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1、Reading,Pre-reading,1. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?,Work in groups of four and talk about the two question.,2. Look at the pictures and title of the
2、passage below. Discuss what kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage.,New words,starve: 饥饿origin: 起源ancestor: 祖先Obon: 盂兰盆节(日本)grave: 坟墓；墓地incense: 熏香in memory of: 纪念feast: 节日；盛宴,skull: 头骨 dress up: 打扮；盛装 play a trick on: 搞恶作剧 award: 奖品 rooster: 公鸡 energetic: 充满活力的 carnival: 狂欢
3、节 parade: 游行,Read through the passage and find out how many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?,1. Ancient festivals 2. Festivals of the Dead 3. Festivals to Honor the People 4. Harvest Festivals 5. Spring Festivals,Scanning,What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?,Para. 1 Ancien
4、t Festival celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.,Skimming,Para. 2 Festivals of the Dead Japan -Obon Mexico-Day of the Dead America-Halloween,Para. 3 Festivals to Honour People China - Dragon Boat Festival USA - Columbus
5、 Day India - festival to honour Gandhi,Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan,Dragon Boat Festival,Columbus Day,Para. 4 Harvest Festivals European and other countries - Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival China and Japan- Mid-Autumn festival,Para. 5 China - Spring festival Some Western countries - Easter and related holi
6、days Japan - Cheery Blossom Festival,Consolidation,I. Finish the tasks one by one according to the text.,1. Festivals of the Dead Fill in the blanks.,ancestors,Obon,Mexico,Halloween,graves,incense,music,bones,gifts,dress up,2. Festivals to Honour People Match the person with the festival. 1. Qu Yuan
7、 2. Christopher Columbus 3. Mohandas Gandhi a. the Dragon Boat Festival b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2 c. Columbus Day,a,c,b,3. Harvest Festivals Choose the best answer. Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people _. A. get together to have meals B. decorate houses
8、to admire the moon C. win awards for their farm produce D. enjoy mooncakes,B,4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks.,The Spring Festival,Carnivals,Easter,Japan,lucky,dragon dances,Parades,colourful clothing,1). What are festivals of the dead usually for?Festivals of the dead are for honouring or sat
9、isfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.,II. Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following question.,2). What makes autumn festivals happy events?Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that foo
10、d is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished. 3). What do people usually do at spring festivals?At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.,4).What is one important reason to have festivals and c
11、elebrations?It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life/ be proud of our customs/ forget our work for a little while.,5). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican fes
12、tivals of the dead all have customs to honour the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.,1. The ancient people neednt worry about their food. 2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead.,F,T,III
13、. True or False,3. Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. 4. Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn. 5. Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.,T,F,F,Discussion,Which festivals you think are the most important and which are the funniest.,选用合适的词或短语，用其适当形式 填空。 be m
14、eant to; take place; at that time; beauty; harvest,CHECKING CORNER,1. A terrible accident _ at the crossroads three days ago.,took place,be meant to; take place; at that time; beauty; harvest,2. _, we didnt have enough money to buy a car. 3. Millions of dollars are spent each year on _ products.,At
15、that time,beauty,be meant to; take place; at that time; beauty; harvest,4. Even the youngest children would come and help to get the _ in. 5. I _ be working on Sunday, but I just fooled around all day.,harvest,was meant to,Homework,1. Go over the text after class and try to write a summary of the text (about 100 words) and retell the text according to the summary.,2. Prepare for “discovering useful words and expressions” on Page 4. (Ex1, 2 and 3) 3. If possible try to find out as much information as possible about festivals around the world. You can surf the Internet or refer to the books.,
