questions.

You can show the questions on the screen or ask the questions one by one.

Q1: What's the population of the Bai ethnic group? What's their native region and main city?

The Bai ethnic group has a population of around two million, 90% of whom live in Yunnan. Their native regon is the Erhai region of Yunnan, and its main city is Dali.

Q2: What about their economy, main crops and staple foods?

The Bai have an agricultural economy, their main crops being rice, wheat, beans and cotton. Their staple foods are pork, rice and wheat.

Q3: What's their traditional costume of the Bai?

The Bai prefer the colour white, and Bai women wear white and red costumes, while the men wear white shirts and long wide trousers.

Q4: Do you know something about their Torch Festival?

The Bai Torch Festival is the most well-known Bai festival. During this festival, a tree, known as the torch tree, is burnt. Young mothers and their children walk round the tree three times for good luck, while others wish for a happy life for the village. Children then light torches and run through the fields.

Step II Listening and vocabulary (Page 62)

Make sure the students understand the words. Then let the students work in pairs and answer the questions.

T: Here I'll give you three minutes to discuss in pairs and then I'll ask some of you to show your answers.

Three minutes later, encourage the students to report their answers to the four questions..

S1: A pineapple is a large juicy tropical fruit with sweet yellow flesh and a prickly skin.

S2: The rainforest is green and growing and lively. In the rainforest it is warm all year long, and there is lots of rain, often over 100 inches of rain per year. Since sunshine and rain are two of the things that plants need to grow, you can see why the rain forest is home to many, many plants. In fact, more than half of the world's different species of plants live in the rainforest. The major plants in a