人教版高中英语必修3 Unit 1 Festivals Around the World reading课件 (25张PPT)

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Unit1 Festivals around the world
Reading
What is one important reason to have festivals and celebrations?
Festivals around the world
FESTIVAL

New Year

National Day

Christmas

Father’s Day


Children’s Day

Mother’s Day

Dragon
Boat
Festival

Teachers’
Day

Spring Day

May Day

Army Day

…
Mid-Autumn
Festival
What festivals do you know?
FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS
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 People
4. Harvest Festivals
5. Spring Festivals
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.
seasonal
4
religious
What festivals are mentioned
in each paragraph?
Para. 1 Ancient Festivals
What did the ancient festivals celebrate?
Ancient festivals celebrated ______________________, _________________ and ________________; celebrated when hunters had caught animals.
the end of cold weather
planting in spring
harvest in autumn
Para. 2 Festivals of the Dead
Japan — ______
_______— the Day of the Dead
America — _________
Para. 3 Festivals to Honour People
Match the country with the festival.
Obon
Mexico
Halloween
festival to honour Gandhi
Columbus Day
The Dragon Boat Festival
China
USA
India



Para. 4 Harvest Festivals
European and other countries —
__________________________________
China and Japan —__________________
Para. 5 Festivals that looking forward to the end of winter and the coming of spring.
China — ______________
Some Western countries —
________________________________
Japan — _______________________
Harvest and Thanksgiving Festivals
Mid-Autumn festivals
Spring Festival
Easter and related holidays
Cheery Blossom Festival
What do people usually do at spring festivals?
Choose one of the festivals, and think about:
What people should do or not do
What it celebrates
FESTIVALS

Food

Work

Visit

Dress up

Singing

Dancing

Watching TV

Memory

Fun

Jiaozi

Fruit

Date
Which festivals you think are the most important and which are the funniest.
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions with the help of the pictures.
What would people celebrate at these three times of a year?
__________________ _______________, and ________________.
Ancient Festivals
the end of cold weather, planting in spring
harvest in autumn
What kinds of things are done to honour the dead?
Mexican Day of the Dead
_______________
_______________
Festivals of the Dead
Eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with “bones” on them
Offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead.
Obon (日本盂兰盆节)
__________________________________
_______________
clean graves
light lamps and incense
What do you know about Halloween?
Halloween
It is now a children’s festival, when they can dress up and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If the neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.
______________________
What festival can you think of that honours famous people in China?
Festivals to Honour People
the Dragon Boat Festival
_______________
Columbus Day
What festival that honours famous people in the USA?
Harvest Festivals Thanksgiving Day
Do you know any harvest celebrations in China?
______________________
Mid-autumn Festival
Compare the festivals of the dead in Mexico, Japan and China.
What things are similar?
What things are different?


Students'Show Time
1. Go over the text, write a summary of the text (about 100 words) and retell the text according to your summary.