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vals and discuss another four Chinese festivals according to the example in warming up: When does the festival e? What do people celebrate? What do people do? Festivals Date festivals Date New Year January1st Teachers39。主語 為所發(fā)生的事。且很多時候與 how 連用。 缺乏 .通常用被動語態(tài) . eg. The homeless children were starving for love. 這些無家可歸的孩子渴望得到愛 . days/years/… of plenty 富裕 (尤指食物和錢 ) 的日子 , 年月 ,生活等 . You have a life of plenty, what would you be worried about? 你豐衣足食 ,還有什么擔憂 ? **Plenty of water 許多 飾不可數(shù)名詞 3. satisfy (vt.) 滿足 , 使?jié)M意 不用于進行時態(tài) **satisfy sb/sth 使 …… 滿意 (滿足 ) be satisfied with sb/sth 對 …… 感到滿意 be satisfied to do sth 對做 …… 感到滿意 eg. The girl satisfied her mother by cleaning up the kitchen. 女孩清洗廚房使得母親很滿意 . My English teacher was satisfied with my English study. harm 損害 ,危害 , 傷害 do more harm than good. 弊大于利 do good 做好事 ,有好處 do harm to sb (idom )=harm sb Come to harm :be injured physically, mentally ormorally 身體上 ,精神上或道義受到損害 .常用于否定式 . Any kind of pollution will do you harm. 任何污染都會給你帶來危害 . Smoking does great harm to one’s health. 吸煙對健康危害極大 . 5. in memory of / to the memory of sb: serving to remind people of sb/ to the memory of sb, esp as a tribute作為對某人的紀念;紀念某人 : eg. He wrote a long moving poem n memory of his good ,他寫下了一首感人的長詩。 Step Five: Read the text and fill in the passage. There are all kinds of festivals and celebrations around the world, which are held for for different reasons. The ancient festivals were mainly held at three times a yearthe end of the cold winter, planting in spring and harvest in autumn. Some festivals are held to honor the dead or satisfy and please the ancestors in case they might do harm, while other festivals are held to honor famous people or to the gods, such as Dragon Boat Festival Columbus Day. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because their food is gathered for the winter and because a season of agricultural work is over, to which Mid autumn festival belongs. And the most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the ing of spring, such as the lunar New Year, at which people have a very good time. Step Six: Work in pairs to do and 3 on page3 Step Seven: Assignment Do Exercise 1Comprehending Exercise1 Page42 Try to retell the text. Preview using language. Ex15 on page 4 The Fourth Period (Discovering Useful Structure) Teaching Procedures: Step One: Revision Read the vocabulary of Unit 1 again Retell the text. Check the answers to the homework. Step Two: Discovering useful structures Read amp。在正式文體中 that 不能省略。 (look forward to)