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Unit 1
FESTIVALS
AND CELEBRATIONS
Reading
&
Thinkking
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Phoenix flutes make music,
The jade clepsydra flashes,
Fish and dragon lanterns
whirl the whole night long.
—Xin Qiji
凤箫声动,
玉壶光转,
一夜鱼龙舞。
1. To identify the main ideas of paragraphs when
analyzing a text.
2. Read and figure out why people celebrate festivals.
3. Talk about your favorite festival and its celebrations.
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CATALOGUE
Fast-reading
Careful-reading
Post-reading
Lead-in
01
Lead in
What festivals are they?
Spring Festival
Tomb-sweeping Day
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Halloween
Christmas
02
Lead in
Why do you think people celebrate different festivals?
To show their gratitude
To memorize of our ancestors
To honor people
To allow us to relax and enjoy life
...
Spring Festival
Play firecrackers(放鞭炮)
Eat dumplings (吃饺子)
Lantern Festival
Guess lantern riddles
(猜灯谜)
Enjoy beautiful lanterns
(赏花灯)
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon boat race(划龙舟)
In memory of Qu Yuan
(纪念屈原)
Mid-autumn Day
Harvest festival
(丰收节)
Admire the moon(赏月)
Pre-reading
Why do we celebrate festivals?
Look at the title and pictures, what will the passage talk about? What is the text type?
Argumentation议论文
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS?
Skim
identify and underline the “topic sentence” of each paragraph
Reading Tip (page 5)
Function
position
Can you see here on page 5 there is a piece of tip. It may help you right? : Identifying the main ideas of paragraphs is necessary when analysing a text. Most paragraphs will have a “topic sentence” that tells you the paragraph’s main idea. It is often the first sentence, but sometimes it is found elsewhere in the paragraph.
Topic sentences:
Tip: The other sentences mainly serve to give details, to explain, or to illustrate(阐明) the main idea.
Now I’d like to invite someone to share your findings. ... All of you did an excenllent job! How about the other sentences. Yes, the other senten