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Festivals---The Spring Festival
Chinese New Year
Brainstorming
When talking about the Spring Festival, which words come into your mind first?
Fireworks/firecrackers
Spring Festival couplets
Paper cuttings
Family reunion dinner/New Year’s Eve dinner
Red envelope/gift money / lucky money/red
packet
Spring cleaning
Staying-up
Watch a short video related to the Spring Festival, pay attention to the details about the Spring Festival and then finish some tasks related to the video.
The Spring Festival
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Task 1 Answering questions
1, When do Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival?
The first day of the first lunar month.
2, What is the vital ritual for Chinese people during the Spring Festival?
Being around family members.
Task 1 Answering questions
3, What do Chinese people do to celebrate the Spring Festival?
Worship the Kitchen God
clean houses
do shopping
put up Spring Festival couplets
set off fireworks or firecrackers
stay up late on New Year’s Eve
have a New Year,s Eve dinner
watch the Spring Festival Gala
Task 2 Filling in blanks
The Spring Festival is China’s biggest extravaganza and a day for _____________.
Many of those living away from their hometown return home during Spring Festival, which gives rise to what’s called ____________________________, also known as___________________.
The Spring Festival celebration is a continuous process, starting from________________________.
In ancient time, there was a monster called _____,who would come out and harm the world _______________________________________.
family reunion
“the largest annual human migration in the world
Spring Festival travel rush
the 23rd or 24th day of the 12th lunar month
Nian
by the end of each year
Task 2 Filling in blanks
Chinese people would put up red couplets as Nian______________.
People also set off fireworks and firecrackers to _________________.
In South China, people must have a dish of fish on the New Year’s Eve because in Chinese, “fish” sounds similar to the character