Unit-5-Text-A-Writing-Three-Thank-you-Letters.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Unit 5 Text A Writing Three Thank-you Letters,1,Part 1 Review,Main idea:,on Thanksgiving Day 1943,as a young coastguardsman at sea,I came up with the idea of expressing my gratitude to people who had helped me before,Language points covered:,Put away,Get to doing sth.,In quest of,2,Part 2(para.10-17),Language study:,To my father,To my grandmother,To the school principal,Focus:the three letters,Get to know some new words and the ways to use them!,What can we learn from these letters?,3,Listen to this:,enjoy this beautiful song.,4,Its not time to make a change.,Just relax,take it easy,5,Youre still young,thats your fault.,Theres so much you have to know.,Its not time to make a change.,Just relax,take it easy,6,Find a girl,settle down.,If you want you can marry.,Youre still young,thats your fault.,Theres so much you have to know.,7,Look at me,I am old,but Im happy.,Find a girl,settle down.,If you want you can marry.,8,I was once like you are now,and I know that its not easy,Look at me,I am old,but Im happy.,9,To be calm when youve found,something going on.,I was once like you are now,and I know that its not easy,10,But take your time,think a lot.,Think of everything youve got.,To be calm when youve found,something going on.,11,For you will still be here tomorrow,but your dreams may not,But take your time,think a lot.,Think of everything youve got.,12,13,How much does a letter matter to you?,To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.,Phyllis Theroux,14,Read it:,now skim para.11-15 and try to fill in the table.,correspondent,Information,Letter sent(reasons),father,school principal,grandma,Thank him for teaching me from boyhood to love books and reading.,Thank him for his morning school prayers.,Thank her for teaching me how to tell the truth,to share and to be forgiving,and for her good cooking and her sprinkling my life with stardust.,A college professor,Retired and lived in Ripley,Lived in our hometown of Henning,15,Letter to my father,What do you think the father had done for his son?,What kind of person was the father?,Was I greatly influenced by my father?,“Here,this Thanksgiving at sea,I find my thoughts upon how much you have done for me,but I have never stopped and said to you how much I feel the need to thank you”And briefly I recalled for each of them specific acts performed,on my behalf,.(12),My love of books never,diminished,and later led me toward writing books myselfI have felt a sadness when exposed to modern children so,immersed,in electronic media.(12),16,Language Study,on ones behalf/on behalf of sb.,(L.47),in the interest of sb.;as the representative of sb.,Chinese president offers condolences to Poland over plane crash,On behalf of,the Chinese people and in my own name,I express my deep condolences to President Kaczysnki and all other victims.,Back,17,Language Study,diminish(v.),(L.51),make or become smaller or,less.,e.g.:It is said that married womens employment opportunities,diminish,due to the constrain of family commitments.,Back,18,Language Study,immerse(v.),(L.53),cover completely in a liquid;,absorb deeply.,Back,如果有肢体被烧伤了，那么立即将烧伤的部位浸入冷水中以减轻疼痛。,e.g.:If a limb is affected,immerse,the part immediately in cold water to relieve the pain.,19,Letter to the school principal,I told him that whatever positive things I had done since had been influenced at least in part by his morning school prayers.(14),What kind of person was Mr.Nelson?,What had I learned from his morning school prayers?,20,I reminded her of a dozen ways she used to teach me how to tell the truth,to share,and to be forgiving and considerate of others.I thanked her for the years of eating her good cooking,the equal of which I had not found since.Finally,I thanked her simply for,sprinkle my life with stardust,.(15),Letter to my grandma,What kind of person was my grandma?,What does“sprinkle my life with stardust”mean?,21,Speak out:,Lets practice gratitude!,Please share with us how much you feel grateful to people who have ever sprinkled your life with stardust.,22,23,Write it down.,Everyday,we are immersed in heart-felt gratitude.Please go to Stewarts,and post your gratitude comment there to help raise peoples awareness of embracing a life filled with gratitude.Thank you.,24,Write it down,Write three thank-you letters respectively to his father,his grammar school principal and his grandmother in the name of Alex Haley.,25,Summary,Listen to this:,Father and Son,from Ronan Keating,Read it:,skimmed para.11-15 and got a basic understanding of the three correspondents.,Speak out:,shared with the class your gratitude to someone.,Write it down:,post your gratitude comment on,and write three thank-you letters in the name of Alex Haley.,.,New Words,on behalf of,diminish,immerse,Summary,26,Body language says so much!,(para.10),I,realized,swallowing hard,that about half of them had since died.,The more I,thought about,it,the more,ashamed,I,became,.,Then I,pictured,the three who were still alive and.,Within minutes,I,was down,in my cabin.,Why did I swallow hard?,Why did I feel ashamed?,What does the verb“picture”mean?,What was I going to do?,27,Thank you.,Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.,28,