Unit 3 Festivals and Customs Welcome to the unit & Reading 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语译林版（2020）必修第二册

Welcome to the unit & Reading Unit 3 Festivals and customs By the end of this period, you will be able to: know the wedding customs in India and the grand occasion of the Rio Carnival; explore cultural values behind those customs; develop a tolerant and respectful attitude towards different cultures and the ability of cross-cultural communication. Learning objectives CONTENTS Pre-reading I While-reading II Post-reading III Sentences analysis IV V Welcome to the unit Festivals can tell us a lot about the cultures of different countries. Watch the video and finish the following exercises. Welcome to the unit Yi Peng Lantern Festival is celebrated in Chiang Mai, Thailand as a way to ___________________________________. Midsummer’s Day is celebrated in Sweden for people to _____________ ___________________________________________. The Day of the Dead, which lasts ______________, is a festival in Mexico for people to _________________________________________. let bad memories go and make a wish for the future hold parties, singing and dancing around a midsummer pole for three days remember loved ones who are no longer alive Yi Peng Lantern Festival is celebrated in Chiang Mai, Thailand. During the festival, you can see different styles of lanterns and special parades around Chiang Mai. On the evening of the full moon in the 12th Thai lunar month, people light hundreds of paper lanterns and launch them into the air. This is a way to let bad memories go and make a wish for the future. In Sweden, the winters are long and cold. There are only six hours of daylight in Stockholm, its capital city, and 24 hours of darkness further north. As a result, the Swedish people like summers very much and celebrate Midsummer’s Day. This festival is traditionally held on the Saturday between 20 and 26 June. People hold parties, singing and dancing around a midsummer pole traditionally cal