Online Class Notes (Mike)

Vocabulary

flu (n) 流感 = influenza 大流行感冒
1918-1920
flu season 流感季节

yummy = tasty (adj.)

have a big meal 吃一顿大餐
feast (n) 盛宴

sweet
(adj.) 甜的
(n) 甜品，甜点 = dessert
candy (n) 糖果

costume (n) 服装，装束，装扮

celebrate (v) 庆祝 – celebration
How do you normally celebrate your birthday? 

reindeer (n) 驯鹿

decorate (v) 装扮，装饰

mooncake (n) 月饼

lantern festival 元宵节
dragon-boat festival 龙舟节/端午节
Valentine’s Day

Halloween:
~ is a good festival because I can eat a lot of delicious/nice food during festival.

Halloween is a holiday when kids dress a lot of strange clothes.
Halloween is a holiday when kids dress in strange clothes/costumes and knock on their neighbors’ doors and play trick-or-treat.

Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday on November by Americans. People usually eat a big meal together, they will have food such as turkey and mashed potato. 土豆泥

Christmas is a holiday to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Santa Claus will ride on reindeers and give children gifts. People will put a Christmas tree in their house. People will also decorate the tree with all kinds of small things.

We will buy a lot of food and eat with their family.
One of the Christmas traditions is shopping and having a big meal with family members.

International Children’s Day is a holiday on June, 1st. Children can be very happy on that day.
Children will have no homework on that day and their parents will either take them out for a big meal or buy a nice gift for them.

we can eat mid-autumn cake with our family and see the beautiful moon.
Chinese people usually eat mooncakes with their family and see the beautiful and smooth/bright moon.

Mid-autumn festival is on the of August on traditional Chinese lunar calendar. 传统中国农历