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Module3 Unit 1 Festivals around the world Unit Target Topics 1) Festivals 2) How festivals begin 3) How festivals are celebrated Words and Expressions 1) Nouns:beauty, harvest, celebration, origin, ancestor, feast, bone, belief, trick, poet, arrival, independence, agriculture, award, rooster, clothing, custom, fool, permission, parking, sadness 2) Verbs:starve, gain, gather, award, admire, fool, apologize, drown, weep, remind, forgive 3)Adjectives: religious, independent, agricultural, energetic, worldwide, fool, obvious take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with, turn up, keep one’s word, hold one’s breath, set off, remind…of… Functional items 1) 打电话(Making phone calls) May I speak to…? Can I ring/call back later? Hold/Hang on, please. I’ll ring him/her up again. Just a moment, please. Sorry, he/she isn’t here right now. 2) 邀请(Invitations) I wonder if you are interested in… I’d like to invite you to… Would you like…? Could/ Would you please…? I’m looking forward to… I’d love to, but… 3) 感谢(Thanks) Thank you so much. Thanks a lot. That’s very kind of you. You’re most welcome. Don’t mention it. It’s a pleasure. Sentence Patterns1) Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 2) It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. 3) The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. 4) It was obvious that you were wrong. Grammar Focus 情态动词(I) (Modal verbs ) (I ) can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, can’t 等的用法。 Period 1 Vocabulary I. Learning aims: 1. Learn the new words and expressions in this u