初中基础 (2242 期 20150327) 4-5 版 Dragon Boat Festival in other countries.

初中基础 (2242 期 20150327) 4-5版Dragon Boat Festival in other countries

Pre-reading1. Can you name some traditional Chinese festivals? When do we celebrate these festivals? the Spring Festival the Lantern Festival

the Mid-Autumn Festivalthe Dragon Boat Festival

2. What do people usually do on the Dragon Boat Festival? Do you know other countries that have the similar traditions?

While reading

Complete the chart with the information from the article.

  China Korea Japan

Activities _____________1___________wear _____________3___________ the calamus plant

hang calamus and Artemisia _____________5___________

Food _____________2___________ _____________4___________ /

dragon boat racing

zongzi

the root of

suritteok

on the door

Answer the following questions.1. China isn’t the only country that celebrates the Dragon

Boat Festival, is it?

2. What does Korean food suritteok look like?

3. Why do Japanese people hang calamus and artemisia on their doors?

No, it isn’t.

It looks like a wheel.

To stop disease and bad luck entering.

Language study Complete the paragraph with the words in the box.

Do you know Dano in South Korea? It’s ______1______ to the Dragon

Boat Festival in China. Suritteok, a ______2______ Korean food during

the festival, is as ______3______ as zongzi in China. Korean women

wear the root of the calamus plant because they believe it can

______4______ headaches. Likewise, Japanese people hope to drive

bad luck away by ______5______ calamus and artemisia on the doors.

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After reading

Write a passage about your favorite traditional Chinese festival. Let your classmates know why you like it best and how you celebrate it.