Festival 10
Teachinggoals
Student will be able to：
1.Review
dragon boat festival
2.learning
about new year's day,
3、target vocabulary, readingcomprehension, vocabulary practice.
Part one
whoare we? We are descendants of dragon.
When
is dragon boat festival? Dragon boat festival is on May 5th of the Chinese lunar calendar.
Why
do people celebrate dragon boat festival? Peoplecelebrate dragon boat festival to honor QuYuan.
Who is QuYuan? He is an ancient Chinese poet.
What is Zongzi? Zongzi(rice
dumplings)is a kind of sticky rice dumplings with different fillings wrapped by bamboo orreed leaves.
Vocabulary preview.
Legend. 神话，传说A story from long ago.
Force ,强迫to make someone do something.
Lonely,孤独的sad tobe alone.
Drawn,溺死淹死to die underthewater.
Dragon,a bigimaginary lizard like creature.
People
love QuYuan’poetry.
They searched for him in their fishing boat. They beat drums and splashed
loudly to keep the water dragons away. They threwrice in the water for Quyuan.
One day QuYuan's spirit appeared. He toldpeople that the giant dragon was eating the rice. He warned them to wrap therice in leaves.
The Chinese people honor the "father ofChinese poem"with annual dragon boat races. Dragon boat racing is now an internationalsport.
Swimming is an international sport.
Jogging
is an international sport.
basketball is an international sport. football is an international sport. olympic.
Comprehension
Who
was QuYuan?Hewas an ancient Chinese poet.
What
did QuYuando when the king sent him away? QuYuanleft his home and wrote poetry about his loneliness.
In
the Legend of QuYuan, why
did people beat drums?
In
the legend, The people were trying
to keep the water dragons away.
What
did QuYuan’sspirit tell the people to do？
His spirit
told people to wrap the rice in leaves.
Where
do people race dragon
boat today?Peoplerace dragon boats all over the world.
EatingZongziis an important tradition of the festival Drinkingrealgar wineis animportant tradition of thefestival .
Dragon
boat racing is an important tradition of the festival. Hanging calamus and
wormwood is animportant tradition of the festival
DuringDragonBoatFestival.
It is a very important tradition to hang calamus and wormwood clusters on the
door frame.Both
calamus and wormwood can repel pests.
Wearing perfume pouches is an importanttradition of the festival.
Part 3
New
years,
vocabulary preview,
Cheers party, champagne, midnight dress, tuxedo, fireworks, calendar countdown resolutions.
Many people around the world celebrate thebeginning of theNew Year on December
31 and January1st.
The night ofDecember
31st is NewYear'sEve.
People often go to New Year's Eve
parties. Some people get dressed up in formal clothing such as tuxedos and
dresses. They celebrate the start of the NewYear
by eating food and drinking champagne with
friends and family.
It's
time for the countdown about 10
seconds before midnight, People count
down to the new year by yelling out “10.. 987654..321”“HappyNewYear!”.
At
midnight, many people toast one another with a glass of champagne. They clinktheir glasses together and say “Cheers”or “HappyNewYear!”.
Sometimes people watch fireworks atmidnight too.
New
years day is on January1st. It is the start of a new
calendar year. Many people spend this holiday with family and friends. It is a
popular day to make new years resolutions. People often set personal goals such
as “I will quit smoking” or “I
will exercise more this year.”
Vocabulary.
Quit, I quit, I quit doing something. quit smoking
popular person, popular star popular,
spend
time with somebody
spend
holiday with somebody. Spend--- spent
Toast
one another clink set goal personal
for
example====such
as
exercise
more.
Yell
out
formalcasual.
Get
dressed up
resolutions, countdown, calendar, fireworks,tuxedo dress, midnight champagne, party , pouch perfume, test
repair, international annual.
Father
of Chinese poetry warn---warned
Appear----appeared spirit
fly-----flew throw---threw splash
search
for beat drum creature
homesick write----wrote
honor drown lonely alone Legend descendant.
