文档介绍：Unit 1
II. Vocabulary:
Beauty-beautiful-beautify, harvest, celebration-celebrate, starve-starvation, origin-original, religion- religious, ancestor Mexico-Mexican, feast, bone, belief-believe, trick poet-poem, arrival-arrive, gain, independence- independent –depend-dependent–dependence, gather, agriculture - agricultural award-reward, rooster, admire-admiration energetic-energy, Easter, clothing-clothes-cloth, Christian-Christ-Christmas, custom, worldwide, fool –foolish, permission-permit parking-park, apologize-apology drown-drowning, sadness-sad obvious-obviously, wipe, weep, remind, forgive-forgave-forgiven
III. Language points:

1. mean
1) mean+ to do打算,意欲
2) mean+ n/ pron/that从句---意思
3)mean+ v-ing意味
meaning (n) 意思 meaningful (a) 有意义的
2. celebrate (v)
celebration (n) 庆祝活动
hold a celebration/ celebrations
3. take place
不用于被动语态
take sb’s place/ take the place of sb
= replace sb
take place 指经过安排的事情
happen 偶然发生,碰巧发生
break out 灾难、疾病、战争等突然爆发
4. would+ v 过去常常…
5. starve
starve for 急需
starve to death 饿死
6. Some festivals are held to honour the dead, or satisfy the ancestors, who could return either to help or to do harm.
1) v 尊敬,给以荣誉
2) in honor of 为了纪念
A festival is set to honor/ in honor of the hero.
Do harm to sb= harm sb
Do more harm than good
7. in memory of 纪念,悼念…
8. arrive (v)
arrival (n)
The arrival of the plane has been delayed.
____ my arrival at school, Mr Li was there.
9. gain (n/ v)
I gained a lot from my teacher.
No pains, no gains.
10. gather
1) A lot of people gathered to see what had happened.
聚集,集合(vi)
2) The student gathered a lot of information about the hero.
收集(vt)
11. award 奖励
reward 回报,报酬
He received an award of 1,000 dollars.
He was awarded a medal for his excellent work.
12. admire
admire sb for sth
They admired our garden.
I admired him for his ess in business.
13. look forward to(介词) + n/ v-ing
I’m looking forward to ing.
--ward 向着…方向
backward 向后
forward 向前