The Dragon Boat Festival The Mid-Autumn Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival

The Spring Festival

The Tomb-Sweeping Festival

Christmas

Carnival

Thanksgiving Day

Halloween

• The meaning and origin of carnival

• The people’s general impression of carnival

• Carnival in Venice today

• The laws against wearing masks

• How people celebrated carnival and the problems it caused in Venice

• The revival of carnival

• 1 The people’s general impression of carnival

• 2 The meaning and origin of carnival

• 3 How people celebrated carnival and the problems it caused in Venice

• 4 The laws against wearing masks

• 5 The revival of carnival

• 6 Carnival in Venice today

• For weeks on end people walked round the streets wearing masks, doing what they wanted without being recognised

• Without being permitted

• Without being examined

• Without being noticed

• Ordinary people could pretend to be rich and important , while famous people could have romantic adventures in secret

• Many crimes went unpunished

• Go bad

• Go wrong

• Go hungry

• Go blind

• Go deaf

• Their use was limited by laws, the first of which dates back to the fourteenth century.

• date from

• Our school ____(date) back to 1946 .

• I have many friends , many of ____ come from England .

• He lost many paintings ,of _____ half were valuable .

• If they broke the laws, they were put into prison for up to two years .

• Shall we go to the park? It is up to you • It is up to you to do this job.• Our classroom can hold up to 72 students

.• Up to now , he has learned many English

words .• What is he up to ?

• 1 think of 2 from one country to another

• 3 have fun 4 mean doing sth • 5 as time passed • With time passing • With the passing of time • 6 in secret • 7 ban sb from doing

• 8 in the late 1970s • 9 be good for • 10 be crowded with • 11 the same as • 12 the key to doing • 13 wander through the streets • 14 have no idea 15 look like • 16 take off 17 come off