初中英语人教版九年级09

[00:05.49]Lesson 37  1 Read and act
[00:12.43]Dad, this Sunday is Mother's Day.What are we going to do?
[00:20.48]Oh, dear! I almost forgot.Do you have any ideas?
[00:27.85]How about having a big dinner Sunday night?
[00:32.89]That's a good idea.HIM ...I think each of us should give Mom a gift.
[00:41.64]Yeah.Yeah.I'll give her a bunch¹ of red carnations³.
[00:47.10]She likes flowers.What about you,Lily?
[00:53.94]Hmm ... What shall I get her?Dad,what does Mom need most?
[01:03.01]I don't think she really cares what we'll give her.
[01:08.05]A bunch of flowers is enough for both Lucy and you.
[01:13.01]Then what will you do,Dad?
[01:16.88]I'll do all the cooking,washing and cleaning on that day.
[01:22.73]WOW! That'll be the best gift for Mom.
[01:28.08]Only on that day?
[01:31.64]No, till Father's Day comes.
[01:36.21]Lesson 38  2 Read  MOTHER'S DAY
[01:49.95]For hundreds of years the British people have remembered their mothers
[01:56.30]on Mothering Sunday.
[01:59.85]In the old days,workers had time off from work to visit their mothers.
[02:06.93]Today Mothering Sunday is called Mother's Day in Britain.
[02:13.28]Children send Mother's Day cards to their mothers.
[02:18.32]They give their mothers flowers or sweets as presents.
[02:23.75]Fathers and children do all the cooking and housework to givemothers a rest.
[02:30.99]They do their best to show their love for them.
[02:35.72]In the USA,mothers are remembered on Mother's Day, too.
[02:42.27]Mother's Day started quite differently from the way it started in Britain.
[02:48.83]In the 1860s there was a terrible war in the United⁴ States
[02:55.67]between the North and the South.
[02:59.91]There was a small town in the middle of the USA called Pruntytown.
[03:06.96]In this town,half the people fought on the northern side,
[03:12.60]and half fought on the southern side.
[03:17.15]At the end of the war,the people hated each other.
[03:22.89]Mrs Anna Reese Jarvis wanted the people to make friends with each other again.
[03:30.16]So she started "Mother's Friendship Day".
[03:34.60]On that day,she visited all the other mothers in her town and said,
[03:41.54]"God bless you,let us be friends with each other again."Her idea succeeded.
[03:51.08]The same thing happened in other parts of the country.
[03:56.04]Soon,all the women in the United States followed her example.
[04:02.21]After Mrs Jarvis died,her daughter carriedon the same idea,
[04:08.56]but she called Mother's Friendship Day Mother's Day.
[04:14.01]The first Mother's Day was celebrated⁵ in 1908.
[04:19.79]In 1914, Mother's Day,the second Sunday in May,became a public holiday.
[04:28.62]Lesson 40  2 Read
[04:39.56]In the old days,London was known⁶ as a city of fog.
[04:45.81]The fog was as thick as pea-soup.
[04:49.65]London's fog was caused by factory smoke,so it was called "smog".
[04:57.82]The smog was so thick that car
[05:02.50]and bus drivers could hardly see the road in front of them
[05:08.24]even during the daytime.
[05:12.08]People had to wear "smog-masks" over their faces when they went out.
[05:18.85]In December 1952,a very thick dark cloud came down over the city.
[05:26.90]It was the worst smog Londoners had ever had.
[05:32.25]Nearly fifty people died in road accidents.
[05:36.33]Many more people became very unhealthy.
[05:41.19]After three weeks,the smog began to lift slowly.
[05:47.12]Life in London returned to normal.
[05:51.48]But not long after that,over 4,000 people died as a result of the smog.
[06:00.54]In 1956, the British stopped burning coal in houses
[06:07.20]and factories in the city.London's air became cleaner.
[06:14.65]5 Poem
[06:19.40]"M" is for the million things she gave me,
[06:25.04]"O" means⁷ only that she's growing old,
[06:30.11]"T" is for the tears she shed⁸ to save me,
[06:35.44]"H" is for her heart of purest gold,
[06:40.59]"E" is for her eyes,with love-light shining,
[06:46.23]"R" means right,and right she'll always be,
[06:52.19]Put them all together,they spell"MOTHER",
[06:57.85]A word that means the world to me

[07:02.22]Howard Johnson
[07:05.27]Words And Expressions 10
[07:14.02]gift                 bunch                a bunch of           carnation²
[07:19.26]n.礼物               n.束;串              一束(串)…           n.(植物)康乃馨(花)
[07:24.50]survey               mothering            Pruntytown           bless
[07:29.58]n.调查               n.探视父母           n.朴鲁蒂镇           v.&n.祝福;祈祷
[07:34.66]succeed              refer                refer to             roast⁹
[07:39.73]v.成功的;顺利完成    v.说到;提到(谋事)    提到                 adj.烤的;烘的
[07:44.80]elevator             zip¹⁰ code             be known as          thick
[07:50.16]n.(美)电梯           (美)邮政编码         以…而知名;被认为是  adj.厚的;粗的
[07:55.53]pea-soup             mask                 normal               burn(burnt,burnt)
[08:01.91]n.豌豆汤             n.面罩;面具          n.正常adj.正常的     v.燃烧；着火
[08:08.28]tear                 shed                 pure
[08:11.55]n.眼泪               v.流(泪.血等);掉落   adj.纯粹的;纯洁的

1 bunch   

n.串，束；群，帮

参考例句：

• A bunch of girls was[were] sitting on the grass.一群女孩坐在草地上。
• I received a bunch of flowers yesterday.昨天我收到了一束鲜花。

2 carnation   

n.康乃馨（一种花）

参考例句：

• He had a white carnation in his buttonhole.他在纽扣孔上佩了朵白色康乃馨。
• He was wearing a carnation in his lapel.他的翻领里别着一枝康乃馨。

3 carnations   

n.麝香石竹，康乃馨( carnation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You should also include some carnations to emphasize your underlying meaning.\" 另外要配上石竹花来加重这涵意的力量。” 来自汉英文学 - 围城
• Five men per ha. were required for rose production, 6 or 7 men for carnations. 种植玫瑰每公顷需5个男劳力，香石竹需6、7个男劳力。 来自辞典例句

4 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

5 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

6 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

7 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

8 shed   

n.车棚，小屋，脱落之物，分水岭；vt.使流出，放射，脱落，散发，摆脱；vi. 流出

参考例句：

• There are a lot of straws in the shed.棚子里有许多稻草。
• His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.他的嗅觉告诉他，他正走近牛棚。

9 roast   

v.烤，炙，烘；n.烤肉；adj.烤(烘)过的

参考例句：

• There's a piece of roast beef.这儿有一块烤牛肉.
• Put the meat into the oven to roast.把肉放到炉子里去烤。

10 zip   

v./n.拉开(或扣上)……的拉链；拉链

参考例句：

• Better zip your jacket;it's cold outside.最好还是把你上衣的拉链拉上，外面很冷。
• Zip up your coat before going out.出去前先把你的上衣拉链拉上。