3.1 Welcome to the unit-【上好课】高一英语同步精品课堂（译林版2020必修第二册）

Unit 3 Festivals and customs Welcome to the unit Lead-in Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. —Robert A. Heinlein Discussion 1. What Chinese traditional festivals do you know? What should people do at these festivals? Chinese Spring Festival Mid-Autumn Festival The Lantern Festival Dragon Boat Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day Double Ninth Festival Free talk How much do you know about Spring Festival? Free talk 2. How much do you know about Spring Festival? Do you know the history behind it? Spring Festival is the Chinese lunar New Year, which has a long history. The Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries rich historical and cultural deposits in the process of inheritance and development. The celebrations during the Spring Festival are varied. During the Spring Festival, there are differences in customs content or details due to different regional cultures throughout the country, with strong regional characteristics. Spring Festival It is said that in ancient times, the Nian beast would attack the village at midnight every year. People take advantage of nian's weakness by setting off firecrackers and pasting Spring Festival couplets to drive away nian's attacks. Setting off firecrackers and pasting Spring Festival couplets has gradually become a festival custom, and the Spring Festival has thus become one of the symbols of the Chinese nation. Nian 3. What festivals do you know in other countries? Watch the video and complete the sentences. Yi Peng Lantern Festival is celebrated in Chiang Mai, Thailand as a way to __________ _______________________________________. Midsummer’s Day is celebrated in Sweden for people to _______________________________ _______________________________________. The Day of the Dead, which lasts ___________, is a festival in Mexico for people to _______________________________________. memories go and make a wis