unit1readingclass.ppt

1、Unit 1 Festivals around the world,How many festivals do you know both in and out of China?,The Dragon Boat Festival,The Double Ninth Festival,The Spring Festival,Tomb Sweeping Day,The Lantern Festival,The Middle Autumn Festival,The Double Seventh Festival,In China,festivals,New Years Day,festivals,C

2、hristmas,FoolsDay,ValentinesDay,Carnival,Easter,Thanksgiving Day,MothersDay,FathersDay,Halloween,In foreign countries,New Years Day,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(

3、农历)New Year and go on the fifth 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,

4、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.,C

5、hristmas Day,December 25 is my birthday, when people go to the parties and churches, give cards and presents to their friends and relatives.,Spring Festival,The 1st day of the first lunar month,Festival of lanterns,yuanxiao,Womens Day-March 8,The 1st day of May,Labour Day,The 1st day of June,Childre

6、ns 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,festivals,Christmas,FoolsDay,ValentinesDay,Carnival,Easter,Thanksgiving Day,MothersDay,FathersDay,Halloween,In foreign countries,New Years

7、Day,Valentines Day,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,FoolsDay,April 1st,Mothers Day,The second Sunday in May,Happy Fathers Day,The third Sunday in June,Cherry Blossom Festival (March 15- April 15),October 31st,H

8、alloween 万圣节前夕,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.,Trick or treat,Thanksgiving Day,The fourth Thursday in November,Christmas,Whats your favourite holiday? Why? Give your re

9、asons. Tips: My favourite is I like best. I prefer . I enjoy/like. Because I can ,Discussion,food,work,visit,singing,watching TV,fruit,memory,Why do people like festivals?,dress up,family together,festival,Qiqiao Festival,Valentines Day,Which is the greatest and the most important festival to Chines

10、e people?,Spring Festival,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

11、 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 cleanin

12、g 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, hopin

13、g for the best and the good future.,celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ,Reading Festivals and Celebrations,Festivals of all kinds have many_: some _, some _, some for special _.,origins,religious,seasonal,The passage lists _ kinds of modern festivals namely: (即),four,Festivals of the Dead Festival

14、s to Honor People Harvest Festivals Spring Festivals,Skimming(略读，浏览) Para 1 and sub-heading (副标题),people or events,Obon Day of the Dead Halloween,(Japan) (Mexico) some Western countries,(Dragon Boat Festival) Columbus Day festival to honor (Gandhi),China (the USA) India,harvest/ (Thanksgiving) festi

15、vals,European and other countries,(mid-autumn festivals),China and Japan,Spring Festival,(China),(Easter),Some Western countries,(Cherry Blossom Festival),Japan,What and when did ancient people celebrate ?,Most ancient festivals would celebrate the end of_, _and _. Sometimes celebrations would be he

16、ld_.,cold weather,planting in spring,harvest in autumn,after hunters had caught animals,Para1,Careful reading(精读):,Para2,Festivals of the Dead,What are festivals of the dead usually held for? Festivals of the dead are usually held to _ the dead or _the ancestors. 2. What do people do at each festiva

17、l?,Obon Day of the Dead Halloween,honour,satisfy,Obon（盂兰盆节） in Japan,People should go to clean the graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors.,They also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to the earth.,Obon 盂兰盆节,People eat food in the shap

18、e of skulls and cakes with “bones” on them.,The Day of the Dead In Mexico,the festival of Halloween in some western countries dress up, ask for sweets, play a trick on,play the “trick or treat “,Para 3 Festivals to Honour People,Match the festivals with the proper people.,Columbus Day,National Festi

19、val to honor Gandhi,The Dragon Boat Festival,China,India,USA,1. Harvest festivals are always happy events because people are _ (=thankful) that food is gathered for the winter and _(农活) is over .,Para4,2. How do people celebrate the festivals?,Harvest Festivals,grateful,the agricultural work,thanksg

20、iving festivals mid-autumn festivals,In European countries:,People will _ on Thanksgiving festivals. 1. 2. 3.,decorate churches and town halls with,get together to have meals,win awards for their farm produce,In China and Japan:,People _ the moon and in China, enjoy_.,admire,mooncakes,Spring Festivals,Para5,Spring festival Easter Cherry Blossom Festival,What do these spring festivals celebrate?,The return of Jesus from the dead. The end of winter and the coming of