Module 4>Unit 1 Thanksgiving is my favourite festival.

课件15张PPT。Module 4 Unit 1Thanksgiving is my favourite festival.the Spring Festival春节the Lantern Festival元宵节the Dragon Boat Festival端午节the Mid-Autumn Festival中秋节the Double Ninth Festival重阳节Christmas圣诞节What festival is this?In?the?United?States,?the?fourth?Thursday?in?November?is?called?Thanksgiving?Day.?On?that?day,?Americans?give? thanks?for?the?blessings?they?have?enjoyed?during?the? year.?在美国，每年11月的最后一个周四称为‘感恩节’，在那天，美国人为每年得到的上天赐福表示感激。??Thanksgiving?Day?is?the?most?truly?American?of?the?national?Holidays?in?the?United?States?and?is?most?closely?connected?with?the?earliest?history?of?the?country.?感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日，而且它和早期美国历史最为密切相关。??Introduction of Thanksgiving?In?1620,?the?settlers,?or?Pilgrims,?they?sailed?to?America?on?the?May?flower,?seeking?a?place?where?they?could? have?freedom?of?worship.??1620年，一些朝圣者（或称为清教徒）乘坐"五月花"号船去美国寻求宗教自由。After?a?tempestuous?two-month?voyage?they?landed?at?in?icy?November,?what? is? now?Plymouth,?Massachusetts.他们在海上颠簸折腾了两个月之后，终于在酷寒的十一月里，在现在的马萨诸塞州的普里茅斯登陆?During?their?first?winter,?over?half?of?the?settlers?died?of?starvation?or?epidemics.?Those?who?survived?began? sowing?in?the?first?spring.??在第一个冬天，半数以上的移民都死于饥饿和传染病，活下来的人们在第一个春季开始播种。??All?summer?long?they?waited?for?the?harvests?with?great?anxiety,?knowing?that?their?lives?and?the?future?existence?of? the?colony? depended?on?the?coming?harvest.?整个夏天他们都热切地盼望着丰收的到来，他们深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到来的收成。??
Finally?the?fields?produced?a?yield?rich?beyond?expectations.?And?therefore?it?was?decided?that?a?day?of?thanksgiving?to? the?Lord ?be?fixed.??后来，庄稼获得了意外的丰收，所以大家决定要选一个日子来感谢上帝的恩典。?
?Years?later,?President?of?the?United?States?proclaimed?the fourth?Thursday?of?November?as?Thanksgiving?Day?every?year.?多年以后，美国总统宣布每年十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节。?
??The?celebration?of?Thanksgiving?Day?has?been?observed? on?that?date?until?today.?感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天，直到如今。What will people do on Thanksgiving Day? Open your book, turn to Page 20 and look for the answer.Guess the wordsflag
旗meal
餐special 特别的fly
飘扬football 橄榄球New words and phrases (新词与短语)下次上课要听写以下单词：
flag 旗；国旗
fly (使)(旗帜)飘扬
special 特殊的，特别的
meal 餐
sound 听起来
football (美式)橄榄球