英语人教版九年级全册武敏课件.ppt

Unit 2;Can you name any foreign festivals?;Thanksgiving Day;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. ;Saint Valentines Day (or Valentines 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.;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. ;Christmas April Fool’s Day Halloween St. Valentine’s Day Thanksgiving ;Speaking of Christmas, what do you think of?;Santa Claus; What are the common things that people think of for Christmas? Who wrote A Christmas Carol?;3. What is the true meaning or spirit of Christmas?;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.;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.; Scrooge is unfriendly to others. Jacob Marley used to worked together with Scrooge. Jacob Marley and Scrooge are different in character. Jacob Marley wants to help Scrooge.;What does Scrooge see when he’s with …;2d Answer the questions.;3. Why was Jacob Marley p