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[00:02.65]第八单元 感恩祈祷
[00:05.30]Lesson 29 1 Read and act
[00:08.93]第29课 读和表演
[00:12.56]Would you like to come to my home on Thursday evening?
[00:15.29]星期四晚上你能来我家吗?
[00:18.02]Sure.What have you planned?
[00:20.24]可以.你有什么计划?
[00:22.47]My mom's having some of our friends over for Thanksgiving.
[00:25.39]我的妈妈和朋友们一起过感恩节.
[00:28.32]Urn,what's that?
[00:30.24]哦,那是个什么节日?
[00:32.16]It's a very special American holiday.
[00:34.64]它是美国一个特殊的日子.
[00:37.12]We celebrate it on the fourth Thursday of November.
[00:39.75]我们在十一月的第四个星期四来庆祝.
[00:42.37]What do you do to celebrate it?
[00:44.45]你们是怎么庆祝的?
[00:46.52]We give thanks to God for all that we have got.
[00:48.65]我们感谢上帝给了我们一切.
[00:50.78]It's also a time for family and friends to get together.
[00:53.46]这也是一次家人和朋友聚在一起的时刻.
[00:56.14]So it's a little like the Chinese New Year.
[00:58.36]所以它与中国的春节有一点儿相似.
[01:00.58]Yeah, that's right.
[01:02.21]是啊,有点像.
[01:03.84]I suppose there will be lots of food.
[01:06.12]那我可以肯定一定准备了很多的食物.
[01:08.39]Yes, more than you can eat.
[01:10.31]是,你可以随便吃.
[01:12.23]Great.I've always wanted to try traditional American food.
[01:15.70]那太好了.我一直想尝尝传统的美国食品.
[01:19.18]What time should I be there?
[01:21.01]那我该什么时候到达呢?
[01:22.83]Is 6:30 OK?
[01:24.61]6:30好吗?
[01:26.39]That's fine.Thanks.See you then.
[01:28.87]好的.谢谢.到时候见.
[01:31.35]See you.
[01:32.72]再见.
[01:34.09]2 Read and act
[01:36.37]2 读和表演
[01:38.64]Hi,mum.Gee,something smells good.
[01:41.28]嘿,妈妈.哇,真好闻.
[01:43.92]I'm cooking the turkey for dinner.
[01:45.84]我正在做火鸡作为晚餐.
[01:47.76]Do you need any help?
[01:49.34]需要帮忙吗?
[01:50.92]Thanks.I could use a bit of help.
[01:53.04]谢谢,我需要帮忙一下.
[01:55.17]Why don't you set the table for me?
[01:57.66]你帮我摆桌子好吗?
[02:00.14]All right.Shall I put spoons with the knives and forks?
[02:02.87]好的.用不用我把这些勺子与刀叉摆放在一起?
[02:05.60]Of course, sweetie.We'll need them for the cranberry1 dish.
[02:08.78]当然,宝贝儿.吃越橘子我们要用它们.
[02:11.97]OK. Anything else you need?
[02:14.01]好的.还有什么需要帮忙的吗?
[02:16.05]No, that's all.
[02:17.63]没有了,就这么多.
[02:19.21]Lesson 30 2 Read Give a title for this story.
[02:37.47]Americans have been celebrating Thanksgiving in one way or another since the 1600s
[02:46.71]However,this holiday wasn't really celebrated2 in the modern way until the 1890s.
[02:55.65]At that time,
[02:58.81]the leaders were searching for a holiday that could bring the people together
[03:05.34]as one nation,especially new immigrants3 from abroad.
[03:15.00]Some leaders tried to change the true history of the first Thanksgiving
[03:21.48]more than a little bit.
[03:24.23]They wrote about how the English settlers found friendship with the Indians
[03:32.87]who they met in the new land called America.
[03:38.12]They said that the settlers and the Indians were like brothers and sisters.
[03:44.97]These leaders also described the first Thanksgiving meal
[03:53.33]as one cooked by the settlers for their guests,the Indians.
[03:58.89]So it seemed that the settlers and the Indians lived happily together.
[04:04.95]Sadly,some of what Americans were told was really just a myth4.
[04:11.19]Soon after the first Thanksgiving,
[04:15.56]the Indians began to have problems with the settlers.
[04:20.83]Some of the settlers had strange diseases5 that killed many of the Indians.
[04:27.60]The settlers,who had a strong belief in God,
[04:32.88]wanted to teach their religion to the Indians.
[04:37.73]Most of the Indians,however,weren't interested in it.
[04:43.09]About twenty years after the first settlers arrived in New England,
[04:49.44]fighting often broke out between the settlers and the Indians.
[04:55.60]The settlers took most of the land from the people
[05:00.43]they had once called their friends.
[05:04.38]Many of the Indians who were still alive ran away
[05:09.42]to live with French settlers in Canada.
[05:14.17]Some were not so lucky.They were sold as slaves6 in the south of the country.
[05:24.62]However,the story is not all sad.
[05:29.59]In fact,the first Thanksgiving was a time of celebration7.
[05:35.83]William Bradford,one of the leaders of the settlers,
[05:41.58]invited an Indian named Squanto and his family to dinner.
[05:47.51]These Indians had helped the settlers to become better farmers.
[05:53.38]The Indian leader,his family and many others were also invited.
[05:59.86]Everyone gave thanks for a successful harvest and ate a great feast8 for three days
[06:07.91]Today,Thanksgiving lasts only one day
[06:13.26]but American families still get together every autumn to give thanks
[06:20.42]and have a big meal with friends and neighbours.
[06:25.88]Lesson 31 1 Read and answer
[06:38.32]You may be surprised to learn
[06:42.78]that some Indian groups had six Thanksgiving festivals every year.
[06:49.03]The first was in early February.
[06:53.10]It celebrated the harvest of a juice from special trees.
[06:58.85]The second took place in the early spring.
[07:03.21]It celebrated the planting of seeds in the ground.
[07:08.25]The third Thanksgiving was celebrated in the late spring
[07:13.82]for the first fruit of the season.
[07:18.07]The next was in the summer to give thanks for the corn.
[07:23.12]The fifth festival came in late autumn to celebrate the harvest.
[07:29.59]The last took place during the winter to give thanks for another safe year.
[07:35.84]Lesson 32 2 Dictation
[07:47.70]1.This is an Indian prayer9 of thanks.
[07:54.04]Listen to the tape as you read the text and write in the missing10 words.
[08:01.49]2.Form a small group and read the text aloud.
[08:08.33]3.Then choose one person to read it to the rest of your class.
[08:15.91]Gwa!Gwa!Gwa!Now the time has come!Hear us,Great Father of the Sky!
[08:27.38]We are here to _1_the truth,for you want only truth.
[08:36.94]We are your children,Great Father of the Sky.
[08:42.58]Now begins our _2_.
[08:46.84]With this fire and smoke we _3_ our prayers11 to you.
[08:53.92]Now in the beginning you_4_ us with all we need on earth.
[09:01.28]You said:I shall make the earth for the people to live on.
[09:08.13]They shall look to the earth as their mother and they shall say,
[09:14.89]"It is she who gives us much." We are_ 5_ for the earth and each other.
[09:24.87]So this is why we have come here today to give you thanks.
[09:31.22]Now see the smoke from the _6_.It rises high into the sky.
[09:41.20]We will eat food from our hard work.
[09:46.45]You have given us a world to grow many things.
[09:52.09]You give us the _7_ Corn.It keeps us _8_.Now it grows colder.
[10:04.16]But it will be warm again in the spring and life will return to us.
[10:11.42]We_9_you and we are thankful.The_10_from the fire rises again.
[10:21.45]See the _1l_ and hear our words
[10:26.70]4.Read
[10:31.27]Many,many years ago,Sister Corn wanted to bring more pleasure to her people.
[10:39.92]She had already made the shoes they wore.
[10:44.36]Now she wanted to make something different.
[10:48.83]So she asked the Great Spirit if she could make little people of cornhusk.
[10:54.79]The Great Spirit agreed.
[10:59.93]Then Sister Corn began the hard work and made a very beautiful young corn woman.
[11:07.69]One day this woman went into the forest and looked at herself in a clear lake.
[11:14.04]She saw how beautiful she was and became very proud and naughty.
[11:20.28]Soon people became unhappy,
[11:25.14]so the Great Spirit told the woman not to be so proud,but she didn't listen.
[11:31.80]The Great Spirit decided12 to teach her a lesson:
[11:36.84]she would have no face,nor could she talk to the people,
[11:43.69]the birds,or the animals of the forest.
[11:48.94]She must walk around the earth forever looking for something to do
[11:54.71]to get her lovely face back again.
[11:59.36]To this day,the Indian people do not put any face on their corn husk dolls.
[12:07.82]Words and Expressions 8
[12:16.18]God sweetie cranberry leader
[12:20.96]n.神;上帝 n.可爱的人;心肝宝贝 n.越橘;小红莓 n.领导者
[12:25.74]immigrant settler myth belief
[12:30.62]n.移民 n.殖民者;移居者 n.神话 n.相信;信念
[12:35.49]religion slave celebration successful
[12:40.82]n.宗教 n.奴隶 n.庆祝;祝贺 adj.成功的
[12:46.14]feast seed prayer
[12:49.97]n.盛宴 n.种子 n.祈祷
[12:53.80]rise(rose,risen) husk bean
[12:59.77]v.上升;升起 n.(谷物,水果等的)皮壳n.豆
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cranberry
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| n.梅果 | |
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celebrated
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| adj.有名的，声誉卓著的 | |
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immigrants
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| n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 ) | |
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myth
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| n.神话，神话故事 | |
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diseases
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| n.疾病( disease的名词复数 )；弊端；恶疾；痼疾 | |
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slaves
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| n.奴隶( slave的名词复数 )；苦工；完全受（某事物）控制的人；完全依赖（某事物）的人v.奴隶般地工作，做苦工( slave的第三人称单数 ) | |
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celebration
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| n.庆祝，庆祝会；典礼 | |
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feast
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| n.盛宴，筵席，节日 | |
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prayer
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| n.祈祷，祈求，请求，恳求；祷文，祷告者，恳求者 | |
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missing
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| adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的 | |
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prayers
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| 祈祷( prayer的名词复数 )； 祈祷（习惯）； 祈祷文； 经文 | |
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decided
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