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Topic Talk & Lesson 1 Spring Festival
Unit 3 Celebrations
Warming up
Choose a festival or a special occasion that you like. Talk about when and how it is celebrated.
When is it?
Is there any activities on that day?
How to celebrate it?
Festival or Occasion
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Topic Talk
Listen to Dialogue 1. Complete the information in the Text Builder.
Text Builder
Celebrations
I love celebrating ____________.
It is celebrated ____________.
We usually celebrate it by _______. Usually, children play with lanterns while the adults sit together, _____.
Use the Text Builder to talk about your favourite festival/occasion. Then read aloud to other students.
Example: I love celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. we usually celebrate it by having a family dinner and...
What are Jenny’s friends going to do for her? Why?
What are they going to make and give Jenny at the party?
What will Jenny do at the party?
Listen to Dialogue 2. Answer the following questions.
They are going to holding a surprise party for her. Because Jenny’s birthday is coming.
They are going to make a big monster cake, some monster birthday cards and give her some monster presents.
She will be very happy and will have a great time.
Use the language you have learnt to introduce a traditional Chinese festival to a foreign friend.
Amid the boom of firecrackers a year has come to an end, and the spring wind has wafted warm breath to the wine.
— Wang Anshi
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
— Charles Lamb
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.
— Benjamin Franklin
Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
— Edna Ferber
QUOTE&UNQUOTE
Lesson 1 Spring Festival
What is Spring festival?
Spring Festival is also called Chinese New Year. It’s the most important traditional Chinese holiday.
Spring Festival traditionally starts from the last day of previous year to fifteenth days of new year of