[英语学习]chinese traditional festivals.pptVIP

English for Tourism and Travel UNIT 3 Chinese Festival Part I Lecture Time Assigned I. LISTENING ACTIVITIES LISTENING 1Dragon Boat Festival LISTENING 2 Water-Sprinkling Festival The Text and Its Recording Listening 1 Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival This major festival combines a (1)_____________ celebration with an exciting, fast-paced sporting event. Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the (2)_____________ day of the fifth lunar month, and together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival forms one of the three (3)____________ Chinese holidays. Since summer is a time when(4)_____________ most easily spread, Dragon Boat Festival began as an occasion for driving off (5)______________sprits and pestilence and for finding peace in one’s life. The festival’s (6)____________for warding off evil and disease is symbolized by a number of customary practices such as hanging calamus and moxa on the (7)______________door. The most popular dish during Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi, originally made to feed the (8)______________in the river, thus they won’t eat the body of (9)_____________. Later, eating zongzi became the custom of commemorating the (10)_____________ Qu Yuan. Water-Sprinkling Festival 1. Every March ______________, all the Dai people in Yunnan Province sing and dance to celebrate their traditional great day---the Water-Sprinkling Festival, their New Year’s Day. 2. The Water-Sprinkling Festival has a very interesting origin. The legend tells that once there came a monster who turned this piece of fertitle land into a hellish land ____________. 3. The monster’s seven daughters, however, hated their father for his cruelness___________ and decided to release the Dai people from pain and hunger by killing him. 4. When the monster fell sound sleep, the girls immediately strangled their monster father with a string ____________ picked from his head and beheaded him. But the head of the monster rolled on and smashed _____