新思维职业英语综合教程 3 New Thinking Vocational EnglishUnit Six.ppt

Intensive Reading Warm-up Exercises I. Do you know the following festivals? Please write down their Chinese names and match them with the corresponding dates. Key: 1. 母亲节 E 2. 端午节 B 3. 愚人节 G 4. 万圣节 H 5. 圣诞节 A 6. 元宵节 F 7. 父亲节 C 8. 情人节 D Intensive Reading Warm-up Exercises II. Discuss the following questions with your partners. 1. Which festival do you like best? 2. How do people celebrate this festival? III. Describe a festival to your partners and ask them to guess what festival it is. Your description should be brief and clear. Sample: It comes on the fourth Thursday of November, when all the family members get together for a big family dinner to express their thanks for the year’s abundance and humbly ask for continued blessings. The best and most attractive foods on the occasion are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. Answer: Thanksgiving Day. 1 The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes into August in the Gregorian calendar. 2 This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and the grass and trees reveal their luxuriant greens. At night when the sky is dotted with stars, people can see the Milky Way spanning the sky from the north to the south. On each bank of it is a bright star, which looks at each other from afar. They are the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid, and about them there is a beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation. Intensive Reading Structure Vocabulary Notes Chinese Double Seventh Festival Intensive Reading Structure Vocabulary Notes 3 Long long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niulang (Cowherd). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding cattle and farming. One day, a fairy, Zhinü (Weaver Maid), from h