Spring Festivals
1.What’s the most energetic and important festival in China? 2. What do people usually do at spring festivals?
give money in red paper to children
Mid-Autumn Festival
Childrens’ Day Mothers’ Day
Fathers’ Day
Brainstorming
Foreign Festivals &Celebrations Thanksgiving Day Easter Christmas Carnival
festivals
Purposes
Names ancestors To honor the dead or satisfy the1_______ Obon 2______
The Day of the 8_________ Halloween Dead
Countries Japan Activities Clean graves 3______; light 4_______ incense and lamps; playing
Unit2 Festivals around the world
教者：王瑾
National Day New Year’s Day Spring Festival Army Day May Day FESTIVAL Teachers’ Day Dragon Boat Festival
Tomb-sweeping Day
• 拜年
give New Year's greetings
• 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to one's ancestors • 压岁钱 gift /lucky money • 扫房 spring cleaning
Guessing game
Name of the festivals: Date: Meaning: Why it is celebrated: How it is celebrated:
Festival Time of What it What people do year/date celebrates zongzi Eat__________; memory watch dragon-boat fifth in __________ The_____ races; throw rice Dragon day of the ____the of wrapped in reed Boat beloved _______ fifth leaves into water in Festival/ month in _____ poet Qu memory of Qu Duanwu lunar Yuan who Yuan; put herbs on Festival calendar died in 278 doorways for good health BC
Halloween (万圣节) November 31st
Thanksgiving Day the fourth Thursday in November
Pre-reading
1. What festivals or celebrations do we have in our city ? What is it held for?
Columbus Day
Easter
Harvest Festivals
Thanksgiving
Spring Festivals
Tomb Sweeping Day (QingMing Festival)
Obon in Japan
Halloween Oct.31st
Careful-reading Festivals of the Dead
Easter eggs and Easter Bunnies It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and
new life.
It comes on the first Sunday after a full moon on or after March 21
music
5_______ Mexico
Western countries
Eat cakes with Children 9 bones on them; _______ dress up 6_____ offer food, and ask for flowers and sweets gifts to the 7____ dead
What people do money in give________
Festiva Time of What it What people l year/date celebrates do The________ founding hold some of the celebrating People’s activities, visit National October ________Republic of family or go to Day _______ China in1949 other parts of 1st China; go shopping
Festival Time of What it What people do year/date celebrates Tomb 5th Sweeping April Day _________ honour the dead _________ and satisfy the ancestors
Food names
• 团圆饭 • 饺子 family reunion dinner dumpling
Activities
• • • • • • • • • • 春联 剪纸 年画 烟花 爆竹 舞狮 舞龙 灯谜 灯会 守岁 Spring Festival couplets paper-cuts New Year paintings fireworks firecrackers lion dance dragon dance riddles written on lanterns exhibition of lanterns staying-up
Greeting Season
春节 农历 正月 The Spring Festival Lunar calendar lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar 除夕 New Year's Eve; eve of lunar New Year 初一 the beginning of New Year 元宵节 the Lantern Festival
visit relatives and have a big meal
dragon dances and carnivals
Set off fireworks
Post-reding • What festivals do you like best ? And Why? • Why is the Spring Festival the most important festival in China?
sachet
shadow figure
2. Look at the pictures and title of the passage below. kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage.
Festivals And Celebrations
• Foreign Festivals • Christmas Day • Thanksgiving Day • Mother’s Day • Father’s Day • April Fool’s Day • Valentine’s Day • Easter • Halloween
Spring Festivals
Match Exercise
Obon Day of the Dead
Festivals of the Dead
Cherry Blossom Festival Festivals to Honour People Halloween Dragon Boat Festival
Para 1: Why did ancient people celebrate festivals? • celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; • celebrate when hunters catch animals.
Festivals Festivals
• Chinese Festivals • Lantern Festival • The Dragon Boat Festival • Tomb Sweeping Day • Mid-Autumn Day • New Year’s Day • Double-ninth • National Day • May 1st
Halloween
Mother’s Day Valentine’s Day
Fool’s Day
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Festival Time of year/date What it celebrates What people do
give and eat the beauty of mooncakes; Midthe full moon, Autumn autumn/fall harvest, time watch the full moon Festival with family with family and friends and friends