Unit 4 Holidays and Festivals Some major Chinese holidays and festivals.
Chinese Food and Festivals
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Chinese Food and Festivals
Chinese Food and FestivalsPresented and written byRichard Ng& Tin Tsoi
(But mainly Richard)
1Starter ActivityWith the rest of your table, think of as many things related to Chinese Festivals as possible
(1 minute)
(eg. types of Festivals, ways to celebrate, etc.)2Possible AnswersChinese New YearLantern FestivalLucky MoneyDragon Boat FestivalMid-Autumn FestivalLunar Calendar12 Animal ZodiacsWinter SolsticeBanquetsDragon Dances3Lesson ObjectivesTo learn the numbers 1 - 10 in Chinese and the structure for numbers 11 - 99To learn the hand gestures for the numbers 1 10To learn about three Chinese Festivals:Chinese New YearThe Dragon Boat FestivalThe Mid-autumn FestivalTo learn the food eaten at these festivals
4Numbers 1-10: Recapone
two
three
four
fivesix
seven
eight
nine
teny
r
sn
s
wli
q
b
ji
sh
5How to do numbers 11-99Structure: number of tens followed by units
Eg. Twenty four would be:Two tens, four. (two tens), (four).
So (removing the comma), twenty four is written as: (r sh s)6Hand Gestures 1-10
yrsnswliqbjish7Festivals chnji: Chinese New Year
dunwji : the Dragon Boat Festival
zhngqiji: the Mid-autumn Festival8 chnji: Chinese New YearCelebrated on the first day of the first month of the ChineseCalendar: February3rd in 2011.
Families clean their houses to sweep away the bad luck, and it is customary to make dumplings to represent prosperity (: jiozi)
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jiozi dumplings1012 Chinese Zodiac AnimalsRat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake
Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Pig11 dunwji : the Dragon Boat FestivalCelebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar year (in the Chinese Calendar), usually May or June
People race dragon boats and eat zngzi (): pyramid shaped rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.
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zngzi sticky rice dumplings13 zhngqiji: the Mid-autumn FestivalCelebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the Chinese Calendar (usually around September or October)
Moon cakes, pastries with a paste filling, (: yubing) are eaten under the bright mid-autumn harvest moon.
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15ch: to eatxhun: to like16Sentence Structure: I eat...Structure: w + ch + food
Eg.
w ch yubing: I eat moon cakes17Sentence Structure: I like...Structure: w + xhun + anything (noun, verb, etc.)
Eg.
w xhun chnji: I like Chinese New Year18Exercise: Translatew ch jioziI like to eat dumplings
w xhun chI like to eat19Writing ch Stroke order for ch 20Writing xhun Stroke order for x
Stroke order for hun 21Character RecapchnjiChinese New YeardunwjiDragon Boat FestivalzhngqijiMid-autumn FestivaljioziDumplingzngziSticky rice dumplingyubingMoon cakexhunTo likechTo eat22