mid-autumn festival 中 (zhŌng) 秋 (qiŪ) 節 (jiÉ)

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL中 (ZHŌNG) 秋 (QIŪ) 節 (JIÉ)Grade 6-8

SY2010-2011

Teacher: wú lǎo shī

STANDARDS

Standard 4: Cultures Benchmark WL.IS.608.4.1 Identify tangible

and intangible products and practices of the target culture and compare them to other cultures.

OBJECTIVES

Understand the origin of Mid-Autumn festival and how Chinese celebrate this festival.

Familiar vocabulary and phrases that associated with Mid-autumn festival.

cháng ér

cháng ér bēn yuè

hòu yì

zhōng qiū jié mid-Autumn festival

shǎng yuèObserving the moon

yuè bǐng moon cake

chī yuè bǐng eating moon cake

tuán yuán Reunion kǎo ròu

BBQ

yoù zi Pomelo

cāi dēng mí Latern Puzzle solving

YÙ TÙ DǍO YIĀO :MOON RABBIT

There were three immortals pretended to be homeless old men. They were begging fox, monkey, and rabbit for food. Both fox, monkey had food to spare to these three homeless old men, but only rabbit had no food to give. Therefore, rabbit said to three homeless men “ Why don’t you eat my meat!”, then it jumped into fire and had three homeless men eat it as a meal. Because its impressive action, the three immortals decided to send the rabbit to moon palace, and it became a immortal rabbit “ yù tù”.

《李白‧夜思》 lǐ bái. yè sī

床 前 明 月 光，疑 是 地 上 霜。 chuáng qián míng yuè guāng, yí shì dì shàng

shuāng

舉 頭 望 明 月，低 頭 思 故 鄉。 jǔ tóu wàng míng yuè, dī tóu sī gù

xiāng.