内容正文:
Festivals
and
Celebrations
Book 3 Unit 1
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01
Lead-in
With crackers'cracking noise the old year passed away,
The vernal breeze brings us warm wine and warm spring day.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household,
New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
The Lunar New Year's Day
Chinese festivals
Chinese Spring Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Lantern Festival
02
Pre-reading
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS?
03
While-reading
1.What is the main idea of this passage?
A.The importance of festivals.
The reasons why we celebrate festivals.
C.How people celebrate festivals.
D.The reasons for the development of festivals.
Identify the main idea of a paragraph
Identifying the main ideas of paragraphs is
necessary when analyzing 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.
WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS?
Festivals are celebrated all aruund the world.They
2.Underline the topic sentence
Tave a wide range of origins,such as the seasons
of the year.religions,famous figures,and imporant
events.Every festival has its different customs and
of each paragraph
unique charms.However,no matter how different
they may seem.all over the world.the spirit of
tharing joy,Fa4ihud在,oe。r peace is commen in
all festivals.
Festivals ant hecomine more and mope
Of all the traditional festivals,the harvest festrval
can be found in almout every culmre.This important
commercial,with businesses taking
anculural Testval takes place atter all the crops
advantage of the celebrations.Online
have been gathered in People celehrate to show
shopping websites and social media
that they are grateful for the year's supply of food.
In ancient Egypt.the harvest festival was celebrated
apps have made it much eusier for the
chiring the springtimethe Egyptian larvest seasomn.
public to spend more on gifts for their
I featured a parade and a great feas