(共18张PPT)
M3U1 Festivals around the world
Warming up
Predict!
Festivals and celebrations
How many kinds of festivals are mentioned?
Give examples for each kind.
Festivals of the Dead (Para2)
Festivals to Honor People (Para3)
Harvest Festivals (Para4)
Spring Festivals (Para5)
*Today’s
festivals
*Ancient Festivals (Para1)
They celebrated
the end of the cold weather;
planting in spring;
harvest in autumn;
when the hunters caught animals.
Ancient festivals
They celebrate for
religious reasons;
seasonal reasons;
special people or events.
Today’s festivals
Festivals of the Dead
Which is called “a feast day”?
Why?
Food in the shape of skulls
Cakes with “bones” on them
Which two festivals are similar?
Find their similarities.
They both are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors.
In the west, children dress up and visit their neighbours to ask for sweets.
Q: What does “Trick or treat” mean?
Halloween
Festivals to Honour People
The Dragon Boat Festival
China
Columbus Day
the USA
The National Festival
India
festivals、people、countries
What do they have in common?
Harvest Festivals
Why are autumn festivals happy events?
People are grateful for the harvest / for the end of the agricultural work (the hard work on the farms).
Harvest Festivals:
What do people do on Thanksgiving?
How about on mid-autumn festivals?
decorate churches and town hall.
get together to have meals.
win awards for crops and animals.
Name things people do at spring festivals.
People eat dumplings, fish and meat.
Children may have lucky money in red paper.
There are dragon dances and carnivals.
Carnivals include parades, dancing in the street day and night .
Spring Festivals
Carnival
狂欢节
What are other two festivals introduced?
In late March or early April
It is the time when Jesus Christ came back to life.
Easter
When?
Why?
Cherry Blossom Festival
The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as if it is covered with pink snow.
The ancient people needn’t worry about their food.
Halloween used to be a festival intended to honour the dead.
Qu Yuan first suggested setting up the Dragon Boat Festival.
Mid-autumn Festival is held to celebrate the end of autumn.
Easter celebrates the birth of Jesus.
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Practice
What can we learn from the passage?
A. All festivals have been lasting for a long period.
B. People like festivals just because they don’t have chance to eat a lot then.
C. Different countries have different customs.
D. People celebrate festivals more or less in the same way.
C
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