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Yuan Xiao Festival the lunar month enjoy the lantern show guess lantern riddles eat rice dumplings enjoy lion dancing enjoy beautiful fireworks, Spring Festival Ching Ming Festival In April The day we remember our dead relatives Visit graves Special Days in foreign countries Valentine’s Day Easter Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas Talking * * Unit1 on the fifteenth day of the new year ( 15th, in the lunar calendar) lanterns: symbols of good fortune, happiness and health. “dragon” and “lion ” dances Lantern Festival Time: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern show Lion dancing lantern riddles Rice dumplings/Dumpling ball late January and early February Time: couplets on the first day of the lunar year last fifteen days do spring cleaning , decorate their houses On New Year’s Eve, dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, watch fireworks, set off firecrackers get lucky money Festivals Time What does it celebrate? What do people do? Spring Festival 1st of the 1st lunar month The _______of spring Give lucky money to children, visit relatives, send wishes…,watch TV programmes, enjoy fireworks,eat a big dinner with families arrival New Year’s Day Lantern Festival Women’s Day May Day Children’s Day Dragon Boat Festival Mid-autumn Festival National Day Army Day Chinese festivals and holidays Discussion Discuss when the festivals take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. Ching Ming Festival Dragon Boat Festival Mid-autumn Festival Lantern Festival What people do What it celebrates Time Festival Time: on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month Festivals Time What does it celebrate? What do people do? Dragon Boat Festival In memory of the great poet Qu Yuan Eat Zongzi, watch dragon boat races… 5th day of the 5th lunar month Time: on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month Festivals Time What does it celebrate? What do people do? Mid-autumn Festival Celebrate the havest, enjoy the beauty of the moon Eat mooncakes, enj