课件44张PPT。TaskWhat do you know
about ChristmasWhich is the most popular festival
celebrated by Christians?Lead-inChristmas.Christmas is the day when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, whom Christians believe to be the son of God. Children are excited about this holiday because they believe Father Christmas will bring them gifts. Lead-inA brief introduction of Christmas4Father ChristmasLead-inFather Christmas is delivering gifts to people.Lead-inLead-inBut do you believe Father Christmas really exists?No. Although Father Christmas is very famous and people talk a lot about him, he is just a legendary person. The story of Father Christmas is just a legend. Then what is a legend and what kind of person is a legendary person? Please read the top of page 58 in Skills building 1 and find out the answers.Skills Building 1:Finding information about a legendary personSkills Building 1What do you think is a legend?Legend refers to the traditional story of a famous person or an event. Some of the stories can be true. However, most of the stories include things that are untrue, impossible or do not exist.Skills Building 1Then what is a legendary person?A legendary person is often a real person who lived a long time ago, and the information about this person might be true but some of it might be untrue and just part of a legend. Skills Building 1Examples of traditional Chinese legendsPangu cutting open heaven and earth.Skills Building 1Nüwa patching the sky with five-colour stones.Skills Building 1Pangu and Nüwa. So in the legends about Father
Christmas, who is a legendary person? Father Christmas. In such legends, who are legendary people?Skills Building 1Expressions used to describe a legendary person/figureHe/she is said/supposed to …
He/She is known/described as …
People believe that …
According to the stories, he/she …
Apparently, he/she …
I have heard that he/she …Skills Building 1e.g.Skills Building 1Practice: Rewrite the following sentence with the expressions above.Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people.Father Christmas is said/supposed to deliver/bring presents to people.He/she is said/supposed to …
He/She is known/described as …
People believe that …
According to the stories, he/she …
Apparently, he/she …
I have heard that he/she …
Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people. Skills Building 1PracticeFather Christmas is known as a person who delivers/brings presents to people.
People believe that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people.
According to the stories, Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people.
Apparently, Father Christmas delivers/brings presents to people.
I have heard that Father Christmas delivers/ brings presents to people. Skills Building 1ExamplesA Reading Read the web page about St Nicholas
and work in pairs to ask and answer
the questions on the top of Page 59.Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas1. Where did St Nicholas come from?
2. Why is Father Christmas modelled after him?
3. What is the origin of Father Christmas
coming down the chimney?
4. Why do many Europeans give gifts to their children on St Nicholas Day?
5. What does St Nicholas look like?Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasPair workAsk and answer the questions below1. Where did St Nicholas come from?St Nicholas came from a village called Myra in Turkey.2. Why is Father Christmas modelled
after him?Because he was very kind, merciful and generous. Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas213. What is the origin of Father Christmas coming down the chimney? St Nicholas threw small bags of gold down the chimney to help the three daughters in a poor family get married.4. Why do many Europeans give gifts to their children on St Nicholas Day?To honor St Nicholas, who gave aid to others. Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasHe is tall and thin with no beard or moustache and wears the neat, traditional clothes of a religious leader.Step 1 Taking notes about Father Christmas5. What does St Nicholas look like?Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasBListen to a TV program about Father Christmas and fill in the table below according to what you have heard and the web page on Page 58. What he looks likea happy, fat man with long (1) _________hair and a long white beard and moustache, dressed in a (2) __________with a black belt and the same colour bootswhitered suitStep 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasWhere he livesnear the (3) __________ PoleNorthWho his friends areelves: help make (4) __________
reindeer: twelve in number, help
(5) __________ the presentstoysdeliverStep 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasWhat he doesgoes down chimneys and places
(6) _________ in stockings, in front of the Christmas tree, by children’s (7)________ or by the fireplacepresentsbedsStep 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasInteresting factswas usually drawn wearing
(8) __________ before a famous
advertisement used a picture of
him wearing red in (9) _______green1931Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasWho is Father Christmas based on?(10) ________________St Nicholas Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasGive a summary about St Nicholas about what you have learned today. Step 1 Taking notes about Father ChristmasSummary The story of Father Christmas is _______
_____ St Nicholas, the bishop of a village
called Myra in ________ over 1,600 years
ago. He is ______ and _______ with no
_______ and wears the neat, traditional clothes
of a religious ________. He is one of the most
popular _________ in Christianity and the
saint of people because he is said to be
very kind, __________ and generous. basedonTurkeytallthinbeardleaderfiguresmercifulA summary of St Nicholas People believe that once he threw
small bags of gold down the _______ to help
the three daughters in a poor family to get
________. This is the ________ of Father
Christmas _______ down the chimney.
__________ ____ the legends, one of his
bags of gold fell into a ________ hanging up
to dry over the _________. This is where the
idea of hanging stockings near the fireplace
came from. chimneymarriedorigincomingAccordingtostockingfireplaceListening Parts A and B (Page 132) 1 Egypt2 king of Egypt3 oldest son4 doors7 dinner5 March or April6 eight days8 vegetables 9 fast/quicklyPart C (Page 132)3 blood1 Egypt2 king of Egypt4 doors5 March6 eight7 dinner8 bitter9 being a slave10 apples11 buildings12 flat breadProject The White Horse Temple the oldest Buddhist temple in ChinaPart 1 (Para 1 )
_______________to the temple.
Part 2 (Para 2-5)
_____________the temple.
Part 3 (Para 6)
____________ of the temple.
Part 4 (Para 7-9)
_____________ of the temple.the structure of the reportA brief introductionThe story behind The architecture The importance 2. How did the officials interpret the Emperor Mingdi’s dream?3. What did the officials bring back to Luoyang from India?Answer the following questions.1. Why is it called the White Horse Temple?1. Why is it called the White Horse Temple?To remind people of the white horsethat the Buddhist readings and imageshad traveled on.Answer the following questions.The officials thought the Emperor
had dreamt of Buddha, a saint from India.2. How did the officials interpret the Emperor Mingdi’s dream?3.What did the officials bring back
to Luoyang from India?Two monks , some Buddhist readings and images of Buddha.Language points It was the first Buddhist temple in China, and to this day, remains one of the most important temples in all of China.After the fire, very little remained of my house.remain① vi. 剩下,遗留② vi. 留待以后去看,去做,去说 Much work remained to be done.
It remains to be seen whether you are right.③ vi. 逗留,留下I’ll remain to see the end of the game.④ link v. 保持,仍是 The door remained closed.1 to this day
2 代表某人
3 为某人提供住处
4 the White Horse Temple complex
5 使用之中
6 旅游胜地1. The officials travelled westwards and arrived in ______ is today Afghanistan.
2. The White Horse Temple has ____
a lot of history. It has been repaired and has had extensions _______ (add) many times.
3. It will remain a popular sightseeing destination _____ it has always been.whatseenaddedas