2015-2016学年高中英语 Unit 1 Festivals around the world Reading Tasks Word同步学案

Unit 1 Festivals around the world Reading Tasks Word
Pre-reading activities
Task I. Make a list of traditional Chinese festivals and Western festivals that you know and share them with your partners.
Task II. Tell your group members what people usually do to celebrate festivals.
Task III. How do Chinese people spend the Spring Festival
While-reading activities
Task I. Read the text and fill in the blanks in the chart.
T Task II. Read the text and find the supporting information for each of the topic sentences.
Topic Sentences Supporting information
1. Some festivals are held to honour A. Dragon Boat Festival honours the ancient
the dead. Chinese poet, Qu Yuan.
2. Some festivals are held to honour B. Chinese people hold carnivals and the whole
famous people. family celebrate the Lunar New Year together.
3. Harvest festivals are happy events. C. They light lamps and play music, expecting to lead their ancestors back to earth.
4. Spring Festivals are the most energetic D. People might get awards in farm produce
and important petitions.
Task III. Read the text and put the activities into the proper festivals according to the text.
A. clean graves and light incenseB. hold a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas GrandhiC. give children lucky money in red paperD. offer food, flowers and gifts to the deadE. admire the moon and eat mooncakesF. hold parades, dancing carnivals with loud music and colourful clothingG. dress up, ask for sweets or play tricksH. decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit
1. Festivals of the Dead ________
2. Festivals to honour people ________
3. Harvest Festivals ________
4. Spring Festivals ________
Task IV. Write a summary of the text.
Post-reading activities
Task I. Compare Chinese Lunar New Year with Christmas. Tell your group members what is similar and what is different.
Task II. Nowadays many Chinese people pay more attention to Western festivals than traditional Chinese festivals. What’s your opinion on that
Task III. Try to find some material about Chinese Lunar New Year and write a passage of about 120 words to introduce it to your group members.
参考答案
Pre-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II．略
Task III．略
While-reading activities
Task I. 1. weather 2. ancestors 3. gifts 4. tricks 5. arrival 6. Mohandas Grandhi
7. Harvest 8. farm produce 9. parades 10. Easter
Task II. 1-C 2-A 3-D 4-B
Task III．1. A, D, G 2. B 3. E, H 4. C, F
Task IV．
Most ancient festivals celebrated having enough food to eat. Festivals today are about many other things. Some, such as Obon in Japan and the Day of the Dead in Mexico honor people’s ancestors. During Halloween in the West children dress up and ask neighbors for sweets. Other festivals honor people, such as the poet Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival in China or the explorer Christopher Columbus during Columbus Day in the US. Harvest festivals are held to show people’s gratitude after food is gathered from farms for the winter. China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals when people admire the moon and in China eat mooncakes. Many countries hold spring festivals, which look forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring. Festivals allow people to not only celebrate their customs but also to eat, drink, have fun together and forget work for a while. (By Ray Cama)
Post-reading activities
Task I. 略
Task II．略
Task III．略