Module 4 CarnivalModule 4 Carnival

Introduction and Reading

Can you name the following 　 festivals or

The Spring Festival

(lunar January 1)couplet

fireworks

fireworks

paper- cuts

lucky/ gift money

对联

烟花

爆竹

剪纸

压岁钱

The Lantern Festival(Lunar January 15)lion /dragon dance

riddles written on lanterns

exhibit of lanterns

rice glue ball

舞狮 / 龙

灯谜

灯会

元宵

Ching Ming Festival /

Tomb-sweeping Day

(Lunar April 5)

rebirth of nature

celebrat it with picnics, and kite flying

sweep and weed graves

honor ancestors

Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar May 5)

rice dumplings

Dragon Boat race

棕子

龙舟赛

Double Seventh Festival

(Lunar July 7 ）

CowherdGirl Weaverthe Milky Way magpie

牛郎

织女

银河

喜鹊

Mid-Autumn Festival

(Lunar August 15)

Chang E flying to the moon moon cake

嫦娥奔月

月饼

Double Ninth Festival

（ Lunar September 9 ）

ascending a height

enjoying the flourishing chrysanthemum

登高

赏菊

New Year’ Eve

(Lunar December 31)

festivals

festivals in China

The Dragon Boat Festival

The Double Ninth Festival

The Spring Festival

Qingming

The Lantern Festival

The MiddleAutumn Festival

The Double Seventh Festival

Ghost Festival

Other holidays

Teachers’ DAY

Children's Day

What is your favorite Chinese festival? What do you do this day?Why do you like it?wear special clothes eat special food

give or receive gifts

have a holiday from school

take part in a traditional ceremony

dance and listen to music

enjoy yourself with friends or family

festivals

festivals in other countries

Christmas Fool’s Day

Valentine’s DayCarnival Easter

Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day

Father’s DayHalloween

Christmas

(25th December)This is a Christian festival which comes in the middle of winter.

reindeersleigh

Santa Claus 圣诞老人

驯鹿

雪橇

Valentine’s Day

Feb. 14th

April Fool’s Day

(April 1)

HoliThis is a festival of color, which marks the beginning of spring in India.

（胡里节）

Thanksgiving Day

(The ４ th Thursday in November)

turkey

pumpkin pie

This is when Americans remember the hard times when they first arrived in the country.

This festival is at the end of October, when “ghosts” come out.

Halloween (31th. October/ 1st Nobember)

( All Saints' Day )

Jack-o-Lantern

Trick-or-Treat on Halloween

Dunking For Apples

Halloween Parade

Easter (March 23 to April 25)

This is a Christian holiday in March or April when Christians remember the death of Christ and his return to life.

Easter BunnyEaster eggs

Carnival

Reading

The Magic of the Mask

Lisening the passage and check the topics it mentions.

1.Different carnivals

2.The orgins of carnival

3.Spencial food

4.Carnival in Venice

Read the whole passage and generalize the main idea of each paragraph.

Para1. People’s general imperssion of

carmival.

Para2. The meaning of carnival and how

it was celebrated in history.

Para3. Carnival in Venice and the problem

it caused when people celebrated it.

Para4. The law about wearing masks.

Para5. The revival of the tradition of

celebration carvinal.

Para6. How canival is celebrated in

Venice today and the feature of the

carnival in Venice.

Read the passage again and do exercise 2.

Answers: c cb a b b b b

Exercise 3 and 4

Ex. 3

1.confusing

2.excitement

3.mask

4.mystery

5.magic

6. costume

7. crowd

8. tradition

9. atmosphere

Ex. 4 ab bb a bbb

Group competition

Give us the information about carnival as much as you can.

Test about the Reading

Test 11.Think of carnival, and you think of crow

ds, c________, and confusion.

2.As time passed, however, the carnival period was e________.

3.But in the late 1970s the tradition was r_______ by students.

4. If the key to Rio is music and movement, then in Venice it is the m_______.

5. If the masks comeoff, the m____ is lost.

ostumses

xtended

evived

ysteryagic

Test 2 At the beginning of the carnival in Venice, ordinary people wearing masks could pretend to be rich and ________, While famous people could have romantic adventures in ________. Later, People who wore masks could not carry ________ or enter a church. At the end of the 18th, masks were banned completely, and carnival became a _______. In the late 1970s, the tradition revived. Today, when you ______ through the street, you can see thousands of masks- ______ or frightening, sad or _______.

important secret

firearms

memerywonder

elegant amusing

Homework

Exercises on page 86 and 87 in the Work book