1、Unit Two Celebrating主要内容及重难点1. Aims and main points: 学习目标及主要内容In this unit you read about the American Thanksgiving and the Scottish New Year celebrations. Youread historical and narrative texts;note some differences between American and British English;review the present perfect and the simple past
2、;learn how to accept and decline invitations;learn to express regret.在本单元，你将了解美国感恩节的由来及苏格兰庆新年的习俗。学习目标为：阅读历史及叙述类文章； 学习美式英语及英式英语的差异；复习现在完成时与一般过去式； 学习如何接受和拒绝邀请； 学习如何表示遗憾。 2、重难点知识2.1 词汇Passage One The Story of Thanksgiving barley；cranberry；pumpkin； persecute; chief；美式英语和英式英语表达差异 Activity 6/7Passage Two:
3、approve； guard against; propose a toast; stroke; 2.2 句子解析Passage One The Story of Thanksgiving（1） In spring 1620 a ship sailed from England with more than one hundred people on board. 这个句子用了 with 的复合结构，意为 “载着”（2） They had arrived too late to grow many crops, and without fresh food, half the Pilgrims
4、 died from starvation and disease.Tooto 太。 。二不能； die from 死于（外部原因）（3） The Pilgrims wanted to thank their God for their survival, and so a feast of thanksgiving was planned to which the local chief and 90 native Americans were invited. 该句子中划线部分是 a feast of thanksgiving 的定语从句，介词 to 是跟随 invite 这个词来的。（4
5、）President Abraham Lincoln decided to ask all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving.set aside 定立。 。 。Passage TwoHogmanay（1）clean the house from top to bottom clean the house completely 从上到下，完完全全地 （2）a tall, dark, handsome stranger carrying a lump of c
6、oal had to come to your door.划线部分是后置定语 修饰 stranger; a lump of coal 意为“一块煤”(3) On the stroke of midnight someone, usually my father or mother, would propose a toast to the New Year. 当十二点的钟声敲响，爸爸或者妈妈会提议大家为新年的到来干杯。 （4）Every year they threw a midnight party. （口）举办晚会（5）The more alcohol they drank, the wo
7、rse the singing sounded. The 比较级 + The 比较级越。 。越。 。 。2.3 语法及言语表达（1）比较现在完成时和一般过去时的差异 P31现在完成时- 过去某一时刻开始的动作持续到现在并带来影响和结果一般过去时- 过去时间发生的动作或存在的状态在学习中注意搜集两种时态的一些标志词语通过 Activity 12、13 进一步巩固练习(2)接受及拒绝邀请的表达Would you like to come.Wed like to invite you. 发出邀请if youd like to come.Do you fancy/like coming.Id love to come. Thank you. 接受Thats very kind of you. Id love to come. Im(very)sorry but?.Im already going out on Thursday. 拒绝Im afraid 1 cant. Im working that evening.Im doing something else on Friday.I cant make it. Im in London that evening.（3）情态动词 would 的翻译做 Activity 19，仔细揣摩
