5B Unit 6 Different festivals

Unit 6 Different festivals Listen and chant Miss Tickle is asking the children about their favourite festivals. What are they saying? Didi, what's your favourite festival? The Dragon Boat Festival! Rice dumplings to eat! What a treat! Witchy, what's your favourite festival? Christmas! Christmas cards to send! To my best friend! Mon Mon, what's your favourite festival? Easter! Easter eggs to share! Happy together! Didi, what's your favourite festival? The Dragon Boat Festival! Rice dumplings to eat! What a treat! Witchy, what's your favourite festival? Christmas! Christmas cards to send! To my best friend! Mon Mon, what's your favourite festival? Easter! Easter eggs to share! Happy together!

Read Harry and Holly are reading a book about Chinese festivals. They are reading the stories of the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Read the stories with them. The story of Qu Yuan Long ago in China, there was a man named Qu Yuan. He was a clever poet and also the Emperor's good friend. Some officers were jealous of Qu Yuan's friendship with the Emperor. They said bad things about him. After the Emperor died, the Emperor's son asked Qu Yuan to leave the kingdom. Qu Yuan was very sad. He jumped into a river. People went in their boats to save him, but they could not find him. They did not want the fish to eat Qu Yuan's body, so they dropped rice dumplings into the river. The day Qu Yuan died was the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People wanted to remember him, so they made this day a special festival--the Dragon Boat Festival. We watch dragon boat races and eat rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival. The story of Hou Yi and Chang'e At the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is round and bright. We eat mooncakes and play with lanterns under the beautiful moon. A long time ago, there were ten suns in the sky. The heat burnt all the crops. People had no food to eat. One day, a strong man named Hou Yi shot down nine of the suns with his bow and arrows. Everybody loved him. The Queen of Heaven gave him a present. It was a pill that could make him live forever. Soon, Hou Yi became proud and cruel. His kind and beautiful wife Chang'e did not want him to take the pill. She stole it and took it. Suddenly, she became very light and flew straight to the moon. Chang'e lived there ever after. Imagine you are Chang'e. What will you do? Will you take the pill? Word building festive activities get red packets play trick or treat play with lanterns send Christmas cards sweep the graves watch dragon boat races wear costumes festive food Easter eggs mooncakes rice dumplings

Grammar time 1 We use ‘at'to talk about festivals. At the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is round and bright. The moon is round and bright at the Mid-Autumn Festival. 2 We use the relative pronoun ‘that' to add information about things. It was a pill that could make him live forever. We can also use 'which' instead of 'that' to add information about things.

Phonics time ou ow Listen to the poem. Say it aloud. Let's have a loud Halloween! How about making it the best that you've ever seen? We'll proudly go around the town, Shouting, ‘Trick or treat? Trick or treat?' Let's have a loud Halloween! How about making it the best that you've ever seen? We'll proudly go around the town, Shouting, ‘Trick or treat? Trick or treat?' What happened to Bobby's family at different festivals? Listen to what Bobby says. Circle the words with the same ‘ou'sound as ‘loud' and the same ‘ow' sound as ‘how'. Then say the sentences aloud. 1 My father bought a new blouse for my sister as her Christmas present, but she spilt some soup on it on Christmas Day. She was very sad. 2 We did not go out to visit our relatives at Chinese New Year because we went to Japan for a tour. 3 My brother is a member of a dragon boat team. Their team showed its speed to a big crowd last year.