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Time to celebrate!Unit 9
Warming up
The Chinese festivals
Festival
Brainstorming Chinese Festivals
International Women’s Day
New Year’s Day
Children’s DayNational Day
The Youth Day
International Labour Day
Army Day
Duan Wu Festival(Dragon Boat Festival)
Mid-AutumnFestival
Teacher’s Day
dumpling
Festival of lanterns
The most important holiday in China is Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West. To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the
Spring Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival
The seventh day of the seventh month in the
Chinese lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie, or Chinese Valentine's Day.
Mid- Autumn Festival
On the fifteenth day of the 8th lunar month
Mooncakes
Festivals in foreign countries
festivals
Brainstorming festivals of foreign countries
Christmas
Fool’s DayValentine’s Day
Carnival
EasterThanksgiving Day
Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
Halloween
Happy Valentine’s Day
April Fool's Day
On April 1st
Mother's Day the 2nd Sunday in May
Thanksgiving Day on the 4th Thursday of November
Halloween the time of Ghosts, Goblins 妖精 , Spooks 幽灵 Witches 巫婆 Halloween is celebrated
the 31st of October
Cherry Blossom Festival
(March 15- April 15)
Obon （盂兰盆） in Japan
Christmas
Ancient Festivals
Name
Time Obon The 5th,May
October 2
Why
Celebrate
What people do
Dragon boat races
Festival of the dead
Festivals to honour people
Harvest festivals
The end of cold weather/when hunters could catch animals
Line 4
Lit fire and make music
autumn
Decorate churches…
Admire moon, give mooncakes
The Day of Dead
Line 1
Halloween
Honour
Qu Yuan, Mahatma
Gandhi
Food is gathered
for the winter/
Agricultural
work is over
