内容正文:
Listening and speaking
Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
Brainstorm
Can you name any
Chinese or foreign festivals?
Chinese festivals
or holiday
Lantern Festival
Tree-Planting Day
Women’s Day
The Spring Festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
Army Day
Teachers’ Day
National Day
Double-ninth Day
New Year’s Day
The Dragon Boat Day
Children’s Day
International Labor Day
Mid-Autumn Festival
foreign festivals
Thanksgiving Day
Halloween
Father’s Day
Mother’s Day
April Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Easter
Christmas Day
Step 1: Listen to the song of Happy New Year.
Step 2: Thinking
What is your favorite festival?
When does it celebrate?
What do people do at that time?
Why do you like it best?
My favorite festival is __________. It takes place on/from __________. It celebrates ___________. People often __________. I like it because _____.
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Spring Festival
to celebrate the coming of the spring
dress in new clothes / dress up (穿上盛装)
lucky money in red paper(压岁钱)
set off firecrackers(放鞭炮) and fireworks
lion or dragon dances
have a get-together feast (团圆饭)
pay visits to relatives
Chinese Lantern Festival
to celebrate the coming of Chinese Lantern Festival
Eating Yuanxiao(吃元宵)
Guessing lantern riddles(猜灯谜)
Watch fireworks (看烟火)
A dragon lantern dance, a lion dance(舞龙舞狮)
A land boat dance(划旱船)
A yangge dance(扭秧歌)
Walking on stilts and beating drums while dancing will be staged. (踩高跷)
People get together to have a family reunion, admire the moon and enjoy the moon-cake.
Mid-Autumn festival
Christmas Day
Western Festivals
Thanksgiving Day
Halloween
Easter
Common Western Festivals
Coming-of-Age Day (Japan)
The second Monday of January is Coming-of-Age Day, a national holiday to encourage those who have newly entered adulthood to become self-reliant members of society. The holiday used to be on January 15, but in 2000 it was moved to the second Monday of the month.
These days, males generally wear suits to their coming-of-age ceremony, but a lot of females choose to wear traditional f