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课件网) B2U2 Let’s celebrate! Understanding ideas The Real Father Christmas Learning objectives: 1.Decide the genre of the passage. 2.Finish the exercises to strengthen the understanding of the passage. 1.n.（长篇）小说_____→n．小说家_____ 2.adj．无限的_____→n．边界，限度vt．限制，限定_____→adj．有限的_____ 3.adj．频繁的，经常的_____→adv．经常_____ 4.v．抱怨，不满，发牢骚_____→n．抱怨_____ 5.n．警告，警示，告诫_____→v．警告_____ 6.v．认为，看作_____→adv．不管，不顾_____ 7. fantasy n._____ 8. starving adj._____ 9. literature n._____ 10. envelope n._____ 11. roof n._____ 12. pole n._____ 英汉互译 novel novelist limitless limit limited regular regularly complain complaint warning warn regard regardless 幻想，想象 挨饿的，即将饿死的 文学 信封 顶，顶部 北极或南极 festivals List the festivals in other countries. Christmas Fool’s Day Valentine’s Day Carnival Easter Thanksgiving Day Mother’s Day Father’s Day Halloween What comes to your mind when you think of Christmas Pre-reading Read the introduction to Tolkien and guess what special Christmas gift he might give to his children. While-reading Scan the passage and find out the gift Tolkien gave to his children. Decide the genre of the passage. Author J.R.R. Tolkien Book title Letters from Father Christmas Editor Baillie Tolkien Read and complete the notes. Letters from Father Christmas J.R.R. Tolkien While-reading a North Pole stamp a handwritten letter from Father Christmas Letters from Father Christmas J.R.R. Tolkien While-reading envelope stamp letter illustrations Father Christmas’s life and adventures at the North Pole climbed the North Pole fell through the roof how he could not stop his helpers playing games While-reading Christmas 1925 One very windy day last November, my hood (兜帽) blew off and went and stuck on the top of the North Pole. I told him not to, but the North Polar Bear climbed up to the thin top to get it down — and he did. The pole broke in the middle and fell on the roof of my house, and the North Polar Bear fell through the hole it made into the dining room with my hood over his nose, and all the snow fell off the roof into the house and melted and put out all the fires and ran down into the cellars (地窖), where I was collecting this year’s presents, and the North Polar Bear’s leg got broken. Q1: If you were Tolkien’s children, how would you feel after reading this letter While-reading December 23rd, 1931 We have both, the old Polar Bear and I, enjoyed having so many nice letters from you and your pets. If you think we have not read them you are wrong; but if you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite as many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people. I have had to do some collecting of food and clothes, and toys too, for the children whose fathers and mothers and friends cannot give them ... ...
