人教版高中英语必修3Unit 1课件Warming up

Thank you.
Fool’s Day
April 1st
Mother’s Day
the second Sunday in May
1. What’s your favourite holiday? Why? Give your reasons. 2. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town?
Valentine’s Day
My birthday comes on February 14. Lovers send chocolates, roses and cards to each other.
Tomb-sweeping Day
I’m kind of sad not that it is rainy, but that people remember their dead relatives and visit their graves on my birthday.
Dragon Boat Festival
Love the great poet Qu Yuan, love me. People eat rice dumplings and watch boat races in memory of Qu Yuan.
Christmas Day
December 25 is my birthday, when people go to the parties and churches, give cards and presents to their friends and relatives.
Lantern Festival
Colorful lanterns and delicious yuanxiao are my favorites. I’ve got two names, both of which express my wish for good fortune, happiness and health.
Why do people like festivals?
family together
fruit memory food work
visit
festival
dress up
watching TV singing
Oral Practice
Which part of a festival do you like best — the activities, the music, the sights, the food or the people who visit? Tips: My favourite … is … I like … best. I prefer …. I enjoy/like….
Festival Spring Festival
Christmas do cleaning do spring-cleaning, and shopping, Prepa- do Spring Festival decorate the shopping, decorate houses with ration the houses Christmas trees and colored lights have family family reunion, Major reunion dinner on have a big activities New Year’s Eve; dinner on pay New Year’s Christmas visits, recreational Eve… activities (dragon /lion dance, …)
Valentine’s Day
Dragon Boat Festival
Easter
Which is the greatest and the most important festival to Chinese people? Spring Festival
Which is the greatest and the most important festival to Christian people in Western countries? Christmas
Brainstorming Chinese public holidays
New Year’s Day Children’s Day
Teacher's Day
National Day
festivals
International Women’s Day
Labour Day
Chinese Festivals &
15th day of the eighth lunar month
National Day
1st day of October
Teachers’ Day 10th day of September
Brainstorming
Foreign Festivals &Celebrations Thanksgiving Day Easter Christmas Carnival
Festival Purpose
Spring Festival say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year, hoping for the best and the good future.
Christmas celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ
What part of activties you like best
Homework
1. Write a passage about your favourite Chinese festival in about 150 words. 2. Preview the reading: Festivals and Celebrations
Both of them are quite popular around the world. Can you tell the similarities and differences between them by comparison?
Spring Festival
Christmas
Festival Spring Festival Christmas from the 1st day Time to the 15th day Dec. 25th of the first Chinese lunar month Special dumpling ( jiaozi), candies, cookies, sweet dumpling food (tangyuan/yuanxiao) pudding foods, Gifts foods, fruits, desserts, clothes, drinks, Christmas red packets… decorations…
Celebrations
Guess and say something about the festival according to the pictures below.
Labour Day
1st day of May
Children’s Day
1st day of June
Mid-Autumn Festival
Unit 1
Festivals around the world
Words and expressions
Game
Guess who “I” am according to my self-introduction and the pictures.
Spring Festival
I’m the most important holiday in China. I always come on the eve of the lunar(农历)New Year and go on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
Carnival (狂欢节) February 21-23
Easter
the first Sunday after a full moon on or after March 21
Halloween (万圣节) November 31st
Thanksgiving Day the fourth Thursday in November
festivals
Halloween
Mother’s Day Valentine’s Day
Fool’s Day
Foreign Festivals &Celebrations
Guess and say something about these festivals according to the pictures below.
Compare the festivals below. Can you tell the similarities and differences between them from the aspects given above?
Tomb-sweeping Day
Halloween
Qiqiao Festival