人教版高中英语必修三 unit1 reading 课件 （共51张PPT）

课件51张PPT。Reading Unit1 Festivals around the worldFestivals around the worldFESTIVALNew YearNational DayChristmasFather’s DayChildren’s DayMother’s DayDragon
Boat
FestivalTeachers’
DaySpring DayMay DayArmy Day…Mid-Autumn
FestivalWhat festivals do you know?When do they take place? lunar calendarSpring Festival
January 1Lantern Festival
January 15Dragon Boat Festival
May 5 Mid-autumn Day
August 15 Easter
around March 22---April 25 Thanksgiving Day
the last Thursday of NovemberHalloween
October 31Christmas Day
December 25 Choose one of the festivals, and think about:
What people should do or not do
What it celebratesFESTIVALSFoodWorkVisitDress upSingingDancingWatching TVMemoryFunJiaoziFruitDateSample:
Spring Festival
We celebrate the end of winter, arrival of spring, Lunar New Year, reunion with family and relatives. During Spring Festival, people give money in red paper to children; see dragon dances; eat fish, prawns and dumplings; visit family member.Pre-reading1. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town? What part of a festival do you like best- the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit?Work in groups of four and talk about the two question.2. Look at the pictures and title of the passage below. Discuss what kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage.New words starve: 饥饿
origin: 起源
ancestor: 祖先
Obon: 盂兰盆节(日本)
grave: 坟墓；墓地
incense: 熏香
in memory of: 纪念
feast: 节日；盛宴skull: 头骨
dress up: 打扮；盛装
play a trick on: 搞恶作剧
award: 奖品
rooster: 公鸡
energetic: 充满活力的
carnival: 狂欢节
parade: 游行Read through the passage and find out how many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage?1. Ancient festivals
2. Festivals of the Dead
3. Festivals to Honor the People
4. Harvest Festivals
5. Spring FestivalsScanningWhat festivals are mentioned in each paragraph and?Para. 1 Ancient Festival
celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.Skimming Para. 2 Festivals of the Dead
Japan -----Obon
Mexico------Day of the Dead
America------HalloweenPara. 3 Festivals to Honour People
China ----- Dragon Boat Festival
USA ----- Columbus Day
India ----- festival to honour GandhiObon（盂兰盆） in JapanDragon Boat FestivalColumbus DayPara. 4 Harvest Festivals
European and other countries ----- Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival
China and Japan----- Mid-Autumn festivalPara. 5
China ----- Spring festival
Some Western countries ----- Easter and related holidays
Japan ----- Cheery Blossom FestivalHarvest Festivals Halloween (万圣节)Read the passage carefully again and answer the questions with the help of the pictures.What would people celebrate at these three times of a year?
Why do you think music and fire or light are used in festivals?Ancient FestivalsWhat kind of things are done to honour the dead?
Why do you think about the Mexican
practice of making cakes with skulls and bones?Mexican Day of the DeadObon What do you know about Halloween? HalloweenWhat festivals or celebrations can you think of that honour famous people or important events? the Dragon Boat Festival Who do you think should have a festival to honour them? Why?Columbus DayHarvest Festival Thanksgiving DayDo you know any harvest celebrations in China?Consolidation I. Finish the tasks one by one according to the text.1. Festivals of the Dead Fill in the blanks.ancestorsObonMexicoHalloweengravesincensemusicbonesgiftsdress up2. Festivals to Honour People
Match the person with the festival.
1. Qu Yuan
2. Christopher Columbus
3. Mohandas Gandhi
a. the Dragon Boat Festival
b. an Indian national festival on Oct. 2
c. Columbus Dayacb3. Harvest Festivals
Choose the best answer.
Many activities can be held in harvest festivals EXCEPT that people ___.
A. get together to have meals
B. decorate houses to admire the moon
C. win awards for their farm produce
D. enjoy mooncakesB4. Spring Festivals Fill in the blanks.The Spring
FestivalCarnivalsEasterJapanluckydragon dancesParadescolourful
clothing1). What are festivals of the dead usually for?
Festivals of the dead are for honouring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.II. Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following question.2). What makes autumn festivals happy events?
Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
3). What do people usually do at spring festivals?
At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.4).What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?
It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life/ be proud of our customs/ forget our work for a little while.5). Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China. What things are similar? What things are different?
The Chinese, Japanese and Mexican festivals of the dead all have customs to honour the dead. The Chinese and Japanese go to clean their ancestors’ graves, and the Mexicans offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. However, there are some difference. The Mexicans eat special food that looks like bones, something the Chinese and Japanese do not do.6). What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?
Festivals let us enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our daily life for a little while.1. The ancient people needn’t worry about their food.
2. Halloween used to be a festival intended to honor the dead. FTIII. True or False3. 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. TFFDiscussionWhich festivals you think are the most important and which are the funniest. 选用合适的词或短语，用其适当形式
填空。
be meant to; take place;
at that time; beauty; harvest CHECKING CORNER1. A terrible accident __________ at the crossroads three days ago.took placebe meant to; take place;
at that time; beauty; harvest 2. ____________, we didn’t have enough money to buy a car.
3. Millions of dollars are spent each year on ______ products.At that time beauty be meant to; take place;
at that time; beauty; harvest 4. Even the youngest children would come and help to get the ________ in.
5. I ____________ be working on Sunday, but I just fooled around all day.harvest was meant toHomework1. 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 to find out as much information as possible about festivals around the world. You can surf the Internet or refer to the books.