Read the text and do the exercise (according to these pictures say out the names of festivals)

T: Are you interested in these festivals?

S: ...

T: Read the text quickly and the following sentences tell me which festival it belongs to?

1. On that day, many people try their best to go home to share the feeling of 'being together' with families.

2. This festival marks the end of the Chinese New Year celebration.

3. This festival marks the beginning of the hottest season of the year.

4. The special food for this festival is sweet dumplings.

5. The festival falls on fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

6. On that day, the moon is said to be biggest and brightest.

Answers: 1. the Mid-Autumn Festival 2. the Lantern Festival

3. the Dragon Boat Festival 4. the Lantern Festival

5. the Dragon Boat Festival 6. the Mid-Autumn Festival

Ⅲ Talking and speaking

Divide the class into three groups. Each group reads one section of the text carefully and writes four or five questions about it. Then give the class three or four minutes to read the whole text again. Students close their books，in turn each group asks its questions for the rest of the class to answer.

Do the exercise 3

Encourage students to describe other festivals they know well but they can't tell the name of the festival so that other students will be interested to guess what they are.

Ⅳ Voice your opinion

1. Do you think too much money is spent at festival times? Why or why not?

2. Which festival in China is most important for children? Young people? Old people? Women and men?

Ⅴgrammar

Show students the basic passive structure: be +past participate; be +being +