Unit1 Festivals around the world

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Unit1 Festivals aroundthe world
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Read to get the main idea of the passage
The reading briefly introduces the earliest
kinds of festivals with reasons for them, then
four kinds of festivals that occur in most parts
of the world.
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Relate the following pictures to the festivals
mentioned in the text.
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Halloween (Festivals of the Dead)
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Obon (Festivals of the Dead)
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the Spring Festival
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Lantern Festival (Harvest Festivals
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Ancient festivals
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Easter Spring Festival
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try to tell if these sentences are True or False.
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?. The ancient people neednt worry about their
food. ( ) ?. Halloween used to be a festival
intended to honor the dead. ( ) ?. Qu yuan
was a great poet who people honor a lot in China.
( ) ?. Mid-autumn Festival is held to
celebrate the end of autumn. ( ) ?. East
celebrates the birth of Jesus. ( )
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Ss read a third time and answer the six
questions on Page 3
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• Answers
• They celebrated at the end of winter/
• when good weather returned/when they
• had a good harvest/when the hunters
• caught animals for food/when they had
• enough food/when they wanted a year of
• plenty.

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2. They are to honor our ancestors/ to make our
ancestors happy so they wont harm us/ to
satisfy our ancestors/ to celebrate life in the
presence of death. 3. To honor the memory of
Mahatma Gandhi/ to honor/remember the man who
helped gain Indias independence from Britain.
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4. People are grateful for the harvest/ for the
end of the agricultural work/the end of the hard
work on the farms. People are happy that they
will have food for the year. 5. People eat,
dance, play and listen to music, visit family
members, have parades, give and receive gifts.
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6. To have a break from life, to celebrate our
customs/ our history/our heroes, to enjoy meeting
family and friends, to eat special food, to have
fun with each other, to make our community
closer, to show that we are thankful.
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Fill in the chart without books open.
Ancient festivals why To celebrate the 1 of the cold winter, 2 in spring and 3 in autumn.
Ancient festivals how Light 4 and make 5 .
6___ Why To honor the 7 or 8 and 9 the ancestors. In Japan the festival is called 10 . In western countries its called 11 .
6___ How Light 12 , play 13 , eat food in the 14 of skulls and cakes with 15 , go to their 16 to ask for 17 .
end
harvest
planting
fire
music
dead
satisfy
please
Obon
Halloween
Festivals of the dead
music
lamps
shape
neighbors
bones
sweets
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memory
21 Why In 18 of some 19 people.
21 How Chinese have the 20 Boat Festival to honor Qu Yuan
22 Why People are grateful because their food is 23 for the winter and a season of 24 work is over.
22 How 25 churches and town halls, people 26 together to have a big meal. In China people 27 the moon and give gifts of 28 .
Festivals to honor people
famous
Dragon
gathered
Harvest festivals
agriculture
decorate
get
admire
mooncakes
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Spring Festivals
end
29 Why To celebrate the 30 of winter and the 31 of spring.
29 how People eat delicious food, give children 32 money in 33 paper, there are 34 dances and carnivals.
coming
lucky
dragon
red