商英四班unit 13.ppt

Coco * Coco * * Coco * * Coco * 1.Do you celebrate Christmas with your families or your best friends? 2.Will you buy some gifts for your friends? 3.How do you think of the boy? * Coco * Activities: Before Christmas，they will go shopping. Have dinner together. Go to the church. Make a wish. Get gifes . Visit relatives. * Coco * ★ Background The word”Christmas”comes from the words”Cristes maesse”(圣诞节),or “Christ’s Mass”.Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus（耶稣）for members of the Christian religion(基督教).Most historians peg the first celebration of christmas to Rome in 336A.D. Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day .In America it is one of the biggest event of the year ,and for members of the Christian religion it is an importamt day on the religious calendar. * Coco * ●During the Christmas season in America,many people take their children to a mall where they can “meet Santa”. ●The federal government,all state governments,all schools/college/ universities and the vastmajority of businesses in America give employees one or two days off at Christmas,making it an important holiday. * Coco * * Coco * ●The tradition of gifes given each otheron Christmas day seems to have started with gifts that the wise men brought to Jesus.As recounted in the Bibele’s book of Matthew,”（马太福音）on coming to the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down（鞠躬） and worshipped （崇拜）him.Then they opened their theasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.” * Coco * The story is about bow a little boy,who at first had no idea what poverty meant,gradually begins to realize that his famiy is very poor,how he comes to understand the social and psychological consequences of such a state,and how he grows mature in mind,as it were.The scene of the story is set in the boy’s home at Christmas during the hard times. 1.Sole: n 1.the bottom surface of a shoe or boo