18、天氣

　　氣候特征

　　weather : hot, cold, cool, warm, sun, shine, sunny, rain ,heavy rain, light rain,  rainy, wind, strong wind,  windy, snow , heavy snow, light snow snowy, cloud, cloudy…

　　temperature: 15 ( fifteen degrees centigrade), 0 (zero degree centigrade), -5 (minus degrees centigrade)…

　　相關句型:

　　1) What's the weather like in spring? It's warm, rainy and wet.

　　2) What will the weather be like there? It will be sunny.

　　3) Is it snowing?  Yes, it is a snowy day.

　　4) Will there be cloudy?  Yes, there will.

　　5) The sun is shining.

　　6) I like taking a warm bath.

　　19、節日

　　節日的特點；節日的活動

　　festivals : New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Women's Day, April foolish Day, May Day, Mother's Day,  Children's Day, Father's Day, Party's Day, Army's Day, Mid-autumn Festival, Teachers' Day , National Day, Thanks Giving Day, Christmas Day.

　　New Year's Day: 1st January.

　　Spring Festival: It's the Chinese New Year. It's the first day of the Chinese year. It's a very special festival for all Chinese people.  It is usually at the end of January or the beginning of February /in late January or early February. The children can get "lucky money".

　　Women's Day: It's on 8th March.

　　April Foolish Day: on 1st April, on this day, people can  play jokes to their friends.

　　May Day: 1st May, laborers' day.

　　Mother's Day: on the second Sunday of May.

　　Children's Day: on June 1st.

　　Father's Day: on the third Sunday in June.

　　Party's birthday: in China, it's on 1st  July.

　　Army's Day: in China, it's on 1st August.

　　Mid-autumn Festival: on 15th August of Chinese lunar calendar.  In China , people eat special cakes calls moon cakes and watch the full moon.

　　Teachers' Day: on 10th September.

　　National Day: in China, it's at the beginning of October.

　　Thanks Giving Day: the last Thursday in November, it's American festival.

　　Christmas Day: December 25th.