说到国家传统，不得不说这九个中国人喜闻乐见的传统节日：春节、元宵节、清明节、端午节、七夕节、中元节、中秋节、重阳节和腊八节。
这些传统节日的背后，原来竟隐藏着那么多冷知识，比如，屈原自己其实都过端午节；春节的历史其实也就100多年；元宵节在古代其实是情人节；牛郎和织女其实没啥关系；古人过清明其实相当欢乐··· ···
很多同学容易混淆传统节日（tradition）和风俗习惯（custom）的意思，传统节日应该是举国欢庆或纪念的节日，而风俗习惯应该是个人或集体的传统礼节，是在特定的社会文化区域举行的民族风俗、节日礼仪等。
大家都知道，中国是一个有着悠久历史和古老文化的国家，一些传统甚至可以追溯到几千年前，而当下是全球化浪潮席卷全世界的趋势，很多文化传统、传统思想的传承往往跟不上风云变幻的时代速度，如何让这类的悠久国家传统在口语考试中让考官眼前一亮呢？
除了在丰富词汇量和地道表达上下功夫，还可以加入一些关于传统的趣味科普，很容易提起考官的兴趣。
在涉及“传统”的口语话题是很多同学的软肋，因为这一类的话题没有一定的词汇功底和出彩的句型是无法表达好的，当然，如果具备有一定的文化常识和对社会传统的思考会使整个表达更容易得高分。
本期口语Part2话题一起来聊聊《一个国家传统》
Describe a tradition in your country
You should say：
What it is
Who take part in it
What activities there are
And explain how you feel about it
关于中国传统节日(Chinese Festivial)的英文表达：
The Spring Festival 春节
The Lantern Festival 元宵节
National Day 国庆节
The Mia-Autumn Festival 中秋节
Dragon Boat Festival 端午节
The Double Ninth Festival 重阳节
The laba Rice Porridge Festival 腊八节
1. What it is
第一小问直接说明这个传统节日的内容，比如这个节日在每年的哪个月举行，人们庆祝这个节日所穿的服饰是什么样子的，会有什么样的习俗庆祝这个节日等方面都可以进行描述。
可参考的句型：
①I would like to mentionthought of the Lantern Festival,which is my favorite one among all Chinese traditional festivals since childhood.
②This topic has reminded me of the Qixi Ffestival, or in other words, China’s Valentine’s Day.
2. Who take part in it
一般来说，中国的传统节日是全体人民都会参与的节日，一些少数传统节日会有特定人群的范围，比如在七夕节是年轻男女都会互相表达爱意，在重阳节是中老年人群会出门登高望远，在清明节一家人会祭拜先祖和已逝亲人。
可参考的句型如下：
①It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China and is extremely popular among young people.
②Usually on that, every family will would cook laba Rice Porridge, a special rice porridge that contains red beans and rice.
③Many couples would celebrate observe this day together to commemorate celebrate their romantic relationship and express their love to their partners.
3. What activities there are
在前面提到春节，每年最隆重的节日就是中国的农历新年，在春节各地都会举办猜灯谜、舞龙舞狮、祭拜先祖等一系列民族风俗；再比如说端午节也会举办赛龙舟、包粽子等庆祝活动。
关于在传统节日中庆祝活动的词汇：
Spring Festival couplets 春联
lion dance / dragon dance 舞狮、舞龙
exhibit of lanterns 灯会
offer sacrifices to one's ancestors 祭祖
pay New Year's call 拜年
Dragon boat racing 赛龙舟
zongzi/tsung-tse/rice dumpling 粽子
可参考的句型如下：
①In terms of typical activities, people would choose to visit their ancestors’s tomb,have take a walk with their familyies, write poems and play swings.
②It can be regarded as the most important day in my village and all of us would attend this event ,to singing, danceing, and haveing fun together.
③According to senior the elderly people in China, having such rice porridge would bring people good luck in the next coming year.
4.And explain how you feel about it
对于抽象类话题来说，最后一问表达主观感受的答案往往不用太拘谨，先表明自己的对某个传统的态度，如喜欢还是不喜欢，再说出理由，言之有理即可。比如有人喜欢中秋节，因为他们认为中秋是所有传统节日里最浪漫（romantic）的节日；有人喜欢春节，因为春节在所有漂泊在外的游子来书代表着团圆（reunion）。
下面挑选的9-12月最新口语题库中的高分口语答案，主题描述的元宵节，一起来看看吧。
As When I saw this topic, I would like to mentionthought of the Lantern Festival,which is my favorite one among all Chinese traditional festivals since childhood. Let me give you more detailed information about it.
The Lantern Festival is regarded as one of the most important festivals in China and almost every Chinese people would celebrate it. Based on China’’s traditional lunar calendar, the festival is on the 15th day of January, when people will would gather together and eat dumplings, a very typical celebration for during this festival. When I was young, my grandma always made her own dumplings with the filling of sesame fillingon her own, and sometimes she would teach us, kids, how to make it. Well,most of time, it would be a maess since we kids just wanted to have fun and didn’t pay attention to make tastyeful dumplings.
Another typical activities duringof the Lantern Festival would be Lantern Riddle Guessing and enjoying the fireworks display. The former one is very popular among senior peoplethe elderly people since most of the riddles are about Chinese traditional poems and characters. We, young people, would prefer to watch splendid fireworks shows in the evening, when different colors are shining in the dark backgroundnight sky. All in all, it is an interesting and fantastic festival and it wouldthat reminds me recall of my beautiful wonderful childhoodmemories of childhood.
