What did you do to celebrate the festival

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What did you do to celebrate the festival
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About the Spring Festival
Traditional customs or activities

• Do spring cleaning put up couplets
• Store some snacks at home
• Get together and have big dinners
• Give and get lucky money in red paper
• Wear new clothes
• Stay up with family to see Spring Festival
  Evening Gala
• Send nice blessings to each other
• Pay new years visits to relatives or friends
• Set off firecrackers/fireworks

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The Spring Festival       ---The biggest and
most celebrated festival in China and part of
east and south east Asia.
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(origin and legend)
monster mythical emperor be no match
for scare away

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back
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Lunar calendar
Chinese traditional festival Chinese traditional festival time
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug.
Sep.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
Time/date What to celebrate How to celebrate
The Spring Festival
The Lantern Festival
The Tomb- Sweeping Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival
Qiqiao Festival
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The Mid-Autumn Festival
The Double Ninth Festival
National Day
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Unit 1 Festivals Around the World
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Valentine's Day
Fools Day
Easter day
Mothers Day
Fathers Day
Halloween
Thanksgiving  
Christmas Day
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Festivals and Celebrations

• Whats the main idea of the 1st paragraph?
• What will be the next paragraphs about?
• How do you know?

A brief introduction of the ancient and todays
festivals.
Todays festivals have many origins, some
religious, some seasonal, and some for special
people or events.
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Festivals and Celebrations
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Festivals of the Dead Festivals to Honour
People Harvest Festivals Spring Festivals
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Festivals of the Dead
What are festivals of the dead usually for?
To honor the dead or to satisfy the ancestors.
Names of festivals Countries How?



Obon
Japan
The Day of the Dead
Mexico
Halloween
The western countries
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Festivals to Honor People
Whom are people in honor/memory of at these
festivals ?
An ancient poet, Quyuan
the arrival of Christopher Columbus
Gandi
who helped gain Indias independence
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Harvest Festivals
Why are harvest and Thanksgiving festivals happy
events? How do people celebrate harvest
festivals in some European and Asian countries?
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Spring Festivals
The Spring Festival in China Easter in some
western countries Cherry Blossom Festival in
Japan
How?
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Guessing game
Describe the festivals youve learnt about.
The festival is held to At the festival,
people
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What do most festivals seem to have in common?
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What is one important reason to have festivals
and celebrations ?
Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our
customs and forget our work for a little while.
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Festivals are meant to celebrate important times
of year.
I didnt mean to hurt your feelings. Missing the
bus means waiting another day.
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Discuss when they take place ,what they celebrate
and what people do at that time.

• take place, broke out , happen
• The First World War _____in 1949 .
• A terrible accident _______last night .
• When will our sports meet _____?
• I _________to be in the class when they
• were quarrelling.

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Take place
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Happen
Break out
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The World Cup ____in Germany
in 2006. A, took place B, hold
C, played D, happened
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Most ancient festivals would celebrate
_________________________________________________.
the end of cold weather, planting in spring and
harvest in autumn
When she was here, she would come to my house to
watch TV in the evening.
When she was here, she used to come to my house
to watch TV in the evening.
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What would people suffer in the ancient times if
food was difficult to find?
Starve
Millions of people starved to death during the
war. The homeless children starved for love. When
will dinner be ready? Im starving.
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Some festivals are held to honor the dead or to
satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to
help or to do harm.
Coco was the honored guest in the party. Im
honored to be here to give the speech. Its an
honor for me to
Satisfy v.
In honor of ?????? An honored guest ?? Have
the honor to do sth.. Its ones honor to do sth.
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dress up
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The bride was dressed (up) in a white wedding
dress.
The little girl tried to dress herself up as a
fairy.

• _______ in her best clothes, the girl tried
  to make herself ______ at the party.
• Dressed noticed B. Dressing to
  be noticed
• C. Get dressed noticed D. Dressing
  noticing

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The country , covered with cherry tree flowers ,
looks as though it is covered with pink snow.
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Custom habit
habit
He smokes out of _________, not for pleasure.
Many strange __________ have survived from early
times.
customs
The most energetic and important festivals are
the ones that look forward to the end of winter
and the coming of spring.
Im looking forward to hearing from you.
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Key phrases
be meant to take place the beauty of the full
moon ancient times honor the dead satisfy the
ancestors do harm (to) in memory of lead (back)
to in the shape of the return of the spirits
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dress up play a trick on gain independence agricu
ltural work decoratewith win awards farm produce
admire the moon enjoy mooncakes look forward
to lucky money the lunar new year day and night
Key phrases
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Key phrases

• a religious and social festival
• the coming of spring
• and new life
• be covered with
• as though/as if
• have fun (with)
• enjoy life
• be proud of/take pride in
• a little while
• havein common

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as part of festivals
Flowers
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Write the festival name for each picture on P45
Cherry Blossom Festival Well dressing
Festival Easter Valentines Day Mothers Day
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About Cherry Blossom Festival It is
celebrated every ________. When flowers
___________ on the cherry trees, friends and
families ____________ under the trees, _________
by a _______ of beautiful _______ flowers. There
are other _________ for the festival, such as
________, music __________ and ______________,
but the main activity is just going out to
_________________ of the flowers.
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• Besides soft clay(????), what kind of things are
  used to make well-dressings in Derbyshire?
• __________________________
• Why are Easter lilies a common symbol of Easter?
• _____________________________
• 3. Why are flowers used on Valentines Day and
  Mothers Day?
• ___________________________

Flowers, nuts, seeds and other things.
Because their clean and white beauty is a
reminder of new life.
To show love to someone special.
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• Nowadays, Chinese become so keen on
  western festivals such as Christmas and
  Valentines Day. However, our traditional
  festivals seem not so popular, especially among
  the young people. So some people calls on the
  whole society to resist(??) some western
  festivals. What do you think of their suggestion?

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The government has changed the arrangement of the
holiday time (the Tomb-sweeping Day Mid-autumn
Day, Labor Day to protect our own festivals.
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on Feb. 14th
How do people usually celebrate this festival?
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Chinese Valentines Day
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Introduction Zhinu, the _______ girl, the granddaughter of the Goddess of Heaven, visited the earth and met Niulang, the ____ boy.
Development They f___ ___ _____ , ____ _______ secretly and were very happy.
Climax (??) The Goddess of Heaven got so angry that she made Zhinu return to ________ . Niulang tried to f_________ her but was stopped by the Milky Way. Thus, the c_______ were separated.
Ending The Goddess of Heaven allowed the couple to meet once a year on the ______ day of the s_______ l_______ month when magpies made a _________ of their wings.
weaving
herd
got married
ell in love
Heaven
ollow
ouple
seventh
eventh unar
bridge
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coffee
Introduction Li Fang was waiting alone at the ________ shop with his roses and chocolates, but Hu Jin didnt ______ ______ . He thought she would _________________. Feeling like a ______, he would _________ his ________ in coffee.
Development Li Fang watched a TV program about Qiqiaojie. Thinking Hu Jin _______________ him, he ____________ the gifts and __________ for home.
Climax (??) / Ending As Li Fang passed the _____ shop on the corner, he heard Hu Jin calling and waving at him, Why are you so late? Ive been waiting for you for a long time. And I have a ______ for you! What would he do? She would never ________ him?
turn up
keep her word
fool
drown
sadness
played a trick on
set off
threw away
tea
gift
forgive
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Sad/happy
Think of an ending to the story.
(How Li Fang will explain that the flowers and
chocolates are gone.)
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Key phrases
turn up laugh at keep ones word like a fool hold
ones breath apologize to sb. for doing
sth. drownin it is obvious that wipe the
table lost love fall in love get married set off
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A Sad Love Story