1、Unit 2 Lets celebrate! Understanding ideas 新标准新标准英语英语高中必修第二册高中必修第二册 Lead in Read the festival descriptions on page 13 and complete the sentences. _ is to celebrate the harvest. _ is to celebrate a season. _ is to honour an event. _ is to honour a person. Thanksgiving May Day Freedom Day Dragon Boat
2、Festival Activity 1 1. Have you ever read any of Tolkiens books or seen any of the films based on them? What do you think of them? 2. What else do you know about Tolkien? Find out more about him and share your research with the class. Activity 2 Read the passage and find out what Letters from Father
3、 Christmas is about and why Tolkien wrote these letters. Activity 3 Which of the sentences best explains the tile of the passage? 1. The real Father Christmas was actually Tolkien himself. 2. Tolkien is the real Father Christmas, because he wrote letters using the name “Father Christmas”. 3. Tolkien
4、s love and care for his children make him very like Father Christmas. Activity 4 Complete the notes with expressions from the passage. Letters from Father Christmas J.R.R. Tolkien a North Pole stamp a handwritten letter from Father Christmas Father Christmass life and adventures at the North Pole cl
5、imbed the North Pole fell through the roof how he could not stop his helpers playing games Step 2 Careful-reading Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer. 1. Which of the following is not the novel edited byJ. R.R. Tolkien? A. The Lord of the Rings B. Letters from Father Christmas C. T
6、he Hobbit D. The Million Pound Bank Note 2. What is Letters from Father Christmas about? A. Christmas Day. B. Polar Bear. C.The real love in a special way. D. Wonderful stories at Christmas time. 3. Why did Tolkien write these letters? A. He wanted to give his children presents. B. Christmas is a sp
7、ecial time of year. C. He is the real Father Christmas. D. He tried to keep the love alive for his children. 4. Which wonderful story doesnt belong to the letters? A. Father Christmass life at the North Pole. B. Polar Bears adventures at the North Pole. C. Polar Bear fell through the roof of Father
8、Christmas S house. D. Father Christmas complains he cant stop his helpers playing games with the toys. After reading the passage，please fill in the following blanks. With his 1._( limit) imagination, Tolkien known 2._the author of high- fantasy novels created a book 3_( call) Letters from Father Chr
9、istmas. The children received 4_envelope with a North Pole stamp every Christmas. T hey must have been very 5._( excite) after opening the envelope 6._ they would find a handwritten letter from Father Christmas. Wonderful stories about Father Christmass life and adventures 7._( tell) in the letters.
10、 However, they did not contain the usual 8._( warn) to children that they might not receive 9._( they) presents if they were not good. By 10._(express ) love for his children in such a special way,Tolkien may indeed have been the real F ather Christmas. limitlesslimitless asas calledcalled anan exci
11、tedexcited wherewhere toldtold warmingswarmings theirtheir expressingexpressing I. Read the passage quickly and fill in the following blanks with suitable words. The Real Father Christmas Part1: the magic of Father Christmas Part2: (Paras2-5) J.R.R.Tolkie n wrote a book:Letters from Father Christmas
12、 Para.1:Para. l: Parents try to keep the magic of magic of Father1._for their children Para. 2:J. R. R. Tolkien kept writing letters to his four children for more than 2._years. Para.3: Every Christmas, the children were3._when they open the letters. Para.4: The letters told wonderful stories about
13、Father Christmass4._and 5._ at the North Pole. Para.5: We can all share the true spirit of 6._at Christmas time. alive twenty excited life adventure giving The real father Christmas 真正的圣诞老人 1 Many people still remember the magic of Father Christmas from when they were children. As parents, they try
14、to keep that magic alive for their children for as long as they can. 来自童年时代的圣诞老人的魔力，很多人(长大以 后)还依然记得。为人父母之后，他们也想让自己 的孩子尽可能长久地相信这份魔力的存在。 2 That is why Letters from Fatber Christmas could be the perfect book for those who regard Christmas as a special time of year. The man who wrote these letters is on
15、e of the most famous names in English literature - J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. The letters were Tolkiens way of keeping Father Christmas alive for his four children, over a period of more than twenty years. 有些人把圣诞节视为每年的特别时光，对于他们， (圣诞老人的 来信)是再合适不过的书了。写这些信的人是英国文坛的一位巨 匠一(魔戒) 的作者R.
16、R.托尔金。在二十多年的时间里。托尔 金以写信这种方式让他的四个孩子相信圣诞老人真的存在。 3 Every Christmas, an envelope with a North Pole stamp arrived. It was addressed to Tolkiens children. Who could it be from? The children must have been very excited as they opened it. Inside, they would find a handwritten ltter from Father Christmas. Th
17、e letters were also beautifully ilustrated一each must have taken its true author, Tolkien, a long time to complete. 每年圣诞节，托尔金的家里都会收到一封贴有北极邮票的信， 收信人是托尔金的孩子们。会是谁寄来的呢?孩子们打开时一 定非常兴奋。他们会看到里面有一封圣诞老人的亲笔信。 信 里还配看精美的插图一它们真正的作者托尔金- 定花了很长时 间去完成每一幅画作。 4 The ltters told wonderful stories about Father Christmass l
18、ifte and adventures at the North Pole. A regular character in the ltters was Polar Bear, who once climbed the North Pole (an actual pole in this case) and fell through the roof of Father Christmass house. In another letter, Father Christmas complained about how he could not stop his helpers playing
19、games with the toys instead of wrapping them up. Interestingly, the letters did not contain the usual warnings to children that they might not receive their presents if they were not good. The letters did, however change as Tolkiens children got older: 这些信里讲述了圣诞老人在北极生活和探险的精彩故事。信中经常出现的一 个角色是北极熊。 有-次，
20、 它爬上北极 (在信中，北极是一根真的杆子)， 结果摔下来砸穿了圣诞老人家的屋顶。在另一封信中，圣诞老人抱怨说，他 那些助手们非但没有把玩具包装起来，反而拿着玩其玩起了游戏，他怎么也 没法让他们停下来。值得关注的是，信里并没有那些常见的对孩子的警告， 比如表现不好就可能得不到礼物之类的话。不过，随着托尔金的孩子们渐渐 长大，信的内容确实发生了一此变化: . but if you find that not many of the things you asked for bave come, and most perbaps quite as many as sometimes, rememb
21、er that this Cbristmas all over the world there are a terrible mumber of poor and stanving people. “.但是，如果你发现自己并没有得到很多你想要的东西，有 时甚至所获无几，请你记住。在这个圣诞节，世界上还有很多贫 穷而饥饿的人。” 5 Letters from Fatber Cbristmas tells us that as well as enjoying the adventures of Father Christmas, Polar Bear and other characters a
22、t the North Pole, we can all share the true spirit of giving at Christmas time. By expressing love for his children in such a special way, Tolkien may indeed have been the real Father Christmas. 圣诞老人的来信告诉我们，在圣诞节，除了欣赏圣诞老人、 北极熊和其他共生活在北极的人物的冒险故事之外，我们还可以 共同体会真正的给子精神。托尔金用这样一种特别的方式来 表 达对儿女的爱，他可以算得上是真正的圣诞老人。 Think & Share 1.Would you like to read the book Letters from Father Christmas? Give your reasons. 2.What is the most special gift you have received from your family? Why is it special to you? Homework
