高中英语人教新课标必修三-Unit 1 Festivals around the world-Reading-课件（共28张PPT）

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Unit 1 Festivals around the world
Reading
What information have you got in the video?
Brainstorm
Thanksgiving festival
Christmas
Valentine’s day

Lantern Festival
Tomb-sweeping Day or Qingming Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-autumn Fetival

Pre-reading

Work in groups and talk about the two questions.
1. 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?


2. Look at the pictures and title of the passage. Discuss in pairs what kind of information you think will be introduced in the passage.


Festivals
& Celebrations
While Reading


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
Skimming
Read the text quickly and fill in the blanks.
The text mainly tells us about some of today’s festivals. There are ____ kinds of festivals. Some are ________, some are ________ and some are for special people or events.
4
religious
seasonal
Scanning
1.How many types of festivals are mentioned in the passage ?
Answer the following questions:
2.What festivals are mentioned in each paragraph?
Ancient festivals

2. Festivals of the Dead

3. Festivals to Honor the People

4. Harvest Festivals

5. Spring Festivals
P1.
celebrate the end of the cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn; celebrate when hunters catch animals.
P 2. Festivals of the Dead
Japan -----Obon
Mexico------Day of the Dead
America------Halloween
P 3. Festivals to Honour People
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
(India)October 2
Obon（盂兰盆） in Japan
Halloween (万圣节)
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
P 4. Harvest Festivals
Harvest and Thanksgiving Festival
Mid-Autumn festival
P 5.
Spring festival
Carnival
Easter
Cheery Blossom Festival
Post reading
Use the information from the reading passage to answer the following questions.
Festivals of the dead are for honoring or satisfying dead ancestors or others, who some people believe might return to help or harm living people.
Autumn festivals are happy events because people are thankful that food is ready for winter and the hard farm work is finished.
At spring festivals, people usually have dances, carnivals and other activities to celebrate the end of winter and the coming of spring.
It is important to have festivals and celebrations so we can enjoy life, be proud of our customs and forget our work for a little while.
Comprehending
1. Read the passage and then fill in the following chart.
Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries
Festivals of the Dead


Obon
Japan
Day of the Dead
Halloween
Mexico
Some Western countries
Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries
Festivals to Honour People


festival to honour Gandhi
India
Dragon Boat Festival
Columbus Day
China
USA
Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries
Harvest Festivals

Harvest/ Thanksgiving festivals;
European and other countries;
mid-autumn festivals
China and Japan
Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals Countries
Spring Festivals






Cherry Blossom Festival
Japan
Spring Festival
Easter and related holidays
China
some Western countries
What is your favorite festival? Why?
When is it?
What is the festival about?
What do we usually do in the festival?
My favorite festival
Discussing
Mother’s Day
My favorite festivals is Mother’s Day.
I think I had the greatest mom in the world. We were very poor. And you know it's the beauty of it, I didn’t realize we were poor probably till I was a teenager. And I attribute that to my mother. She always kept a nice house, and warm my heart no matter what happens.
Homework
Review the passage and remember some important festivals.
Bye Bye!