unit12.ppt

Free Talk 1.When is Valentine’s Day? Do you know its origin ? 2.What do people do on Valentine’ Day. 3.Do you think only lovers send gifts to each other on that day? Unit12 TheFestivals Revision group work 5min 1.Can you name three festivals? The Spring Festival; Christmas Day; Thanksgiving Day 2.What is the date of_____? _____on the first day of the Lunar January. _____on the 25th of December. _____on the fourth Thursday of November. The Spring Festival is on the first day of the Lunar January. Christmas Day is on the 25th of December. Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday of November. Reading Task The Spring Festival The spring Festival is the Chinese Lunar New Year’ Day. It is on the first day of a year on the Lunar calendar. It is people’s favorite festival in China and in many Asian countries, just like Christmas in the west. The family members wound get together around their parents to celebrate the Spring Festival happily. No matter how far away from home, people try to get back home before Lunar New Year’s Eve, just as the old saying goes, “East or west, home is best.” People usually begin preparing for the celebration a week before the festival. They clean their houses meaning to sweep out all the bad luck in the past year. They prepare many kinds of Chinese traditional food, get new clothes for children, hang up red lanterns in the yard, paste colorful paper-cuts on windows and Spring Festival couplets on both sides of gates or doors. people try to make the New Year full of joy so that they will have good luck in the coming year.  Happy Chinese New Year Fast readin True or false 1. Spring Festival is people’s favorite festival of a year in China and in many Asian countries. (T ) 2.They clean their houses a few days before the Spring Festival mainly because the houses are very dirty. ( F ) 3. As for our family, we usually have a reunion on the first day of the Lunar New Year.