(课件)Unit 3 Festivals and Customs 导读 话题妙切入-【提分教练】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第二册(译林版2020)

导读 话题妙切入 UNIT 3 Festivals and customs 1 导读 话题妙切入 2 导读 话题妙切入 3 导读 话题妙切入 4 导读 话题妙切入 5 导读 话题妙切入 6 导读 话题妙切入 7 Buy Nothing Day To prevent over­consumption. 导读 话题妙切入 8 谢谢观看 THANK YOU! 9 1．Customs and ceremonies must change with the varying needs of different generations. —Philipson 习俗和礼节必须适应不同时代的不同需要。 ——菲利普森 2．Habit makes the custom. —Ovid 习惯成自然。 ——奥维德 3．People think in their nature，speak according to their rules and act on the custom. —Bacon 人们都是凭天性思考，按规则说话，照习俗办事。 ——培根 When the traditional festival comes, everybody is excited about it, because they will have a holiday to relax. The meaning of these festivals is remembered by the old generation all the time, while some young people do not know. So when we enjoy the holiday, we need to know more about the traditional culture. The traditional festival is an important way to preserve our culture, which is the great treasure of human beings. We are so proud of it, because it is priceless. Every festival has its own meaning. Labour Day，for example，celebrates the value of hard work. But somehow it now seems that while celebrating all festivals we just care about one thing—shopping. And that can be a big problem. “In a way，over­consumption(过度消费) is the mother of all our environmental problems，” Kalle Lasn once told CNN. Lasn is the organizer of Buy Nothing Day，a day set up in Canada in 1992 to fight against unhealthy spending habits，and has now become an international event. It's held on the day，which is known as Black Friday—a famous shopping day in the US and Canada. You can see the irony(讽刺) here. Even though the idea of Buy Nothing Day was brought up 27 years ago，we seem to need it now more than ever. It's just as Lasn said，all the different kinds of dilemmas in our lives today—bad air quality，the reduction of forest area，endangered animal species，and plastic bags found in the ocean—seem to be the same cause：over­consumption. Buy Nothing Day might only be here for one day a year，but it's not just to remind us about a