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课件网) Unit1 Festivals and Celebrations Reading for Writing By the end of this period, you will be able to 1. figure out the structure and language features of a festival experience. 2. appreciate and treasure the colourful national cultures and cultivate the cultural awareness. 3. write you own festival experience using the structure of this passage. Learning Objectives 1. Have you ever been to Inner Mongolia What’s your impression of it Lead-inMongolian steppes(grassland)Mongolian tentsroast muttonMongolian robes2.What is the most important festival in Inner Mongolia The Naadam Festival.Lead-in Check predictions and explore the gist（主旨；大意） It’s a narrative about the writer’s Naadam experience. Diary My amazing Naadam experience Main idea Text type Narrative Argumentation Exposition Typical textual features Time order Past tense 1 st person Opinions and feelings… Step 2 Pre-reading Task 1: Find out the topic sentence of each paragraph and read for the structure Task 2: How many parts the diary can be divided into What should be included in each part Task 3: What festival did the author experience Where, When and How long Fast reading Read the passage quickly and finish the tasks. According to the left information, we can divide the passage into parts. Opening paragraph Body paragraph Closing paragraph summary Before During After time order 3 Check your answers. 1. What festival did the author experience Where, when and how long Naadam Festival. Falls on the 4th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar In China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 内蒙古自治区 Lasts for three days Where When How long 2. What does “Naadam” mean Which events does it include Naadam means “games” in Mongolian, and it includes horse racing, wrestling, and archery. horse racing archery wrestling 3. What Naadam Festival customs did you learn about Wrestling and horse racing. 4. What in your opinion is the most impressive thing about the festival Possible answer: The horse racing is the most impressive, as it involved little children. 5. What else would you like to know about the festival and the writer's experience Possible answer: The writer did not talk about food or music, but surely they should have been interesting parts of the festival. What activities did the author experience (1) opening ceremony (2) wrestling competition (3) archery (4) horse racing Analysing Study the organisation and language features. On the first day, I set off to the games early with my friend Burin. I saw a lot of people wearing fancy Mongolian robes. Some were feeding their horses, some were practising archery, and others were chatting or taking photographs. Burin told me that Mongolians travel every year from near and far to attend the festival, just as their ancestors had done for centuries. Body (Para.2): explore the festival atmosphere It is during the Naadam Festival. What do people do to prepare for the fest ... ...
