(共18张PPT)
Unit 2
A Christmas Carol
Section B 2a-2e
Free talk
What do you know about Christmas
Pre-reading
What common things can you think of for Christmas
symbols
activities
date
stocking
Santa
Claus
card
stories
24
Christmas Eve
Christmas Day
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Read quickly and match the main idea with each paragraph.
The true meaning of Christmas.
A Christmas Carol is a famous novel.
Three ghosts visit Scrooge.
Scrooge changes his life.
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Body
changes
Three ghosts
true meaning
novel.
1.What are the common things that people think of for Christmas
2. What’s the true meaning of Christmas
People usually think of gifts, Christmas trees and Santa Claus.
The importance of sharing and giving love and joy to people around us.
Read Para. 1, and answer the 2 questions.
Give an example
A Christmas Carol
Reading Strategy1:
find the similar words
A Christmas Carol
Read Paragraph 2 and fill in the blanks.
Kind:___________
Writer:________________
Characters:
novel
Charles Dickens
Scrooge
Jacob Marley
three ghosts
wrote
written
mean
dead business
partner
Scrooge/ scrooge( 吝啬鬼) has been a common word in today’s dictionary.
No
2.What is Scrooge like
Read Paragraph 2
serious, selfish,
unkind,greedy(贪婪的)
1. Does Scrooge have many friends
Reading Strategy2:
inferring(推断)
This means you have to “read between
the lines” to get the meanings that
are not clearly stated in a text.
推断
Inferring
1.Why was Jacob Marley punished after he died
Jacob Marley
Because he used to be like Scrooge.
He was mean and only thought about himself.He didn’t treat others nicely and he just cared about money
2.Does Jacob Marley want to help Scrooge
3.How do you know
Yes
He warns Scrooge to change his ways if he doesn’t want to end up like him. He also tells Scrooge to expect three spirits to visit him.
Careful reading
Read paragraph 3 and fill in the chart.
Scrooge
3 ghosts
visit
Past
Present
Yet to come
What does Scrooge see when he’s with them
His ____________as a child.
How others are _________
__________this year.
He is _____but nobody_____.
happier days
spending
Christmas
dead
cares
What does Scrooge do after seeing the three ghosts
Para 4
What does Scrooge do after seeing the three spirits
Why can the three spirits/ ghosts change Scrooge
Culture Background
Careful reading
Because Spirits/ ghosts have great strength in the western literature works(西方文学作品) . Christians(基督徒) believe people have future lives after death(人死后有来生). They all want to go to heaven(进天堂)after death, rather than drop into hell(下地狱)) because of the crimes they commit before(前世所犯的罪).
Let’s watch the ending of the story.
And that is the true spirit of Christmas!
A Christmas Carol
the True Spirit of Christmas
The true spirit of Class 19
We should learn to help others,treat others with kindness,give and spread love and joy everywhere we go.
Homework
1. retell the story to your classmates
2. finish the exercises on your books
Thank you!
A Christmas Carol
sharing and giving
whether he can make more money
like
happier days as a child
death
treating everyone
spreading
Retell
Try to retell the story in A Christmas Carol.
a dead business partner
used to be like