Ithink that mooncakes are delicious Section A 2课件概要1.pptVIP

* Look at the picture. What festival do you think of? What do you know about the festival? 3a Read the passage about Mid-Autumn  Festival and answer the questions. 1. How do people celebrate the Middle- Autumn Festival? They celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by admiring the moon and share mooncakes with their families. admire v. 欣赏，仰慕 2. What story is the reading about? It is about a traditional folk story of Hou Yi and Chang’e for the Mid-Autumn Festival. 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. 月满，情浓 满月的形状 它们寄托着人们对他们所爱与思念的家人的祝福。 一直在庆祝 注意：“have / has been +动词的ing形式”为“过去完成进行时”，表示动作从过去持续到现在，并可能延续到将来。 例如：We have been studying English for five years. = We have been studying English since five years ago. 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. 传统的民间故事 最感动人的 shoot down 射下 无论谁 长生不老 plan to do sth.计划去做某事 try to do sth. 尽力去做某事 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. refuse to do sth. 拒绝去做