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each season. Read to learn Exercise 2 ■ Students look at the three titles (Summer, Autumn, Winter) and suggest which festivals are associated with these three seasons in China and if there are any associated with Spring. ■ Students read the texts quickly and do the matching. Answers Picture 1?CC the Dragon Boat Festival Picture 2?CA the MidAutumn Festival Picture 3?CB the Lantern Festival Exercise 3 ■ Divide the class into three groups. Each group reads one section of the text carefully and writes four or five questions about it. Then give the class three orfour minutes to read the whole text again. Stu dents close their books, and in turn each group asks its questions for the rest of the class to answer. ■ Students read the text again and fill in the table with the text information they get. ■ Have students check their answers in pairs. ■ Encourage students to add another festival they know well. ■ Students read the questions and find the answers in the texts by reading the texts again. ■ Have students talk about their festival in pairs. Answers Passage A: the MidAutumn Festival, September or October, moon cakes Passage B: the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar, sweet