六年级上册英语课件-Unit 1 Thanksgiving is my favourite festival.-外研社（三起）.pptVIP

Module 4 Unit 1 Thanksgiving is my favourite festival. the Spring Festival春节 the Lantern Festival元宵节 the Dragon Boat Festival端午节 the Mid-Autumn Festival中秋节 the Double Ninth Festival重阳节 Christmas圣诞节 What festival is this? In?the?United?States,?the?fourth?Thursday?in?November?is?called?Thanksgiving?Day.?On?that?day,?Americans?give? thanks?for?the?blessings?they?have?enjoyed?during?the? year.?在美国，每年11月的最后一个周四称为‘感恩节’，在那天，美国人为每年得到的上天赐福表示感激。??Thanksgiving?Day?is?the?most?truly?American?of?the?national?Holidays?in?the?United?States?and?is?most?closely?connected?with?the?earliest?history?of?the?country.?感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日，而且它和早期美国历史最为密切相关。?? ?In?1620,?the?settlers,?or?Pilgrims,?they?sailed?to?America?on?the?May?flower,?seeking?a?place?where?they?could? have?freedom?of?worship.??1620年，一些朝圣者（或称为清教徒）乘坐五月花号船去美国寻求宗教自由。After?a?tempestuous?two-month?voyage?they?landed?at?in?icy?November,?what? is? now?Plymouth,?Massachusetts.他们在海上颠簸折腾了两个月之后，终于在酷寒的十一月里，在现在的马萨诸塞州的普里茅斯登陆?During?their?first?winter,?over?half?of?the?settlers?died?of?starvation?or?epidemics.?Those?who?survived?began? sowing?in?the?first?spring.??在第一个冬天，半数以上的移民都死于饥饿和传染病，活下来的人们在第一个春季开始播种。? ?All?summer?long?they?waited?for?the?harvests?with?great?anxiety,?knowing?that?their?lives?and?the?future?existence?of? the?colony? depended?on?the?coming?harvest.?整个夏天他们都热切地盼望着丰收的到来，他们深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到来的收成。?? Finally?the?fields?produced?a?yield?rich?beyond?expectations.?And?therefore?it?was?decided?that?a?day?of?thanksgiving?to? the?Lord ?be?fixed.??后来，庄稼获得了意外的丰收，所以大家决定要选一个日子来感谢上帝的恩典。? ?Years?later,?President?of?the?United?States?proclaimed?the fourth?Thursday?of?November?as?Thanksgiving?Day?every?year.?多年以后，美国总统宣布每年十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节。? ??The?celebration?of?Thanksgiving?Day?has?been?observed? on?that?date?until?today.?感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天，直到如今。