2. MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL 中 (ZHŌNG) 秋 (QIŪ) 節 (JIÉ) Grade 6-8 SY2010-2011 Teacher: wú l ǎ o shī

3. S TANDARDS Standard 4: Cultures Benchmark WL.IS.608.4.1 Identify tangible and intangible products and practices of the target culture and compare them to other cultures.

4. OBJECTIVES Understand the origin of Mid-Autumn festival and how Chinese celebrate this festival. Familiar vocabulary and phrases that associated with Mid-autumn festival.

8. cháng ér cháng ér bēn yuè hòu yì

9. zhōng qiū jié mid-Autumn festival sh ǎ ng yuè Observing the moon

10. yuè b ǐ ng moon cake chī yuè b ǐ ng eating moon cake

11. tuán yuán Reunion k ǎ o ròu BBQ

12. yoù zi Pomelo cāi dēng mí Latern Puzzle solving

13. Y Ù TÙ D Ǎ O YIĀO :M OON RABBIT There were three immortals pretended to be homeless old men. They were begging fox, monkey, and rabbit for food. Both fox, monkey had food to spare to these three homeless old men, but only rabbit had no food to give. Therefore, rabbit said to three homeless men “ Why don’t you eat my meat!”, then it jumped into fire and had three homeless men eat it as a meal. Because its impressive action, the three immortals decided to send the rabbit to moon palace, and it became a immortal rabbit “ yù tù”.

15. 《李白‧夜思》 l ǐ bái. yè sī 床 前 明 月 光，疑 是 地 上 霜。 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng, yí shì dì shàng shuāng 舉 頭 望 明 月，低 頭 思 故 鄉。 j ǔ tóu wàng míng yuè, dī tóu sī gù xiāng.