Unit1 Festivals and Celebrations

                                          ---reading for information

Step1: Free-talking

       Festivals in and out of China.

Step2:Fast-reading

      1. para1: _______ festivals

       para2:Festivals of ________

       para3:Festivals to ________

       para4:_______ Festivals

       para5:_______Festivals

       para6:________ of Festivals

§  2. What does the passage tell us?

The passage mainly tells us about some ______________.

Step3:Careful-reading

Paragraph 1: Ancient Festivals

1.When would most ancient festivals celebrate?

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2.What are the characters(特点) of today's festivals?

  _______________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 2: Festivals of the Dead

1. On Obon, people should go to _____________ and light ________in memory of their ancestors. Besides, they also ___________and __________.

2.On the Day of the Dead, people eat food in the shape of _______and cakes with ______ on them. They offer______, ______ and _______to the dead.

3.On Halloween, children can _________and go to their neighbors’ home to ask for ________.

Paragraph3: Festivals to Honor People

1.How many festivals are in this paragraph?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

2.What are they?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

3.Who is each festival in memory of?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 4: Harvest Festivals

1.What are the festivals?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

2.Where are the festivals celebrated?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

3.How do people celebrate the festivals in their own country?

  ____________________________________________________________________________

Paragraph 5: Spring Festivals

   purpose：_______________________________the end of winter and to the coming of spring

   Spring Festival in China:

   What do they do?       What about the western countries?

Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan:

   The country is _________________with cherry tree flowers,looks ______________it is covered   with pink snow.

Step4:Grammar filling

Consolidation:

There are 1._______ kinds of festivals throughout the world, which 2._________(satisfy )and please the ancestors,to honour some famous people or Important events, and to express people’s gratitude to the God for 3.__________(bring) them a year of plenty.For example,Japanese observeObon,when people go to clean graves 4.______light incense in memory of their 5._______(ancestor). In India, October2 is a national festival to honour Mohandas Gandhi,who helped India become an 6.______(depend) country.And in China the Spring festival,which is celebrated in January or February, is 7._______most energetic and important because it is a festival that looks forward 8.____  the coming of spring . Why are all these festivals everywhere? Because during the festivals, people can get together 9.________ ( eat ),drink and have fun with each other, forgetting all the10.______(day) struggles  and demands for a while.

Step5:Homework

1.Discussion:Should we Chinese students celebrate Western festivals, such as Christmas, Saint Valentine’s Day?