人教版（2019）必修第三册Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Assessing Your Progress课件(共31张PPT)

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Assessing Your Progress & Project & Video Time
Unit 1
Festivals and Celebrations
Learning Objectives
PART. 01
Understand the daily study and life of British middle school students by watching videos. Based on your own daily study and life, compare the study and life in Chinese and British schools, and find out the similarities and differences between the two. Talk about your first impression of high school life, and have a preliminary perception of the study and life in the senior high school stage.
Learning Objectives
Use correct word forms and choose proper adjectives to describe festivals. Present Chinese festivals with structured information, create food recipe posters, and introduce the Lantern Festival via notes, enhancing expressive clarity.
Explore Chinese festivals, understanding their dates, activities, food, and cultural meanings.
Organize festival information via tables/posters, and dissect cultural symbols. Design festival presentations/posters with clear structures, combining factual details and cultural connotations.
Work in groups to research festivals, create posters, and practice presentations, learning from peers’ plete vocabulary/grammar tasks, research festival details, and reflect on learning progress, taking ownership of exploring Chinese festival culture.
Understand the daily study and life of British middle school students by watching videos. Based on your own daily study and life, compare the study and life in Chinese and British schools, and find out the similarities and differences between the two. Talk about your first impression of high school life, and have a preliminary perception of the study and life in the senior high school stage.
Teaching Focuses and Anticipated Difficulties
Use correct word forms and choose proper adjectives to describe festivals, and present Chinese festivals with structured information via posters and notes.
Dissecting cultural symbols of festivals and connecting festival customs to cultural values, and designing well-structured festival presentations that combine factual details and cultural connotations.
Assessing Your Progress
PART. 02
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
march brief media congratulation significant
moment roast lunar represent fancy
1. The beautiful flowers on cherrybranchesare the most _________ sign of the arrival of spring.
2. In December, many companies have ________ dress parties to celebrate the end of the year.
3. The female soldiers forming the biggest __________ group in the National Day parade
attracted a lot of interest from the ________.
4. The most common colour you see during the Spring Festival is red because red __________ life, wealth, and good luck in Chinese culture.
significant
fancy
marching
media
represents
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the words in the box.
march brief media congratulation significant
moment roast lunar represent fancy
5. The newly married couple received dozens of letters of _______________ from their friends.
6. If you are the best man at a wedding, it is best to keep your speech simple and _________.
7. She will never forget the _________ when she saw all the audience clapping their hands and
cheering after her performance.
8. Falling on the 9th day of the 9th _________ month, the Chongyang Festival is also called the Double Ninth Festival. It is a day for people in China to show respect to seniors.
9. To be frank, this _________ chicken tastes horrible.
congratulations
brief
moment
lunar
roast(ed)
Circle the correct word in each sentence.
1. Taking part in the celebration was a satisfying / satisfied experience for us.
2. Most of the people were amazing / amazed by the lion dances during the new year celebrations.
3. The child seemed annoying / annoyed when he found his gift broken.
4. The man dressing / dressed in a ghost costume looks quite frightening / frightened.
5. Kate was surprising / surprised by the sight of the Kongming lanterns flying / flown up into the sky.
Which festival(s) mentioned in this unit was/were new to you
Which festival did you find the most interesting Why
Do you wish to add one extra holiday in China What would you like to celebrate Why
Which part of this unit did you find the most difficult
Overall, I thought this unit was interesting useful so-so difficult.
REFLECTING
Project
PART. 03
Project 1: In groups, choose one festival in China, research it, and then give a presentation to the class. Use the example outline below to help you.
Time: 13-15 April (the Dai New Year)
Place: Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province
Minority Group: The Dai People
Festival activities: Splashing and spraying water on each other, dragon boat races, floating lanterns
Local festival food: ghost chicken, lemongrass grilled fish, pineapple purple rice
Facts about the Dai People’s Water Festival
Sample
Project 2: In groups, collect some festival food recipes. If possible, learn to cook the food at home and then make a poster with pictures for the class. Use the example below to help you.
THE LABA FESTIVAL AND LABA PORRIDGE
The Laba Festival usually occurs about a month before the Chinese Spring Festival. The festival’s traditional food is Laba porridge.
15 Chinese dates
5 peeled longan fruit
3 walnuts
1/2 cup of sticky rice
1/4 cup of millet
1/4 cup of peanuts
1/4 cup of red beans
1/4 cup of mung beans
1/4 cup of raisins
Possible ingredients and steps:
Project 2: In groups, collect some festival food recipes. If possible, learn to cook the food at home and then make a poster with pictures for the class. Use the example below to help you.
the steps of making Laba porridge:
Turn off the heat and then wait for 10 minutes before serving the porridge.
Wash the rice, millet, peanuts, red beans, and mung beans, and soak them in 2 cups of water overnight.
Put these ingredients and the dates into a pot. Pour in 6 cups of water, and bring the pot to a boil before simmering for one and a half hours over low heat.
Wash the raisins, walnuts, and longan fruit, and then put them into the pot with some sugar before simmering for another 30 minutes.
5 cups of sticky rice
2.5 cups of fresh sweet jujubes (red dates)
Beijing-style Zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival
Sample
The Dragon Boat Festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, in late May or early June. The festival’s traditional food is zongzi.
Possible Ingredients and Steps:
50 reed leaves
string
Soak the rice for two hours
Take one or two leaves together and make a funnel shape with them.
Put in one large spoon full of sticky rice, then add two or three jujubes. Cover with another large spoon full of rice.
Roll the leaves around the rice until it looks like a triangular packet. Tie it together with a string.
Put the zongzi in a pressure cooker and cook for 1.5 hours.
Video Time
PART. 04
The Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. The custom of joyfully celebrating the Lantern Festival began in ancient times and still has great influence on Chinese people today.
BEFORE YOU WATCH
How much do you know about the Lantern Festival Look at the table below and try to fill in the blanks.
Tangyuan
The trademark food of the Lantern Festival is called yuanxiao/tangyuan. They are glutinous rice dumplings with sweet fillings made of syrup, red bean paste, black sesame paste or more. They can be steamed or fried, but usually boiled and served in hot water.
Lantern riddles
Lantern riddles are riddles that were written on the lanterns that are displayed during the Chinese Lantern Festival or Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. The full name of Lantern Riddles is “riddles written on lanterns”.
BEFORE YOU WATCH
Lighting the lanterns
Lanterns are the most notable part of the festival. People would gather in their yards and give offerings. Throughout history, countless variations of lanterns have been created.
Stilts
Chinese stilt performances are an ancient act. They stem from Chinese opera and the performers sing and dance while on stilts. Depending on their character, they have different costumes and heights.
BEFORE YOU WATCH
Lion dance
The lion is well designed, with movable eyes and mouths. Sometimes, the lion will open its mouth and demand food and red pockets. Other times, they roll around and play like oversized kittens.
Dragon dance
Dragon dance has a history almost as long as Chinese culture itself. The performers create impressive formations to the beat of Chinese drums and cymbals. Dragon is an ancient symbol, which can pray for rain and eliminate evil.
WHILE YOU WATCH
WHILE YOU WATCH
Complete the table with the correct words.
fifteenth
first
final
the streets, markets, shops, parks, and homes
organise lantern shows which add to the festive atmosphere
on the lanterns
rice flour
round shape
happiness
Guangdong
300
Valentine’s
lovers to meet
moments
lovers
AFTER YOU WATCH
Work with a partner. Use the notes above to help you give a brief introduction to the Lantern Festival.
The Lantern Festival takes place on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year. During this time, lanterns will be hung throughout the city, creating a festive atmosphere. Many of these lanterns will have riddles written on them. People also eat yuanxiao or tangyuan, as these symbolise reunion, harmony, and happiness. In the past, the festival was known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, and so in ancient times poets wrote poems about the festival telling stories of young lovers.
Sample
Exercise
PART. 05
1. The old firecracker _________ with a loud bang when it was touched by the flame.
2. __________ the heavy rain, the students still walked to the library to borrow books.
3. ____________, I don’t think this English learning method is suitable for most students in our class.
4. The whole class will take part in the sports meeting __________ Lily, who hurt her leg last week.
went off
Exercise: 用所给短语的适当形式填空
In spite of
To be frank
go off after all take advantage of to be frank
fade away in spite of except for set off
except for
5. I don’t need to hurry to the station now. _________, the train is delayed for at least an hour.
6. The memory of that unforgettable trip __________ slowly as time went by.
7. We will ________ for the museum at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning by school bus.
8. We should _________________ the coming long holiday to visit our grandparents in the countryside.
After all
Exercise: 用所给短语的适当形式填空
faded away
set off
go off after all take advantage of to be frank
fade away in spite of except for set off
take advantage of
Summary
PART. 06
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Assessing Your Progress & Project & Video Time
Video Time
Use correct word forms and choose proper adjectives to describe festivals.
Assessing Your Progress
Project
Present Chinese festivals with structured information, create food recipe posters.
Understand video and introduce the Lantern Festival via notes.
Homework
PART. 07
Summarise what we have learnt in this lesson;
Prepare for the next lesson.
Homework
See you next class!