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1、2020年精編人教版英語資料 Unit 1 Festival around the world Part 2: Teaching Resources (第二部分：教學(xué)資源) Section 1: A text structure analysis of FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS 1. Type of writing and summary of the text Type of writing This is a piece of descriptive writing. Main idea of the passage Festival

2、s and celebrations of all kinds, such as festivals of the dead, festivals to honour people, harvest festivals and spring festivals, have been held ever since the ancient times. Topic sentence of 1st paragraph Ancient festivals celebrate the end of the cold weather and the hunting of animals. Topi

3、c sentence of 2nd paragraph Festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy and please the ancestors. Topic sentence of 3rd paragraph Festivals can be held as an honour to famous people or to the gods. Topic sentence of 4th paragraph Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events

4、. Topic sentence of 5th paragraph The most energetic and important festivals are the ones at the end of the winter and the coming of spring. 2. A box graph of the text Ancient festivals Spring festivals Harvest festivals →Festivals to honour people Festivals of the Dead Secti

5、on 2: Background information for Unit1 Festivals around the world 1. What is a festival? · a day or period of time set aside for feasting and celebration · an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place); “a drama festival.” · From Latin, joyful. Another way of describing a

6、Feast Day. · A special day or season of the year to celebrate an event of importance to a religion. They were and are times of feasting (hence the name) and are often associated with holidays ('holy-days') · A special occasion during the church year. · a religious celebration. · A ceremonial p

7、arade 2. Traditional Chinese Festivals Spring Festival 春節(jié) The most important festival in China is the Spring Festival. Since all the traditional festivals in China are based on the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival marks the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year. At this festival,

8、people bring out their bounty from hunting, fishing and the field to thank the gods and ancestors for the blessings. The first meal in Spring Festival is rather important. Family members will have a reunion to eat together. According to historical records, people from both north and south ate dump

9、lings on Chinese New Year's Day. Dumpling means midnight or the end and the beginning of time. To pay a New Year visit is an important event during the Spring Festival. And from the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century, ordinary people began to exchange cards. The recreational activities during the Sp

10、ring Festival are various and colorful. The traditional performances are Dragon Dance and Lion Dance. On New Year's Eve firecrackers are ubiquitous. Mid -Autumn Festival 中秋節(jié) Chinese ancestors believed that the seventh, eighth, and ninth lunar months belong to autumn. So the Mid-Autumn Festival

11、falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations date back more than 2,000 years. In feudal times, Chinese emperors prayed to Heaven for a prosperous year. There is a beautiful legend about the moon. A long time ago, a terrible drought plagued the earth. Ten suns b

12、urned fiercely in the sky like smoldering volcanoes. The king of Heaven sent Hou Yi down to the earth to shoot down nine suns. A beautiful girl named Chang'e fell in love with him. The two soon married. The Goddess rewards Hou Yi with an elixir. Unfortunately an evil man murdered Hou Yi. Chang'e had

13、 to eat the elixir herself and decided to choose living on the moon. Because the full moon is round and symbolizes reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the festival of reunion. People will eat moon-cakes at this festival for cakes shaped like the moon. So don't forget to taste all the

14、delicious moon-cakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yuanxiao Festival 元宵節(jié) The Yuanxiao Festival is on the 15th of the first lunar month. That night there is a full moon, and every household is decorated with colorful lanterns and prepares yuanxiao, a kind of round dumpling made of glutinous rice flo

15、ur with sweet of salted fillings, which is boiled or fried. When night falls, people go into the street, where exquisite lanterns of diverse designs are hung. Some are pasted with riddles for the passers-by to solve. Laba and the Eight-Treasure Porridge 臘八和八寶粥 Laba is celebrated on the eighth day

16、 of the 12th lunar month, because La in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and Ba means eight. The eighth day of that month was considered a day for sacrifice to the gods and ancestors to ensure a peaceful life and a good harvest for the next year. On this day, people will eat Labazhou--the eight-t

17、reasure porridge, referring to the many nutritious ingredients used in this porridge. The eight-treasure porridge was first introduced to China in the Song Dynasty about 900 years ago. According to written records, large Buddhist temples would offer it to the poor to show their faith to Buddha. In the Ming Dynasty about 500 years ago, it became such a holy food that emperors would offer it to their officials during festivals. As it gained favor in the feudal upper class, it also quickly became popular throughout the country.