Holidays & Special Occasions

1. Ss can understand what this festival is about in Chinese culture
2. Ss can also understand why Quyuan is remembered and loved as a symbol of patriotism
3. Ss can understand the history background of Quyuan
4 Ss can make cultural comparisons and find all the similarities and differences

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
1. Know about 清明Qingming Festival: when, why, what people do and introduce the festival to parents;
2. Say the words Qingming清明 in Mandarin；
3. Write the two characters 清明;
4. Draw a picture about the festival.

1. Ss can understand what this festival means in Chinese culture
2. Ss can also understand what significance it has this year for Chinese people in face of the Corona crisis

Students will be able to:
1. Sing a Chinese birthday song;
2. Ask and respond to questions about age and birthday in Chinese;
3. Make a short presentation about classmates' age and birthdays.
4. Recognize different birthday tradition in different cultures;
5. Write 生日快乐(Happy birthday) on a hand-made birthday card.

Chinese New year is also called Spring festival/chun jie.
The whole festival usually last about 15 days. Chun jie usually lies between late January and early February.
Why there is no specific day of chunjie ? It is because the Chinese lunar calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements,
When chun jie is approaching, Chinese people are busy doing a lot of preparations such as purchasing goods, cleaning the house, cooking traditional food, making spring festival couplets,and hanging spring festival pictures.

SWBAT
1. Describe Chinese Lantern Festival in date, origin and celebrations.
2. Participate in traditional festival activities like guessing riddles on the lantern and making a lantern.
3. Understand and say元宵节快乐。
4. Write common festival characters like 春，福，喜，乐and so on.

1.Students can know what is Chinese New Year and how Chinese people celebrate this important festival .
2.Students can make a new lantern or do a papercut.(Chinese character 春).
3.Students will have fun by watching a new year movie(little door god小门神).

By the end of this event, students will be able to
1. Know about Chinese new year decoration;
2. Do an origami;
3. Make a Chinese mask;
4. Make a Chinese bookmark;
5. Know about how to make Chinese dumplings and have a taste of one.

Introducing Ramadan and its celebrations in the Arab World
Link for You Tube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=5pvmUoYNbmU
Link for lesson material
https://www.4shared.com/zip/nVqjOYtGea/OneDrive_1_1-27-2020.html

I would like the students to know more about Chinese New Year and Chinese perspectives.