3. Senior English courses are to develop students’ integrated abilities of using language, which is based on language skills, language knowledge, emotional attitudes, learning strategies and cultural senses. Book four includes five different topics------festivals, health, literature and art, nature and the world and the environment. Unit One belongs to one of them---festivals. From the aspect of language knowledge, this unit mainly helps you learn to communicate freely on the top of festivals around the world. From the aspect of emotional attitudes, this unit tries to make you realize that different festivals have their own features in different countries and stimulate your interest in culture. so we should learn this unit attentively.

4. Unit 1 Festivals around the world

5. The Dragon Boat Festival The Double Ninth Festival The Spring Festival Tomb Sweeping Day The Lantern Festival The Middle Autumn Festival The Double Seventh Festival What kinds of festivals in China do you know about? Brainstorming festivals Warming up-I(5m)

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

7. festivals Christmas Fool’s Day Valentine’s Day Carnival Easter Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day Father’s Day Halloween What festivals of foreign countries do you know?

8. 1 23 4 567 8 最后 Game Time

9. January 15 of the lunar month 1 23 4 567 8 最后

10. January 15 of the lunar month the Lantern Festival 1 23 4 567 8 最后

11. February 14th 1 23 4 567 8 最后

12. February 14th Valentine’s Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

13. April 1st 1 23 4 567 8 最后

14. April 1st April Fool’s Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

15. May 1st 1 23 4 567 8 最后

16. May 1st International Labor Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

17. September 9 of the lunar month 1 23 4 567 8 最后

18. September 9 of the lunar month the Double Ninth Festival 1 23 4 567 8 最后

19. September 10th 1 23 4 567 8 最后

20. September 10th Teachers’ Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

21. October 1st 1 23 4 567 8 最后

22. October 1st National Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

23. October 1st National Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

24. The 4th Thursday of November 1 23 4 567 8 最后

25. The 4th Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day 1 23 4 567 8 最后

26. More Festivals? Who are the winners? 上一张 下一张

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

29. Halloween Parade

30. Costume Ball

31. Trick-or-Treat

32. Easter on a ______ between March 22 and April 25 / Easter bunnies (rabbits) 复活节兔 Egg hunts ( 复活节蛋 ) Sunday The first Sunday after the full moon following a spring equinox （春分） White lily -- purity( 纯洁 )

33. Speckled eggs

34. Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection( 复活 ) of _____________ on the ______ day after his Crucifixion( 死于十字架上 ). For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family. Jesus Christthird

35. Spring Festival The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Spring Festival couplets( 对联） The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

36. 1 2 3 4 5 About your house About yourself Activities with friends Activities with your family and relatives About things that you never do

37. Clean the house Decorated the door with a couplet Had your hair cut Had a bath. Wore new clothes. Had a large family dinner. Ate special food like jiaozi. Set off firecrackers or fireworks. Had lucky money from parents or relatives. Watched the 2006 Spring Festival Program on CCTV. Visited grandparents or other relatives.