House-cleaning, put up Spring Couplets…
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
activities for children’s celebrations:
1. Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival; 2. Tomb-sweeping / Qingming Memorial Day/ the Day for
Mourning the Dead; 3. Dragon-boat Festival, Mid-autumn Festival; 4. Double Ninth, Water-sprinkling Festival,
Gifts-giving, making New Year’s Visits, sending New Year’s greetings;
Giving pocket money to children, worshipping ancestors and deceased family members/gods of various kinds (the Kitchen/ land God, the jade Emperor);
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Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival Part 1: Communicative Activities
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱctivities
you are supposed to learn the words & phrases for
Describing activities of festivals; Expressing customary or ceremonial
Traditional foods at the festival dinner:
Steamed bun/bread, jiaozi/hundun (dumplings), braided bun, stuffed/plain, zongzi;
Hot/cold dishes, Chinese salad; Hot pot…
Getting pocket money/red envelope from parents , setting off fireworks/crackers/wheels/rockets;
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
Some western festivals:
New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, April Fools’ Day; Halloween, All Saints’ Day, Thanksgiving Day, Memorial Day (US, Canada); Boxing Day (UK, Canada); Independence Day (US); Mother’s /Father’s Day, Labor Day, Children’s day…
celebrations; 1. Objects and foods used in celebrations.
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
● Brainstorming Expressions for Chinese festivals:
Part 1: Communicative Activities
Expressions for activities for group celebrations: singing, parades, playing games, stilts-
walking; Lion/dragon dance, yangko dance, variety
Torch Festival, Kite-flying Day…
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
Expressions for time before and after a festival
1. New Year’s Eve, on the day of the Spring Festival; 2. Days before, the day before/after …, the ten days
following the festival …
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
show, kite-flying…
Unit 5 Creating a Caribbean Spring Festival
Part 1: Communicative Activities
Activities for family celebrations:
Family reunion, feasts, watching CCTV New Year’s Eve Show, playing cards/majiang;