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UNIT 1
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS
Write about your festival experience
To read a passage about a festival experience and learn about its organization and language features.
To write a passage about a festival or a celebration you have experienced recently.
Which part of a festival do you like best: the activities, the music, the customs, or the food?
What should be included in the opening/body/closing
paragraph(s)?
How did the writer arrange his/her ideas?
What kind of interesting details did the writer describe?
How did the writer describe his/her feelings/emotions during the event?
Listen, read the diary entry and think about:
1 What does “Naadam” mean? Which events does it include?
Read the diary entry and answer the questions.
Naadam means “games” in Mongolian, and it includes horse racing, wrestling, and archery.
n.摔跤
n.射箭
2 What Naadam Festival customs did you learn about?
Wrestling and horse racing.
3 What in your opinion is the most impressive thing about the festival?
The horse racing is the most impressive, as it involved little children.
4 What else would you like to know about the festival and the writer’s experience?
The writer did not talk about food or music, but surely they should have been interesting parts of the festival.
Study the organization and language features.
1 Read the sentence patterns below and use them to rewrite the opening sentence of the article.
This was my first time spending … and it was an enjoyable and exciting experience for me.
I’ll never forget … because …
I’ll always … because …
This was my first time spending … and it was an enjoyable and exciting experience for me.
This was my first time spending my holiday in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to celebrate the Naadam Festival, and it was an enjoyable and exciting experience for me.
adj.自治的
adj.内部的;里面的;内心的
n.地区;区域
I’ll never forget … because …
I’ll never forget the Naadam Festival in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region because it was an enjoya