九年级英语上册(人教版)Unit2 Section B 1a—1d课件

Read and decide the sentences are true or false.
1. Scrooge is unfriendly to others. T
2. Jacob Marley used to worked together T with Scrooge. 3. Jacob Marley and Scrooge are different F in character. 4. Jacob Marley wants to help Scrooge. T
1. What are the common things that people think of for Christmas? It is popular in 2. Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
black cat
3. What is the true meaning or spirit of Christmas?
The traditional food are roasting turkey, corn and pumpkin pies with ice-cream.
April Fool’s Day is an old custom celebrated every year on the first day of April. Popular since the 19th century. On that day people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.
2a Try to match each day with the correct date.
Christmas
April Fool’s Day Halloween St. Valentine’s Day Thanksgiving
Fourth Thursday in November
February 14th April 1st
Section B Period 1 (1a —1d)
Can you name any foreign festivals?
Christmas
HalloweBiblioteka nThanksgiving
April Fool’s Day
St. Valentine's Day
Thanksgiving Day is an American traditional holiday, falling on the fourth Thursday in November, to celebrate the harvest.
October 31st
December 25th
Speaking of Christmas, what do you think of?
Santa Claus gifts Christmas tree reindeer Christmas card
2b Read and answer the questions.
Halloween is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October.
Christmas is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed cultural holiday, celebrated generally on December 25 by millions of people around the world.
It is popular in
A Christmas Carol is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published on 19 December 1843. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation resulting from supernatural visits by Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come. The novel met with instant success and critical acclaim.
2c Read and complete the chart.
Saint Valentine's Day (or Valentine's Day) is a holiday observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.
While A Christmas Carol brings to readers images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also brings strong and unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness and death. Scrooge himself is the embodiment (体现) of winter, and, just as winter is followed by spring and the renewal of life, so too is Scrooge’s cold, pinched heart restored to the innocent goodwill he had known in his childhood and youth.