新人教必修三 Unit1 Festivals around the world-Warming up14679推荐.ppt

Happy New Year! Free Talk How about your Winter Holiday? Did you enjoy it? What have you done during the Spring Festival? What’s your new plan in this new term? What will you do for your new plan? * How many festivals do you know both in and out of China? * FESTIVALS New Year Spring Festival Festival of Lanterns May Day Dragon Boat Festival Children’s Day Mother’s Day Father’s Day Army’s Day Valentine’s Day Teachers’ Day Mid-Autumn Festival National Day Christmas Day Can you name some Festivals? Warming-up * Festivals are meant to celebrate important events. Different countries have different festivals. Here are five Chinese festivals that you know. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and one thing that people do at that time. * The Chinese festivals * Spring Festival * * dumpling * Words about Spring Festival * Greeting Season 春节 The Spring Festival 农历 lunar calendar 正月 lunar January; the first month by lunar calendar 除夕 New Years Eve; eve of lunar New Year 初一 the beginning of New Year 元宵节 the Lantern Festival * Food names 团圆饭 family reunion dinner 年夜饭 the dinner on New Years Eve 饺子 dumpling 汤圆 Tang-yuan; 年糕 Nian-gao; New Year cake 红枣 red dates 西瓜子 water melon seed 莲子 lotus seed 莲藕 lotus root 糖 candy * Activities 春联 Spring Festival couplets 剪纸 paper-cuts 年画 New Year paintings 烟花 fireworks 爆竹 firecrackers 舞狮 lion dance 舞龙 dragon dance 灯谜 riddles written on lanterns 灯会 exhibit of lanterns 守岁 staying-up * 拜年 pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit 去晦气 get rid of the ill- fortune 祭祖宗 offer sacrifices to ones ancestors 压岁钱 gift money 辞旧岁 bid farewell to the old year 扫房 spring cleaning; general house-cleaning * Blessing Treasures（财富） fill the home Business flourishes（兴隆） Peace all year round Wishing you prosperity（繁荣、昌盛） Harmony（和谐） brings wealth May all your wishes come true Everything goes well T