Book 3 Unit 1 Festivals around the world

Warming up & Reading

Lead-inTry to guess what festival is it?

The Spring Festival

Dumpling ball

The Lantern’s Festival

The Mid- Autumn Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival

Christmas

Valentine’s Day

Thanksgiving day

April Fools day

Picture and festival

Picture and festival

Pictures and festivals

Warming up

Discussion:

Talk about the Chinesetraditional festivals ingroups/pairs

Festival

Time What it celebrates

What people do

The Mid-Autumn Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival

The Ching Ming Festival

DiscusDiscussionsion

Sum up:How many types can we sort out the festivals into?

• Festivals of the Dead• Festivals to Honor

People• Harvest Festivals• Spring Festivals

Warming up

ReadingSkimming:Skim the passage and fill in the chart

Types Names Countries

Festivals of

the dead

ObonDay of the Dead

West countries

Festivals to honor people

ChinaColumbus Day

Festival for Gandhi

Harvest Festivals Europe

China&Japan

Spring

Festivals

Spring Festival

Easter

Japan

JapanMexico

HalloweenDragon Boat ~

USAIndia

Thanksgiving

Mid-autumnChina

Western countriesCherry Blossom ~

Reading

Scanning:Scan the passage and find outthe structure of it

ReadingDetail reading:Read Para.1&6 carefully and answer thequestions:1.What may be origins of today’s festivals?

2.Can you summarize Para.6 with one sentence?

Religions, seasons, special people and events

Why do people have festivals?

Reading

Detail reading:

Read Para 2&3Work in pairsDesign questionsAsk and answer in turn

Detail reading Paragraph 2:

Festivals of the DeadCountry Name of Festival When?

Mexico the Day of the Dead

Early November

Western countries

Halloween(October 31)

Japan Obon (Mid July/August)

Paragraph 3: Festivals to Honor People

country name of festival

when for whom

Harvest Festivals

European countries

China & Japan

How to celebrate

Thanksgiving Day

Mid-autumn festival

1)

2)

3)

and

Paragraph 4: Harvest festivals

Decorate…with…

Get together to…

Some people might win awards for farmproduce

Admire the moon enjoy mooncakes

Paragraph 5: Spring FestivalsChina Western countries

Japan

Food

What people do

Spring Festival

carnivals

For what?

Dumplings, fish

and meat

Lucky money; dragon dances; carnivals;family celebrations…

Easter

The return of Jesus; the coming of spring

Cherry Blossom

1.The ancient people needn’t worry about starvation.

2.Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead.

3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honour a lot in China.

4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.

5.Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.

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scanning

Obon People should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. They also light lamps and play music.

Halloween Children dress in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”

Columbus Day in the USA In memory of

the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America

Mahandas Gandhi Day

October 2 is a national festival in India to honor Mahandas Candhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain

Thanksgiving DayThanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to commemorate the harvest.

Carnival Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.

the Cherry Blossom Festival

Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic.

Moral Learning

Discussion:

Why does China extend traditionalfestival holidays, while shorten publicholidays?

Moral Learning

Discussion:1.Value our culture;

2.Arouse pride in our nation;

3.Enjoy more holidays;

4.Reduce traffic pressure.