人教新课标高一英语必修三课件：Unit 1 Festivals around the world reading

Many religions today celebrate their festival days on or about the times of the old festivals.
Question:
Why would people celebrate at these three times of the year?
5. They also light lamps and play music because they think that this will lead the ancestors back to earth. 他们还点起灯笼，奏响乐曲，因为他们认为这样做 可以把祖先引回到世上。
lead (…) to 领往；通往；导致。
新课标高一 英语必修3
UNIT 1 Festivals around
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• Teaching aims: • To help Ss bring their personal experience into the discussion of festivals. • To exercise the Ss prediction skills. • Enable Ss to know the earliest festivals with reasons for them and four
4. For the Japanese festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of their ancestors. 在日本的盂兰盆节，人们要扫墓、烧香，以缅怀祖先。
Obon盂兰盆节，日本民间最盛大的节日，在每年的月或月中 旬，为期一周。在此期间，各处高挂红灯，各家都要扫墓，打 扫佛像，供奉蔬菜、水果和米饭，在广场和寺庙还有庆祝活动。 节日结束的时候，还要放河灯。现在盂兰盆节已成为日本人家 庭团聚娱乐的日子。
这种句子也可以用被动结构。
I never meant him to work for us. 我从来没有让他为我们工作的意思。
Is that mark in the middle of the picture meant to be a building? 图画中心的记号是不是一座建筑物？
2. Discuss when they take place, what they celebrate and what people do at that time. 讨论它们（中国节日）是什么时 间举行，庆祝的是什么事件，人们在那天做什么事。
You see the path on your right? It leads to the village. 你看见右过的小路了吗？它通向村子。
This will probably lead to trouble in the future. 这很可能会导致日后的麻烦。
6. On this important feast day, people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with “bones” on them. 在这个重要的节庆日子里，人们会吃制成颅骨、形状的食 物，和装点有“骨头”的蛋糕。
to do harm 损害，危害，伤害
It wouldn’t do you any harm to stay up late for a few days. 仅仅熬几天夜不会对你造成任何伤 害。
I’m afraid it will do more harm than good. 这样 做恐怕弊大于利。
Question:
Why are spring festivals popular? Talk about all the cultural practices you know of at spring festivals.
Language points:
1. Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year. 节日就是庆祝一年中重要的日子。 mean后面可以跟带不定式的复合结构。
take place 发生；举行
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3. Some festivals are held to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. 有些节日，是为了纪念死者，或者使祖先得到满 足，因为祖先们有可能回到世上（给人们）提供帮助， 也有可能带来危害。
4) What do you know about Halloween? What pictures have you seen?
3. Festivals to Honour People:
These festivals are used to develop or strengthen national pride, to recognize war heroes, national leaders, famous historical figures and events and loved and admired people in the country’s history.
Others do so to face death and deal with the fear of dying as in the Day of the Dead in Mexico. In some Western countries, there is little that remains of the original festivals. Funeral practices tend to be quiet and private, not public.
different kinds of festivals that occur in most part of the world. • Enable to matter some English expressions and phrases about festivals.
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4. Harvest Festivals:
These are continuations of the ancient festivals that were intended to ensure enough food and to celebrate survival for another year. Often there are large public gatherings to share food and drink.
in memory of 纪念
They set up a monument of the soldiers who died in World War II. 他们建立起一座纪念碑，用以纪念 二战中牺牲的战士们。
He wrote a long moving poem in memory of his good friends. 为纪念他的挚友，他写下了一首感人的长诗。
2. Festivals of the Dead
Many societies believe that the dead can influence their lives for good or evil? To honour one’s ancestors also brings respect to their memory and to the family. All societies have ways of recognizing the memories of their dead. Some do so out of belief that the dead are able to see and hear human life, as in the Obon festival.
Questions:
1) What kinds of things are done to honour the dead?
2) Why do you think we offer flowers to the dead?
3) What do you think about the Mexican practice of making cakes with skulls and bones？
Question:
Do you know of any harvest celebrations in China?
5. Spring Festivals:
These festivals are celebrations of life, fertility and renewal. Many things associated with them are symbolic of new life and new growth. The food that is eaten is important. For example, lamb is a common Easter dinner. Rabbits and baby chicks are also favourite Easter symbols. You may wish to discuss the reasons shy certain foods are eaten at certain festivals.
What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town?