1. the 3rd period Class3 Grade7 Changxing Middle School Teacher, Huang Suyun

2. Spring Festival Lantern festival 2014 年 1 月 30 日 星期四（ THU) 农历大年三十 2014 年 2 月 14 日 星期五（ FRI) 农历正月十五 A: What’s the date today? B: It’s the last day of the Chinese Lunar Year. A: What’s special about it? B: It’s the Chinese New Year.

3. Qing Ming Festival Dragon Boat Festival 2014 年 4 月 5 日 星期六（ SAT) 2014 年 6 月 2 日 星期一（ MON) 农历五月初五 A: What’s the date today? B: It’s … A: What’s special about it? B: It’s …

4. Mid-autumn Festival Double Ninth Festival 2014 年 9 月 8 日 星期一（ MON) 农历八月十五日 2014 年 10 月 2 日 星期三（ WED) 农历九月九日 A: What’s the date today? B: It’s … A: What’s special about it? B: It’s …

5. What do we usually do on these Festivals?

6. Listen to Susan and Zhang Wei talking about Chinese festivals, and complete the table below. FestivalDateActivities Qing Ming Festival _______ or ____ _______________ Dragon Boat Festival ________ of the Chinese Lunar Year hold _____________ and eat ____ dumplings Mid-autumn Festival ________ of the Chinese Lunar Year _______ get together and eat __________ April4 May5 August 15 sweep tombs boat races rice families mooncakes 5

7. Sp rin g Fe sti val La nte rn Fe sti val Qi ng Mi ng Fe sti val Drago n Boat Festiv al Mid - aut um n Put the following activities in the appropriate columns. eat New Year’s Eve dinner set off firecrakers eat rice dumplings hold dragon boat races sweep tombs enjoy the moon eat moon cakes decorate the house visit the old people give the house a good cleaning watch the Spring Festival gala watch lantern displays eat dumplings go to Home for the Aged Spring Festival Lantern Festival Qing Ming Festival Dragon Boat Festival Mid- autumn Festival Double Ninth Festival

8. A: What’s your favourite festival? A: Why do you like it best? B: … B: Because … -What do we usually do on …? -We usually…

9. Talk more about these festivals according to the following model. 2014 年 1 月 30 日 星期四（ THU) 农历大年三十 2014 年 2 月 14 日 星期五（ FRI) 农历正月十五 2014 年 4 月 5 日 星期六（ SAT) 2014 年 6 月 2 日 星期一（ MON) 农历五月初五 2014 年 9 月 8 日 星期一（ MON) 农历八月十五日 2014 年 10 月 2 日 星期三（ WED) 农历九月九日 吃年夜饭 Model A: What’s the date today? B: It’s the last day of the Chinese Lunar Year. A: What’s special about it? B: It’s New Year’s Eve. My family is going to have a New Year’s Eve dinner together. Would you like to join us? A: I’d like to. Thank you./ A: I’d like to, but my parents are coming from England and I have to go and meet them. Thank you anyway. B: What a shame! 去扫墓 吃月饼、赏月 晚上看灯展 吃粽子、赛龙舟 去敬老院

10. Suppose your Net-pal Diana is coming to spend a traditional Chinese festival with you.Discuss what to buy, what to show her and what activities to take part in. Group work

11. Discuss the activities you are going to have after the model. Use the phrase cues. What about how about let’s shall we It’ll be fun to why not I think Model A: Diana is coming to spend the Spring Festival with us. Shall we decorate our room? B: Sure. Diana likes Chinese food. Let’s make dumplings together. C: That’s a good idea. Shall we guess riddles with him? D: Well, I think he’ll be more interested in the Spring Festival gala. B: I think so, too. What about watching fireworks display? A: That’ll be fun.

12. Plan for ________________ Write down your plan, then report it to your class. You can begin like this: Our Net-pal Diana is coming to spend __________ with us. It is on ______________.We like______________, because _______ _____________________________. We will have many celebrations.We need to buy ________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ _________________________.We are going to invite her to take part in a lot of activities ________________________________ __________________________________________; _________ _____________________________________________;_______ _________________________________________________ …

13. 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。 Qing Ming Du Mu （ Tang Dynasty ） Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days, Passengers on the way are full of soreness. [pæsind ʒ ə] [s ɔ :nis] I ask a Buffalo boy for tavern to release my sadness, [b ʌ fəlo ʊ ] [‘tævə:n] [ri‘lis] He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms. [‘æpri,k ɑ t] ['bl ɔ səm]

14.  poem  I stay alone as a visitor in a foreign country  The festival makes me feel homesick and missing  My brothers must have already climbed to High Mountain  Everyone can plant ZhuYu there except me, a lonely person.  This poem is full of sadness and homesick.  In autumn, chrysanthemum is in blossom. People can look at the [kri‘sænθəməm] n. 菊花 ['bl ɔ səm] n. 全盛期  beautiful flowers and climb mountains as they like.

15. assignment In six to eight sentences, write about your favourite festival.Use the question cues. 1. What is your favourite festival? 2. When is it? 3. Why do you like it? 4. What do you usually do during that festival? 5. Do you have a good time during that festival? … is my favourite festival….