Module 4《Carnival》Reading教案5（外研版必修5）

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111 Module 4 Carnival Part One: Teaching Design 第一部分 教學設計 Period 4: Reading and writing Goals To learn to read and write about festivals Procedures Step 1 Before you read Before you read the email on page 38, please go over the word list for this module again, paying attention to the pronunciation of the word, the relationship between its pronunciation and its spelling. Step 2 While you read While reading the email on page 38, try to cut/ the sentences into thought groups, blacken the predicates, underline the useful expressions and darken the connectives. Step 3 After you read Now find time to copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book and make your own sentences with them. feel like…, at the Notting Hill carnival, have a good time, part of the celebrations, from all over the world, play all types of music, the West Indian calypso bands, exciting and relaxing at the same time, really noisy, be made of beef and onions, really tasty, have a coffee, at an Internet cafe, continue outside, finish this email, go back to… Emailing about festivals Supposing you are studying in the United States and you have observed Chinese New Year Festival there, emailing your parents about it as seen in the US. Get Msg Write Msg Reply File Delete Stop Print Hello, mum and dad, I’m in San Francisco Chinatown. Yesterday was the Chinese New Year Festival. People here also celebrate it, but differently. The Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco Chinatown and other Chinese American communities should not be interpreted as direct transplants of Chinese culture. Due to differences in their social environment and physical limitations, these local celebrations have developed special characteristics of their own. Along with old customs imported directly from China, the Chinatown celebrations also contain adaptations from other cultures in the United States. Traditional vs Modern The first point to be noticed in comparing the Chinatown celebrations of today to that described in the proceeding section is that they have been shortened or simplified. Chinese American stores in this country do not close for a week to celebrate, nor is is likely that a Chinese American could take two weeks off from work. Therefore, many of the festivities have been adapted for the evenings or the weekends. This includes the social visits, the family dinners, and even the Chinatown parade, which is always held on a Saturday. In many Chinese American homes, the annual housecleaning is still done at New Year’s time. Spring Couplets can be seen in Chinatown stores everywhere, but these are now bought from the Chinese Hospital as a fundraising effort - an interesting variation on an old Chinese custom. In addition to the Spring Couplets, the Chinatown lion dances have also been promoted as a fundraising event for the Chinese Hospital. In the earlier days of Chinatown, lion dances were relatively rare. In the 1920’s, a fundraising program was started whereby lion dancers would go from store to store to dance and wish them luck. In return, storekeepers would give Lai-see packets which were donated to the Chinese Hospital. Chinatown Festival & Parade The Chinatown parade is a bend of typical American marching parades and the traditional Lantern Festival. Although the dragon dance is adopted from the Chinese celebration, the rest of the Chinatown parade, including the beauty pageant, floats, and marching bands, was obviously inspired by non-Chinese models. The parade was first started in 1953 by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and has since attracted thousands of spectators each year. Family Associations Some Chinatown festivities also reflect the earlier history of Chinese Americans. Prior to the present generation, the Chinese American community was essentially a bachelor society. Restrictive immigration laws had made it extremely difficult for Chinese families to immigrate to the United States. As a result, most Chinese Americans in the past were not able to hold family dinners at New Year’s time. In place of the family banquets, Chinatown developed a unique tradition of Spring Banquets hosted by the "family associations" in certain Chinese restaurants. These Spring Banquets, originally developed to take the place of family dinners, are still held today, even though Chinatown is no longer a society of single men. I’ll let you know about typical American festivals in my next email to you. God bless you! Your daughter ZYF 111