Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Festivals and celebrations B3U1 reading and thinking 1. Students will be able to understand the significance of Diwali, identify its customs and traditions, and appreciate its cultural importance in India. 2. Read and figure out why people celebrate festivals. 3. Talk about your favorite festival and its celebrations. learning aims 2 Labor Day Lead-in Spring Festival Tomb-sweeping Day Mid-autumn Festival Latern Festival Dragon Boat Festival What festivals do you observe with your family each year? Play firecrackers(放鞭炮） Eat dumplings (吃饺子) Guess lantern riddles (猜灯谜) Enjoy beautiful lanterns (赏花灯) Dragon boat race(划龙舟) In memory of Qu Yuan (纪念屈原) Lead-in Brainstorm some foreign festivals Foreign Festivals Halloween Thanksgiving Day Christmas Easter Valentine’s Day Rio Carnival Mother’s Day Father’s Day Apirl Fool’s Day Pre-reading Predict: This passage may talk about _______________________________ the reasons for celebrating festivals. Predict the main idea from the title and two pictures Why do we celebrate festivals? WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS ? WHY ? Chinese traditional festivals Foreign festivals WHY DO WE CELEBRATE FESTIVALS? Skim identify and underline the “topic sentence” of each paragraph Reading Tip (page 5) Function position Can you see here on page 5 there is a piece of tip. It may help you right? : Identifying the main ideas of paragraphs is necessary when analysing a text. Most paragraphs will have a “topic sentence” that tells you the paragraph’s main idea. It is often the first sentence, but sometimes it is found elsewhere in the paragraph. Topic sentences: Tip: The other sentences mainly serve to give details, to explain, or to illustrate(阐明) the main idea. 1 2 3 4 5 Now I’d like to invite someone to share your findings. ... All of you did an excenllent job！ How about the other sentences. Yes, the other sentences mainly serve to give details, to explain, or to il