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Module 4 Carnival
Introduction
What festivals do you know
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
couplet
paper-cuttings
red packet
lucky/gift money
fireworks
firecracker
pay a New Year call
Spring Festival
a festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon of the lunar calendar, 15 days later.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
exhibit of
lanterns
rice glue ball
sweet dumplings
guess lantern riddles
lion /dragon dance/parade
Lantern Festival
celebrated to honour deceased ancestors on the 15th day of the first month (Yuan) of the lunar calendar. Aiming to promote reconciliation(和谐), peace, and forgiveness(宽宏), it marks the first full moon of the new lunar year and the end of the Chinese New Year.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
Dragon Boat race
rice dumplings
memorize
in memory of
Dragon Boat Festival
held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar year, originated as a search for the poet’s body.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
military parade
National Day holiday
National Day
celebrated on October 1 to mark the formation of the People’s Republic of China.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
admire the
full moon
mooncake
family reunion
Mid-autumn Festival
a celebration of the rice harvest and many fruits. Ceremonies are held both to give thanks for the harvest and to encourage the harvest-giving light to return again in the coming year.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
reindeer
sleigh
Santa Claus
Christmas Day
a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, but in the early 20th century, it also became a secular(世俗的/非宗教的) family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike(相似地;同样地).
Now both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
Holi
A festival of color, which marks the beginning of spring in India. Participants throw coloured water and powders on one another, and, on this one day only, license is given for the usual rankings of caste(种姓), gender, status, and age to be reversed.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
turkey
pumpkin pie
Thanksgiving Day
an annual national holiday in the U. S. and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
frightened costume
trick ot treat!
sweets
Halloween
a holiday that marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints, or All Hallows, and initiates the season of Allhallowtide(万圣节日). In much of Europe and North America, celebration of Halloween is largely nonreligious.
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
Families place photographs of
their loved ones who have passed on at the deceased’s gravesite or on a family altar(祭台).
dressed as a skeleton
Day of the Dead(亡灵节)
a Mexican holiday observed throughout Mexico on November first and second to remember family and friends who are already dead (deceased).
“Death is not the end of life, forgetting is the end of life.”
Can you name the following festivals or holidays
Easter eggs
Easter Bunny
sweets
Easter
A Christian holiday in March or April when Christians remember the death of Christ and his return to life.
Check the things you do during different festivals.
costume
mask
make up
crowds of people
confusion
dress up
carnival
Module 4 Carnival
Reading
Skim the passage and check the topics it mentions.
1. Different carnivals
2. The origins of carnival
3. Special food
4. Carnival in Venice
Skim the passage and match the main idea of each paraph.
The meaning of carnival and how it was celebrated
The law about wearing masks
The general impression of carnival
How carnival is celebrated today in Venice and the feature of it
Carnival in Venice and the problem it caused
The revival of the tradition of celebrating carnival
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Read Part 2: Para 3- 6, and find out the development of Carnival in Venice
Time order
At the beginning
As time passed
In the 14th century
In later times
at the end of the 18th century
in the late 1970s
Today
lasted for just one day
the carnival period was extended
The first ban on masks come into effect
More laws were passed
masks were banned completely, and carnival became a memory.
the tradition was revived by students
it is celebrated for 5 days in Feb.
Fill in the chart below and retell the passage
paragraph main idea facts
1 People's general ____________ of carnival Wherever there is carnival, ___________ is the same.
2 The ____________ of "carnival" and origin It orginates from _______________, where people saw Carnival as a last chance to have fun at the end of the __________ season.
2."carnival" means "___________"
impression
excitment
meaning
Europe
winter
no more meat
Fill in the chart below and retell the passage
paragraph main idea facts
3 The __________ carnival caused when people in Venice celebrated it The people wearing masks could do what they wanted without being recognized, leading to many crimes not being ______________
4 The laws about the _______ of masks Men mustn't wear masks at night and musn't dress up as _________
People wearing masks couldn't carry __________ or enter a church.
problems
punished
use
women
firearms
Fill in the chart below and retell the passage
paragraph main idea facts
5 The _________ of carnival Students revived the traditon and the festival was developed for tourists.
6 The ___________ of carnial in carnival in Venice today It lasts for _______ days in February and the spirit of it is the _________ of the mask.
revival
five
magic
features
See you next time~