Lesson 29 1 Read and act
第29课 读和表演
Would you like to come to my home on Thursday evening?
星期四晚上你能来我家吗?
Sure.What have you planned?
可以.你有什么计划?
My mom's having some of our friends over for Thanksgiving.
我的妈妈和朋友们一起过感恩节.
Urn,what's that?
哦,那是个什么节日?
It's a very special American holiday.
它是美国一个特殊的日子.
We celebrate it on the fourth Thursday of November.
我们在十一月的第四个星期四来庆祝.
What do you do to celebrate it?
你们是怎么庆祝的?
We give thanks to God for all that we have got.
我们感谢上帝给了我们一切.
It's also a time for family and friends to get together.
这也是一次家人和朋友聚在一起的时刻.
So it's a little like the Chinese New Year.
所以它与中国的春节有一点儿相似.
Yeah, that's right.
是啊,有点像.
I suppose there will be lots of food.
那我可以肯定一定准备了很多的食物.
Yes, more than you can eat.
是,你可以随便吃.
Great.I've always wanted to try traditional American food.
那太好了.我一直想尝尝传统的美国食品.
What time should I be there?
那我该什么时候到达呢?
Is : OK?
好吗?
That's fine.Thanks.See you then.
好的.谢谢.到时候见.
See you.
再见.
2 Read and act
2 读和表演
Hi,mum.Gee,something smells good.
嘿,妈妈.哇,真好闻.
I'm cooking the turkey for dinner.
我正在做火鸡作为晚餐.
Do you need any help?
需要帮忙吗?
Thanks.I could use a bit of help.
谢谢,我需要帮忙一下.
Why don't you set the table for me?
你帮我摆桌子好吗?
All right.Shall I put spoons with the knives and forks?
好的.用不用我把这些勺子与刀叉摆放在一起?
Of course, sweetie.We'll need them for the cranberry dish.
当然,宝贝儿.吃越橘子我们要用它们.
OK. Anything else you need?
好的.还有什么需要帮忙的吗?
No, that's all.
没有了,就这么多.
Lesson 30 2 Read Give a title for this story.

Americans have been celebrating Thanksgiving in one way or another since the 1600s

However,this holiday wasn't really celebrated in the modern way until the 1890s.

At that time,the leaders were searching for a holiday that could bring the people together

as one nation,especially new immigrants from abroad.Some leaders tried to change the true history of the first Thanksgiving

more than a little bit.They wrote about how the English settlers found friendship with the Indians

who they met in the new land called America.They said that the settlers and the Indians were like brothers and sisters.

These leaders also described the first Thanksgiving meal

as one cooked by the settlers for their guests,the Indians.So it seemed that the settlers and the Indians lived happily together.

Sadly,some of what Americans were told was really just a myth.Soon after the first Thanksgiving,

the Indians began to have problems with the settlers.Some of the settlers had strange diseases that killed many of the Indians.

The settlers,who had a strong belief in God,wanted to teach their religion to the Indians.

Most of the Indians,however,weren't interested in it. About twenty years after the first settlers arrived in New England,

fighting often broke out between the settlers and the Indians.The settlers took most of the land from the people they had once called their friends.

Many of the Indians who were still alive ran away.to live with French settlers in Canada.

Some were not so lucky.They were sold as slaves in the south of the country.

However,the story is not all sad.In fact,the first Thanksgiving was a time of celebration.

William Bradford,one of the leaders of the settlers,invited an Indian named Squanto and his family to dinner.

These Indians had helped the settlers to become better farmers.The Indian leader,his family and many others were also invited.

Everyone gave thanks for a successful harvest and ate a great feast for three days,Today,Thanksgiving lasts only one day but American families still get together every autumn to give thanks

and have a big meal with friends and neighbours.Lesson 31 1 Read and answer,You may be surprised to learn

that some Indian groups had six Thanksgiving festivals every year.

The first was in early February.It celebrated the harvest of a juice from special trees.The second took place in the early spring.

It celebrated the planting of seeds in the ground.The third Thanksgiving was celebrated in the late spring

for the first fruit of the season.The next was in the summer to give thanks for the corn.

The fifth festival came in late autumn to celebrate the harvest.

The last took place during the winter to give thanks for another safe year.

Lesson 32 2 Dictation,1.This is an Indian prayer of thanks.

Listen to the tape as you read the text and write in the missing words.2.Form a small group and read the text aloud.

3.Then choose one person to read it to the rest of your class.Gwa!Gwa!Gwa!Now the time has come!Hear us,Great Father of the Sky!

We are here to _1_the truth,for you want only truth.We are your children,Great Father of the Sky.Now begins our _2_.

With this fire and smoke we _3_ our prayers to you.Now in the beginning you_4_ us with all we need on earth.

You said:I shall make the earth for the people to live on.They shall look to the earth as their mother and they shall say,

"It is she who gives us much." We are_ 5_ for the earth and each other.So this is why we have come here today to give you thanks.

Now see the smoke from the _6_.It rises high into the sky.We will eat food from our hard work.You have given us a world to grow many things.

You give us the _7_ Corn.It keeps us _8_.Now it grows colder.But it will be warm again in the spring and life will return to us.

We_9_you and we are thankful.The_10_from the fire rises again.See the _1l_ and hear our words

4.Read,Many,many years ago,Sister Corn wanted to bring more pleasure to her people.She had already made the shoes they wore.

Now she wanted to make something different.So she asked the Great Spirit if she could make little people of cornhusk.

The Great Spirit agreed.Then Sister Corn began the hard work and made a very beautiful young corn woman.One day this woman went into the forest and looked at herself in a clear lake.

She saw how beautiful she was and became very proud and naughty.Soon people became unhappy,so the Great Spirit told the woman not to be so proud,but she didn't listen.

The Great Spirit decided to teach her a lesson:she would have no face,nor could she talk to the people,

the birds,or the animals of the forest.She must walk around the earth forever looking for something to do

to get her lovely face back again.To this day,the Indian people do not put any face on their corn husk dolls.

Words and Expressions 8

God sweetie cranberry leader
n.神;上帝 n.可爱的人;心肝宝贝 n.越橘;小红莓 n.领导者
immigrant settler myth belief
n.移民 n.殖民者;移居者 n.神话 n.相信;信念
religion slave celebration successful
n.宗教 n.奴隶 n.庆祝;祝贺 adj.成功的
feast seed prayer
n.盛宴 n.种子 n.祈祷
rise(rose,risen) husk bean
v.上升;升起 n.(谷物,水果等的)皮壳n.豆