I haven't decided if I want my ESL classes to study all of the Thanksgiving material I prepared. Teaching about gratitude is always an important EQ lesson. But my classes are still on the previous Unit, next week their Chinese exams eat my lesson time and I do want to devote some time to reading about Christmas.
I. ROOT 詞根 “GEO” –EARTH, GROUND
I. ROOT 詞根 “GEO” –EARTH, GROUND
(from Greek goddess of Earth Gaea)
1. geography地理；地理學
2. geographer 地理學家
3. geology 地質學
4. geologist 地質學家
5. geometry幾何學
II. IDIOM 成語:
1.
“count your blessings” 往好處想；知足
Draw literal字面的 meaning
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Draw idiom成語 meaning
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Write the Chinese vocabulary
above the English: 感恩節, 撥出, 盡情享用,
禱文, 幸事, 喜事, 得到, 收穫節, 表示感謝的禱文, 豐富的, 莊稼, 節日, 相關的, 秋季
What is Thanksgiving感謝? :
Thanksgiving
Day is a day set
aside in the United States and Canada for giving thanks. People give thanks
with feasting and prayer for the blessings that they have received
during the year. The first Thanksgivings were harvest festivals, or
days for thanking God for plentiful crops. For this reason, this holiday is associated with fall - a time of harvesting the crops.
Q1: Do Taiwanese set aside a special time to remember
to be grateful (感激的,表示感謝的)? When?
Read: Thanksgiving, and the poem "Thanks for all things"
Activity: Find 10 negative
things you are thankful for and write them down.
For example, I am thankful for my parents yelling at me
to study for tests because I know they care about my education.
I am thankful
for my father’s terrible singing voice because I know I can hear.
1. I am thankful for…
Writing a
Cinquain Poem
One word (title)
Two words (describe title)
Three words (action)
Four words (feeling)
One word (refer back to title)
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Thanksgiving
Pilgrims, Indians Peacefully Feasting Together Wish The World Celebrated Giving |
Thanksgiving
Stuffing Turkeys Gobble, Gobble, Gobble We All Get Stuffed Thankfully |
My Cinquain Poem:
Title:
______________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Watch
the video “How to say
Thank You in 31 Languages”. Write down as many as you can.
Advanced Classes Reading: The Horn of Plenty
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| Mural by Benton 1947 |
Deïanira [die-uh-'NEAR'-a] was one of the
most beautiful of princesses who lived a long ago times with Greek gods and
goddesses. It seemed as if all the loveliness of the world was hers. Her hair
was bright with the yellow of the first spring sunshine, and her eyes were as
blue as the skies of spring. Summer had touched Deïanira's cheeks with the
pink of rose petals, and the colors of the autumn fruits shone in her jewels,
crimson, and purple, and gold. Her robes were as white and sparkling as the
snows of winter, and all the music of soft winds, and bird songs, and
rippling brooks was in this princess' voice.
Because of her
beauty, and her goodness, princes came from all over the earth to ask
Deïanira's father, Æneus [EYE-ni-us], if she might go
home to their kingdoms and be their queen. But to all these Æneus replied
that to none but the strongest man would he give the princess to.
There were many
tests of these strangers' skill and strength in games and wrestling, but one
by one they failed. At last there were only two left, Hercules, who could
hold the sky on his great shoulders, and Acheloüs [aw-key-LO-as], the river-god,
who could twist through the fields and make them fertile. Each thought
himself the best man, and it was between them which should win the princess.
Hercules had powerful strength. But
Acheloüs was able to slip between the huge fingers of Hercules. He was as
slim and graceful as a willow tree, and dressed in the green of foliage. He
wore a crown of water lilies on his fair hair, and carried a staff made of
reeds. When Acheloüs spoke, his voice was like a gentle stream.
"The princess
Deïanira will be mine!" said Acheloüs. "I will make her the queen
of the river lands. The music of the waters shall be always in her ears, and
the plenty that follows wherever I flow shall make her rich."
"No,"
shouted Hercules. "I am the strength of the earth. Deïanira is mine. You
shall not have her."
Then the river-god
grew very angry. His green robe changed to the black of the sea in a storm,
and his voice was as loud as thunder on a mountain. Acheloüs could be almost
as powerful as Hercules when he was angered.
"How do you
dare claim the princess?" he roared, "I am a god, and the king of
the waters, you are just a man! Wherever I take my way through the earth, grains
and fruits ripen, and flowers bud and bloom. The princess is mine by
right."
Hercules frowned as
he ran toward the river-god. "Your strength is only in words," he
said. "My strength is in my arm. If you would win Deïanira, it must be
by hand-to-hand combat." So the river-god threw off his clothes and
Hercules his lions' skins, and the two fought for the hand of the princess.
It was a brave battle.
Neither gave up; both stood firm. Acheloüs slipped in and out of Hercules' mighty
grasp a dozen times, but at last Hercules' greater strength overpowered him.
Hercules held the river-god fast by his neck, choking him. But Acheloüs knew
magic. He suddenly changed himself into a long, slippery snake. He twisted
out of Hercules' hands, and darted out his forked tongue at him, showing his
poisonous fangs.
Hercules was not
yet finished. He laughed at the snake. While he was still a baby, Hercules
once strangled two snakes, and he had met a Hydra monster with a hundred
heads that he had cut off. He was not in the least afraid of the river-god.
Acheloüs could not
win so he had changed into a raging bull. With its horns lowered, it charged
upon Hercules. Hercules grabbed hold of the bull's horns, bent its head, grasped
its neck, and throwing it down buried the horns in the ground. Then he broke
off one of the horns with his strong hand, and held it up in the air,
shouting,
"Victory! The princess is mine!"
Acheloüs returned
to his own shape, and, crying with pain, ran from the castle grounds where
the combat had taken place, and did not stop until he had plunged into a
cooling stream.
So Deïanira stood
by his side, and the goddess of plenty came forward to give the winner his
reward. She took the great horn which Hercules had torn from Acheloüs' head
and heaped it high with the year's stores. Ripe grain, grapes, apples, plums,
nuts, pomegranates, figs, and all the other fruits of the autumn filled the
horn, and overflowed it. Then they carried this horn of plenty, high above their
heads, and gave it to Hercules, and his beautiful queen, Deïanira. It was the
richest gift the gods could make, the year's harvest.
And ever since that
long-ago story time of the Greeks the horn of plenty has stood for the year's
blessing of us; it is full to overflowing with the fruits of the harvest. THE
END
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Reading 1: Christmastime , Christmas Crossword
Reading 2: The First Christmas (video version with American English subtitles)
Vocabulary Matching
Word
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Meanings
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1.Symbol
2.Tradition
3.Celebrate
4.Advent
5.Chimney
6.Carols
7.Eggnog
8.Holly
9.Silent
10.Holy
11.Nativity
12.Church
13.Sleigh
14.White Christmas
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a. Quiet
b. Christmas songs
c. Sign, meaning for something
d. Snowy Christmas
e. The Birth of Jesus
f. Giant sled
g. Custom people always follow
h. Where the fireplace smoke rises
i. A place where Christians worship
j. Green plant with red poisonous berries
k. To party
l. Christmas drink
m. The days counted before Christmas
n. Of God, godlike, perfect
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The First Christmas Vocabulary: write the English
meaning.
1. Bethlehem伯利恆
2. request要求
3. spread傳播
4. goodwill善意
5. resist抵制
6. brilliance輝
7. arrive到達
8. gleaming閃光
9. radiantly容光煥發
10. offering供
11. sign標記
12. caravan大篷車
13. frankincense乳香
14. myrrh沒藥
Answer the questions:
1. Who is telling the story?
2. Who asked the star to shine
brighter?
3. Why did the star need to shine
brighter?
4. Where was baby Jesus born?
5. Why do we give gifts at
Christmas?
6. What gifts did the 3 Wise Men
give Jesus?
Reading 3 Isaiah 9:6 以赛亚书 9:6
For to us a child is
born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.
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6 因為有一個嬰孩為我們而生，有一個兒子賜給我們；
政權必擔在他的肩頭上；
他的名必稱為“奇妙的策士、全能的 神、永恆的父、和平的君”。
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Writing a Cinquain
Christmas Poem
One
word (title)
Two words (describe title)
Three words (action)
Four words (feeling)
One word (refer back to title)
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Decoration
Golden, shiny Glowing, glittering, sparkling Twinkles on our tree Ornament |
Worshipers
Amazed, awed Watching, waiting, listening Hurrying to the manger Shepherds |
My Cinquain Poem
Title:
______________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Christmas Carols-Listen and Fill in the blanks. Then sing!
A.
Go Tell it On the Mountain 到各山嶺去傳揚
While _________ kept their watching
Over silent flocks by night, Behold throughout the ____________, There shone a ___________ light: Go, Tell It On The _______________, Over the hills and ______________; Go, Tell It On The Mountain That Jesus Christ is ___________. |
副 歌 到各山嶺去傳揚，越過山崗到各地方；
到各山嶺去傳揚，說基督已降生！
有牧羊人在野地，夜間看守群羊，忽然自天上照耀，極聖潔的亮光。到各山嶺去傳揚，越過山崗到各地方；到各山嶺去傳揚，說基督已降生！
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B. Silent Night平安夜
1. Silent night, holy
__________
All is calm, all is ____________ Round yon Virgin Mother and Child Holy Infant so tender and ______ Sleep in heavenly peace (x2)
2. Silent night, holy
night!
____________ quake at the sight Glories stream from ___________ afar ___________ hosts sing Alleluia! Christ, the _________ is born (x2)
3. Silent night, holy
night
Son of ______, love's pure light Radiant beams from Thy holy face With the ______ of redeeming grace Jesus, ________, at Thy birth (x2) |
平安夜，聖善夜！
萬暗中，光華射， 照著聖母也照著聖嬰， 多少慈詳也多少天真，
靜享天賜安眠
(x2)
平安夜，聖善夜！
牧羊人，在曠野， 忽然看見了天上光華， 聽見天軍唱哈利路亞， 救主今夜降生(x2)
平安夜，聖善夜！
神子愛，光皎潔， 救贖宏恩的黎明來到， 聖容發出來榮光普照， 耶穌我主降生(x2) |
Everything good comes
from God. Every perfect gift is from him. These good gifts come down from the
Father who made all the lights in the sky. But God never changes like the
shadows from those lights. He is always the same. (James 1:17) 一切美好的賞賜和各樣完美的恩賜，都是從上面、從眾光之父降下來的；在他沒有改變，也沒有轉動的影子。(雅各書 1:17)
Merry Christmas! 聖誕快樂！
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