Unit 7 Thanksgiving Part A.ppt

1、Unit 7 Thanksgiving,Part A,What did you do during the May Day holidays?,Enjoy a good dinner,Watch TV,Travel,Listen to the music,Surf on the internet,Go shopping,Do housework,Play computer games,activities,Other activities,Have a good rest,Other holidays in our country and in the west.,Spring Festiva

2、l,Christmas Day,Mid-Autumn Day (Moon cakes),April Fools Day,Childrens Day,Halloween,Pumpkin Lantern,The Lantern Festival,Stuffed dumplings,Thanksgiving Day,Turkeys and pumpkin pie,Thanksgiving Day is a time to offer thanks, a time of family gatherings and holiday meals, a time of turkeys, stuffing a

3、nd pumpkin pie. 感恩节是一个感谢恩赐，家庭团聚，合家欢宴的日子，是一个家家餐桌上都有火鸡，填料，南瓜馅饼的日子。,Do you know anything about Thanksgiving Day?,Different kinds of activities on Thanksgiving Day:,Family gathering,Holiday meal,Turkey meal,Activities for celebration,Holiday parades（游行） and giant balloon,Who first celebrated Thanksgivin

4、g Day? When was Thanksgiving Day first celebrated? Where was Thanksgiving Day first celebrated? Why was Thanksgiving Day celebrated?,The history of thanks-giving,The Mayflower passengers,December 13,1621,In Plymouth,America,To thank God for the good harvest,Questions: How did the group of Englishmen

5、 arrive in Plymouth? Did the Mayflower passengers meet with difficulty when they first settle down in Plymouth? Did they lose hope? 3. How did each family do in the New World? 4.What did the Mayflower passengers do after the hard winter of 1622-1623? 5. Who declared November 26, 1789 to be Thanksgiv

6、ing Day? 6. Who declared that the last Thursday in November be Thanksgiving Day?,page 2,How did the group of Englishmen arrive in Plymouth?,In the Mayflower,2. Did the Mayflower passengers meet with difficulty when they first settle down in Plymouth? Did they lose hope?,Yes,47 of the 103Mayflower pa

7、ssengers died,but the rest(剩余的人） did not lose hope.,3.How did each family do in the New World?,4.What did the Mayflower passengers do after the hard winter of 1622-1623?,They planted seeds and hoped for（祈盼，希望） a large crop,They were planting grains and corn, and eating fishing, along with(以及，与一起） wi

8、ld animals from the woods.,5. Who declared November 26, 1789 to be Thanksgiving Day?,6. Who declared that the last Thursday in November be Thanksgiving Day?,Abraham Lincoln,George Washington(the first president of the United States.),1620,A group of Englishmen arrived and settleddown （定居） in Plymout

9、h in the Mayflower,1621,The celebration was set aside（选定） to thank God for the good harvest,1622,There was no specific (特定的)day of Thanksgiving set aside.,1623,Thanksgiving was so devoted to （专门用来）thanking God,1789,George Washington declared （宣布）November 26, to be Thanksgiving Day,last Thursday in N

10、ovember,Abraham Lincoln decided last Thursday in November the Thanksgiving Day,The following years,There were specific days of Thanksgiving sometimes once a year,sometimes twice.,Performance:,Suppose Thanksgiving Day is coming,you want to know something about it .Work in pairs and make a dialogue ac

11、cording to the information youve got. One acts as an American and the other as a Chinese.,C: Thanksgiving Day is coming, but I know only a little about it. Could you tell me something about it? A: Of course. Its my pleasure. ,Questions : 1.Who first celebrated Thanksgiving Day? 2.When was Thanksgivi

12、ng Day first celebrated? 3.Where was Thanksgiving Day first celebrated? 4.Why was Thanksgiving Day celebrated? 5. Was there any specific day of Thanksgiving in 1622? 6. Who declared November 26,1789 to be Thanksgiving Day? 7. Who declared the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day?,Dialogu