高中英语河北版下 unit2
[00:-2.00]Sometimes,though,it is easy to take your family for granted.
[00:-3.00]Do you know what family stands for?
[00:-4.00]FAMILY=Father And Mother,I Love You!
[00:-5.00]of the elders will not be allowed to eat with the elders.
[00:-6.00]-African Proverb
[00:-7.00]SECTION 1 NEW WORDS AND IDEAS
[00:-8.00]Family Gathering
[00:-9.00]Put was given an assignment to write.
[00:10.00]Her topic was family.Here's what she has written.Enjoy it!
[00:11.00]I love long weekends because they are usually a time when our family gets together.
[00:12.00]I get the chance to see not only my immediate family,but also my aunts,
[00:13.00]uncles,cousins and grandparents.
[00:14.00]I always feel happy when I'm surrounded by family.
[00:15.00]This year,Grandma and Grandpa didn't bring Great-Grandma Porter with them.
[00:16.00]Even though Great-Grandma is 92 years old,
[00:17.00]she usually comes over on special occasions.
[00:18.00]But this weekend she wasn't feeling well.I worry a little about that.
[00:19.00]I wonder what it feels like to that old.I did miss seeing her.
[00:20.00]When she comes over we usually have a long talk.
[00:21.00]She likes to hear what I am doing at school and all that,
[00:22.00]but even more,she loves to tell me stories about her life.
[00:23.00]They are always the same stories,over and over again,but I don't mind.
[00:24.00]She gets so happy when she remembers them that they are fun to hear
[00:25.00]even after the hundredth time.
[00:26.00]My brother,also came home from university for the weekend.
[00:27.00]I never thought I would say it,but I enjoyed seeing him too.
[00:28.00]Things have changed a lot between me and my brother since we have gotten older.
[00:29.00]He used to annoy me most of the time when we were younger.
[00:30.00]I remember when he was in high school,
[00:31.00]he used to have his friends over all the time.
[00:32.00]They would hang around doing nothing except eating everything in the fridge.
[00:33.00]Then,as if that wasn't bad enough,they would leave dishes,wrappers,
[00:34.00]and pop cans all over the place.
[00:35.00]Mom eventually made him clean it up,of course,
[00:36.00]but it seemed like it was a never-ending circle.
[00:37.00]As soon as he cleaned up the mess from one group of friends,
[00:38.00]a couple more guys would come and the mess would start all over again.
[00:39.00]When I think about it,Jason is still pretty messy;it just doesn't bug me now.
[00:40.00]Now I'm just happy to see him and talk with him.
[00:41.00]Like most brothers and sisters,Jason and I had many fights as we were growing up,
[00:42.00]but we are really close.
[00:43.00]I can talk to him about things that I can't really talk about with my friends
[00:44.00]because he knowes my life in a way that no one else does.
[00:45.00]I miss him when he's away at school
[00:46.00]and it was so good to see him last weekend-chip bags and all!
[00:47.00]Dad and I were busy all week getting ready for the weekend.
[00:48.00]Mom was busy at work so Dad and I had to get the house ready for the company.
[00:49.00]We had to make up the spare beds and pull out the sleeping bags
[00:50.00]for all the young cousins who always sleep on the floor in the family room.
[00:51.00]I used to love that!
[00:52.00]I remember those nights when we had several cousins sleeping on the floor;
[00:53.00]we usually giggled and whispered all night long,while the adults played cards
[00:54.00]and talked in the kitchen.
[00:55.00]After the sleeping arrangements were completed,
[00:56.00]Dad and I went shopping for groceies.
[00:57.00]It sounds like a lot of work but with my dad,everything is fun.
[00:58.00]I have always felt close to my dad.
[00:59.00]Everyone arrived on Saturday morning.
[-1:00.00]My Aunt Donna brought a huge tray of her famous cookies and squares.
[-1:-1.00]They are so delicious!
[-1:-2.00]I always look forward to Aunt Donna's cookies and always eat too many of them.
[-1:-3.00]My other aunts brought food as well. [-1:-4.00]I helped Mom organize all the food and prepare the vegetables and snacks.
[-1:-5.00]My cousin,Michael,brought his guitar this time.
[-1:-6.00]He's 16 years old and a very good musician.
[-1:-7.00]We sat around singing with him for many hours.
[-1:-8.00]He can play all the current hits from the radio
[-1:-9.00]and he also knows many of the old songs,
[-1:10.00]which is good because then the parens and grandparents can sing along,too.
[-1:11.00]There is one song that he plays that is Grandpa's favourite.
[-1:12.00]All weekend,whenever Mike played this song,Grandpa would sing along.
[-1:13.00]Grandpa has a terrible voice.
[-1:14.00]Whenever he started singing,we would all laugh and tease him,
[-1:15.00]which made him sing even louder[-1:16.00]My grandpa has a great sense of humour and I love him very much.
[-1:17.00]I am very lucky to have such a wonderful family.
[-1:18.00]We all had a good time on the weekend
[-1:19.00]and now it's time to get back to our regular routines,until the next time.
[-1:20.00]Family is so important all through your life.
[-1:21.00]Sometimes,though,it is easy to take your family for granted.
[-1:22.00]I like holidays and long weekends
[-1:23.00]because they give us a chance to celebrate having a family.
[-1:24.00]QUOTABLE QUOTES!
[-1:25.00]Eest to West,home is the best.
[-1:26.00]Let's singing a song
[-1:27.00]SECTION 2 MEANING THROUGH PRACTICE
[-1:28.00]Part 1:Listen carefully to Danny's conversation with his mom.
[-1:29.00]Then,answer the questions below.
[-1:30.00]Put"T"in brackets for answers that are true and"F"for those that are false.
[-1:31.00]Part 2:Listen to Jenny talking about dinners at her grandma's house
[-1:32.00]and answer the questions.
[-1:33.00]SECTION 4 READING FOR KNOWLEDGE
[-1:34.00]Family Names
[-1:35.00]Learning a language is also learning a culture.
[-1:36.00]A good knowledge of the culture
[-1:37.00]in which the language has grown will help us learn the language better.
[-1:38.00]If you come from North America,you probaly got your name from your family.
[-1:39.00]Your first name was given to you by your parents,and your last name,
[-1:40.00]or surname,is the same name that your parents have.
[-1:41.00]It si your family name.Long ago,however,people had only one name.
[-1:42.00]A man could be called simply John or Peter.
[-1:43.00]A woman could be called Mary or Elizabeth.
[-1:44.00]After some time,there were many people with the same name,
[-1:45.00]so second names were needed.
[-1:46.00]In this way,the children of John were called,for example,Peter and Mary Johnson.
[-1:47.00]Names such as Wilson(Will's son),Jackson,Anderson and Davidson came into use.
[-1:48.00]"Mac"or"Mc"means"son of",so the name Macgregory means son of Gregory,
[-1:49.00]and MacDonald means son of Donald.
[-1:50.00]"Fitz"is another way of saying"son of"."Fils"means"son"in French.
[-1:51.00]So Fitzpatrick and Fitzgerald mean son,or child,of Patrick or Gerald.
[-1:52.00]Not all people got their names from their fathers.
[-1:53.00]Some got their names from the places where they lived.
[-1:54.00]For example,a family living in a village with many green trees
[-1:55.00]and plants was called Green or Greenberg.
[-1:56.00]If they lived in a town called Moor,they were called the Moores.
[-1:57.00]Sometimes people got their names from the way they looked.
[-1:58.00]A tall person was,perhaps,called Long.
[-1:59.00]If people in a family had dark hair,
[-2:00.00]the family was sometimes called the Blacks or the Browns.
[-2:-1.00]If their hair was light,they may have been called the Whites.
[-2:-2.00]People often took their names from the kind of work they did.
[-2:-3.00]A person who sewed clothing was named Taylor.
[-2:-4.00]Another person who baked bread was called Baker.
[-2:-5.00]A person who had a very good voice was named Singer.
[-2:-6.00]After a while these names stayed with people
[-2:-7.00]and became family names that are still used today.
[-2:-8.00]READING FOR LOVE
[-2:-9.00]Family
[-2:10.00]I ran into a stranger as he passed by,"Oh,excuse me,please"was my reply.
[-2:11.00]He said,"Please excuse me too;I wasn't watching for you."
[-2:12.00]We were very polite,this stranger and I.
[-2:13.00]We went on our way and we said good-bye.
[-2:14.00]But at home a different story is told.
[-2:15.00]How we treat our loved ones,young and old.
[-2:16.00]Later that day,cooking the ecening meal,My son stood beside me very still.
[-2:17.00]When I turned,I nearly knocked him down.
[-2:18.00]"Move out of the way,"I said with a frown.He walked away,his little heart broken.
[-2:19.00]I didn't realize how rudely I'd spoken.
[-2:20.00]While I lay awake in bed,A voice came to me and said,
[-2:21.00]"While dealing with a stranger,common courtesy you use,
[-2:22.00]But the children you love,you seem to abuse.
[-2:23.00]Go and look on the kitchen floor,You'll find some flowers there by the door.
[-2:24.00]Those are the flowers he brought for you.
[-2:25.00]He picked them himself:pink,yellow and blue.
[-2:26.00]He stood very quietly not to spoil the surprise,
[-2:27.00]And you never saw the tears that filled his little eyes."
[-2:28.00]By this time,I felt very small,And now my tears began to fall.
[-2:29.00]I quietly went and knelt by his bed;"Wake up,little one,wake up,"I said.
[-2:30.00]"Are these the flowers you picked for me?"
[-2:31.00]He smiled,"I found'em,our by the tree[-2:32.00]I picked'em because they're pretty like you.
[-2:33.00]I know you'd like'em,especially the blue."
[-2:34.00]I said,"Son,I'm very sorry for the way I acted today;
[-2:35.00]I shouldn't have yelled at you that way."
[-2:36.00]He said,"Oh,Mom,that's okay.I love you anyway."
[-2:37.00]I said,"Son,I love you too,And I do like the flowers,especially the blue."
[-2:38.00]-Anonymous
[-2:39.00]A Big Happy Family
[-2:40.00]MAXVILLE,ONTARIO-Fred and Bonnie Cappuccino have 21 children.
[-2:41.00]First they had two of their own and then they adopted 19 others
[-2:42.00]from countries around the world.
[-2:43.00]They adopted children from many countries,like Japan,Korea,India and Vietnam.
[-2:44.00]Each time they made sure they had music,food,pictures,
[-2:45.00]and books of the child's native county
[-2:46.00]so the children would feel good about themselves.
[-2:47.00]Fred and Bonnie had pre-school children
[-2:48.00]running around the house for 26 years without a break!
[-2:49.00]The washer was always going and clothes hung from one end of the room to the other.
[-2:50.00]Everyone helped out with the housework.
[-2:51.00]The family drank ten litres of milk a day!
[-2:52.00]The Cappuccinos enjoyed their children.
[-2:53.00]They took care of small problems right away so they wouldn't become big problems.
[-2:54.00]Fred says,"If you have trouble with one of your children,don't worry.
[-2:55.00]Worry doesn't help,and in time your child will be all right."
[-2:56.00]The family lives in a log cabin they bought for $8000 thirty years ago.
[-2:57.00]After Bonnie got permission from the Canadian government to sponstr 100 Vietnamese,
[-2:58.00]Fred asked some neighbours to build an extra room for the boat people.
[-2:59.00]When the children were older,Bonnie began travelling to India.
[-3:00.00]She opened three homes for 170 homeless children.
[-3:-1.00]She travels there four times a year to bring vitamins,
[-3:-2.00]medicine,and used clothing to the needy children.
[-3:-3.00]Back home,Bonnie cooks vegetarian meals for her seven children still living there
[-3:-4.00]The other children keep in touch.
[-3:-5.00]When Tran got married,18 brothers and sisters danced at his wedding.
[-3:-6.00]The Cappuccinos hope their children will find their own way to help others.
[-3:-7.00]They want them to be happy,healthy and independent.
[-3:-8.00]Fred says,"Let me light my lamp
[-3:-9.00]and never wonder if it will take away the darkness."
