Children’s Day

June 1

March 8

Women’s Day

October 1

National Day

May 1

May Day

September 10

Teacher’s Day

1st day of Chinese lunar year

Spring Festival

What do people do before Spring Festival?

What do people do in Spring Festival?

clean the house go shopping

go to the flower market

visit relatives and friends

get lucky money

Dec. 25th

Reading comprehensionReading comprehension

Answers to the questions

1 They send cards to all their relatives and friends, make their houses pretty and buy presents for everyone in the family.

2 No, he doesn’t.

3 They leave something by the fire for Father Christmas to eat and drink and put a stocking at the bottom of their beds.

Answers to the questions

4 He gets into the houses through the chimney.

5 He leaves an apple or an orange , toys and sweets in the stocking.

6 Because there is no Father Christmas. Parents fill the stockings.

Christmas Spring Festival

Time

The day before it

People’s doing before it

People say to each other

Things for the children

December 25

1st day of Chinese lunar year

Christmas Eve New Year’s Eve

Send cards, buy presents and make houses pretty

go shopping, clean the house and go to the flower market

Merry Christmas Happy New Year

Toys and sweets Lucky money

chimney

relative

naughty

strange

fall asleep

fill…with

your family members like bothers and sisters

hard to understand

go to sleep

often play tricks on others

make sth full of sth.

a place letting the smoke out

chimney relativenaughty

strange fall asleep

2 Look! There is black smoke coming out of that________.

3 They are Mary’s close________.4 Tom__________very quickly last night.

fill…with

1 He is a very________boy. He often makes a noise in class.

5 The child_____her pocket_____ sweets when she went shopping with her mother.7 He is______ . He never talks to others.

naughty

chimney

relatives

fell asleepfilled with

strange

2 Read lesson 29 after the tape.

1 EX 2 and 3 in Book C. Finish EX.1&2 in Book B

3 Make a PowerPoint or picture about Christmas.