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BTC--Jingshi Experimental Primary School Chinese-English Bilingual Dragon Boat Festival  Celebration

Issuing time:2021-06-22 10:23


BTC--Jingshi Experimental Primary School Chinese-English Bilingual Dragon Boat Festival   Celebration



       As a traditional festival in our country, the Dragon Boat Festival has a long historical and rich ncultural background. In order to further promote and cultivate the national spirit with parriotism as the fore, to inherit the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and to enhance the students' sense of identity and pride in the national culture, Beijing Broaden and Top-trans Communication Center (BTC) and Jingshi Experimental Primary School jointly launched a Chinese-English bilingual celebration with the theme of Dragon Boat Festival and inheriting Partriolism", which combined with the teaching goals of the school's foreign teachers project on traditional Chinese festivals, English learning and practical application.


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At 13:30, the sixth grade teachers and students gathered together in the school's multifunctional hall. The school's teaching director Song Honglian announced the start of the event and introduced the guests and leaders who came to the event, including: Principal An Zhibo, Deputy Principal Liang Guohong, Director Deng Shunzhang of Jingshi Experimental Primary School, Director Wang Peng of BTC.


Afterwards, the students watched videos related to "The Customs and Origins of the Dragon Boat Festival" to let them understand the story of Qu Yuan and further stimulate their national pride and patriotic enthusiasm.


How to introduce the Dragon Boat Festival in English? Miss Li from BTC led everyone to learn some English words and short sentences about the Dragon Boat Festival.


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Next, we prepared a prize-giving Q&A session, using novel and interesting forms, entertaining with teaching so that students could better understand the Dragon Boat Festival.


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     After the wonderful quiz with prizes, six students performed the English song and dance "Dragon boat Festival". The dance allows us to experience the passion of the Dragon Boat Race in the Dragon Boat Festival.


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    For this event, we also specially invited Chinese and foreign children to recite the poem "Huanxisha Dragon Boat Festival" wrote by Su Shi, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty. This poem made the audience feel the scene of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival back then, and the whole audience recited this poem with the joy of the Dragon Boat Festival.


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       Wilson, the excellent foreign teacher of our company, organized the children to perform an interesting English play--"The Three Little Pigs". We were delighted to see that the children have discovered the joy of learning and their own potential. Their comprehensive language ability is improved, and their awareness of teamework is enhanved. The children gain knowledge from various experienced, and their core literacy of English has improved remarkably.


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    Then we made the sachets by ourselves. The sachets mean to avoid evil and exorcise pests. This is also one of the very important customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. The children are very happy with the sachets made by themselves.


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    Next, the children presented an English song "Wash Your Hands" about the correct way of hand washing. Since the beginning of 2020, the world has suffered a sudden outbreak of coronavirus. Until now, the pandemic is still spreading across the globe.


    Through their wonderful interpretation, everyone   realized that frequent hand washing is also the first line of prevention of infectious diseases and self-protection.


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    There is also a custom on the Dragon Boat Festival that adults tie colorful ropes to children's wrist, which means to drive away demons and evil spirits. School leaders and director Wang Peng of BTC came to the stage to wear colorful ropes for the students’ representatives. The teachers also wear colorful ropes for children in each class which expresses the love and blessings of the elders for them. The sincere smiles of the children are as lovely as flowers.


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    In the summary and comment section, Director Wang Peng first thanked the school leaders for their affirmation and support for the work of BTC. He expressed his gratitude to the participating teachers and students and the work team of BTC for their hard work, and highly praise the students for their performances. He encouraged the students to make full use of the abundant school teaching resources, to live up to youth, and to study hard. Director Wang said that BTC’s foreign teaching program will always adhere to the practical application of English, and closely integrate the listening and speaking lessons of foreign teachers with English textbooks and traditional Chinese culture, so that students can enhance their listening and speaking skills and cultural confidence.


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    In the end of the celebration, participants took group photos with laughter and joy.


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      This activity not only let the children intuitively feel the rich traditional culture of the Dragon Boat Festival in the pleasant experience, it also made the children feel the fun brought by the traditional festival. The activity exercised the children's hands-on ability, teamwork spirit and sublimated their emotional experience. At the same time, it also improved the children's understanding of Chinese traditional festivals in English, exercised the students' oral English ability, enhanced children's cultural confidence, and spread our traditional culture to the world.












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