Unit 5 Writing Three Thank You Letters
Writing three thank-you letters
Writing three thank-you lettersIt was 1943,during World War 2, and I was young U.S. coastguardsman.My ship,the USS Murzim,had been under way for several days.Most of her holds contained thousands of canned or dried foods.The other holds,were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks.Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.I was one of the Murzim’s several books and,quite the same as for folk ashore,this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.Well, as any cook knows,it’s a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal,and clean up and put everything away.But finally,around sundown,we finished at last.I decided first to go out on the Murzim’s afterdeck for a breath of open air.I made my way out there,breathing in great,deep draughts while walking slowly about,still wearing my white cook’s hat.I got to thinking about Thanksgiving,of the Pilgrims,Indians,wild turkeys,pumpkins,corn on the cob,and the rest.Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else ---some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving.It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from seversing the word”Thanksgiving”---at least that suggested a verbal direction,”Giving thanks.”Giving thanks---as in praying,thanking God,I thought.Yes,of course.Certainly.Yet my mind continued turning the idea over.After a while,like a dawn’s brightening,a f urther answer did come---that there were people th thank,people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them.The embrassing truth was I’d always just accepted what they’d done,taken all of it for granted.Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple,sincere “Thank you.”At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me.I realized,swallowing hard,that about half of them had since died---so they were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude frome me.The more I thought about it,the more ashamed I became.Then I pictured the three who were still alive and, within minutes,I was down in my cabin.Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done,I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad,Simon A.Haley,a professor at the old Agricultural Mechanical Normal College in Pine Bluff,Arkansas;to my grandma,Cynthia Palmer,back in out litte hometown of Henning,Tennessee;and to the Rev.Lomual Nelson,my gtammar school principal,retired and living in Ripley,six miles north of Henning.The texts of my letters began something like,”Here,this Thanksgiving at sea,I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me,but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you---“And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf.For instance,something uppermost about my father was how he had impressed uponme from boyhood to love books and reading.In fact,this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned.My love of books never diminished and later ler me toward writing books myself.So many times I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered in books.I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country town’s gtammar school with a prayer over his assembled students.I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.In the letter to my grandmother,I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth,to share,and to br forgiving and considerate of others.I thanks her for the years of eating her good cooking,the equal of which I had not found since.Finally,I thanked her simply for having sprinkled my life with stardust.Before I slept,my three letters went into our ship’s office mail sack.They got mailed when we reached Tulagi Island.We unloaded cargo,reloaded with something else,then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us,and as the days became weeks,my little personal experience receded.Sometimes,when we were at sea,a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home,which,of course,we accorded topmost priority.Every time the ship’s loudspeaker rasped,”Attention!Mail call!”two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen,standing by those precious bulging gray sacks.They were alternately pulling out fistfuls of letters and barking successive names of sailors who were,in turn,shouting back”Here!Here!”amid the pushing.One”mail call”brought me responses from Grandma, Dad,and the Reverend Nelson---and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.Rather than saying they would forgive that I had n’t previously thanked them,instead,for Pete’s sake,they were thanking me---for having remembered,for having considered they had done anything so exceptional.Always the college professor,my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental,so I knew how moved yound people,he now felt that his best results included his own son.The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple,old-fashioned principal”had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he has retired in selfdoubt.”I had done wrong than what I did right.”he said,adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career had been appreciated.A glance at Grandma’s familiar handwriting brought baci in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair,watching her”settin’down”some letter to relatives.Character by Character,Grandma would slowly accomplish one word,then the next,so that a finished page would consume hours.I wept over the page representing my Grandma’s recent hours invested in expressing her loving gratefulness to me---whom she used to diaper!Much later,retired from Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer,I never forgot how those three”thank you”lettlers gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation for their efforts.Now,approaching another Thanksgiving,I have asked myself what will I wish for all who are reading this,for our nation,indeed for our whole world---since,quoting a good and wise friend of mine,”In the end we are mightily and merely people,each with similar needs.”First,I wish for us,of course,the simple common sense to achieve world peace,that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.And there is something else I wish---so strongly that I have had this line printed across the bottom of all my stationery:”Find the good---and praise it.”。
节日英语课件_Book_1_unit_5_Writing_Three_Thank-You_Letters
And the rest: and so on
e.g. The patient can have apples, apple juice, apple sauce, and the rest.
Translate: 市民对涉及健康,教育,税收等重要事宜的政策很感兴 趣. The citizens are interested in the government’s policies on such important issues as health, education, tax, and the rest.
Sincere: not pretending, honest
e.g. Any readers who feel annoyed please accept my sincere apologies. Translate: 她说她喜欢我并不是出于本意. She wasn’t entirely sincere when she said she liked me. 他真心实意地想帮助我们. He was sincere in his wish to help us.
Unit5
Writing Three Thank-You Letters
Part1
Language Points
Under way: in motion or operation, having started and making progress
e.g. The nationwide medical reform is now under way. Thranslate: 百年大庆的筹备工作正在顺利进行之中. Preparations for the 100th anniversary celebration are now well under way.
全新版大学英语综合教程3课文原文及翻译概要
unit 5 Writing Three Thank-You LettersAlex Haley served in the Coast Guard during World War ll. On an especially lonely day to be at sea -- Thanksgiving Day -- he began to give serious thought to a holiday that has become, for many Americans, a day of overeating and watching endless games of football. Haley decided to celebrate the true meaning of Thanksgiving by writing three very special letters.亚历克斯·黑利二战时在海岸警卫队服役。
出海在外，时逢一个倍感孤寂的日子――感恩节，他开始认真思考起这一节日的意义。
对许多美国人而言，这个节日已成为大吃大喝、没完没了地看橄榄球比赛的日子。
黑利决定写三封不同寻常的信，以此来纪念感恩节的真正意义。
Writing Three Thank-You LettersAlex Haley 1 It was 1943, during World War II, and I was a young U. S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.写三封感谢信亚利克斯·黑利那是在二战期间的1943年，我是个年轻的美国海岸警卫队队员。
全新版大学英语第二版综合教程3答案UNIT5
课后练习答案：《全新版大学英语》第三册UNIT 5（综合教程第二版）Unit 5 Giving ThanksText A Writing Three Thank-You LettersText Organizationl.Parte Paragraphs Main IdeasPart One Paras 1-9 On Thanksgiving Day 1943, as a young coastguardsman at sea, the writer came up with the idea of expressing his gratitude to people who had helped him before.Part Two Paras 10-16 The writer wrote three thank-you letters to his father, the Rev. Nelson and his grandmother.Part Three Paras 17-23 The writer got three letters in reply.Part Four Paras 24-26 The writer wishes everyone to find the good and praise it. Correspondents Letters Sent Letters ReceivedFather Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to love books and reading. Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt content with his own son.The Rev. Nelson , Thanks him for his morningschool prayers. Ii Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with self-doubt, and the re?assurance brought to him by the writer's letter.Grandmother Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and to be forgiving, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer's life with Stardust. Expresses her loving gratefulness to her grandson.Language sense enhancement1. decades2. undergoing3. had done wrong4. welcome reassurance5. appreciated6. brought back7. relatives 8. accomplish9. consume 10. representingVocabularyI. 1. 1) sprinkled 2) in turn3) reversed 4) repay5) at sea 6) traditional7) statement 8) longed for9) in secret 10) unloaded11) weep 12) under way2. 1) stretch out 2) make out3) hope for 4) turns (it) over5) put away 6) brings back7) got to 8) go about3. 1) As supplies of traditional fuels diminish, people are working to increase the use of solarenergy.2) We accord high priority to meeting the challenges of economic and environmental development in the region.3) While it is true that children of today are exposed to more information than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated.4) Since she borrowed those books from the library she has been immersed in British history and culture.5) Everything changed in a flash on June 1, 2000 when he lost both legs in a serious traffic accident.4. 1) I'd like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who has been so considerate of my well-being. My heart is filled with gratitude that words cannot express.2) After everyone assembled on the playground amid the noise and excitement of the specta?tors, our coach again impressed on us the need to do our best in quest of excellence.3) Everything I saw in my hometown was marvelous. I could hardly believe that it had undergone such swift changes through cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers and the rest in the past few years.II. Collocation1, fond of 2. sick of3. thoughtful of4. confident of5. conscious of6. critical of7. guilty of 8. ashamed of-III. Usage1. To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.2. It is cooperation, rather than conflict, that will enable you to achieve your success.3. Ann made students think for themselves rather than telling them what to think.4. I think I'll stay at home this evening rather than go / going out.5. Most people are content to let perfect days happen at random rather than plan / planning for them.Comprehensive ExercisesI. Cloze(A)1) at sea 2) Turning over3) reverse 4) got to5) repay 6) gratitude7) assembled 8)immersed in9) unloading 10) swift(B)1) instead 2) possessions3) richer 4) breath5) cherish 6) special7) specific 8) shining9) miracles 10) giftII. Translation1. 1) Grandma took it for granted that food prices would soar, so she bought a lot of rice.2) I can quote you several instances of her dedication to science.3) The 1980s saw the start of the swift development of some special economic zones in China.4) Tension between the two countries stemmed in part from the latest spy affair.5) Peter has worked in a law firm for many years. You can consider having him as your lawyer to act on your behalf when you need legal help.2.Amid the atmosphere of Thanksgiving, rather than joining his friends in celebration of the holiday, George was immersed in the diary left to him by his father, who died at sea after he completed two successive trips around the world. The diary brought back every moment George had spent with his father and many of the specific things his father did on his behalf. George's father used to impress on him the need to undergo all kinds of hardship in quest of excellence. He also taught him that nothing in the world could betaken for granted. Even today, George still remembers how his father would quote Aesop's famous saying "Gratitude is the sign of noble souls" and tell him to accord the greatest importance to it.。
大学英语全新版第三册第五单元答案
2) Tom listened hard, but couldn't _m___a_k__e___o_u__t___ what
his parents were saying because they were talking too softly. (make)
5) Because the Earth is a sphere, sailors __a_t__se_a___
only can view other ships to a distance of about 13 miles before those ships seem to disappear into the horizon.
Unit 5: How to celebrate holidays
NCE-B3
1) At the end of a hard day, Sue likes to go home and
__s__t_r_e__t_c__h__o__u__t____ in her favourite armchair listening
3) How often things occur by mere chance which we
dared not even _h__o__p__e__f_o__r_____. (hope)
4) If he hears something he can't understand, my
brother always t_u__r_n_s_ it _o__v_e_r_ in his mind until he
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大学综合英语第三册第五单元---三封感谢信
thank God and the Native Americans for their survival in 1621
Special food
turkey
pumpkin pie
Special food
Cranberr y
(酸果蔓） sauce
Special food
Sweet potatoes
Culture background
Date
Thanksgiving Day
Origin Special food
Celebration
The Origin of Thanksgiving Day
§When: in 1620 §Who: 102 Pilgrims (清教徒) §Where: from England to America §How: by the ship Mayflower §Why: avoid religious persecution (迫害) §For what: holding a celebration to
Gratitude is a kind of recognition. 感恩是一种认同
Unit5 三封感恩信
THANKSGIVING HISTORY
Second most important holiday in the U.S., celebrated in on the fourth Thursday in November.
associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflower arrived, bringing about 102 people who today are usually called Pilgrims.
VOCABULARY
get to sth./doing sth. (l. 16) begin to give serious attention to or deal with 开始认真思考（或 做）
Recently I've got to wondering why I am doing the part-time job.
economic policy.
impress (l. 49) (1) 给某人留下深刻印象或令人赞赏、钦佩 ~ sb (with sth.)
Mr. Smith often impresses his students with humor in his speeches.
I don’t think his mother was very impressed by/with our behavior in the restaurant.
(adj) contrary; opposite （与预期）相反的 (of/to)
Statistics showed a reverse trend to that recorded in other countபைடு நூலகம்ies.
Unit 5 Writing Three Thank-You Letters(黑底)
Listen and fill in the missing gaps
Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving is _1_ in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most businesses _2_ for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation. Thanksgiving is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In _3_ the ship "the Mayflower" arrived, bringing about 150 people
the graduates on the commencement ceremony.
Vocabulary
impress
impress on sb sth/that: to make the importance of sth clear to sb 1. The teacher always tries to impress on his students that it's necessary to work hard. If sth or sb impresses you, you admire them because you notice how good, clever, successful etc they are: 2. What impressed us most about the book was its vivid language. 3. Steve borrowed his dad's sports car to impress his girlfriend.
Unit 5 Writing Three Thank You Letters
Text A
Writing Three Thank-you Letters
Part One Pre-reading Activities
A: Reading Comprehension
Native Traditions of Giving Thanks
The American custom of giving thanks did not begin with the arrival of European colonists. Spirituality was (and is) a deeply sacred and personal part of Wampanoag (one Indian Tribe in America) life. Everything is sacred, and giving thanks for the Creator’s gifts is an integral part of daily life. From ancient times up to the present day, the Native people of North America have held ceremonies to give thanks for successful harvests and other good fortune. According to the oral information of tribal elders, giving thanks was the primary reason for ceremonies or feasts.
Part Four: Cultural Notes
1. Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most business close for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation. It is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflower arrived, bringing about 150 people who today are usually called Pilgrims.
大学英语Unit5 WritingThree Thank-you Letters
Writing Three Thank-you LettersIt was 1943,during World WarⅡ,and I was a young U.S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.I was one of the Murzim’s several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional dinner featuring roast turkey.Well, as any my cook knows, it’s a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last.I decided first to go out on the Murzim’s afterdesk for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cook’s hat.I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest.Y et my mind seemed to be in quest of something else ------some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving. It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key to an answer could result from reversing the word”Thanksgiving”----at least that suggested a verbal direction ,”Giving thanks”.Giving thanks--------as in praying, thanking God, I thought. Y es, of course. Certainly.Y et my mind continued turning the idea over.After a while, like a dawn’s brightening, a further answer did come ----- that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them. The embarrassing truth was I’d always just accepted what they’d done, taken all of it for granted. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere “Thank you.”At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died-------so they were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me. The more I thought about it, the more ashamed I became. Then I pictured the three who were still alive and, within minutes, I was down in my cabin.Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done, I tried composing genuine statements of heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to my dad, Simon A. Haley, a professorat the old Agricultural Mechanical Normal College in Pine Bluff, Arkansas; to my grandma, Cynthia Palmer, back in our little hometown of Henning, Tennessee; and to the Rev, Lonual Nelson, my grammar school principal, retired and living in Ripley, six miles north of Henning.The texts of my letters began something like,“Here, this Thanksgiving at sea, I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me, but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you------“And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed on my behalf.For instance, something uppermost about my father was how he had impressed upon me from boyhood to love books and reading. In fact, this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books never diminished and later led me toward writing books myself. So many times I have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so immersed in the electronic media that they have little or no awareness of the marvelous world to be discovered inbooks.I reminded the Reverend Nelson how each morning he would open our little country town’s grammar school with a prayer over his assembled students. I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.In the letter to my grandmother, I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth, to share, and to be forgiving and considerate of others. I thanked her for the years of eating her good cooking, the equal of which I had not found since. Finally, I thanked her simply for having sprinkled my life with stardust.Before I slept, my three letters went into our ship’s office mail sack. They got mailed when we reached Tulagi Island.We unloaded cargo, reloaded with something else, then again we put to sea in the routine familiar to us, and as the days became weeks, my little personal experience receded. Something, when we were at sea, a mail ship would rendezvous and bring us mail from home, which, of course, we accorded topmost priority.Every time the ship’s loudspeaker rasped,”Attention! Mail call!” two hundred-odd shipmates came pounding up on deck and clustered about the two seamen, standing by those precious bulging gray sacks. They were alternately names of sailors who were, in turn, shouting back”Here! Here!” amid the pushing.One “mail call “ brought me responses from Grandma, Dad, and the Reverend Nelson ----- and my reading of their letters left me not only astonished but more humbled than before.Rather than saying they would forgive that I hadn’t previously thanked them, instead, for Pete’s sake, they were thanking me ----- for having remembered, for having considered they had done anything so exceptional.Always the college professor, my dad had carefully avoided anything he considered too sentimental, so I knew how moved he was to write me that, after having helped educate many young people, he now felt that his best results included his own son.The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades as a “simple, old-fashioned principal”had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes that he had retired in selfdoubt. “ I heard more of what I had done wrong than what I did right,” he said, adding that my letter had brought him welcome reassurance that his career been appreciated.A glance at Grandma’s familiar handwriting brought back in a flash memories of standing alongside her white rocking chair, watching her ”’settin’ down” some letter to relatives. Character by character, Grandma would slowly accomplish one word, then the next, so that a finished page would consume hours. I wept over the page repressing her loving gratefulness to me ------ whom she used to diaper!Much later, retired from the Coast Guard and trying to make a living as a writer, I never forgot how those three “thank you”letters gave me an insight into how most human beings go about longing in secret for more of their fellows to express appreciation for their effors.Now, approaching another Thanksgiving , I have asked myself what will wish for all who are reading this, for our nation, indeed for our whole world ----- since, quoting a good and wise friend of mine, “In the end we are mightily and merely people, each with similar needs.” First, I wish for us, of course, the simple common sense to achieve world peace, that being paramount for the very survival of our kind.And there is something else I wish ----- so strongly that I have had this line printed across thebottom of all my stationery: “ Find the good ------ and praise it.”。
全新版大学英语Book3Unit 5 Text A Writing Three Thank-You Letters
swift: adj, rapid; prompt
---The river is too swift to swim in.
22. in a flash (L.92)
(L.92,Para. 23) A glance at Grandma’s familiar hand
writing brought back in a flash memories of standing
in a flash: instantly
--- The answer to the math question came to him in a flash.
The wedding ceremony was all over in a flash.
21. undergo (L.88)
(L.88, Para.22) … “simple, old-fashioned principal” had ended with schools undergoing such swift changes… ❖ undergo: vt. go through; experience ---She is undergoing an operation.
---They were screaming rather than singing.
b. 表示两种说法的正确程度。Rather…than 后面的部分是不 够精确的说法，是more…than （与其说…不如说…）反 向的表达方法。
---He is an artist rather than a philosopher.
❖ 3. appreciate the writing style of text A; ❖ 4. learn to write thank-you letters using informal
Unit5 三封感恩信
THANKSGIVING HISTORY
Second most important holiday in the U.S., celebrated in on the fourth Thursday in November. associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflower arrived, bringing about 102 people who today are usually called Pilgrims.
-MOST后缀，构成表示位置的形容词
uppermost (l.48) a. highest in place or rank, predominant 最高的，突出的 The development of national economy appears to be the uppermost concern in people's minds. topmost (l.71) a. highest, uppermost 最高的，顶端的 the topmost branches of a giant tree bottommost, inmost/innermost, outmost, easternmost, northernmost, etc. one’s inmost thoughts and feelings the southernmost point of an island paramount (l. 107) a. of chief concern or importance 最主要的，最重要的 Conservation is of paramount importance. The reduction of unemployment should be paramount in the government’s economic policy.
大学综合英语第三册第五单元---三封感谢信ppt课件
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Assignment
Write a thank-you letter to a person who has helped you before or has a great influence on you according to the letters that the author wrote on page 323.
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The Introduction to Text A
So he decided to celebrate the true
meaning of Thanksgiving by writing
three very special letters with heartfelt
appreciation and gratitude respectively
Gratitude is a kind of reward. 感恩是一种回报
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The true significance of a holiday --a good time to express some feelings to someone and say how much we value others.
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Culture background
Date
Thanksgiving Day
Origin Special food
Celebration
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The Origin of Thanksgiving Day源自§When: in 1620
§Who: 102 Pilgrims (清教徒)
★ Family’s get-together to have a feast
Unit 5 Writing Three ThankYou LettersPPT课件
Thank him for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share, to be forgiving…
Expresses her loving gratefulness for her grandson 9
GROUP DISCUSSION
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VOCABULARY
get to sth./doing sth. (l. 16) begin to give serious attention to or deal with 开始认真思考（或 做）
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TEXT STRUCTURE
Part One (Paras 1-9)
Part Two (Paras 10-16)
Letters of Giving-Thanks
Part Four (Paras 24-26)
Part Three
(Paras 17-23)
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Correspondents
Letters sent
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THANKSGIVING
Giving thanks
Saying grace (谢恩祈祷) before carving a turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, Pennsylvania, U.S., 1942
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NG CELEBRATIO NS
• Vacation and travel: • Thanksgiving Break Thursday-Sunday • Parades • Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC • “National Thanksgiving Turkey
writingthreethank-youletters（写三封感谢信）
writing three thank-you letters（写三封感谢信）Text and translation of the 3 and fifth course of College English comprehensive course:Writing Three Thank-You LettersAlex Haley1 It was 1943 during World, War II, and I was a young U. S. coastguardsman. My ship, the USS Murzim, had been under way for several days. Most of her holds contained thousands of cartons of canned or dried foods. The other holds were loaded with five-hundred-pound bombs packed delicately in padded racks. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South Pacific.Write three thank-you lettersAlex HaileyIt was 1943 in the Second World War, and I was a young American coast guard. Our ship, American naval forces No.1, has been out of sea for many days. Most of the cabins contain thousands of boxes of canned or dried food. The rest of the cabins were loaded with five hundred pound bombs, and they were carefully placed on the shelves. Our destination was a big base on the island of Tulagi in the South pacific.2 I was one of the Murzim's several cooks and, quite the same as for folk ashore, this Thanksgiving morning had seen us busily preparing a traditional turkey. dinner featuring roastI'm a chef on the 1st army city, just like people on the shore, and on Thanksgiving morning, we are busy preparing a traditional dish with roast turkey as the main dish.3 Well, as any cook knows, it's a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last.It's hard work for chefs to know, to cook a big meal, to put on the table, to scrub, and to clean up. However, when the sun fast down the mountain, we were all ready.4 I decided first to go out on the Murzim's afterdeck for a breath of open air. I made my way out there, breathing in great, deep draughts while walking slowly about, still wearing my white cook's hat.I'd like to go to the rear deck first. I walked along, breathing deeply into the air, pacing slowly and still wearing the white chef's hat on my head.5 I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest.I started thinking about Thanksgiving Day, thinking about pilgrims, Indians, wild turkey, squash, corn, and so on.6 Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else way thatI could personally some apply to the close of Thanksgiving. It must have taken me a half hour to sense that maybe some key toan answer could result from reversing the word "Thanksgiving" at least suggested a verbal - that direction, Giving thanks"But my mind seems to be searching for something else - something that I can give to the festival in a personal sense. It took me about half an hour to realize that the key to the problem might be to reverse the word "Thanksgiving" - so that at least the text is easy to understand: Giving thanks.7感谢——就像祈祷，感谢上帝，我想。
write three thank you letters分段概括
write three thank you letters分段概括1、学习了解感谢信的结构框架（感谢信的格式非常重要，是固定模式）Letter of gratitude（1） Beginning（开头）：to report your safety/ present situation（2）Body：（正文）detail information1） express your feeling and benefit2） express your gratitude3） inform other things（3）closing（结束语）: express your wish感谢信Dear XXX ，I am writing to extend my sincere gratitudefor ···········（感谢的原因）. ②If it had not been for your assistance in ···········（对方给予的具体帮助）, I fear that I would have been ···········（没有对方帮助时的后果）.Everyone agrees that it was you who ·········（给出细节）.Again, I would like to express my warm thanks to you! Please accept my gratitude.·······Best WishesZhang SanDate ······标准感谢信的优质范文：Dear Linda,I’ve come back home safely. Looking back to my stay in Britain, I feel so happy and satisfied. The beautiful scenery and friendly people impressed me a lot. I also benefited a lot from learning together with local students (about the custom in your country). More importantly, your help and kindness made it easier for me to have a better understanding of British culture and adapt to the life there. / Thanks to your help and kindness, I can have a complete and clear comprehension of British culture. So I’m so grateful to you.By the way, two photos taken with you are attached to the letter, which, I am firmly sure, will remind you of the happy time we spent together.You are expected to come to China soon.Miss YouLi SiMar 16th 2018半开放性作文写作技巧总结（1）叠加法（and， as well as）I take interest in broadcasting and am willing to work as a volunteer program host.（2）同义词替代法 have the opportunity to do; give me the chance to do（3）添词法I am (particularly ) good at spoken English.（4）v-ing/pp./to do做定语、状语、宾补； From the notice board put up on the wall in our school（5）句型的巧用（sth make it + adj. /n. for sb to do sth ）The training course I took makes it easy for me to work as an English broadcaster.（6）短语优先原则I believe that = I hold the belief that 写感谢信，其实一般情况内容都不会太长，简单叙述为什么感谢别人，表达了自己的真实感情就好，更加重要的是感谢信的模板正确无误，以免“东施效颦”闹出笑话，同时要保证每个单词拼写正确，字迹工整！。
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Questions: 1. When did the custom of giving thanks begin? 2. What is the key reason for Native Americans’ ceremonies? 3. Except giving thanks, are there any other activities in these feasts? 4. Why do they give away those material things? 5. What kinds of things do they give thanks to?
Group Work:
1.How is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States? Do you think the way the writer celebrated the holiday makes sense ? 2. Why do you think the writer printed “Find good – and praise it” at the bottom of all his stationery?
Unit 5
How to Celebrate Holidays
Text A Text B Writing Three Thank-you Letters Where Is Home
Objectives
Students will be able to: Understand the main idea and the structure of the text Grasp the key language points and grammatical structures in the text. Understand how people celebrate festivals Learn how to be thankful Learn how to write a Thank-you letter
Haley's greatest success was Roots: The Saga of an American Family (1976). This well-researched genealogy--born of the history recited by Haley's maternal grandmother--covers seven American generations, from the enslavement of Haley's African ancestors to his own genealogical quest. The work forcefully shows relationships between generations and between races.
Part Three: Comprehension Questions
Pair Work: 1. When and where did the writer write the three “thank you” letters? 2. What made the writer extremely busy on the Thanksgiving Day ? 3. What was the writer thinking about on the deck after the day’s hard work? 4. What then did he decide to do? 5. Why did the writer feel ashamed when he thought about the people that he wanted to express his gratitude to? 6. Who did he finally decide to write to? 7. What did the writer learn from the writing of the three letters? 8. What did the writer wish for all people when another Thanksgiving was drawing near?
Thankfulness was woven into every aspect of Wampanoag life. If an animal was hunted for food, special thanks were also given to the Creator and to the spirit of the animal. If a plant was harvested and used for any purpose, or a bird or a fish, if an anthill was disrupted, gratitude and acknowledgement were given for the little ones’ lives. To this day it is the same with most Native people.
Text A s
Part One Pre-reading Activities
A: Reading Comprehension Native Traditions of Giving Thanks The American custom of giving thanks did not begin with the arrival of European colonists. Spirituality was (and is) a deeply sacred and personal part of Wampanoag (one Indian Tribe in America) life. Everything is sacred, and giving thanks for the Creator’s gifts is an integral part of daily life. From ancient times up to the present day, the Native people of North America have held ceremonies to give thanks for successful harvests and other good fortune. According to the oral information of tribal elders, giving thanks was the primary reason for ceremonies or feasts. Giving thanks was an important part of the celebrations, called Nickommo, which are still held by the Wampanoag. Give-away ceremonies, feasting, dancing and sports and games were common features of these occasions. Give-away ceremonies show gratefulness to the Creator who provides for the people and makes possible the blessings celebrated. The act of giving away material things shows respect and caring for others, while reminding the participants that material objects are only secondary to one’s spiritual life.
B: Learning Quotations:
Life is a festival only to the wise. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. -- Victor Hugo Your friend is your field which you saw with love and reap with thanksgiving. -- Kahlil Gibran
3.Do you praise others more often than criticize them or the other way round?
Part Four: Cultural Notes
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Thanksgiving: Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US on the fourth Thursday in November. For many Americans it is the most important holiday apart from Christmas. Schools, offices and most business close for Thanksgiving, and many people make the whole weekend a vacation. It is associated with the time when Europeans first came to North America. In 1620 the ship the Mayflower arrived, bringing about 150 people who today are usually called Pilgrims.
Part Two: A Brief Introduction of Alex Haley