festivals
Festivals in other countries
Christmas Fool’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Carnival Easter
Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day
Father’s DayHalloween
______________ is to celebrate the harvest.
______________ is to celebrate a season.
______________ is to honour an event.Freedom Day
May Day
Thanksgiving
festivals
Festivals in China
Dragon Boat Festival
The Double
Ninth Festival
The Spring Festival
Qingming
The Lantern
Festival
The Middle
Autumn Festival
The Double
Seventh Festival
Ghost Festival
eat mooncakes
appreciate the
bright full moon
offer sacrifice
(供品)to the moon
family reunion
(合家团聚)
express strong yearnings (思念) to
family members and friends
couplet 对联
fireworks 烟花
firecrackers 爆竹
paper-cuts 剪纸
lucky/ gift money 压岁钱
1. What do you know about
this English novelist?
What about his works?
2. Have you ever read any
of his books or seen any of
the films based on them?
Understanding ideas
Read the introduction to Tolkien.
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was an English
writer, poet and university professor, best
known as the author of some of the world’s
most popular high-fantasy novels. With his
limitless imagination, he created new worlds
for his readers to explore. His novels The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have made
into films. adj. 无限制的，
无止境的
n. 幻想，想象
What Letters from Father Christmas is about?
Why Tolkien wrote these letters?
Letters from Father Christmas is a collection of
Tolkien’s letters to his four children at Christmas.
The letters told wonderful stories about Father
Christmas’s life and adventures at the North pole.
Tolkien wrote these letters because he wanted to keep
Father Christmas alive for his four children.
Choose the sentence that best explains
the title of the passage.
1 The real Father Christmas was actually
Tolkien himself.
2 Tolkien is the real Father Christmas,
because he wrote letters using the name
“Father Christmas”.
3 Tolkien’s love and care for his children
made him very like Father Christmas.
Please read the passage again and answer the questions.
1. What did Tolkien do to keep the magic?
He wrote letters to his children.
2. What can we learn from Letters from Father
Christmas? The true spirit of giving.
3. Why is Tolkien the real Father Christmas?
Because he expresses his love for his children in such
a special way.
Complete the notes with expressions from the passage.
Title of the book: ___________________________
Author: ________________
Background information:
Every Christmas, Tolkien’s children would get an envelope
with ____________________. Inside it, they would find
____________________________________. Of course, the
letters were written by Tolkien.
Contents of the letters:
They tell wonderful stories about
_______________________________________________. In
one letter, Polar Bear _____________________ and
___________________ of Father Christmas’s house. In
another letter, Father Christmas complained about
_____________________________________ with the toys.
Letters from Father Christmas
J.R.R. Tolkien
a North Pole stamp
a handwritten letter from Father Christmas
Father Christmas’s life and adventures at the North Pole
climbed the North Pole
fell through the roof
how he could not stop his helpers playing games
P1 The beginning
P2 author’s
information
P3-4 summary
of the book with
main characters
P5 comments
A book
Review
consists
author’s
information
summary
of a book
comments
background related to
the content of the book
author’s life
Summary should be self-
contained, clear, easy to
understand, and objective.
writer’s own views on the book
name merits (优点) and demerits
discuss its relevance to the
present time
1. be best known as/for/to…
2. with his limitless imagination
3. be made into films
4. be adapted from a novel
5.使……仍存在
6. as long as they can
7.把……看作
8.被寄给…
9.一封手写的信
10.讲述了关于…的精彩故事
11.a regular character
12.抱怨某事
4.从小说改编过来
5.keep…alive
6.尽可能长久地
7.regard..as(consider/view/see..as)
8. be addressed to…
9. a handwritten letter
10. tell wonderful stories about…
11. 一个经常出现的人物
12. complain about…
13.代替；而不是
14.将某物打包
15. not many
15. 索要…
16. 分享给予的真正精神
17. 用如此特别的一种方
式
13. instead of…/doing…
14. wrap sth. up
15. ask for…
16. share the true spirit of
giving
17. in such a special way
1. Many people still remember the magic of Father
Christmas from when they were children.
She could see what happened in the hall from where
she hid.
2. 人们将圣诞节当成是一年中的特殊的时候。
Pelple regard Christmas as a special time of year.
3. Every Christmas, an evelope _____ a North Pole
stamp _______(arrive).
4. be addressed to sb.
address a letter to sb.
an article addresses problems related to …
address a meeting address sb as…
address sb.
with
arrived
【语境应用】翻译下列句子。
1) 她已经在会议上发表演讲。
2) 他用英语和我说话，我很诧异。
3) 对法官应该称呼“法官大人”。
4)那封信是寄给我的。
She has addressed a meeting.
I was surprised when he addressed me in English.
The judge should be addressed as “Your Honour”.
That letter was addressed to me.
5. 1) The children__________________________(一定很激
动) as they opened it.
2) Each___________________________________(一定
花了它真正的作者）a long time to complete.
6.The letters were also beautifully _______(illustrate).
7.______________(interest) , the letters did not
contain the usual warning to children _____ they
they might not……
8. There are a terribel number of poor and starving
people.
9. As well as enjoying the fun of the celebration, we
can share the true spirit of giving at Christmas.
Lily as well as her parents ____ fond of music.
must have been very excited
must have taken its true author
illustrated
Interestingly
is
that
• 1. I had a feeling______I was being
watched.(unit 5)
• 2. There is no doubt ______this candidate’s
advantage lies in his ability to communicate with
foreigners in English.
• 3. Scientists have obtained more evidence
_______plastic is finding its way into the human
body.
that
that
that
13.The letters______(确实), however,
change_____(随着) Tolkien’s children got older.
14.By expressing love for his children in such a
special way, Tolkien may indeed have been the real
Father Christmas.
通过用这种特殊的方式跟他的孩子表达爱，Tolkien
可能是一真正的圣诞老人。
in this way in the way on the /one’s way
all the way in a way
《双成》P26
did
as
• Maybe Letters from Father Christmas is the perfect book for
those 1.______regard Christmas as a special time of year. The
author, Tolkien, is one of the most famous 2._______(name) in
English literature. Every Christmas, an envelope with a North
Pole stamp arrived. It 3.______________(address) to Tolkien’s
children. Inside, they would find a handwritten letter from Father
Christmas. The letters were also 4.__________(beatiful)
illustrated-each must have taken its true author a long time
5.___________(complete). In one letter, Father Christmas
complained 6._____how he could not stop his helpers
7._______(play) games with the toys instead of wrapping them
up. Interestingly, the letters did not contain the usual
8._________(warn) to children that they might not receive their
presents if they were not good. The letters 9._____(do), however,
change 10. ___Tolkien’s children got older. By expressing his love,
he may indeed have been the real Father Christmas.
Summary
who
names
was addressed
beatifully
to complete
about
playing
warnings
did
as
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