时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   This coming Sunday – the second Sunday in May – is Mother’s Day, a day when children do something special for their mother. One tradition is to give their mother breakfast in bed. Shops try to make Mother’s Day a commercial event and encourage people to buy something for their mother – something for the kitchen or a book. Later in the year, also on a Sunday, we have Father’s Day. Once again it is now a commercial occasion 1 and shops advertise fishing rods 2, tools for the garage or a book about a famous sports’ person.


  In 1994, in USA, Parents’ Day replaced Mother’s Day to honour both parents. It is the fourth Sunday in July. In Korea, also, Parents’ Day has replaced Mother’s Day. Children traditionally give their parents a red carnation 3 flower, a real one or a paper one. Parents’ Day in Korea is today, May 8th.
  Vocabulary
  ?tradition, traditionally – something that has happened the same way for many, many years
  ?commercial event / occasion – shops want people to buy gifts for mothers or fathers
  ?replace – take the place of
  ?honour – respect, remember with love
  ?carnation – a flower with a strong smell, a bit like pepper
  Note the apostrophe before the ‘s’ for Mother’s Day (because we have just one mother) and after the ‘s’ for Parents’ Day because we have two parents.
  Questions
  ?Do you have Mother’s Day in your country? Do you think it is necessary to honour your mother one day a year?
  ?Do you think we should have Parents’ Day instead of Mother’s Day?
  ?It is a stereotype 4 to say that women want gifts for the kitchen and men want different gifts like books about sports. Is this the same in your culture?

n.场合,时机,机会,诱因,理由;vt.惹起,引起
  • Her dress was too showy for such a formal occasion.在如此正式的场合,她的服装过分华丽了。
  • Her tears were fought back on such an occasion.在这种场合下她忍住了眼泪。
竿( rod的名词复数 ); 杆; (责打人用的)棍棒; 手枪
  • The wheels of the toy car were fixed on metal rods. 玩具车的轮子固定在金属棒上。
  • A typewriter in which the characters are situated on type rods. 一种打字机,其字符安装在字模棒上。
n.康乃馨(一种花)
  • 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。
n.固定的形象,陈规,老套,旧框框
  • He's my stereotype of a schoolteacher.他是我心目中的典型教师。
  • There's always been a stereotype about successful businessmen.人们对于成功商人一直都有一种固定印象。
学英语单词
3-cholestanone
adenosine monophosphates
Aghiresu
anti-beauty quark
artesian well pump
assignment control number
axiom of parallels
Braxton-Hicks contraction
Browning's phenomenon
Burghley House
buried hildfast
center feeding
Coldbackie
condensational waves
constructive confrontation
current operating performance income statement
Customs Cooperation Council
cystine stone
damosel, damozel
decomposition agent
deflection winding
Dendrobium longicornu
departable
electromagnetostriction
emotion control
fractional monetary units
French horns
funible
glycolaldehydes
Harrington's solution
Hejce
high resolution visible
homosexual conduct
human contact
Hypalon
innubilous
interventions
ionization erosion
ISCOMS
Laprugne
leggett
lob along
lower-energy coast
lysogenic viruses
machilidaes
Magnolia fulva
maintenance mores
medianoscopy
Meier Helmbrecht
mesantoins
Meymeh
myostromin
myotonic muscular dystrophy
narrators
need of growth
news-wall
non-clients
non-system mark time request
ossa japonicum
patro-
pelecanine
Pentecostal Fellowship of North America
Pharmacochalzite
physical educations
pilot-actuated safety valve
poor maintenance of equipment
POS data
pressing powder
pressure, gauge
prostaglandin(s)
radio antenna truck
return chute
rosegolds
sclerotizations
shift driven shaft
short-half-life material
single office exchange
smilacaceous
smooth sequence
snow-slide
soft-touch control
sojo
spasmodized
strength freeboard
strikethrough
Styrax suberifolius
subpixel
succedaneously
tack welding
telecentric light
tension magnet
terminal artery
Time is up
tindered
transfer price
twenty-nines
unmodifiable
uredo microstegii
utilitarianise
vietnam block
vulgarness
zall