qu Yuan
2. Christopher Columbus
3. Mohandas Gandhi
a. the Dragon Boat Festival
b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2
c. Columbus Day a c b

26. 3. Harvest Festivals
Choose the best answer.
Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people ___.
A. get together to have meals
B. decorate houses to admire the moon
C. win awards for their farm produce
D. enjoy mooncakes B
B. decorate houses to admire the moon

27. China 4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks. Meanings
To look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring
Names
1______ ____________ 2
______ 3
_____
Cherry Blossom Festival
The Spring
Festival
Carnivals
Easter
Coun-
tries
China
Western countries
Mainly religious countries
8 _____
Japan

28. Activities Parades lucky colourful clothing dragon dances Carnivals
Festivals
Spring Festival
Activities
Eating good foods; giving children 4_____ money; 5________
______ and carnivals
6________; dancing in the streets; loud music; 7_________________
Parades
lucky
colourful
clothing
dragon dances

29. II. 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.

30. 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.

31. 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.

32. 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.

33. III. 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

34. Discussion
Which festivals you think are the
most important and which are the
most fun.

35. Homework
1. Go over the text after class and find the sentences that you don’t understand

36. 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.