初中英语人教版九年级07

[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 cranberry 1 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 celebrated 2 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 immigrants 3 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 myth 4.

[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 diseases 5 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 slaves 6 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 celebration 7.

[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 feast 8 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 prayer 9 of thanks.

[07:54.04]Listen to the tape as you read the text and write in the missing 10 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 prayers 11 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 decided 12 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