高一英语Unit1 reading课件人教必修三.pptVIP

Festivals and Celebrations;;festivals;Ancient Festivals;Festivals of the Dead;Obon ;Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house to lead the ancestors back to home.;All night long, people dance and sing.;When the festival is over, thousands of lanterns are placed into the water and they drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world. ;The Day of the Dead in Mexico;They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.;Toys, decorations, and candies in the shape of skulls, are sold in the market-places at this time every year to honor ancestors.;Halloween ;Pumpkin head;The jack-o’-lantern is the most common symbol of Halloween. ;Festivals to honour people;DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL;Columbus Day in the USA;October 2 is a national festival in India to honour Mahatma Candhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain.;Harvest Festivals ;church;Thanksgiving Day;The Mid-Autumn Festival;When people the moon And mooncakes.;Spring Festivals ;Easter (March 23 to April 25) The first Sunday after the full moon following a spring equinox;Easter bunny Easter egg;Parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds.;Cherry Blossom Festival is a Japanese festival. Every April when the country is covered with cherry flowers, Japanese people celebrate it. They go out with their friends or families. They sit under the trees, sing and have a picnic. ;Cherry Blossom Festival (March 15- April 15); What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations？;Post Reaing;;Retell the text by filling the following blanks:;Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because the food is _________ for the winter and because a season of ___________work is over,to which Mid autumn festival belongs.And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ______ of spring, such as the ______ New Year, at which people hav