必修3Unit1 --reading.pptVIP

* Festivals and celebrations 1. Missing the last bus means _____ home. A. To walk C. Walked D. walk 2. A terrible traffic accident ___________ last night The football match will _____________ tomorrow. B. walking happened take place The ancient people needn’t worry about their food. ( ) 2.Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. ( ) 3.Qu Yuan was a great poet who people honor a lot in China. ( ) 4.Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn( ) 5.Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus. ( ) F T T F F Paragraph 1 When did ancient people celebrate? the end of cold weather, planting in spring, harvest in autumn; when hunter caught animals for food; when they had enough food; when they wanted a year of plenty 2. Why music and fires are used in festivals? Because they thought these festivals would bring a year of plenty. starve: die from hunger 使饥饿， 饿死 starve to death 饿死 starve of/ for 渴望，急需，迫切需要 Eg: 1. They lost in the desert and starved to death. 2. The patients are starving of/for medicine. 3. She is lonely and starving for friendship. Plenty +可数名词复数+复数谓语 + 不可数名词+单数谓语 Eg: There is plenty of time. There are plenty of apples in the home. 2. day/ year/life … of plenty 富裕的日子/年月/生活等 Eg: 1) You have a life of plenty, what would you be worried? 2) Everyone has enough to eat in years of plenty. 1. plenty of: a large number of 许多，大量 Paragraph 2 What are festivals of the dead for? What do people do in Japan during Obon? What do Mexico people eat? What can you see in the second picture? Which festival does it belong to? What are festivals of the dead for? to honor our ancestors; to make our ancestor happy so don’t harm us; 2. What do people do in Japan during Obon? People should go to clean the graves and light incense in memo