2014年秋九年级英语对话与阅读文本unit2.docVIP

Full Moon, Full Feelings 2d Role-play the conversation. Clara: Guess what? I’m going to Chiang Mai in two weeks. Ben: Wow, sounds like fun! But I believe that April is the hottest month of the year there. Clara: Yes, that’s true. But there’s a Water Festival from April 13th to 15th. Ben: I wonder if it’s similar to the water festival of the Dai people in Yunnan Province. Clara: Yes, I think so. This is the time of the Thai New Year. People go on the streets to throw water at each other. Ben: Cool! But why do they do that? Clara: Because the new year is a time for cleaning and washing away bad things. Then you’ll have good luck in the new year. 3a Full Moon, Full Feelings Chinese people have been celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes have the shape of a full moon on mid-autumn night. They carry people’s wishes to the families they love and miss. There are many traditional folk stories about this festival. However, most people think that the story of Chang’e is the most touching. Chang’e was Hou Yi’s beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave him a magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned to drink it with Chang’e. However, a bad man, Feng Meng, tried to steal the medicine when Hou Yi was not home. Chang’e refused to give it to him and drank it all. She became very light and flew up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He quickly laid out her favorite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang’e could come back! After this, people started the tradition of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families. 4b Dear Xia Yu, Do you know that there are two special days for parents in America? One is Mother’s Day on the second Sunday of May and the other is Father’s Day on the third Sunday of Ju