1、Unit1 Festivals around the worldWarming upDo you know these festivals?When do they take place? lunar calendar?Spring Festival Lantern FestivalDragon Boat Festival Mid-autumn DayEaster Thanksgiving DayHalloween Christmas DayPre-reading1. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town

2、? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?2. Look at the pictures beside the text and title of the passage. What kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage?New words: starve: 饑餓 origin: 起源 ancestor: 祖先 Obo

3、n: 盂蘭盆節(jié)(日本) grave: 墳?zāi)梗荒沟?incense: 熏香 in memory of: 紀(jì)念 feast: 節(jié)日；盛宴SkimmingWhat festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?P1. Celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.P2. Festivals of the DeadJapan -Mexico-America-P3. Festiv

4、als to Honour PeopleDragon Boat FestivalColumbus Day(India)October 2P4. Harvest FestivalsHarvest and Thanksgiving FestivalMid-Autumn festivalP5.Spring festivalCarnivalEaster Cheery Blossom FestivalComprehendingI. Read the passage and then fill in the following chart.1. Festivals of the Dead Fill in

5、the blanks.Purposes To honor the dead or satisfy the 1_Names 2_The Day of the Dead9_Countries Japan6_Western countriesActivitiesCleaning 3_; lighting 4_ and lamps; playing 5_Eating cakes with 7_ on them; offering food, flowers and 8_ to the deadChildren 10 _ and ask for sweets2. Spring Festivals Fil

6、l in the blanks.Meanings To look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of springNames1_ _4 _7_Cherry Blossom Festival Countries ChinaWestern countriesMainly religious countries8 _ActivitiesEating good foods; giving children 2_ money; 3_ _ and carnivals5_; dancing in the streets; loud music;

7、 6_II True or False1. The ancient people neednt 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.

8、DiscussionWhich festivals you think are the most important and which are the most fun. Homework1. Go over the text after class and try to write a summary of the text (about 100 words) and retell the text according to the summary.2. Prepare for “discovering useful words and expressions” on Page 4. (Ex1, 2 and 3)3. If possible try