1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world Guessing gameChristmas DayMid-Autumn festivalTomb Sweeping DayValentines DayChinese festivals or holiday Lantern FestivalThe Dragon Boat Day Tomb Sweeping DayThe Spring FestivalDouble-ninth DayNew Years DayWomens DayInternational Labor DayChildrens DayNational Day1、
2、What kinds of Chinese festivals or holiday do you know?Brainstormforeign festivals2、what kinds of foreign festivals do you know?Christmas DayThanksgiving DayMothers DayFathers DayApril Fools DayValentines DayEasterHalloweenwhats your favourite festivals and why?Work in pairsTips:activities funsingin
3、g dancingvisit fooddess up musicmemory scanningHow many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?1.Festivals of the Dead2.Festivals to Honor the People3.Harvest Festivals4.Spring Festivalskinds of fstivalsnames of fstivalscountriesFestivals of deadFestivals to Honour PeopleHarvest FestivalsSp
4、ring FestivalsFill in the following chart according to the passageskimmingObonJapanDay of the DeadMexicoHalloweenAmericaDragon Boat FestivalColumbus DayMahatma Gandhi DayChinaUSAIndiaThanksgiving FestivalMid-Autumn festivalSpring festivalCarnivalEasterCherry Blossom FestivalChinaJapanGroup working1、
5、Whats the purpose of festivals?2、How do peopole celebrate?(use key words /4 students in a group)Type 1 Festivals of the dead to honour the dead to satisfy the ancestors.Purpose:Obon 盂兰盆节盂兰盆节clean the graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.Light lamps and play music to lead the ancesto
6、rs back to earth.Offer food,flowers and gifts to the dead Food in shape of skull and cakes with bone on themThe Day of the Dead 亡灵节亡灵节 old beliefs spirits of dead people Halloween 万圣节万圣节dress up play a trick onType 2Festivals to Honour People Purpose:be held to honour famous peopleDragon Boat Festiv
7、alChinaColumbus DayUSANational Festival IndiaType 3Harvest FstivalsPurpose:People are grateful for the harvest/for the end of the agricultural work/award for farm produceHarvest Fstivalsdecorate churches and town hall.get together to have meals.Thanksgiving DayMid-Autumn festivalpeople admire the mo
8、on and enjoy the mooncakeType 4Spring Festivalspurpose：the most energetic and important festivals/look forward to the end of winter/to the coming of spring people eat dumplings/dragon danceschildren may get lucky moneyfamilies celebration the lunar New Year together.the spring Festival 春节春节Easterdan
9、cing day and nightcolourful clothingreligious and social festival for Christiansreturn of JesusEasterdancing day and nightcolourful clothingreligious and social festival for Christiansreturn of JesusCherry Blossom Festivalis covered with cherry tree flowers/looks as though it might be the sea of pin
10、k snow.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
11、satisfy and _ in case they might _ ,while other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods such as _and Columbus Day.celebrationshonorpleasedo harmDragon Boat FestivalRetelling Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happyevents because the food is _ for the winter and because a season of
12、_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 _ to spring such as the _ New Year,at which people have a very good day.gatheredagriculturalcominglunarDiscussing Many pepole today would l
13、ike to celebrate foreigh festivals rather than Chinese traditional festivals.whats your opinion about this situation?For example:Valentines Day Vs.Qiqiao Festivalwhich one do you prefer?why?Homework1、Search five festivals on the internet,collect more details as possible.Please focus on the origin,story,time and activities.(share them in the next class)2、Make sentences about the importent frases we have learned today.(hand in the next class)3、Preview the next part of Learning about language
