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Unit5 Giving Thanks Text A Writing Three Thank-You Letters Think about the following questions and share your ideas with your group members. 1. Whom have you expressed your gratitude? What have you done? 2. How did you feel after giving your thanks? II. Fill in the table with the main contents of the letters. Correspondents Letters Sent Letters Received Father Thanks him for teaching the writer from boyhood to ______________ and reading. Tells the writer how he, as a teacher and a father as well, felt ___________ his own son. The Rev. Nelson Thanks him for his morning __________________________ Tells the writer about his retirement coupled with _________________, and the _____________________ brought to him by the writer’s letter. Grandmother Thanks her for teaching the writer how to tell the truth, to share and______________________, and for her good cooking and her sprinkling the writer’s life with ____________. Expresses her loving _____________ for her grandson. III.Listen to the short passage. Then write T for true or F for false for the following statements.Then answer the last question based on what you hear. 1. The writer O’Henry called that Thanksgiving day is purely American. ( ) 2. Thanksgiving day has spiritual meaning because it is a religious holiday. ( ) 3. For many Americans, thanksgiving is the time of family reunion. ( ) 4. Many Americans will choose to return home by plane as usual this thanksgiving. ( ) 5. How do Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? IV.Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1. (Para.13) In fact, this graduated into a family habit of after-dinner quizzes at the table about books read most recently and new words learned. 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. 2. (Para.22) The Reverend Nelson wrote that his decades