老师：Good morning. Nice to meet you. Welcome to my class today. Welcome to a new unit, Book 2, Unit 3. Let's have a look into the first part. Welcome to the unit. As you can see, in this unit, we'll focus on festivals and customs. Okay? Now, can you tell the English names for the following Chinese traditional festivals? When and how do people celebrate them? Now, you can talk about these festivals with your partners to see how much you have known about them.
老师：Okay, now let's check if you have put them right. The first festival, the Spring Festival, and we can call it the Chinese New Year. The Spring Festival starts with a new moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon, 15 days later. What do people do to celebrate the Spring Festival? During the Spring Festival, people may go back home and reunite with their family members. At night. They enjoy a feast together and watch the Spring Festival Gala. What makes the children extremely happy is that they can get red packets with some lucky money inside. Do you still get red packets? Will that make you feel happy? Okay.
老师：The second festival, the Lantern Festival, it falls on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar year. What do people do to celebrate it? People may enjoy the festive lanterns and gas riddles on those paper lanterns. People also eat small dumpling bowls.
老师：which are called yuan Xiao in Chinese， do you？ Now, the next festival, we can call it Qingming Festival. Oh, we can call it Tomb Sweeping Day. It usually falls on April the 4th or the fifth. From its name, we can see people usually go to the tombs on that day. They may clean the grave sites, pray to ancestors and make ritual offerings, usually fruits or some desserts. So people may pray to the ancestors. They wish their ancestors may still live a good life. In another words, of course, they hope their ancestors can bless them.
老师：Okay, next festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. I think you are familiar with it. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. So what do people do to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, people often eat zones or raise Dragon Boat Festival in memory of a great ancient Chinese poet, Juyuan.
老师：Next festival, do you know what it is? It is called Double 7th Festival. It has another name, Chinese Valentine's Day. It falls on the seventh day of the seventh June month. So what do people do to celebrate the double 7th festival? As we can see, it is called Chinese Valentine's Day. So on that day the lovers may exchange presents with each other and to spend some romantic time together. Okay, the last festival which is coming soon. What's that? It is the Mid Autumn Festival. Do you know when it happens? Yes, it falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. For that day, peop
查看隐藏内容
