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Unit 1 My Amazing Naadam Experience
Step 2: Predict for the text type
It’s a narrative about the writer’s Naadam experience.
My amazing Naadam experience
Main idea
Text type
Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Brief introduction of Naadam Festival
What the author saw before the opening ceremony.
The wrestling competition and rules about it.
The horse race.
Brief summary of Naadam Festival
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Step2 Reading for main idea
Part 1
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Part 2
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Part 3
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time order
I experienced the Naadam Festival in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the first time this year. The festival falls on the fourth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, usually lasting for three days. Naadam means "games" in Mongolian, and it is represented by three events: horse racing, wrestling, and archery, which are all so exciting to watch!
How to express the time
【Imitation】
1.春节在每年的农历初一,通常持续15天。
Spring festival falls on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, usually lasting for 15 days.
2.中秋在每年的农历八月十五,是中国的传统节日。
The Mid-Autumn Day falls on the 15th of the 8th lunar calendar, which is a traditional festival in China.
language features
On the first day, I set off to the games early with my friend Burin. I saw a lot of people wearing fancy Mongolian robes. Some were feeding their horses, some were practising archery, and others were chatting or taking photographs. Burin told me that Mongolians travel every year from near and far to attend the
festival, just as their ancestors had done for centuries.
After the opening ceremony and some amazing performances, the wrestling competition began. Mongolian wrestling is different
from the wrestling in the Olympic Games. There are no rounds, and wrestlers are not separated by weight. The wrestler loses if any part of his body above his knee touches the ground. After
singing some songs, the competitors danced onto the green field, waving their arms in the air as if they were eag