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Unit 2
Let’s celebrate!
Starting out & Understanding ideas
BOOK 2
1. 通过观看视频,从视听材料中获取信息,了解一年四季不同的节日和庆祝方式。
2. 通过阅读短文,探讨不同节日庆祝的原因,激活已有的语言知识储备。
3. 通过具体节日来历和庆祝方式,思考人类庆祝节日背后的原因。
Learning Objectives:
Starting out
1. What festivals are mentioned in the video?
2. Why do people celebrate these festivals?
Activity1 Watch and Answer
Q1. What festivals are mentioned in the video?
The festivals mentioned in the video are "hanami", the Rose Festival, the Mid- Autumn Day, the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, and the New Year.
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Activity 1
Q2. Why do people celebrate these festivals?
Because people want to celebrate the changing seasons and express their appreciation of nature.
seasonal festivals
______________ is to celebrate the harvest.
______________ is to celebrate a season.
______________ is to celebrate an event.
__________________ is to honour a person.
Dragon Boat Festival
Freedom Day
Thanksgiving Day
May Day
Activity 2 Read the 4 festival descriptions on page13 and tell why people celebrate them?
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Activity 3
Work in pairs. Talk about:
Other festivals of each type
Other reasons to celebrate a festival
Holi
This is a festival of color, which marks the beginning of spring in India.
(胡里节)
a festival to celebrate________.
a season
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Easter (March 23 to April 25)
This is a Christian holiday in March or April when Christians remember the death of Christ and his return to life.
Easter Bunny
Easter eggs
a festival to honour _______.
an event
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It’s a night time festival for children, when they’ll frighten the adults by their disguised masks . It’s also for dress-up and fun.
Halloween
(All Saints' Day) (31th. October/ 1st November)
a festival to honour _______.
the dead
Trick
or
treat
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Qingming Festival / Tomb-sweeping Day (April 4-6)
Rebirth of nature
Celebrate it with picnics, and kite flying
Sweep and weed graves
Honour ancestors
Golden Week:The 7-day holiday from Oct. 1st to 7th
Go traveling around the world.
Commemorate the founding of P