festivals and holidays

Holidays&

Festivals

How many holidays and festivals do yo know? Can you name them in English? And which one do you like best?

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Do you know the origin of the festival? What is time of the festival? What do people do on that day? What are the special foods people eat on that day? Is there any modern acitivities people doing now or any modern meaning loaded on the traditional festival? Any western equivalent?

Our werstern equivalent

V.S.Spring Festivals Christmas

Compare and contrast?Spring Festival The Christmas Day

Qi Xi

The Valentine’s Day

Tomb Sweeping Day

The Halloween

Mid-autumn Day

The Thanks Giving Day

What does it mean that more people are celebrating western festivals.

Opinions: From this we can actually see we've already failed in the battle of culture. People are just celebrating them for fun, so it's not a big deal. The conflict between opening to the world and staying unique as a culture

It’s my party! ( By Lesley Gore, 1965)

What do you think the song is about? What are the three people mentioned in the song? What is the relationship between them? What happened?

Play all of my records, Keep dancing all night But just leave me alone for a while ‘til Johnny’s back dancing with me I’ve got no more reason to smile

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to Cry if I want to, cry if I want to You would cry too if it happened to you Nobody really knows where my Johnny has gone But Judy left at the same time Why was he still holding her hand When he’s supposed to be all mine

Judy and Johnny just walked in thru’ the door Like a queen walking with her king Oh, what a birthday party surprise Judy’s wearing his ear-ring

Let’s have a party… What do people say in parties? How to control a conversation?

By the way, ….

Well ….

Imaging that!

No kidding !

Really ?

Sure.

Come to think of it…

Let’s have a party…

Holiday Party Each group has a Chinese holiday party A host/hostess A foreigner invited Introduce the holiday to the foreigner and try to tell the difference between Chinese and western holidays Small talks between old friends (guys try your best to get to know girls)

Our traditionCan you cook the traditional new years food? Do you still use a red packet to give money for blessing kids? Do you know what Toufu means for a new year? We are not practicing many things in our festivals. We are simplifying them, and at the same time losing them.