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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 famili
6、es 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
7、) for? 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
8、?,Questions 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 ma
9、ny 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 1
10、50 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 wi
11、nter. 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
12、 the 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
13、 of 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
14、writer 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 goin
15、g?,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 (P
16、aras. 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
17、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. 2 I was one of the Murzims several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.,
