2016届广东省高考英语二轮精华复习课件：基础写作

　　节日介绍

　　节日的介绍一般应包括过节的时间、庆祝的方式或主要活动等，有时还会说到节日的历史和意义。因传统节日是年年过的，所以用一般现在时。 晨读背诵

　　1. fall on (某节日) 在……

　　2. enjoy great popularity 享有盛誉 3. legal holiday 法定假日

　　4. enjoy the full moon 赏月 5. sweep the tomb 扫墓

　　6. mourn over/in memory of 悼念 7. visit relatives and friends 走亲访友

　　8. give lucky money 给压岁钱 9. date from/back to自某时代存在至今

　　10. drown oneself投水自杀 11. eat rice dumplings 吃粽子

　　12. race dragon boats 赛龙舟 13. be meant to do sth.有意要/旨在做某事

　　14. scare the fishes away 把鱼吓走 1. 中秋节，中国传统节日之一，适逢中国农历八月十五日。 The Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the traditional Chinese festivals, falls on the 15th of the eighth month of our Chinese lunar calendar. 相关句式

　　2. 重阳节，又叫登高节，起源于战国时期，有2000多年的历史。 Dating from the Warring States Period, Double Ninth Festival, also called Height Climbing Festival, has a history of more than 2000 years. 3. 当地人认为，爬包山爬得越高，越有福气。 Local people believe that the higher they climb up the bun towers, the more fortune they will gain.

　　4. 这个节日是通过吃粽子和赛龙舟的方式来庆祝的。

　　This festival is celebrated by eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. 5. 春节的第一天,

　　每个人都穿着新衣,走亲访友，互相祝福“新年快乐”。 On the first day of the Spring Festival, everybody wears new clothes, visiting their relatives and friends and greeting “Happy New Year” to each other.

　　The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on lunar May 5th, has a long history of more than 2000 years. It is held in memory of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period. He drowned himself on the day when hearing his country had been conquered.

　　经典范文 This festival is celebrated by eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. Originally, rice dumplings were thrown into the river to feed the fishes and dragon boat races were meant to scare the fishes away, both of which were used to protect Qu Yuan’s body. ●中秋节

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the traditional Chinese festivals, falls on the

　　15th of the eighth month of our Chinese lunar calendar and it has been enjoying great popularity in our country. Usually,

　　no matter how far away or how busy people

　　are, they will try to come home for the celebration with three days of legal holiday.

　　The moon that night looks the brightest in the whole lunar month so what we love most is the time we enjoy the full moon together. With the beautiful moon up in the sky, we sit together and eat moon cakes and fruit, sharing our stories. In addition to these traditional activities, we have a wider range of choices such as travelling and visiting our relatives or friends.

　　●介绍春节

　　The Spring Festival, which usually falls between the first and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is the most important festival in China. Before it, people often clean their houses, put up the Spring Festival Couplets as well as buy many beautiful flowers. On New Year’s Eve, all the family, no matter how far away they are，will get together to have a big dinner,

　　of which the most popular food is dumping, because eating dumplings can bring people good luck.

　　On the first day of the Spring Festival, everybody wears new clothes, visiting their relatives and friends and greeting “Happy New Year” to each other, and what makes children happy is that they are always given lucky money as a gift. Besides, during the festival, people can watch lion dances and dragon dances, both of which are the traditional folk arts dating back to 2000 years ago.

　　●介绍清明节

　　Tomb Sweeping Day usually falls on April 4 to 6 every year. Being one of the Chinese traditional festivals, it has a long history. On this day, people will go to the cemetery to sweep tombs and do worship events in memory of their ancestors.

　　After that, people will offer sacrifices such

　　as wine, foods and flowers before the tomb stone and burn the incense and paper money, and later kowtow to their ancestors. In 2010, the government declared Tomb Sweeping Day as one of the legal holidays, giving the whole nation one day off. * *