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Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations
Phoenix flutes make music,
The jade clepsydra flashes,
Fish and dragon lanterns
whirl the whole night long.
凤箫声动,
玉壶光转,
一夜鱼龙舞。
——Xin Qiji
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Teaching objectives
1. talk about festival activities and customs in different countries.
2. judge the relationships between the speakers by paying attention to how they talk to each other.
3. identify the sentence patterns and expressions to express festival activities from the listening text.
4. express some festival activities by using the language in the listening text.
Period 1 Listening and Speaking
What festival is it?
Listen and guess
Christmas Day
Thanksgiving Day
Halloween
Mid-Autumn Day
Chinese Spring Festival
Lead-in
请从左上角第一个音乐开始播放。后续音乐点击“Page Down”键控制。
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February ____________
Dec. ________
January ___________
FESTIVALS
National Day
Christmas
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Spring Festival
What festivals do you know?
New Year
March ___________
April __________
May __________
June__________________
Sep. ________________
Oct. __________
Nov. _______________
Thanksgiving Day
Women’s Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day
Labour Day
Lead-in
Look at the photos below.
Chinese Lantern Festival
Coming-of-Age Day
Rio Carnival
How much do you know about these festivals?
Pre-listening
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Chinese Lantern Festival
Take place on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year.
On this day, people carry or display traditional paper lanterns and guess riddles.
wear traditional costumes
dress up in carnival costumes
visit a lantern fair
march along the streets
receive congratulations from…
guess riddles
attend the ceremony
watch samba dance
give performances
Chinese Latern Festival
成人节(Coming-of-Age Day)
In Japan, it is celebrated on the second Monday in January.
On that day, they wear traditional costumes to celebrate their new lives as adult.
wear traditional costumes
dress up in carnival cos