外研八下module8unit1.ppt

Answer the questions.Use the words in the box to help you. celebrate date Labour Day national picnic season special vacation 1. When is Independence Day? 2. What is a public holiday? 3. When do most people take a vacation? 4. How do Americans celebrate Independence Day? Tony: Do you have any plans for the ________ holiday, Betty? Betty: My parents and I are going to visit some friends in Shandong Province. And _____ we’re staying with them, we’re going to spend a few days in Qingdao. We’ll stay there until 5th May. Daming: Do you ________ 1st May in the UK, Tony? Tony: Well, we celebrate May Day, but the holiday is not always on 1st May. It’s the closest Monday to 1st May, and we only have one day off. Betty: In the USA, ____________ is a national holiday, but on a different date, too. It’s on the first Monday in September. And it’s the last day _____ the new school year begins. Lingling: True, but our weather gets better, and then we only have a few weeks before the start of the summer holidays. Betty: Right! So let’s enjoy ourselves _____ we go back to school. 1. … and we only have one day off. …… 我们只放一天假。 off 在这里表示“不上班，免于正常的 工作”。如： I’m taking a week off over Christmas.圣诞节期间我会休假一星期。 2. Do you do anything special? We go camping or we have a picnic somewhere nice… anything special 和 somewhere nice 中，分别用来修饰 anything 和 somewhere 的形容词 special 和 nice 都被放在后面。形容词一般应放在它所修饰的名词之前，但当形容词修饰由 some, any, every, no等构成的复合不定代词时须后置。如: Tell me something interesting. 3. So let’s enjoy ourselves until we go back to school.