(
课件网) Unit 1 Festivals and Celebrations Listening and Speaking What festival is it Listen and guess Mid-Autumn Day Chinese Spring Festival What festival is it Listen and guess Christmas Day Thanksgiving Day Halloween Can you speak out some Chinese festivals The Spring Festival The Qingming Festival/ The Tomb-sweeping Day The Dragon Boat Festival The Mid-autumn Day The National Day How do people celebrate Chinese Lantern Festival visit a lantern fair guess riddles give performances wear traditional costumes march along the streets attend the ceremony dress up in carnival costumes receive congratulations from … watch samba dance Looking at lanterns Eating yuanxiao or tangyuan Guess the festival! Rio Carnival It is a joyous festival celebrated in Catholic countries around the world. Usually the carnival occurs in late February or early March. By far, the biggest carnival is in Rio, where more than two million people take part in the yearly festivities. During this time, the streets are filled with colorful large floats and parades of people, wearing colorful costumes and dancing the Samba. visit a lantern fair guess riddles give performances wear traditional costumes march along the streets attend the ceremony dress up in carnival costumes receive congratulations from … watch samba dance 2. Listen and write the order of the conversations next to the names of the festivals above. Then match each conversation with the relationship between the speakers below. 1. Read the introduction and questions. Predict the content. To listen for a relationship, you need to pay attention to how people talk to each other (e.g. friends usually call each other by first names) and some particular questions in the conversation (e.g. “Could I have the bill, please ” tells us that the speaker is a customer in a restaurant). ____ a tour guide and members of a tour group ____ an interviewer and an interviewee ____ a reporter and a tourist ____ two friends Chinese Lantern Festival, Coming-of-Age Day, Rio Carnival unfamiliar strangers use formal language (Mr... Miss...) familiar use casual language ( the first name) Tips 1. Listen for the gist. 2. Focus on key expressions. Activity 2 Conversation 1 1. Listen to the first conversation for the first time and choose the right answers. ①What is Conversation 1 about A. Rio Carnival. B. Chinese Lantern Festival. C. Coming-of-Age Day ②On this special day, the girl in the conversation does the following things except _____. A. Doing her hair and make-up. B. Getting dressed in kimono. C. Having a party. D. Joining in a parade. ③What is the relationship between the two speakers A.Two friends B. a reporter and tourist C.An interviewer and an interviewee. D. A tour guide and members of a tour group 2. Listen to the conversation again and judge the following sentences are whether true (T) or false (F). ①The girl spends hours to wear make-ups just to look her best at the Com ... ...
