外研版九年级英语上册 M2 Unit 2【精品课件】

Find the main idea of each paragraph：
Easter day Easter (复活节) is one of the two main Christian (基督教的) festivals . It starts usually in late March or early April and the Easter holiday is Friday，Saturday，Sunday and Monday. It's quite a long holiday for everybody. Christians remember Good Friday as the day that Jesus Christ died and Easter Sunday as the day that he was resurrected. Easter celebrates the death and resuOrrericgtiionn起o源f Jesus Christ and Christmas celebrates his birth. It's not as big a festival as Christmas. The main symbol of Easter is the Easter egg. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has Ealasostheirddeegngthe eggs that they decorated (装饰)earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. People hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize. Children like Easter eggs because they are made of chocolate. Eggs are a symbol of new life The custom

• all over the world some dead animals
• 15. 用日常英语 21.一些坏的行为
• in everyday English
• 16. 在19世纪
some bad behaviour
• in the 19th century
• 17. 被认为
• be thought to be
century, so it sounds very real. Today it's
thought to be ( 被认为
) one of the
greatest books in American
literature( 在美国文学上). Go on—read it! I know you'll enjoy it, too.•ຫໍສະໝຸດ Read and answer
• 1. Who is the writer of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
• It is written by Mark Twain.
• 2. Where did Tom go with his friends?
• an island in the middle of the Mississippi River.
• From the movie, what do you think of Tom?
• 1. What do you think of Tom? • He is clever and lively（活泼的）, a little
naughty(淘气的）.
• 2. What did the teacher do to him? • The teacher punished (惩罚）him for funny

Read Para. 2 and answer:
Where did the first pioneers come from? They came from England. When did the first pioneers arrive in America? They arrived in America in the seventeenth century. What did the local people teach the first pioneers? The local people taught the pioneers how to grow corn.
Read Para. 4 and answer: Where does the writer live? He lives in New York City. What does the writer do during Thanksgiving festival? He goes to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. What festival is after Thanksgiving? The Christmas. What’s also important at Thanksgiving?
Task 1
2 Read the passage and match the headings with the paragraphs. (P 12)
A special dinner. 3
An American festival. 1
The history of the festival. 2
Things to do during the festival.

Writing tips
写作技巧1
审题(Examining the topic)
文体（style）
narrative(记叙文）
时态（tenses）
the past simple tense 一般过去时
人称（persons） 要点（main points)
first person 措辞(wording)
The Mid-Autumn Festival
What foreign festivals do you know?
Easter [istəʳ] 复活节
Valentine’s['væləntaɪn] Day情人节
Christmas
Halloween[hæləʊ'iːn] festivals Father’s Day
a beautiful moon in the sky.
3.中秋之夜，当我走出家门时，我看见 了天空中美丽的月亮。
while
_____
Whlie I was watching TV ,someone let of firework.
4.我正在看电视的时候，有人就 放烟花了。

after _____ After we watched dragon boat race ,my grandmother told us a story about Qu Yuan.
4. after----What to do after that…
总结归纳
Remember it for long? Why?
写作技巧2——列提纲，写初稿。开头、主体要点、结尾。
写作技巧3——美化文章，成文 。
Conclusion words(总结性连接词）