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UNIT 3 CELEBRATIONS
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提升同学们在跨文化交际方面的意识ꎮ
主题: 印度节日
学科素养:文化意识
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Holi in India
India has many festivalsꎬ with some
celebrations that last for weeks. Howeverꎬ none
of them come even close to Holiꎬ Indias most
colorful and fun festival.
As with most Indian festivalsꎬ this one also
has many different folk stories. Most of them
center around the success of good over evil. The
most popular one is about a kingꎬ who hates his
son Prahlada for loving the creator of the Universe
— Lord Vishnu. When every attempt to stop him
failsꎬ his sisterꎬ Holika believed to be immune
(不受影响的) to fireꎬ joins in the effort by
inviting the young boy to sit with her inside a huge
fire. Helped by the power of Lord Vishnuꎬ
Prahlada escapes safelyꎬ while the evil Holika is
burned to death. To remember this eventꎬ huge
outdoor fires are lit in the night before Holi in
order to clean the air of evil spirits and to
celebrate the death of the evil.
So whats so great about this day? While
there are some fun parades(游行) and folk songs
and dance performancesꎬ the most fun of all is
walking to the streets and splashing(泼洒) people
with water guns and dry colors and even covering
them with entire buckets of colored water.
On this
dayꎬ everybody is fair gameꎬ no matter how old or
how young.
At about middayꎬ the splashing comes to an
end and people living close to oceans or rivers
usually take a bath in the water to clean
themselves before going home to a delicious home ̄
made big dinner and a well ̄deserved short sleepꎬ
following this full day of fun and activities.
○课标词汇
creator / kriˈeɪtə(r) / n. 创造者ꎻ创建者
escape / ɪˈskeɪp / v.逃离ꎻ逃避ꎻ被忽视ꎻ避免
spirit / ˈspɪrɪt / n.精神