Unit 1 Festivals and celebrations Reading for Writing & Assessing Your Progress课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

人教版（2019）必修三 Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Reading for Writing & Assessing Your Progress Reading for Writing Write about your festival experience Learning objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: 1. get information about writer’s amazing Naadam experience; 2. analyze the structure and language features of the diary; 3. write a passage about a festival or a celebration you have experienced; 4. cooperate with group mates actively through checking your writings together. Let brainstorm. Lead-in What do you know about the ethnic minority festivals in our country? the dai nationality Water-Splashing Festival the yi nationality Torch Festival the Mongol nationality Naadam Festival Read the diary entry and answer the questions. Pre-writing 1. What does “Naadam” mean? Which events does it include? 2. What Naadam Festival customs did you learn about? 3. What in your opinion is the most impressive thing about the festival? 4. What else would you like to know about the festival and the writer’s experience? Naadam means “games” in Mongolian, and it includes horse racing, wrestling, and archery. Wrestling and horse racing. The horse racing is the most impressive, as it involved little children. The writer did not talk about food or music, but surely they should have been interesting parts of the festival. Let’s learn how the writer arranges his idea. Opening Paragraph: State the topic (e.g., where, when, and with whom you celebrated the festival, and also your main feeling). First Body Paragraph: Describe the start of the festival and the surroundings. Second Body Paragraph: Describe the festival activities in detail. Third Body Paragraph: Describe the festival activities in detail. Closing Paragraph: Give a brief summary of the experience. 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 ... becaus