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How did you spend your Spring Festival?
Spring Festival
on the first day of the lunar year
last fifteen days
do spring cleaning , decorate their houses
On New Year’s Eve, dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackers
get lucky money
Lantern Festival
Spring Festival comes at the turn of a Chinese lunar year and is celebrated all over the country. On the day of the Lunar New Year people get up early and wear all kinds of new clothes. In the north, most families prepare jiaozi (dumplings) on the Eve as special food, while in the south sticky-sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao is served. Crackers are fired everywhere when the clock strikes twelve, as a signal of saying good-bye to the old year and welcoming the New Year in. Fireworks are lit to drive away evil spirits. People watch the CCTV special Spring Festival programs, sing and dance until the small hours of the morning.
Festivals
Time What does it celebrate?
What do people do?
Spring festival
spring
The arrival of spring and the new year
get together, watch TV and eat dumplings, give money in red paper to children, visit family members
How many festivals do you know in China?
New Year’s Day
Lantern Festival
Women’s Day
May Day
Children’s Day
Dragon Boat FestivalMid-autumn Festival
National Day
Army Day
Chinese festivals and holidays
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
• Foreign Festivals• Christmas Day• Thanksgiving Day• Mother’s Day• Father’s Day• April Fool’s Day• Valentine’s Day• Easter•Halloween
In April
It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life.
Eat chocolate eggs
Easter
Christmas Day
On December 25thIt is the birthday of Jesus ChristGo to the parties and churches , give cards and presents to our friends and relatives
Valentine’s Day
In February
People send roses and cards to the people they love.
Dragon Boat Festival In June
The day that the poet Qu Yuan died
Eat rice dumplings and watch boat races
Ching Ming Festival
• In April
• The day we remember our dead relatives
• Visit graves
Mother’s Day
In May
We give flowers and presents to our mothers.
Mid-autumn Festival
• In September
• The day we enjoy the full moon
• Play lanterns and eat moon cakes
on the fifteenth day of the new year ( 15th, in the lunar calendar)
lanterns: symbols of good fortune, happiness and health.
“dragon” and “lion ” dances
Lantern Festival
Pre-reading1.What’s you favourite holiday of the year?2.What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town?
Reading You are given 5 minutes to read the passage
quickly and try to remember different kinds of
festivals mentioned in the text.
Obon
Day of the Dead
Halloween
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
Thanksgiving
Easter
Cherry Blossom Festival
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honour People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals
Task 1
1. How many parts is the passage divided into?
Task 2
2. Which festivals are mentioned in the passage?
Six parts.
Festivals Countries Obon Japan
Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween
Dragon Boat Festival ChinaColumbus Day USA
Mahatma Gandhi Day India
Mid-autumn Festival China/JapanSpring Festival China
CarnivalEaster
Cherry Blossom Festival Japan
Thanksgiving festivals
Reading againRead the passage again and then fill in the following form:
Festivals Purpose How to celebrate
Ancient Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
To celebrate the the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.
Lit fires and made music.
To honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors.
Light lamps,play music,eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up
Festivals Purpose How to celebrate
Festivals to Honour People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals
For their great contributions to the society or the country.
Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi.
Food is gathered for the winter. A season of agricultural work is over.
Decorate churches and town halls, have big meals, admire the moon,eat moon cakes.To celebrate the end of
winter and the coming of spring.
Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have carnivals.
Retell the text by filling the following blanks:
There are all kinds of festivals and __________ around the world, which are held for different reasons. The _______ _________ were mainly held at three times a year--- the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.Some festivals are held to _____ the dead or satisfy and ______ the _________ in case they might _____ _______, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods, such as _________ _______ ______ and Columbus Day.
celebrations
Boat FestivalDragon
harmdo
ancestorspleasehonor
festivalsancient
Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because the food is _________ for the winter and because a season of ___________work is over,to which Mid autumn festival belongs.And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ______ of spring, such as the ______ New Year, at which people have a very good time.
agricultural
gathered
lunarcoming
Assignment
Collect as much information about festivals as possible.