the 3rd period

Class3 Grade7 Changxing Middle School

Teacher, Huang Suyun

Spring Festival

Lantern festival

2014 年 1 月 30日

星期四（ THU)

农历大年三十

2014 年 2 月 14日

星期五（ FRI)

农历正月十五

A: What’s the date today?

B: It’s the last day of the Chinese Lunar Year.

A: What’s special about it?

B: It’s the Chinese New Year.

Qing Ming Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

2014 年 4 月 5日

星期六（ SAT)

2014 年 6 月 2 日

星期一（ MON)

农历五月初五

A: What’s the date today?B: It’s …A: What’s special about it?B: It’s …

Mid-autumn Festival

Double Ninth Festival

2014 年 9 月 8 日

星期一（ MON)

农历八月十五日

2014 年 10 月 2日

星期三（ WED)

农历九月九日

A: What’s the date today?B: It’s …A: What’s special about it?B: It’s …

What do we usually do on these Festivals?

Listen to Susan and Zhang Wei talking about Chinese festivals, and complete the table below.

Festival Date Activities

Qing Ming Festival

_______ or

____

_______________

Dragon Boat Festival

________ of the Chinese Lunar Year

hold _____________ and eat ____ dumplings

Mid-autumn Festival

________ of the Chinese Lunar Year

_______ get together and eat __________

April4

May5

August 15

sweep tombs

boat races

rice

familiesmooncakes

5

Spring Festival

Lantern Festival

Qing Ming Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Mid-autumn

Put the following activities in the appropriate columns.

eat New Year’s Eve dinner set off firecrakers eat rice dumplings

hold dragon boat races sweep tombs enjoy the moon

eat moon cakes decorate the house visit the old people

give the house a good cleaning watch the Spring Festival gala

watch lantern displays eat dumplings go to Home for the Aged

Spring Festival

Lantern Festival

Qing Ming Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Mid-autumn

Festival

Double Ninth Festival

A: What’s your favourite festival? A: Why do you like it best? B: … B: Because …

-What do we usually do on …?

-We usually…

Talk more about these festivals according to the following model.

2014 年 1 月 30日

星期四（ THU)

农历大年三十

2014 年 2 月 14日

星期五（ FRI)

农历正月十五

2014 年 4 月 5日

星期六（ SAT)

2014 年 6 月 2 日

星期一（ MON)

农历五月初五

2014 年 9 月 8日

星期一（ MON)

农历八月十五日

2014 年 10 月 2日

星期三（ WED)

农历九月九日

吃年夜饭

Model

A: What’s the date today?

B: It’s the last day of the Chinese Lunar Year.

A: What’s special about it?

B: It’s New Year’s Eve. My family is going to have a New Year’s Eve dinner together. Would you like to join us?

A: I’d like to. Thank you./

A: I’d like to, but my parents are coming from England and I have to go and meet them. Thank you anyway.

B: What a shame!

去扫墓 吃月饼、赏月

晚上看灯展 吃粽子、赛龙舟 去敬老院

Suppose your Net-pal Diana is coming to spend a traditional Chinese festival with you .Discuss what to buy, what to show her and what activities to take part in.

Group work

Discuss the activities you are going to have after the model. Use the phrase cues.

What about how about let’s shall we

It’ll be fun to why not I think

Model

A: Diana is coming to spend the Spring Festival with us. Shall we decorate our room?

B: Sure. Diana likes Chinese food. Let’s make dumplings together.

C: That’s a good idea. Shall we guess riddles with him?

D: Well, I think he’ll be more interested in the Spring Festival gala.

B: I think so, too. What about watching fireworks display?

A: That’ll be fun.

Plan for ________________

Write down your plan, then report it to your class. You can begin like this:

Our Net-pal Diana is coming to spend __________ with us . It is on ______________.We like______________, because _______ _____________________________. We will have many celebrations .We need to buy ________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.We are going to invite her to take part in a lot of activities ________________________________ __________________________________________; _________ _____________________________________________;________________________________________________________ …

清明时节雨纷纷，

路上行人欲断魂。

借问酒家何处有，

牧童遥指杏花村。

Qing Ming Du Mu （ Tang Dynasty

）

Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days,

Passengers on the way are full of soreness.[pæsindʒə] [sɔ:nis]

I ask a Buffalo boy for tavern to release my sadness, [bʌfəloʊ] [‘tævə:n] [ri‘lis]

He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms.

[‘æpri,kɑt] ['blɔsəm]

poempoem I stay alone as a visitor in a foreign country The festival makes me feel homesick and missing My brothers must have already climbed to High Mountain Everyone can plant ZhuYu there except me, a lonely person.

This poem is full of sadness and homesick.

In autumn, chrysanthemum is in blossom. People can look at the

[kri‘sænθəməm]n. 菊花 ['blɔsəm] n. 全盛期 beautiful flowers and climb mountains as they like.

assignment

In six to eight sentences, write about your favourite festival.Use the question cues.

1. What is your favourite festival?

2. When is it?

3. Why do you like it?

4. What do you usually do during that festival?

5. Do you have a good time during that festival?

… is my favourite festival….