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Unit 3 Festivals and customs
Integrated skills
Lead - in
1.Have a brainstorming about traditional Chinese festivals.
Q: What traditional Chinese festivals do you know
the Spring Festival
the Lantern Festivals
the Dragon Boat Festival
the Mid-Autumn Festival
2.Watch a video and know more about traditional festivals.
Q: Do you know all the traditional festivals in the video
Traditional festivals
Some traditional festivals have been forgotten.
While, more and more Chinese people begin to celebrate Western festivals. It seems that some traditional Chinese festivals are gradually disappearing from our life.
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Q: Should we promote traditional Chinese festivals
Reading
1.Read the article and tease out its structure.
Here is a website article about
the importance of traditional Chinese festivals.
Pay attention to the topic sentence in each paragraph. Usually, you can find the topic sentence in the beginning or ending sentence of a paragraph.
Q1: What is the author’s main argument
Q2: What are the three supporting reasons
2.Read it again and analyze the writing technique.
Q:How does the author support his ideas
By giving examples
Para.1 _________________________
the Double Ninth Festival
To raise the question:
How many people today still observe this tradition
Para.2 _________________________
the Dragon Boat Festival
To support the argument:
Promoting traditional festivals helps spread
knowledge about our national history.
Q:How does the author support his ideas
By giving examples
Para.3 _________________________
the Mid-Autumn Festival
To support the argument:
With the celebrations of these festivals, younger
generations learn to honour fine Chinese values.
Para.4 _____________________________________
the Hanshi Festival and the Laba Festival
To support the argument:
Traditional festivals tell us who we are and fill
us with pride in being Chinese.
3.Discuss in pairs.
Q1:Do you agree on the opinion
“It is the duty of every one of us
to protect them for generations to come.”
Keeping our culture and history alive.
Passing down knowledge about traditions
to the next generation.
Reminding us of what it means to be Chinese.
Promoting traditional festivals is
promoting traditional culture.
How to promote traditional Chinese festivals
Listening
1.Listen to a report and answer the questions.
Here is a school radio report about what has been done by the school to promote traditional Chinese festivals.
Look through the questions before listening so that you have a basic understanding of what you’re going to hear. Also, remember to take some notes during listening.
Last term.
The Art Club.
More than 100.
About 30minutes.
2.Listen to the report again and complete the table.
Look through the table before listening and have a guess what words are missing. Also, remember to take some notes during listening.
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a full moon
the Double Ninth Festival
The Theatre Club
rice dumplings
3.Discuss in groups.
Q: How to promote traditional Chinese festivals
the government
the media
schools
individuals
…
Writing
1.Plan your writing.
(1) Structure
(2)Language
2.Learn from the sample.
Promoting traditional Chinese festivals
Traditional Chinese festivals are an important part of Chinese culture. We must protect and promote these festivals so that our children can understand what it means to be Chinese.
2.Learn from the sample.
Traditional festivals teach us about our country's history. Rich humanistic spirits can be found at the heart of traditional festivals, a result of Chinese values of kindness and unity being passed down from generation to generation. By observing traditional festivals, we will have a better understanding of the historical importance of these qualities in our country. We can therefore develop our national pride.
Many parties have important roles to play in promoting traditional Chinese festivals. The government should declare public holidays on some traditional festivals. The media can help spread more knowledge about these traditions so as to raise people's interest in the origins and history of the festivals. Schools can also hold more activities which help draw students’ attention to our traditions.
With the joint efforts of these different parties, people will pay more attention to traditional Chinese festivals, and be prouder of Chinese culture.
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs,
what he must do.
—Robert A. Heinlein