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
absorbing substance
afiorinia hirashimai
ancashes
anticenter of earthquake
aortic valve stenosis
baranchuk
be jammed for time
big-studio
bounded closed region
brown supremacist
circular cylinder coordinates
clithe
coal mine geology
code sequence
combining equivalent
construction method
contraction semigroup
conversion mode
cough-mixture
current year
cytocidal infection
decidua interuteroplacentalis
defocusing tolerance
discharge voltage
DMTU
Ebola Reston
empirical estimation model
eruptives
fermentation activity
forward command
gaincoming
Google Patents
graffiti artists
gsvqs
Habaekdo
Haitian centime
handforks
Henoch's disease
high power objective
ice regime observation
integrated information processing
Karmatian
Kihnu Väin
Kurnai
leaking rate of containment
leased enterprises
leslle
lift-type
linear combination with integral coefficient
lock-box system
log preservation and management
low-spiritedness
mahallan
Mannsberg's sign
member of audit team
methods of choice
microwave image
middle superior alveolar nerve
Mount of corruption
multiheaters
Mylo
n'est
Nautical Insitute
NetObjects Fusion
off-set well
OS-PP-Dol
over-all gain
Paphiopedilum purpuratum
pencil-shaped tooth
phenylalanine(nutrient)
philatelists
pleistacantha sanctijohannis
pocket alarm dosimeter
polygonal annular foundation
proteinum hydrolysatum
remote access tool
reptile
ritolukast
riveted steel bridge
Saint Cloud
saldid
salix pyrifolias
sasanquas
schistostatin
shearing of joint bolt
ship holder
sketchy specification
solids-sliding zone
statement coverage
stream cross section
substatute
São Jorge, B.de
tapegrass
titromite
transit-time heating
tributyl carbinol
underenforce
unicums
unpersuasion
winding over-hang
Y. U. N.
Yippee ki-yay