1、festivalDid you have a good time during the Spring Festival?What did you do?Did you get any money from your parents or relatives?Why do you think people get together to have a reunion dinner on New Years Eve?festivalsThe Dragon Boat FestivalThe Double Ninth FestivalThe Spring FestivalQingmingThe Lan

2、tern FestivalThe MiddleAutumn Festival The Double Seventh FestivalTraditional Chinese FestivalsDong Zhi春節(jié)七夕節(jié)重陽節(jié)冬至清明端午節(jié)中秋節(jié)元宵節(jié)Spring Festival on the first day of the lunar year last fifteen daysdo spring cleaning , decorate their houses On New Years Eve, dinner, watch the Spring Festival programme, wa

3、tch fireworks, set off firecrackers get lucky money Lantern FestivalCHING MING FESTIVALThird Moon(March/April)Ancestor worship is a Chinese tradition dating back thousands of years.Also known as the Grave-sweeping or Spring Remembrance, Ching Ming (“clear and bright”), is when Chinese families show

4、their respect by visiting the graves of their ancestors to clear away weeds, touch up（潤色） gravestone inscriptions （碑銘） and make offerings（祭品） of wine and fruit. DRAGON BOAT FESTIVALFifth Moon, Day 5 (June) The Dragon Boat Festival combines a fast-paced sporting spectacular (wonderful) with a traditi

5、onal festival The Festival, also honours the death of a popular Chinese national hero and poet - Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in the Mi Lo River over 2,000 years ago to protest against the corrupt rulers. Legend says that as townspeople attempted to rescue him, they beat drums to scare fish away and

6、 threw dumplings into the sea to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuans body. The Chinese Valentines DayChinese Valentines Day is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar. A love story for this day is about the 7th daughter of Goddess of Heaven and an orphaned cowherd. The Goddess s

7、eparated them. The 7th daughter was forced to move to the star Vega and the cowherd moved to the star Altair. They are allowed to meet only once a year on the day of 7th day of 7th lunar month.Chinese Valentines DayThe Love StorySEVEN SISTERS FESTIVALMID-AUTUMN FESTIVALEighth Moon, Day 15(September/

8、October)The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most charming and picturesque nights of the calendar. Chinese Elder Day (Double Nines)Ninth Moon, Day 9 (September/October) The Chung Yang Festival is a day to respect and remember ancestors. The Elder day is the Double-Nine Festival, the 9th day

9、 of 9th lunar month. The Chinese called this festival Chung-Yang Jie. The Elder day was re-established by the Republic of China (Taiwan) in 1974. This is because the government wants to teach the youth to respect for the elders. With the cooler weather and clear skies at this time of the year, many

10、people simply take the opportunity to go hiking.DONG ZHI (WINTER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL)Eleventh Moon (December)Dong Zhi is the second most important festival of the Chinese calendar. Celebrated on the longest night of the year, Dong Zhi is the day when sunshine is weakest and daylight shortest. The comi

11、ng of winter is celebrated by families and is traditionally the time when farmers and fishermen gather food in preparation for the coming cold season. It is also a time for family reunions. 1. Festivals are meant to celebrate important events. =People mean festivals to celebrate important events.mea

12、n: vt. mean sb. or sth. to do sth. 工 n./ pron. mean + that- clause doing to do意欲、打算讓某人做某事意思是，意味著打算做一般不用于進行時態(tài)。Language points: . 1) I never mean_我沒打算讓她讀那些書。 2) Passing the entrance examination means_通過了高考意味著被大學(xué)錄取。 3) We Chinese people always mean_ 我們中國人從來說話算數(shù)。 4) These books_, I meant _.這些書是給你的，我的意思是

13、讓你要這些書。 5) I dont mean_. 我不打算跟你吵架。 her to read those books.being admitted into college.what we say.were meant for youyou to have themto argue with you I meanmean businessmean wellmean well by sb. be meant for sb. be meant to doWhat do you mean by? 拓展就是說，我的意思是說（某人）是認真的，當(dāng)真的并無惡意，出于好意對某人懷有好意打算給某人的必須，應(yīng)該，不得不你說/做是什么意思？2. Discuss when they take place, take place: _。指_或_的發(fā)生。 happen: _。強調(diào)_。 break out: _。指_等的發(fā)生。 以上三個詞都沒有_。 發(fā)生，舉行事先計劃預(yù)想到的事情發(fā)生，碰巧偶然性爆發(fā)，突然發(fā)生戰(zhàn)爭、災(zāi)害、疾病被