Festivals around the world,Unit 1,人教新课标必修三,贵州省思南中学 许义怀 编制,Do you know these festivals? When do they take place? lunar calendar,Spring Festival January 1,Lantern Festival January 15,Warming up,Dragon Boat Festival May 5,Mid-autumn Day August 15,Easter around March 22-April 25,Thanksgiving Day the last Thursday of November,Halloween October 31,Christmas Day December 25,Festivals,Chinese Festivals Lantern Festival The Dragon Boat Festival Tomb Sweeping Day Mid-Autumn Day New Years Day Double-ninth National Day May 1st,Foreign Festivals Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day Mothers Day Fathers Day April Fools Day Valentines Day Easter Halloween,Spring Festival,The 1st day of the first lunar month,Festival of lanterns,The 15th day of the first lunar month,Womens Day-March 8,The Tree-planting Day,March 12,Tomb-sweeping Day,April 4-6,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,Valentines DayFebruary 14th,In February Forty days before Easter,Carnival (狂欢节/嘉年华),Easter 复活节,The first Sunday after a full moon on or after March 21,Fools Day,April 1st,Mothers Day,The second Sunday in May,Happy Fathers Day,The third Sunday in June,October 31st,Halloween 万圣节前夕,Thanksgiving Day,The fourth Thursday in November,Christmas December 25th,Festivals are meant to celebrate important time of years. Different countries have different festivals. Work in pairs and list below three more Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Then tell the group which festival is your favourite and why.,the Spring Festival,the 1st day of the lunar month,the end of winter; the coming of the spring,visit relatives;have a big meal;get together and have fun with friends,the first full moon after Lunar New Year,eat dumplings; enjoy lanterns and fireworks,International Labor Day,May 1st,the hard-working people all over the world,take three days off work; visit scenic spots; go shopping,the Dragon Boat Festival,the 5th day of the 5th lunar month,In memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet who died in 278 BC,Dragon boat racing; eat zongzi,National Day,October 1st,The founding of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949,Take time off work; travel to visit or see other parts of China,the15th day of the 1st lunar month,Pre-reading,1. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?,2. Look at the pictures and title of the passage below. Discuss in pairs what kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage.,FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS,Reading,How many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?,1. Ancient festivals 2. Festivals of the Dead 3. Festivals to Honor the People 4. Harvest Festivals 5. Spring Festivals,Scanning,Which of the following are not mentioned in the passage? A. Carnival and Columbus Day. B. Halloween and Spring Festivals. C. Thanksgiving Festivals and Obon. D. Valentines Day and April Fools Day.,Skimming,Whats the main idea of the text? How many kinds of festival are mentioned? What are they?,Read the text quickly and answer the following question.,The text mainly tells us about some of todays festivals. There are three kinds of festivals. Some are religious, some are seasonal and some are for special people or events.,Origins of festivals,Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of the _ _, planting in _ and harvest in _. Todays festivals have many _, some _, some _and some for special _ or _.,events,cold weather,spring,autumn,origins,religious,people,seasonal,Careful reading,How do Japanese honor their ancestors?,They have a festival called Obon, when people should go to clean_ and light _ to honor their_. They light_ and play _.,Festivals of the Dead,graves,incense,ancestors,lamps,music,?,Obon in Japan,What do people in Mexico do in memory of the dead?,They offer_,_and_ to the dead on the Day of the Dead. On that day, People eat food in the shape of _and cakes with _on them.,food flowers gifts,skulls,bones,The Day of the Dead in Mexico,What do people in Western countries do in memory of the dead?,They used to believe in the _of the_ of dead people. It is now a _festival, when they can _and go to their neighbors homes to ask for_.,return,spirits,childrens,dress up,sweets,pumpkin head,Halloween in Western countries,mask,Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar and what things are different?,The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs to_ the dead. The Chinese and Japanese _. Ho