Unit 3 Celebrations-2020-2021学年新教材高中英语必修第一册新课标辅导【精讲精练】北师大版（课件ppt）

Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） Unit 3　Celebrations Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） 胡里节，中文叫洒红节，是印度传统节日之一，也是印度传统新年。 Festivals around the world India has many festivals，with some celebrations that last for weeks. However，none of them come even close to Holi，India’s most colorful and fun festival. Celebrated on the day following the full moon，this year’s festival happens to be on March 19th. 美文导读·话题链接 Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） As with most Indian festivals，this one also has many different folk stories. Most of them center around the success of good over evil. The most popular one is about a king，who hates his son Prahlada for loving the creator of the Universe－Lord Vishnu. When every attempt to Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） stop him fails，his sister，Holika believed to be immune(免疫的) to fire，joins in the effort by inviting the young boy to sit with her inside a huge fire. Helped by the power of Lord Vishnu，Prahlada escapes safely，while the evil Holika is burned to death.To remember this event，huge outdoor fires are lit in the night before Holi in order to clean the air of evil spirits and to celebrate the death of the evil. Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） So what’s so great about this day? While there are some fun parades(游行) and folk songs and dance performances，the most fun of all is walking to the streets and splashing(泼洒) people with water guns and dry colors and even covering them with entire buckets of colored water. On this day，everybody is fair game，no matter how old or how young. Unit 3 Celebrations 菜 单 英语·必修 第一册（配BSD版） At about midday，the splashing comes to an end and people living close to oceans or rivers usually take a bath in the water to clean themselves before going home to a delicious home­made big dinner and a well­deserved short sleep，following this full day of fun and activities. $