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We are going to:• learn about the Mid-Autumn

Festival in China.• read and discuss the things that

happen in this festival.

Unit 5 Special Days and Festivals - Lesson 7

What holidays do you celebrate during autumn?

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Warm- up

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese holiday. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is always on the night of the full moon.

costume: kind of clothes for showing the people on the streets.

What is the color of the dragon costume?

Mid-Autumn: a festival where people eat moon cakes.Let's read and discuss.

What is the name of this festival?When do people celebrate this festival?

What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?

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Let's read and discuss. costume: kind of clothes for showing the people on the streets.

What is the color of the dragon costume?

What does it look like?Why is the moon cake round?

moon cakes: Chinese cakes eaten during Mid-Autumn Festival.

Where can you eat a moon cake?

During the festival, it is a tradition to eat moon cakes. They are small cakes that usually have red beans inside.

Sometimes, there are cooked egg yolks inside moon cakes as a symbol of the full moon.

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Checkpoint.

What is this? How do you think they float in the sky?

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Let's read and discuss. lantern: a small hot air balloon made of paper.

Where is the lantern?

At night, it is a tradition to light floating sky lanterns.

Sometimes they have wishes written on them and the fire makes them float.

When is the sky lantern used? What do people write on them?

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Let's read and discuss.

What is a lotus? What does it mean?

lotus: flower of fine beauty.

Is a lotus flower beautiful?

Families get together on this day and cut watermelons in the shape of a lotus.

The lotus is a symbol of reunion of family and friends.

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Let's match the columns.

flower that is a symbol of reunion

lotus

moon cakes

sky lantern

small cakes eaten during Mid-Autumn Festival

a small hot air balloon made of paper

egg yolk

found in some moon cakes as a symbol of the full moon

Practice

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Let's discuss.

How does your family celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Do you celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival? How?

Have you seen a lotus before?

Have you eaten moon cakes? Do you like them?

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lantern, Mid-Autumn, moon cake, lotus, reunion, symbol

In this lesson, we...

read and discussed about the Mid-Autumn Festival.

learned new words:

Do research online about why people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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Wrap- up

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