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　　高中英语必修三《Unit one Festival around the world》教案
　　Warming up Pre reading
　　1. Festivals are meant to celebrate important times of year.
　　Meant is the past tense and past participle of mean.
　　（1）You use meant to to say that something or someone was intended to be or do a particular thing, especially when they have failed to be or do it.
　　I can’t say any more, it’s meant to be a big secret.
　　I’m meant to be on holiday.
　　= be supposed to
　　（2）If you say that something is meant to happen, you mean that it is expected to happen or that it ought to happen.
　　The peculiar thing about getting engaged is that you’re meant to announce it to everyone.
　　Parties are meant to be fun.
　　= be supposed to
　　（3）If you say that something is meant to have a particular quality or characteristic, you mean that it has a reputation for being like that.
　　Spurs are meant to be one of the top teams in the world.
　　= be thought to
　　（4）If something is meant for particular people or for a particular situation, it is intended for those people or for that situation.
　　Fairy tales weren’t just meant for children.
　　The seeds were not meant for human ption.
　　The letter might not have been meant for me at all.
　　= intended
　　2. Work in groups and list below three more Chinese festivals that you know.
　　=three other Chinese festivals =another three Chinese festivals
　　3.Discuss when they take place.
　　When something takes place, it happens, especially in a controlled or organized way.
　　The discussion took place in a famous villa on the lake’s shore.
　　She wanted Hugh’s wedding to take place quickly.
　　Elections will now take place on November the twenty-fifth.
　　4.It celebrates the beauty of the moon,harvest,time with family and friends.
　　（1）Beauty is the state or quality of being beautiful. （N-UNCOUNT）
　　...an area of outstanding natural beauty...
　　Everyone admired her elegance and her beauty.
　　（2）beauty beauties （N-COUNT）A beauty is a beautiful woman. （JOURNALISM）
　　She is known as a great beauty.
　　（3）beauty beauties
　　You can say that something is a beauty when you think it is very good.（INFORMAL）
　　（4）beauty beauties
　　The beauties of something are its attractive qualities or features. （LITERARY）
　　He was beginning to enjoy the beauties of nature.
　　N-COUNT: usu pl, with supp = glories
　　5.harvest
　　（1）The harvest is the gathering of a crop. N-SING: the N
　　There was about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.
　　N-SING: the N
　　（2）harvest harvests
　　A harvest is the crop that is gathered in. N-COUNT
　　...a bumper potato harvest...
　　Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.
　　There is a large apple harvest this year.
　　（3）harvest harvests harvesting harvested （VB）
　　When you harvest a crop, you gather it in.
　　Many farmers are refusing to harvest the cane.
　　...freshly harvested beetroot.
　　6. What festivals or celebrations do you have in your city or town?
　　（1）celebration celebrations
　　A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people organize because something pleasant has happened or because it is someone’s birthday or anniversary. （N-COUNT）
　　I can tell you, there was a celebration in our house that night.
　　...his eightieth birthday celebrations.
　　（2）The celebration of something is praise and appreciation which is given to it. （N-SING: usu N of n）