Section B 1 (1a-2e)
Step 1 Revision 宾语从句与感叹句
1. 宾语从句是由一个_____作_____, 通常由______词，如：____, ____, _______或_____词连接。
2. 宾语从句有___个要素，即______, ____ 和_____语序。 3. 感叹句通常由_____或_____开头，句末是_____号。
Keys: 句子 宾语 疑问 that if whether 关联 三 关联词 时态 陈述 what how 感叹 Step 2 Presentation
Show some pictures and words related to Halloween. Let students say something about Halloween. Step 3 Listening
1. Finish 1a: Look at the pictures and words related to Halloween. What do you
think this festival is about?
scary dress up haunted house black cat
candy ghost trick or treat October spider
Learn the new words: haunted, ghost, trick, treat, spider 2. Finish 1b: Listen and answer the questions. 1) Where is Halloween popular? It’s popular in North America.
2) When do people celebrate Halloween?
They celebrate Halloween on October 31th.
3) What does Wu Yu think of this festival? Wu Yu thinks it is a fun festival.
3. Finish 1c: Listen again and fill in the blanks.
1) Many people make their ______ look scary. They may _______ the lights
and light candles. They sometimes also put things like spiders and ghosts around the doors and ________.
2) Little kids and even parents ________ as ghosts or black cats. They can also dress up as fun things like _______ characters.
3) Parents take their children around the neighborhood to ask for _______ and treats.
4) “Trick or treat” means kids will ______ a trick on you if you don’t ____
them a treat.
Answers: houses, turn off, windows, dress up, cartoon, candies, play, give Step 4 Pairwork
1d Think about the Halloween activities that interest you most. Discuss what you
have learned with a partner.
Step 5 Reading
1. Warming up: Do you know what these dates mean to Americans? What
holidays are they?
January 1st February 14th April 1st November 1st
What do people usually do on this festival?
give students some pictures about Christmas and finish 2a . 2. Reading tasks:
1) Introduce Charles Dickens.
2) Finish 2b: Read the passage about Christmas and answer the questions.
a. What are the common things that people think of for Christmas? Gifts, Christmas trees and Santa Claus. b. Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.
c. What is the true meaning or spirit of Christmas?
The true spirit of Christmas is the importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us.
3) Finish2c: Read the passage again and complete the chart. the Ghost of Christmas Past? His happier days as a child. the Ghost of Christmas Present? How others are spending Christmas that year. the Ghost of Christmas Yet to come? He is dead, but nobody cares. Learn some new words: present, dead The Spirit of Christmas Scrooge
In the past
He never _______________. He is mean.
He only thinks about himself. He treats others ______.
He just cares about making money. He hates Christmas. Now
He celebrates Christmas with his relatives happily. He gives gifts to people in need.
He treats everyone with _____________________.
The spirit of Christmas: the importance of __________________________. Keys: laughs or smiles
badly
kindness and warmth
sharing and giving love and joy to people around us
4) Finish 2d: Answer the questions. Some answers need to be inferred. a. Why does Scrooge hate Christmas?
Because Scrooge is mean and only thinks about himself. He doesn’t treat others nicely, and he only cares about whether he can make more money.
b. Does Scrooge have a lot of friends? Why or why not?
No, he doesn’t have a lot of friends. Because he wasn’t nice to people,
and never laughs or smiles. He is mean and only thinks about himself. c. Why was Jacob Marley punished after he died?
He was punished because like Scrooge, he wasn’t nice to others and only
cared about money.
d. Does Jacob Marley want to help Scrooge? How do you know?
Yes, he does. Because Marley’s ghost tried to warn Scrooge to change his
ways so as not to end up like him.
e. How does Scrooge feel when he wakes up on Christmas Day?
He feels relieved because he was scared in his sleep and he is surprised
and happy to have a chance to change his life, because it is only the next morning.
f. What does Scrooge do after seeing three spirits?
He decides to change his life and promises to be a better person. He
happily celebrates Christmas with his relatives. He also gives gifts to people in need. He now treats everyone with kindness and warmth, spreading love and joy everywhere he goes.
Learn some new words: punish, warmth Step 5 Language points
1. But behind all these things lies the true meaning of Christmas… lie v. (lay, lain, lying) 存在; 平躺; 处于 lie v. (lied, lied, lying) 撒谎 注意与lay的区别：
lay v. (laid, laid, laying)下蛋; 放置 e.g. The boy lied to his teacher yesterday.
Lying in bed all the time is bad for your health. The hen lays an egg every day.
Last night I laid my mobile phone on the sofa. 根据句意，用lie或lay的适当形式填空。
1) The village _______ near the river. It’s so beautiful.
2) My mother _____ on the sofa for about an hour this morning. 3) Look! They are ________ the boy down on the bed.
4) The ducks don’t ________ during this cold weather.
2. He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up like him. warn v. 警告; 告诫
warn sb. (not) to do sth. 警告某人(不要)干某事
warn sb. of/about sth. 提醒 / 警告某人注意某事 warn sb. (that)... 警告某人……
如:
The police warned us not to go out at night. They warned him of the danger. She warned her son about the fire.
I have warned him that it is not allowed to park the car here. end up 最终成为; 最后处于 根据汉语意思完成英语句子。
1) 艾米被警告如果再这样做就会丢掉工作。
Amy _______________ if she did it again she would lose her job. 2) 妈妈警告我不要去摸那条狗。
My mother _______ me _______ touch that dog. 3) 标牌提醒我们注意湿滑的地面。
The sign ______ us ________ the wet floor.
Keys: was warned that warned not to warns of / about 3. The Spirit of Christmas 圣诞精神(圣诞节的意义) He also tells Scrooge to expect three spirits to visit him. 他还告诉斯克鲁奇准备好等待三个幽灵的造访。
第一个短语中spirit指与肉体相对而言的“精神; 心灵”解; 第二个句子中
spirit是“灵魂; 鬼怪; 幽灵”之意。 试比较:
I shall be with you in spirit. 我在精神上也你们同在。
In the story, it is said that the area is haunted by evil spirits. 在故事里, 据说那片地区闹鬼。
4. He is mean and only thinks about himself.
mean在句中作形容词, 意思是“吝啬的; 小气的; 自私的”。如: Mr. Smith is a mean old man.
史密斯先生是一个小气的老头。
He was mean to those who worked for him. 他对那些为他工作的人刻薄小气。
Some people around us are mean with money. 我们周围有些人在金钱方面十分吝啬。
5. …so he was punished after he died. punish v. 惩罚；惩处
punish sb. (for sth. / for doing sth.) 因为……惩罚某人 e.g.我爸爸很少惩罚我。
My father hardly ______________. 他们因为杰克迟到而惩罚了他。
They ________ Jack for _______ late. Keys: punishes me punished being
6. He now treats everyone with kindness and warmth, spreading love and joy everywhere he goes.
他现在用善良和温暖对待任何人, 到处传播爱与快乐。 spread v. (spread, spread) 传播; 展开 n. 蔓延; 传播
e.g. 大火迅速在整个林区蔓延。
The fire ______________ through the forest. 我们必须做点什么来防止疾病的传播。
We must do something to prevent _______________________.
Keys: spread quickly the spread of the disease
Step 6 Summary
dress up, care about, make money, used to, end up, warn sb. to do sth., Step 7 Homework
1. Finish 2e on page 15: What do you think the three ghosts say to Scrooge when
they visit him? In groups of four, make a conversation between the three ghosts and Scrooge. Role-play the conversation next time. 2. Remember the new words and expressions.
