Festivals and Holidays What festivals do you know
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Festivals and Holidays
What festivals do you know? National Day Spring Festival Christmas festivals Mid-Autumn Festival Dragon Boat Festival American Thanksgiving . . .
Put the following festivals and holidays in order of time in a year. • • • American Thanksgiving, 9 Chong Yang Festival, 8 Chritmas, 10 Dragon Boat Festival, 6 May Day, 5 Mid-Autumn Festival, 7 New Year's Day, 1 Qing Ming Festvial, 4 Spring Festival(Chinese New Year), 2 Women's Day 3
2. What do you and your family do on that festival? 1. It is in winter. 2. It is a traditional festival of China. 3. People always go back home and have big meals with their family members on that festival.
Grace is a student from England. She's spending the Chinese New Year holiday with her friend Li Lin's family in Beijing.
Read the instant messages and choose the best answer. 1. Who is she talking with? A. Her friend B. Her father C. Her mother 2. What are they talking about? A. What she did on Chinese New Year. B. What she learned on Chinese New Year. C. What she saw on Chinese New Year.
Read paragraph 1 and answer the questions 1. Why was Grace not online all day? Because she has been busy. Line 3 2. What did Grace do on the morning of the Chinese New Year's Eve? She put up Chinese New Year Line 4 decorations. 3. Where did Grace put "福" on？ On doors and windows. Line 7
Read paragraph 2 and answer the questions 1. What did Grace do in the afternoon? She helped Li Lin's family prepare the Chinese New dinner. Line 1 -3 2. What have they prepared? They prepared fish, tofu, fried meat balls, etc. Line 5 3. What has Grace learned to make? Line 8 She has learned to make jiaozi.
Read paragraph 3 and answer the questions 1. How long did the dinner last? It lasted for three hours. Line 5 2. What else did they do except eating in the evening? The family wished each other, and Grace, good Line 8 luck, and watched TV.
Read paragraph 4 and complete the exercises 1. What is the best thing about Chinese New Year? Line 1 The best thing about Chinese New Year is fireworks. 2. What's the meaning of "bright"? Line 3 A. full of light B. quick to learn C. likely to be successful 3. Has Grace taken photos? Line 7 Yes, she has.
Read and complete the table Order In the morning In the afternoon In the evening At night Things put up Chinese New Year decorations and learned to write Chinese character 福 helped Li Lin's family prepare the Chinese New Year dinner. ate dinner and watched TV watched fireworks and took photos
How did Grace feel about Chinese New Year's Eve? Find evidence from her instant messages. key words or key sentences It's interesting. It's like our Christmas dinner. Everyone was so happy. It was very exciting.
Read aloud
1. Read the instant messages fluently. 2. Write a short passage about what you have done on the Spring Festival.