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1、Unit 5,How to Celebrate Holidays,Writing Three Thank-you Letters,Text A,Teaching objectives,Understand the main idea and the structure of the text; Learn to memorize words in association; Grasp the key language points and grammatical structure in the text; Conduct a series of listening, speaking, wr

2、iting and translation activities related to the theme of the unit.,Contents,Before Reading,English Song,Perry Como,Listen to the Song,Questions about the Song and the Text,Thanksgiving Day,Perry Como,Perry Como has a very fine, silky voice. Just the sort of voice one needs for a sentimental song ful

3、l of familiar phrases such as “theres no place like home” and “home sweet home”. It sounds as if he is singing about Thanksgiving, as he sings of “homemade pumpkin pie”, a traditional dish for the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving for Americans is much like Spring Festival for us, a time when famil

4、ies try to get back together. In America people often travel many miles to get back to their hometown, whether its from north to south, “Pennsylvania down to Dixie” (Dixie is a traditional name for the American South) or from east to west, “the Atlantic to Pacific”.,Listen to the song:,Theres No Pla

5、ce like Home for the Holidays,Answer the following questions about the song and the text.,1.According to the singer, why are people busy coming and going on holidays?,They want to go back to their hometown.,2.In what way is Thanksgiving similar to our Spring Festival?,Both are occasions for families

6、 to get together.,3.Are holidays a good time to express gratitude? Which holidays are the most appropriate?,Yes. Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Spring Festival, Mid-autumn Festival, Teachers Day, etc.,Group Discussion,Who should I thank for what?,What should I thank my parent(s) / teacher(s)/ friend(s) f

7、or? Have I expressed my gratitude to the person(s) mentioned above? If yes, what have you done? If no, what do you plan to do?,When is Thanksgiving Day celebrated? Do you know any Thanksgiving Day traditions? Why is the holiday named Thanksgiving? How do people celebrate Thanksgiving Day nowadays?,Q

8、uestions for discussion,More About Thanksgiving,THANKSGIVING DAY,1. Introduction : Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most businesses close for Thanksgiving, and many

9、people make the whole weekend a vacation. The writer O. Henry called it the one day that is purely American. The holiday is a time of family reunion.,2. Origin,Thanksgiving is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship Mayflower arrived, bringing about 150

10、people who today are usually called Pilgrims. They arrived at the beginning of a very hard winter and could not find enough to eat, so many of them got sick and died.,But in the following summer Native Americans showed them what foods were safe to eat, so that they could save food for the next winte

11、r. They held a big celebration to thank God and the Native Americans for the fact that they had survived.,People invited the Indians to have a big feast to celebrate with them to thank God and the Native Americans for the fact that they had survived, which was the first Thanksgiving celebrated in th

12、e United States.,3. Special Meal,stuffed turkey,Pumpkin pie,cranberries (酸果蔓),Sweet Potato Pie,4. CELEBRATION,While Reading,Structure Analysis of Text,Detailed Study of Text,Review,Structure Analysis of Text,The text is divided into four parts and you are to skim the text and sum up the main idea of

13、 each part.,Para.1-9,On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before.,Para.10-16,The writer wrote three thankyou letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.,Para.17-23,The wri

14、ter got three letters in reply.,Para.24-26,The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it.,Writing Three Thank-you Letters,Text A,Look through this part and answer the following questions.,Questions for Part I (Paras. 1-9),Where did the writer spend that Thanksgiving? Where was he going?,

15、Questions for Part I (Paras. 1-9),Why do you think they were sailing there?,Questions for Part I (Paras. 1-9),What made him as a cook extremely busy on that Thanksgiving Day?,Questions for Part I (Paras. 1-9),What was he thinking about on the deck after the days hard work?,Questions for Part I (Para

16、s. 1-9),Why was it necessary for the author to offer so many details of his voyage？,Questions for Part I (Paras. 1-9),1 It was 1943, during World War II, and I was a young U.S. coast guardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of car

17、tons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific. 2 I was one of the Murzims several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving

18、morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.,翻译,3 Well, as any cook knows, its a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last. 4 I decided first to go out on the Murzims afte

19、rdeck for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cooks hat.,翻译,5 I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest. 6 Yet my mind seemed to

20、 be in quest of something else some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving. It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word “Thanksgiving” at least that suggested a verbal direction, “Giving thanks.”,翻译,翻译,7 Giv

21、ing thanks as in praying, thanking God, I thought. Yes, of course. Certainly. 8 Yet my mind continued turning the idea over. 9 After a while, like a dawns brightening, a further answer did come that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them

22、. The embarrassing truth was Id always just accepted what theyd done, taken all of it for granted. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere “Thank you”.,Look through this part and do the following exercises.,Part II (Para. 10-16),Why did the writer feel

23、 ashamed when he thought about the people that he wanted to express his gratitude to?,Questions for Para. 10-16,Who did he finally decide to write to?,Questions for Para. 10-16,The writer wrote three thank-you letters and got three replies. Look through this part and fill in the table with the main

24、contents of the letters.,Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received,Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading.,Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.,Father,Paras.10-23,Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received,

25、Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the reassurance brought to him by the writers letter.,The Rev. Nelson,Thanks him for his morning school prayers.,The writer wrote three thank-you letters and got three replies. Look through this part and fill in the table with the ma

26、in contents of the letters.,Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received,Expresses her loving gratefulness for her grandson.,Grandmother,Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writers life with stardust.

27、,The writer wrote three thank-you letters and got three replies. Look through this part and fill in the table with the main contents of the letters.,10 At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died so they

28、 were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me. The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became. Then I pictured the three who were still alive and, within minutes, I was down in my cabin.,The author decide to write three thank-you letters to celebrate Thanksgiving Day.,Wha

29、t Do You Give Thanks for?,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Today We Give Thanks,Thank you for plenty of food, Thank you for the world so sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, Thank you f

30、or the birds that sing, Thank you, God, for everything! Amen!,We thank God for,11 Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done, I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad, Simon A. Haley, a professor at the old Agricultural Me

31、chanical Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; to my grandma, Cynthia Palmer, back in our little hometown of Henning, Tennessee; and to the Rev. Lonual Nelson, my grammar school principal, retired and living in Ripley, six miles north of Henning.,12 The texts of my letters began something like, “H

32、ere, this Thanksgiving at sea, I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me, but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you ” And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf.,13 For instance, something uppermost about my father wa

33、s how he had impressed upon me from boyhood to love books and reading. In fact, this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned. My love of books never diminished and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times

34、I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books.,翻译,14 I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country towns grammar school with a prayer

35、over his assembled students. I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.,15 In the letter to my grandmother, I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and

36、considerate of others. I thanked her for the years of eating her good cooking, the equal of which I had not found since. Finally, I thanked her simply for having sprinkled my life with stardust.,16 Before I slept, my three letters went into our ships office mail sack. They got mailed when we reached

37、 Tulagi Island. 17 We unloaded cargo, reloaded with something else, then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little personal experience receded. Sometimes, when we were at sea, a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home, which, of course,

38、 we accorded topmost priority.,18 Every time the ships loudspeaker rasped, “Attention! Mail call!” two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen, standing by those precious bulging gray sacks. They were alternately pulling out fistfuls of letters and barking s

39、uccessive names of sailors who were, in turn, shouting back “Here! Here!” amid the pushing.,Look through Para. 19-20 and answer the questions.,How did the writer feel when he read the replies form his father, his grandmother and the Rev. Nelson? Why?,Questions for Para. 19-20,19 One “mail call” brou

40、ght me responses from Grandma, Dad, and the Reverend Nelson and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.,20 Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadnt previously thanked them, instead, for Petes sake, they were thanking me for having remembered, f

41、or having considered they had done anything so exceptional. 21 Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his

42、 own son.,翻译,22 The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in self-doubt. “I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welc

43、ome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.,翻译,23 A glance at Grandmas familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her “setting down” some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word

44、, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page representing my Grandmas recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me whom she used to diaper!,翻译,翻译,Skim this part and answer the questions.,Part IV (Para. 24-26),What did the writer wish for all

45、 people when another Thanksgiving was drawing near?,Questions for Para. 24-26,Why do you think the writer printed “Find the good and praise it” at the bottom of all his stationery?,Questions for Para. 24-26,24 Much later, retired from the Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer, I never

46、forgot how those three “thank you” letters gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation for their efforts.,翻译,25 Now, approaching another Thanksgiving, I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this, for

47、 our nation, indeed for our whole world since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, “In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs.” First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind. 26

48、And there is something else I wish so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery: “Find the good and praise it.”,The End,The United States Coast Guard,The United States Coast Guard (海岸警卫队) is the US military service that is controlled by the US Department of Tr

49、ansportation but becomes part of the US Navy during a war. It was established in 1915. The Coast Guard stops ships suspected of carrying drugs and other illegal goods, and can make arrests. It also keeps watch to see that other laws of the sea are obeyed, rescues ships in danger and has a weather se

50、rvice.,The United States Coast Guard,Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.,Translate the sent

51、ence into Chinese.,多数货舱装着成千上万箱罐装或风干的食品。其余的货舱装着不少于五百磅重的炸弹，都小心翼翼的放在有软垫的架子上。我们的目的地是南太平洋图拉吉岛上一个规模很大的基地。,Paraphrase and translate: this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey., this Thanksgiving morning we were busy preparing a traditional dinner whi

52、ch included mainly roast turkey. “Feature” here means “to include as a special part”.,那个感恩节上午，我们正忙着准备一道以烤火鸡为主的传统菜肴。,Preparations for the new semester of the second-year students are under way.,under way：in motion or operation,Translate:全国医疗改革现在正在进行。,The nationwide medical reform is now under way.,de

53、licately：ad. With intention or caution,Translate:这些鸡蛋被小心的放在餐桌上。,The eggs were delicately laid on the table.,put away: remove to a place where it is usually stored; discard,As an agreement, my wife washes the dishes and I put them away in the cupboard. The newspapers should be put away before you lea

54、ve the library. We should put all negative thoughts away.,Translate: I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cooks hat.,我信步走去，一边深深呼吸着空气，一边慢慢地踱着步，头上仍戴着那顶白色的厨师帽。,get (down) to (doing) sth.: begin to give serious attention to or deal

55、 with,He got to thinking that she wouldnt come after all. Its hard to get down to work after a nice holiday. I really must get down to filling in my tax form.,Translate: It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word “Thanksgiving” at

56、 least that suggested a verbal direction, “Giving thanks.”,大概过了半个小时我才意识到，问题的关键也许在于把Thanksgiving这个词前后颠倒一下，那样一来至少文字好懂了：Giving thanks。,reverse: v. turn around to the opposite direction; exchange the position of,Why not reverse the order so that I play first and she plays second? They would not reverse

57、the decision to increase the price of pork.,The Pilgrims,The Pilgrims were the 102 English people who sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620. Their group included 35 Puritans whose aim was to create a safe religious community in the New World. The Pilgrims probably landed at Plymouth Rock, and t

58、hey established Plymouth colony.,Native Americans,Native Americans were living in North America for many hundreds of years before Europeans reached the continent. For a long time white people called them Indians. Today many people do not like this name since it is based on a mistake: it was given to

59、 the people living in the America by Christopher Columbus who, when he arrived there, thought he had landed in India. Instead, people prefer to use the term Native Americans.,Translate: Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving,可我脑子里似乎还在搜索着别的什么某种我能够赋予这一节日以个人意义的方式。,in quest of: seeking,She told me she was leaving New York City in quest of a tranquil life. She had come in quest