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功能句式
* Festivals are meant to celebrate important events.
* What’s your favorite holiday of the year?
* What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town?
* Do you like spending festivals with your family or with your friends?
* What part of a festival do you like best——the music, the things to see, the visit or the food?
* Festivals and celebrations of all kinds are held everywhere.
* They lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty.
* Some festivals are held to honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors.
* Festivals can be held as an honor to famous people or the gods.
* The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring.
* Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our daily life for a little while.
重点句子
1. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and one that people do at that time. P1
2. They lit fires and made music because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. P1
3. Some festivals are held to honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm. P2
4. They light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors to earth. P2
5. The festival of Halloween had its origin as an event in memory of the dead. P2
6. The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. P2
7. They might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colorful clothing of all kinds. P2
8. The teacher said that we could not leave early.(permission) P5
9. The hunters are lost. They could starve.(possibility) P5
10. It was Valentine’s Day and Hu Jin had said she would meet him at the coffee shop after work. P7
11. She said she would be there at seven o’clock, and he thought she would keep her word. P7
12. "I don’t want them to remind me of her." So he did. P7