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How did you spend your Spring Festival? Spring Festival on the first day of the lunar year last fifteen days do spring cleaning , decorate their houses On New Year’s Eve, dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackers get lucky money Lantern Festival Spring Festival comes at the turn of a Chinese lunar year and is celebrated all over the country. On the day of the Lunar New Year people get up early and wear all kinds of new clothes. In the north, most families prepare jiaozi (dumplings) on the Eve as special food, while in the south sticky-sweet glutinous rice pudding called nian gao is served. Crackers are fired everywhere when the clock strikes twelve, as a signal of saying good-bye to the old year and welcoming the New Year in. Fireworks are lit to drive away evil spirits. People watch the CCTV special Spring Festival programs, sing and dance until the small hours of the morning. How many festivals do you know in China? Festivals Time What does it What do people do? celebrate? Spring sprin The arrival of get together, watch TV and eat festival g spring and the dumplings, give money in red paper new year to children, visit family members Lantern Festival New Year’s Day National Day Army Day Women’s Day Chinese festivals and holidays Mid-autumn Festival May Day Children’s Day Dragon Boat Festival Festivals • Chinese Festivals • Lantern Festival • The Dragon Boat Festival • Tomb Sweeping Day • Mid-Autumn Day • New Year’s Day • Double-ninth • National Day • May 1st • Foreign Festivals • Christmas Day • Thanksgiving Day • Mother’s Day • Father’s Day • April Fool’s Day • Valentine’s Day • Easter • Halloween Easter In April It is the time when Jesus Christ died and came back to life. Eat chocolate eggs Christmas Day On December 25th It is the birthday of Jesus Christ Go to the parties and churches , give cards and presents to our friends and relatives Valentine’s Day In February People send roses and cards to the people they love. Dragon Boat In June Festival The day that the poet Qu Yuan died Eat rice dumplings and watch boat races Ching Ming Festival • In April • The day we remember our dead relatives • Visit graves Mother’s Day In May We give flowers and presents to our mothers. Mid-autumn Festival • In September • The day we enjoy the full moon • Play lanterns and eat moon cakes Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the new year ( 15th, in the lunar calendar) lanterns: symbols of good fortune, happiness and health. “dragon” and “lion ” dances Pre-reading 1.What’s you favourite holiday of the year? 2.What festivals or celebrations do you enjoy in your city or town? Reading You are given 5 minutes to read the passage quickly and try to remember different kinds of festivals mentioned in the text. Task 1 Obon Festivals of the Dead Day of the Dead Cherry Blossom Festival Festivals to Honour People Halloween Dragon Boat Festival Columbus Day Harvest Festivals Easter Thanksgiving Spring Festivals Task 2 1. How many parts is the passage divided into? Six parts. 2. Which festivals are mentioned in the passage? Festivals Countries Obon Japan Day of the Dead Mexico Halloween Dragon Boat Festival China Columbus Day USA India Mahatma Gandhi Day Thanksgiving festivals Mid-autumn Festival China/Japan Spring Festival China Carnival Easter Japan Cherry Blossom Festival Reading again Read the passage again and then fill in the following form: Festivals Purpose Ancient Festivals To celebrate the the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Festivals of the Dead To honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors. How to celebrate Lit fires and made music. Light lamps,play music,eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with bones, go to their neighbors to ask for sweets, dress up Festivals Purpose Festivals to Honour People Harvest Festivals Spring Festivals How to celebrate For their great contributions to the society or the country. Dragon boat racing, eat zongzi. Food is gathered for the winter. A season of agricultural work is over. To celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring. Decorate churches and town halls, have big meals, admire the moon,eat moon cakes. Eat delicious food, give children lucky money, have carnivals. Retell the text by filling the following blanks: There are all kinds of festivals and __________ celebrations around the world, which are held for different reasons. The _______ ancient _________ festivals were mainly held at three times a year--- the end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.Some festivals are held to _____ the dead honor or satisfy and ancestors ______ the _________ they might _____ please in case _______,dowhile harm other festivals are held to honor famous people or the gods, such as _________ Dragon______ Boatand Festival _______ Columbus Day. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy gathered for the events because the food is _________ winter and because a season of agricultural ___________work is over,to which Mid autumn festival belongs.And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ______ coming of spring, such as the ______ lunar New Year, at which people have a very good time. Assignment Collect as much information about festivals as possible.