Happy Valentines Day Festivals and celebrations 12 feast
Happy Valentine’s Day Festivals and celebrations
12 feast Revision 1 take place 13 bone 2 beauty 12 节日 14 belief 1 发生 3 harvest 13 骨头 15 dress up 2 美人 4 celebration 14 信心 16 trick 3 收获 15 盛装 5 hunter 17 play a 4 庆祝 6 starve 16 诡计 trick on 5 猎人 7 origin 17 搞恶 18 poet 6 饿死 8 religious 作剧 19 arrival 7 起源 9 ancestor 18 诗人 20 gain 8 宗教的 19 到来 10 in 21 9 祖先 memory of 20 获得 Independent 10 纪念 11 Mexico 21 独立的 22 gather 11 墨西哥 22 集合
Spring Festival
Time late January and early February : couplets
Time: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern show Guessing riddles Lion dancing Dumpling ball
Lantern Festival of lanterns
Time: April, 5 th Ching Ming Festival /Tomb sweeping Festival
On Ching Ming Festival, we often go to sweep graves in honor of our ancestors.
Time: on the 5 th day of the 5 th lunar month Zongzi Qu Yuan
Time: on the 15 th day of the 8 th lunar month Admire the full mooncake
Mid- Autumn Festival
Spring Festival Ching Ming Festivals Festival and Spring Festivals of the Dead Dragon Boat Festivals to Honor People Mid-autumn Festival Harvest Festivals celebrations ,
Skim the text and fill in the following chart on page 3 （ex. 1）
Festivals of the Dead Obon Japan Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween some western countries Festivals to Honor People Dragon Boat Festival China Columus Day USA Festival to honor Gandi India
Harvest Festivals Thanksgiving Day Mid-autumn festival European and other countries China and Japan Spring Festivals Spring Festival China Easter Some western countries Cherry Blossom Festival Japan
Careful reading Para 1 and para 6 What’s the function of para 1 and para 6? Para. 1: Introduce the festivals in general （总 体上） Para 2: sum up （总结）the text.
Festivals of the Dead 1 What are festivals of the dead usually for? Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people. 2 Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different? They all honor the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’ graves. The Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead and eat special food.
Harvest Festivals 1 What makes autumn festivals happy events? Because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
Spring Festivals 1 What do spring festivals celebrate? They celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring. 2 What do people usually do at spring festivals? People usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
Happy Valentine’s Day
Post-reading Christmas
Thanksgiving Day in America is a time to offer thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4 th Thursday of November.
On October 31 children in countries like the US and Canada celebrate Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. All Hallows All Saints’ Day November 1
Easter is the time of springtime festivals, a time for Christians to celebrate the life and resurrection of Christ. And a time of chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks, and colored eggs! Easter will be celebrated on Sunday March 27, 2005.
Post-reading： discuss and write a passage about 120 words. Now , more and more people in China celebrate the foreign festivals, like Valentine’s Day, Christmas. What’s your opinion about this phenomenon? Celebrate or not ?
1 p 3 learning about language.
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