新通用大学英语综合教程3unit5.pptVIP

Free Practice Free Practice Use what we have learned in this unit to describe the picture. Say as much as possible. Do You Know? Do You Know? Dragon Boat Festival (Duan Wu in Chinese) (5th of the 5th Lunar Month) It is said to be in memory of a great patriot poet of the the State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475—221 B.C.), Qu Yuan, who drowned himself to protest his emperor who gave in to the bully State of Chin. For fear that fish may consume his body, people of Chu launched their boats and started throwing rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river where he wa