全新版大学英语3第5单元thanksgiving.ppt

Giving Thanks;Brief Introduction;How much do you know about Thanksgiving;;;prayer time;post thanks-giving football;How much do you know about Thanksgiving;Basic Understanding;Cultural story of Thanksgiving Day; During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of starvation or epidemics. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring. ;All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety.Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed. ;Text A Writing Three Thank-You Letters;Well, as any cook knows, it’s a lot of hard work to cook and serve a big meal, and clean up and put everything away. But finally, around sundown, we finished at last.; I got to thinking about Thanksgiving, of the Pilgrims, Indians, wild turkeys, pumpkins, corn on the cob, and the rest. Yet my mind seemed to be in quest of something else — some way that I could personally apply to the close of Thanksgiving. ; Giving thanks — as in praying, thanking God, I thought. Yes, of course. Certainly. Yet my mind continued turning the idea over. After a while, like a dawn’s brightening, a further answer did come — that there were people to thank, people who had done so much for me that I could never possibly repay them. The embarrassing truth was I’d always just accepted what they’d done, taken all of it for granted. Not one time had I ever bothered to express to any of them so much as a simple, sincere “Thank you”.;At least seven people had been particularly and lastingly helpful to me. I realized, swallowing hard, that about half of them had since died — so they were forever beyond any possible expression of gratitude from me. 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. ; Sitting at a table with writing paper and memories of things each had done, I tried compo