高中英語必修三unit1festivalaroundtheworldreading課件.ppt

,Festivals around the world,Group work,Help each other to know and remember the new words and expressions. Discuss the form in warming up. 6 minutes,Group work,Read the text and find the main idea of each paragraph. Finish the form. Help each other to find the correct answers. Check the answers to the questions on P3. 15 minutes,Obon,Japan,the Day of the Dead,Mexico,Halloween,the Dragon Boat Festival,China,Columbus Day,USA,Mahatma Gandhi Day,India,the Mid-autumn Festival,China/Japan,the Spring Festival,China,Carnival,Easter,Cherry Blossom Festival,Japan,Thanksgiving festivals,Festivals of the dead,Festivals to honour people,Harvest festivals,Spring festivals,western countries,western countries,western countries,European countries,Scanning,1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in ancient times?,Answer the following questions:,2.What kind of things are done to celebrate the Obon Festival?,3. Why does India have a national festival on October 2?,4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?,5. Name three things people do at the Spring Festival in China.,1.Which three times of the year did people celebrate in ancient times?,a. the end of cold weather; b. planting in spring and harvest in autumn; c. When hunters caught animals.,2.What kind of things should be done to celebrate the Obon Festival?,People should go to clean the graves, light incense, lamps and play music.,3. Why does India have a national festival on October 2?,To honor Gandhi who helped gain Indians independence from Britain.,4. How do Europeans celebrate Thanksgiving festivals?,People decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit; people get together to have meals.,5. Name three things people do at the Spring Festival in China.,eat dumplings, fish and meat; give children lucky money; dragon dances; visit family members,Comprehending,Lets check the answers to the questions on P3 now.,Use the information from the passage to answer the questions.,What are festivals of the dead usually for? What makes autumn festivals happy events?,Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.,Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.,Use the information from the passage to answer the questions.,3. What do people usually do at spring festivals? 4. What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?,At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.,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.,Use the information from the passage to answer the questions.,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 festivals 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. However, there are some differences. The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do.,What is your favourite festival? Why? When is it? What is the festival about? How long can we have it for holiday? What do we usually do in the festival?,My favourite festival,Discussing,I like festival best. It is celebrated on . to remember/ in memory of . It usually lasts days. People do .,Suggested expressions:,Listen to your tape and read the text again. Try to retell the text with only a few sentences. Finish exercises on Page 4.,Homework,Enjoy:,Enjoy some pictures and get to know the festivals mentioned in the passage.,in Japan,Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house to lead the ancestors back to home.,Obon,When the festival is over, thousands of lanterns are placed into the water and they drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world.,The Day of the Dead in Mexico,People offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.,Toys, decorations, and candies in the shape of skulls, are sold in the market-places to honor ancestors.,Halloween Parade,Halloween,in the US and Europe,The jack-o-lantern(空心南瓜燈) is the most common symbol of Halloween.,Children dress in costumes and go from house to house to ask for candy by saying “Trick or Treat!”,DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL,boat and beat drums to scare fish away,to honour the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan,threw glutinous(粘性的) rice dumplings into the water to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuans body,Columbus Day in the USA,in memory of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in America,October 2 is a national festival in India to honour Mohandas Gandhi.,Mohandas Gandhi Day,Gandhi was the leader who helped gain Indias independence from Britain.,Harvest Festivals,People are grateful because their food is _ for the winter, and because a season of _ work is over.,gathered,agricultural,Thanksgiving Day,Thanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to commemorate the harvest.,The traditional Thanksgiving food-roasting turkey, corn and pumpkin pies with ice-cream.,The Mid-Autumn Festival,late January or early February,Time:,couplets,Spring Festivals,Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.,Carnival,Easter is an important religious and social festival in Christian countries. It celebrates the return of Jesus for Christians and the coming of spring.,Egg hunts,Easter bunny,Easter egg,Every April when the country is covered with cherry flowers.,Japanese go out with their friends or families, sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic.,the Cherry Blossom Festival,Based on the passage fill in the chart.,( give your own ideas.),Based on the passage fill in the chart.,( give your own ideas.),Free talking,Based on the reading passage, what do most festivals seem to have in common?,food,music,entertainment,being with family and friends,lights or fire,dance,remembering events or people,Which festivals are mentioned in the passage?,Listening & Skimming,Find out the right festival for the sentence?,Review of the festivals,It is the birthday of Jesus Christ.,Easter,Christmas,New Year,It is the day that we remember the poet Qu Yuan.,Dragon Boat Festival,Ching Ming Festival,Chong Yang Festival,People send roses and cards to the people they love.,Valentines Day,Mothers Day,Halloweens Day,It is on the third Sunday in June.,Fathers Day,Mothers Day,Dragon Boat Festival