1、Unit 2 I think that mooncakes are delicious! Chinese festivals Chinese Festival Spring Festival Lantern Festival Pure and Brightness Festival Dragon Boat Festival National Day Youth Day The Double Ninth Day Spring Festival The 1st day of the first lunar month Festival of lanterns yuanxiao Womens Day
2、-March 8 The 1st day of May Labour Day The 1st day of June Childrens Day Army Day-August 1st The 15th day of the eighth lunar month Mid-Autumn Festival The 10th day of September Teachers Day The 1st day of October National Day festivals Christmas Fools Day Valentines Day Carnival Easter Thanksgiving
3、 Day Mothers Day Fathers Day Halloween Foreign festivals the Cherry Blossom Festival Every April when the country is covered with cherry flowers. Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic. Valentines Day In February Carnival (狂欢节狂欢节) Easter 复活节复活节 Th
4、e first Sunday after a full moon on or after March 21 Fools Day April 1st Mothers Day The second Sunday in May Thanksgiving Day The fourth Thursday in November November 31st Halloween 万圣节万圣节 Christmas 3a Your English-speaking pen pal wants to know about your favorite Chinese festival. Make some note
5、s about the festival. What is the name of the festival? When is it? What do people eat? What do people do? Why do you like it so much? 3b Write a letter to your pen pal and tell him/her about your favorite Chinese festival. Use your notes in 3a. In your letter: First, introduce the festival and when
6、 it is celebrated. Then talk about what people do and eat. Finally, explain why you like it best and how it makes you feel. Use the following expressions to help you: My favorite Chinese festival is . It is celebrated in/on . During this festival, people . It is my favorite festival because . It mak
7、es me feel . 帮你构思：帮你构思： In your letter: First, introduce the festival and when it is celebrated. Then talk about what people do and eat. Finally, explain why you like it best and how it makes you feel. Dear Tom, My favorite Chinese festival is Spring Festival. It is a traditional festival in china.
8、It is celebrated on the 1st day of the first lunar (阴历阴历) month. During this festival, people usually clean and decorate their house carefully before it comes. They eat Nian-gao, eight treasures rice (八宝饭八宝饭)and family reunion dinner. It is my favorite festival because we kids can wear new clothes a
9、nd get gift money. Whats more, we can watch the dragon dance(舞狮舞狮). It makes me feel very happy and excited. The Middle-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it is often celebrated in September or October. During the festival, family members get together and eat mooncakes. The
10、re are various kind of delicious mooncakes. On the evening of the Middle-Autumn Festival, people can enjoy the full moon in the dark sky. I like Mid-Autumn Festival because it makes me happy. Many Western countries celebrate Easter. This holiday is always on a Sunday _ March 22nd _April 25th. It cel
11、ebrates the beginning of new life. Hens _ eggs, giving birth to life, so an egg is a symbol of new life. 1 Complete the passage with the words in the box. spreadaround betweenand give out business lay relatives between lay and A popular activity during Easter is to hide eggs around your home or gard
12、en for friends or _ to find. These can be real eggs, but they are more often chocolate eggs. Not only do people _ them _in different places for an egg hunt, but they also _these treats as gifts. So just like Christmas, Easter creates good_ for supermarkets and chocolate stores. relatives spread busi
13、ness around give out Not only do people spread them around in different hiding places for an egg hunt, but they also give out these treats as gifts. 句中的句中的not only . but (also) . 意为“不意为“不 但但而且而且”。当。当not only位于句首时，位于句首时， 其后的其后的主谓要部分倒装主谓要部分倒装。 此外，当此外，当not only . but (also) . 连接两个连接两个 代词或名词作主语时，谓语动词要与代
14、词或名词作主语时，谓语动词要与but (also)后的代词或名词后的代词或名词在数上保持一致在数上保持一致。 如：如： Not only he but also I am wrong. Not only books but also water is needed. 1. The mooncakes are delicious. _! 2. The festival will be fun. _! 2. Rewrite these sentences as exclamations. How delicious the mooncakes are What a fun festival it
15、will be 3. This concert is boring. _! 4.Im really excited. _! 5. The band played really loud music. _! How boring the concert is How excited I am What loud music the band played I think _. I know _. I believe_. I wonder_. 3. Make sentences about a festival/festivals you like using these words + that
16、/whether/if. 1. _ good advice! Its so helpful to us. A. How B. What C. What a 2. _ excellent work you have done! Its very kind of you to say so. A. What an B. How C. What 单选题。单选题。 3. _ interesting the storybook is! Yes. I have read it twice. A. What B. What an C. How D. How an 4. _ great picture! Wh
17、o painted it? A. How B. What C. How a D. What a 5.How long does it take to get to the airport? Forty minutes. But its foggy today. Im not sure _ the highway will closes soon. Lets set off earlier. A. whether B. when C. how D. why 6. Could you say it again? I cant understand _ you are talking about.
18、A. how B. when C. what D. which 7. What a nice paper fish! Can you show us _ you make it? A. whether B. how C. why D. what 8. When H7N9 bird flu first appeared, people didnt know _ doctors could cure it. A. if B. that C. what D. why Review what you have learnt in this unit and preview the next unit. Homework
