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 bunch 1 of red carnations 3.

[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 United 4 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 celebrated 5 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 known 6 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" means 7 only that she's growing old,

[06:30.11]"T" is for the tears she shed 8 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           carnation 2

[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             roast 9

[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             zip 10 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