Festivals around the world,Unit 1,Guess who “I” am according to my self-introduction and the pictures.,Game,Spring Festival,Im the most important holiday in China. I always come on the eve of the lunar (农历) New Year and go on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.,Colorful lanterns and delicious yuanxiao are my favorites. Ive got two names, both of which express my wish for good fortune, happiness and health.,Lantern Festival,Valentines Day,My birthday comes on February 14. Lovers send chocolates, roses and cards to each other.,Im kind of sad not that it is rainy, but that people remember their dead relatives and visit their graves on my birthday.,Tomb-sweeping Day,Dragon Boat Festival,Love the great poet Qu Yuan, love me. People eat rice dumplings and watch boat races in memory of Qu Yuan.,Christmas Day,December 25 is my birthday, when people go to the parties and churches, give cards and presents to their friends and relatives.,Chinese public holidays,International Womens Day,New Years Day,Childrens Day,National Day,Labour Day,Brainstorming,festivals,Teachers Day,Chinese Festivals & Celebrations,Labour Day,1st day of May,Guess and say something about the festival according to the pictures below.,Childrens Day,1st day of June,Mid-Autumn Festival,15th day of the eighth lunar month,National Day,1st day of October,Teachers Day,10th day of September,festivals,Christmas,Fools Day,Valentines Day,Carnival,Easter,Thanksgiving Day,Mothers Day,Halloween,Brainstorming,Foreign Festivals &Celebrations,Foreign Festivals & Celebrations,Carnival (狂欢节) February 21-23,Guess and say something about these festivals according to the pictures below.,Easter,the first Sunday after a full moon on or after March 21,Halloween (万圣节) November 31st,Thanksgiving Day,the fourth Thursday in November,Fools Day,April 1st,Mothers Day,the second Sunday in May,food,work,visit,singing,watching TV,fruit,memory,Why do people like festivals?,dress up,family together,festival,Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year. Which is the greatest and the most important festival to Chinese people?,Spring Festival,January/ February,the end of winter，arrival of spring, Lunar New Year， reunion with family and relatives,give money in red paper to children; see dragon dances; eat fish, prawns and dumplings；visit family members,Mid-Autumn Festival,autumn fall,the beauty of the full moon，harvest, time with family and friends,give and eat mooncakes, watch the full moon with family and friends,National Day,October 1,the founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949,take time off work; travel to visit family or to see other parts of China; go shopping,Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival,the fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar,the memory of the beloved poet Qu Yuan who died in 278 BC,eat zongzi; watch dragon boat races; throw rice wrapped in reed leaves into water in memory of Qu Yuan; put herbs on doorways for good health,Which is the greatest and the most important festival to Christian people in Western countries?,Christmas,Both of them are quite popular around the world. Can you tell the similarities and differences between them by comparison?,Spring Festival,Christmas,from the 1st day to the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month,dumpling ( jiaozi), sweet dumpling (tangyuan/yuanxiao),Dec. 25th,candies, cookies, pudding,foods, fruits, clothes, drinks, red packets,foods, desserts, Christmas decorations,do spring-cleaning, do Spring Festival shopping, decorate the houses,do cleaning and shopping, decorate the houses with Christmas trees and colored lights,have family reunion dinner on New Years Eve; pay New Years visits, recreational activities (dragon /lion dance, ),family reunion, have a big dinner on Christmas Eve,say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, hoping for the best and the good future.,celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ,Thank you.,