How did you spend your Spring Festival?
While celebrating the festival, people…
Spring Festivaldo spring cleaning , decorate their houses, put up couplets
have a big dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackersget lucky money dress up in new clothes visit relatives and friends
What……? While celebrating the festival, people…
Spring FestivalWhen……? ……take place……
……take place on the first day of the lunar year……last fifteen days
Why?
In order to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, people celebrate the Spring Festival.In a word, it is obvious that everyone looks forward to the Spring Festival.
Lantern Festival
New Year’s DayNational Day Army Day
Women’s DayMay Day Children’s Day Dragon Boat Festival
Chinese festivals and holidays
Mid-autumn Festival
Festivals Chinese Festivals New Year’s Day Lantern Festival The Dragon Boat Festival Tomb Sweeping Day May Day Mid-Autumn Day Double-ninth National Day
Foreign Festivals Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day Father’s Day April Fool’s Day Valentine’s Day Easter Halloween
Can you choose one festival from the above and describe to your classmates? 1. When does it take place? ……takes place…… 2. Why do people celebrate it? ……in order to….. 3. What do people do to celebrate it? While celebrating the festival, people……M o n s t e r M a s h P l a t M o n s t e r W H 0 3 9 W M H a 0 s 4 h 1 N a p k i
Pre-readingWhat will the passage tell us?
How many kinds of festivals are mentioned? Festivals of the Dead Festivals to Honour People Harvest festivals Spring Festivals
Part1
What did ancient people celebrate?
1.They celebrated the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn 2, when the hunters caught animals for food
Part Two (2-5) 1. Festivals of the Deadhonor the dead or to satisfy the Purposes To _______________________________ ancestors
NamesCountries Activities
Obon
The Day of the Dead Halloween
Japan
Mexico
Western countries
1.Clean 1.eat food in 1.now a children’s ______ graves shape the ______of festival _______ dress up 2.Light___ incense skulls and cakes 2.________and offer 2._____food, go to_________ neighbors’ and______; lamps flowers and to ask for sweets. music 3.Play____ gifts to the dead. If not, they might played a trick on be_____________
Obonin Japan
Lanterns are hung outside each house to lead the ancestors back to earth.
The Day of the Dead in MexicoPeople offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Toys, decorations, and candies in the shape of skulls, are bought to honor ancestors.
Halloween In the US and EuropeThe jack-o’-lantern is the most common symbol of Halloween.children dress up and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”
Halloween Parade
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