内容正文:
Book3Unit1 Festivals and celebrations Reading for Writing
My Amazing Naadam Experience
【Learning Objectives】
1. Learn about facts about the Naadam Festival and understand the author’s feelings.
2. Grasp the organization and Language features of a diary entry and learn to write the key passages accordingly.
3. Write about your festival experience and feel proud of our ethnic cultures.
【Cultural Connection文化链接】
Naadam is the most famous, interesting festival and national holiday of Mongolia attracts worldwide attention. Origin of the festival dates back to the great warriors’ period or great Genghis Khaan’s period in the 13th century. Naadam means “Festival or Feast of sports.” As well as, the festival is locally termed “Eriin Gurvan Naadam” means “Three manly sports.”The three sports are: Horse race, wrestling and archery.
Ancient times, the Mongolian great kings and military generals used to train their warriors(战士) and the Warriors' main battle tool horses while competing and feasting on the three manly traditional sports. The traditional Three Mainly Sports have been generating for centuries and being enriched by more traditional sports and games make today’s festival more interesting. During the festival, Mongolians dress in colorful and distinctive traditional clothes and ride their most beautiful horses.
This is not only festival and holiday for Mongolians; this is a day Mongolian proud of their tradition and unique way of nomadic(游牧的) culture.
【Prevision课前预习】
Activity 1 Prediction
What can we get from the title and picture on page 8?
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Activity 2 Read the passage quickly and find out the topic sentence in each paragraph.
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