人教英语必修三同课异构课件：Unit 1 Festivals around the world（14张）

Unit 1 Festivals around the world
Warming up
What festivals are they?
When do they take place?
Spring Festival
January 1
Lantern Festival
January 15
Dragon Boat Festival
May 5
Mid-autumn Day
August 15
(lunar calendar)
Easter
around March 22---April 25
Thanksgiving Day
the last Thursday of November
Halloween
October 31
Christmas Day
December 25

Go through the passage quickly:
How many types of festivals are mentioned in
the passage?
Ancient Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honor the People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals
Pre-reading

First- Reading
1.When did ancient people celebrate?



2.What are festivals of the dead for?


3.Why are autumn festivals happy events?
The end of the cold weather
planting in spring
harvest in autumn
To honor the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors, who
could return either to help or to do harm.
Because food is gathered for the winter, and because
a season of agricultural work is over.

Detail reading
Paragraph 1:
Festivals of the Dead
Country Name of Festival When? How?



Mexico
the Day of
the Dead
Early
November
western
countries
Halloween
(October 31)
Japan
Obon
Mid July/
August
Paragraph 2: Festivals to Honor People
country Name of festival when For whom



China

Dragon Boat
Festival

May5
in lunar
calendar
The famous
ancient poet,
Qu yuan
The second
Monday
of October
the U.S.A.
Columbus Day

Christopher
Columbus
India
Oct.2

Mahatma
Gandhi


Harvest Festivals
European countries
China & Japan
How to celebrate

Thanksgiving Day

Mid-autumn festival




1)
2)
3)


and


Paragraph 3 Harvest Festivals
Decorate…with…
Get together to…
Some people might
win awards for…
Admire the moon give gifts of mooncakes
Paragraph 4: Spring Festivals
China

Western countries

Japan



Food

What people do




Spring Festival


carnivals

For what?

Dumplings, fish and meat
Lucky money; dragon dances; carnivals, family…
Easter
The return of Jesus;
the coming of spring
the Cherry Blossom Festival
Language focus
Connect the words/phrases with their explanations
1. plenty

2. look forward to

3. have fun with

4. ancestors

5. agricultural

6. custom
connected with farming

have a good time with

usual way of doing something

a lot

feel excited about something that
is going to happen

f. old relatives who have died






What are they?
may/might can/could/, will/would, shall/should, must/can
Model verbs
The most ancient festivals would celebrate
the end of the cold weather.

2. … people might eat food in the shape of skulls,…
Can you find out other sentences with model verbs?

Post-reading
What is one important reason to have all these festivals?
The last paragraph
Ancient Festivals
Festivals of the Dead
Festivals to Honor the People
Harvest Festivals
Spring Festivals

the specific

the general

Discussion
With a partner discuss
which kinds of festival you think are the most important
and which are the most fun.
Using information from the passage and your own ideas,
fill in the chart.

Type of festival Example of festival Reasons for your choice
Most important

Most fun