Festival

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Festival around the world
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• Who do you think in China should have a festival
  to be honoured? Why?

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• 1.Some festivals are held to honour the dead or
  to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either
  to help or to do harm.
• 2. Obon\ Qingming Festival
• People should go to clean graves and light
  incense in memory of their ancestors.

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• 3. Halloween
• It is now a childrens festival, when they can
  dress up and go to their neighbours home to ask
  for sweets. If they dont have any sweets, they
  will play a trick on others.

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• 4. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the
  famous ancient poet, Quyuan.
• 5. Mid-autumn Day takes place on the 15th day of
  the 8th lunar month. It celebrates harvest and
  the beauty of full moon. People often get
  together to admire the moon and enjoy mooncakes.

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• 6. Spring Festival is the most energetic and
  important festival that look forward to the end
  of winter and the coming of spring. During the
  festival, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and
  may give children lucky money in red paper.
  People get together to celebrate the lunar New
  Year. Children like to set off firecrackers.

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• 7. Easter is an important religious and social
  festival for Christians around the world. It
  celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and
  the coming of spring and new life.

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• 8. People love to get together to eat, drink and
  have fun with each other. Festivals let us enjoy
  life, be proud of our customs and forget our work
  for a little while.

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Spring Festival
important
when
last
cleaning , decorate
On New Years Eve, dinner, the Spring Festival
programme, fireworks, firecrackers
money
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Easter

• In April
• It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came
  back to life.
• Christians around the world, celebrate
• Eat chocolate eggs
• Play with toy bunny
• eat hot cross buns

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• the most important , in western countries.

• Celebrate, together with

• the gifts, in the stockings , at night.

• cards or gifts

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Read the following descriptions about western
festivals and guess which festival they convey?

• It is one of the most important festivals in
  western countries.

• People usually celebrate it together with their
  family members.

• A kind-hearted old man put the gifts in the
  stockings for children secretly at night.

• People send cards or gifts to others.

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Reading-III (8m)
Retell the text by filling the following blanks
celebrations
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 the _________ in case they might _____
_______, while other festivals are held to honor
famous people, such as _________ _______ ______
and Columbus Day.
festivals
ancient
honor
harm
do
ancestors
Boat Festival
Dragon
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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.
gathered
agricultural
coming
lunar
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/?? 8.???? 9. ?? 10.???? 11. ????

1. take place
2. in memory of
3. dress up
4. play a trick
5. look forward to
6. day and light
7. as if /as thought
8. have fun with
9. turn up
10. keep up ones worlds
11. hold ones breath