Unit3 Festivals and Celebrations Integrated Skills 导学案2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

Unit 3 Festivals and customs Promoting traditional Chinese festivals - writing about Mid-Autumn Festival Learning aims: 1. Learn to comprehend and analyze key information, meanings and language features in a sample festival introductory writing. 2. Develop clear and coherent writing to effectively introduce the traditional festival. Step 1 Lead-in Review: why should we protect and promote traditional Chinese festivals? Video-watching: Mid-Autumn Festival Step 2 Pre-writing Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival is the biggest traditional festival in autumn in China. Chinese New Year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are four major traditional Chinese festivals. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month (农历) every year celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival. It witnesses the full moon and family reunion (团圆). The festival of moon In ancient China, festival time was mostly related to the Moon’s movement. The Moon symbolizes (象征着) softness and brightness and brings joy to people. People see the Moon as God’s witness (见证者) of themselves. This harmony (和谐) of man and nature shows the unique emotion of Chinese people and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is the mid-autumn of a year. The Moon on this day is also the most charming of the year. Ancient sacrifice (祭祀) and worship (崇拜) of the Moon and the reunion of the people symbolized by the full moon contributed to the tradition of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival for harvest Autumn is a harvest season. There are good harvests across China. There are also happy faces. People make mooncakes using the grains, which become the most important food of Mid-Autumn Festival. The full moon of the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is accompanied by the delicious mooncakes. During Mid-Autumn Festival, people appreciate (欣赏) the Moon together and share the food contained their hard work. The festival of reunion Reunion is the eternal (永恒的) theme of Mid-Autumn Festival and g