课件10张PPT。Unit 2We have celebrated the festival since the first pioneers arrived in America.They are great pioneers (开拓者、先驱).Read the passage quickly and answer the following questions.What festival does it talk about?
When is the festival?
How do people celebrate it?Thanksgiving day.It’s celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.They celebrate it with a traditional dinner. They celebrate with friends and families.What else do you know?
Try to describe the picture on the book.Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs.
A special dinner
An American festival
The history of the festival
Things to do during the festival 1324the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadePeople give thanksthe first pioneersgrow corneating a dinnera traditional dinnerGive thanksThe 4th Thursday in Novemberthe football gamesRead the passage and answer more questions.
1. What do you think of the first pioneers from England?
2. How was their first winter in America?
3.What do people do before, during and after the dinner?
4. Why is the festival a very busy time for travel? Read the passage and answer more questions.
1. What do you think of the first pioneers from England?
2. How was their first winter in America?
They are brave to go through a difficult time when crossing the Atlantic.Their first winter was worse than any English winter.Read the passage and answer more questions.
3.What do people do before, during and after the dinner?
4. Why is the festival a very busy time for travel? Before dinner, they all help prepare the food, lay the table and give thanks for the food. We eat too much during the dinner. We talk a lot and tell stories after dinner.Because friends and families come together to celebrate.The first __________crossed the Atlantic and arrived in America in the seventeenth century. At the beginning, they did not have enough food. The Native Americans taught them how to grow_____. They soon had _____ to eat. Today, people living in the US remember the Native Americans and the pioneers at Thanksgiving. This festival is celebrated with a meal _______ family and friends. Everyone helps____ the table. After the meal, they help wash the ______. pioneerscornplentyamonglaydishes
