Happy Valentine’s Day
Festivals and celebrations
Revision
1 发生
2 美人
3 收获
4 庆祝
5 猎人
6 饿死
7 起源
8 宗教的
9 祖先
10 纪念
11 墨西哥
12 节日
13 骨头
14 信心
15 盛装
16 诡计
17 搞恶
作剧
18 诗人
19 到来
20 获得
21 独立的
22 集合
1 take place
2 beauty
3 harvest
4 celebration
5 hunter
6 starve
7 origin
8 religious
9 ancestor
10 in memory of
11 Mexico
12 feast
13 bone
14 belief
15 dress up
16 trick
17 play a trick on
18 poet
19 arrival
20 gain
21
Independent
22 gather
Festivals in China
late January and early February
Time:
couplets
Time:
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month
Lantern show
Lion dancing
Guessing riddles
Dumpling ball
Festival of lanterns
Lantern Festival
Ching Ming Festival
/Tomb sweeping Festival
Time: April, 5 th
On Ching Ming Festival, we often go to
sweep graves in honor of our ancestors.
Time:
on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month
Zongzi
Qu Yuan
Dragon Boat Festival
Time:
on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month
mooncake
Admire the full moon
Mid- Autumn Festival
Spring Festival
Ching Ming Festival
Dragon Boat
Festival
Mid-autumn
Festival
Spring Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honor People
Harvest Festivals
,
Festivals

and

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 European and other
countries
Mid-autumn festival China and Japan
Spring Festivals
Spring Festival China

Easter Some western countries

Cherry Blossom Festival Japan
Careful reading
Para1 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?
2 Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?
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.
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?

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.
They celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
foreign festivals
Happy Valentine’s Day
Christmas
Post-reading
Thanksgiving Day in America is a time to offer thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals.
Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November.
Halloween is one
of the oldest holidays
with origins going back
thousands of years.
On October 31 children in countries like the US and Canada celebrate Halloween.
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 ?
Homework
1 p3 learning about language.