Festival 5

TeachingGoals:

Students

will be able to

1.  review all the festivals

names and dates,

2. reviewaboutthe Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival

3. finish

learning about Dragon Boat Festival.

4. Consolidating

the knowledge of Dragon Boat Festival through areading exercise.

Part one

review,

When

is Spring Festival? Spring Festival is on January1stof the Chinese Lunar Calendar.

What

do people usually do for Spring Festival? People usually clean and decorate the

house half amonth before the festival.

Give

me three examples of Spring Festival decoration, red lantern, Chinese knot, Spring

Festival couplet, Fucharacter, red

window paper cuts.

What

do family usually do during Spring Festival on

new year's eve？Family will have a family reunion dinner

together.

Why

do people eat Chinese dumplings during Spring

Festival? People eat dumplings to symbolize treasures. Part two, more traditional activities during Spring Festival.

Adults

usually give red envelopes to children. There's some lucky money inside to wish

them goodluck.  People usually watch theCCTVNewYear'sGala

from 20:00pm to

0:30am.

People

usually wear new clothes.

People

usually visit their relatives from one family to another.

What

do adults usually give to kids during Spring Festival? Adults

usually givered envelopes to children. What do people usually watch during

Spring Festival? People usually watch CCTV NewYear'sGala.

Dowe visit anybody during Spring Festival? People usually visit the relativesfrom one family to another.Part three, Spring

Festival Taboos.

No

breaking objects being apart with your family.

No

taking medicine, being sick all year round,

no

washing hair, washing away wealth,

nolending or

borrowing.

Suffering financial loss.

What isSpring Festival also called? It is also

called Chinese new year.

What's

the name of the scary best? Its name is “Nian”.

What are the three things that“Nian”is afraid of ?

It is afraid of loud noises, fire and color red.

How

longs the Chinese New Year

Celebration? People

celebrateChinese new year for fifty days.

Part

four showers, Dragon Boat Festival,

Chinese

dragons.

1.Chinese dragons come in many different forms. 

2. Chinese

dragons control the weather.

3.Emperors were believed to be descendants of dragons.

What's

Dragon Boat Festival？

Dragon

Boat Festival isalso called Duanwufestival. It's an annually每年一度的traditional holiday in China.

It has a long story history about two

thousand years. When is Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is on the

fifth day of the fifth lunar month according to根据 lunar

calendar.

Dragon

Boat Festival is on may 5th of the Chinese

lunar calendar.

Why

do people celebrate Dragon Boat Festival. It is to commemorate纪念Qu Yuan(340-278BC), an ancient Chinese poet.

It

is hygiene day when

people woulduse herbs to despel diseases.

How

do people celebrate Dragon Boat Festival?

Eating

zi is an important tradition of the festival. Zong Zi(rice

dumplings)is

a kind of sticky rice dumplings with different fillings填充物、馅料 wrapped被包裹 by bamboo or reed leaves.Dringking

realgar wine

is an important tradition of the festival. People believe

that the wine can dispel diseases, poisonous things, and evil things.

In

ancient China,realgarwas regarded as被认为是 antidote解药in traditional Chinesemedicine药, which could wipe out 消灭viper,

scorpion and centipede. 毒蛇蝎子蜈蚣

Dragon

boat racing is an important tradition of the festival.

Why

do people do dragon boat racing?

Doesyour country have dragon boat races?