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Page 1: UNIT SEVEN:CELEBRATION Dec. 2007. I.Objectives  1. Cultural differences (To the origin of holidays— public holidays in the US, Great Britain and Canada)

UNIT SEVEN: CELEBRATION

Dec. 2007

Page 2: UNIT SEVEN:CELEBRATION Dec. 2007. I.Objectives  1. Cultural differences (To the origin of holidays— public holidays in the US, Great Britain and Canada)

I. Objectives 1. Cultural differences (To the origin of holidays—

public holidays in the US, Great Britain and Canada)

2. Schema: Holiday schema & Wedding schema ( 信息结构 )

3. How to express similar ideas in different ways 4. Discourse organization—outline of a passage (e

ither sentences or phrases) (relevancy & irrelevancy)

5. Explaining typical Chinese things 6 . Definition of words

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II.       Vocabulary

Vocabulary related to holidays, celebrations and weddings

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III.  Research topics 1. Some more important festivals in the

West (p. 466) 3. Some important festivals in China 3. Wedding traditions in Britain and/or

America. 4. Wedding traditions of a Chinese ethnic

group.

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IV.    Unit writing

1. Please invent a holiday and introduce the holiday.

(origin / why; when; where; traditions; celebrations / what do people do )

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Ⅴ. Passages to be recited

P452 Some holidays (Last paragraph) P477 Atv. 14 Irrelevant sentences (Mid-Autu

mn Festival ) Note: The last sentence is excluded