Lesson 62 PartⅠ

Lesson  62

PartⅠWarming-up Exercises

Sentence Structure

Training Focus:

Understanding complex transitive verbs

Directions: Listen carefully. Choose a, b, or c as the correct response to the sentence you hear on the tape.

Key:

1. He lets his students listen to the news broadcast. (b)

2. You must make students study grammar. (c)

3. The president appointed Betty secretary. (b)

4. The students elected John their chairman. (a)

5. Professor Wilson makes them study very hard. (b)

6. His teacher made him speak correct English. (a)

7. We made Mary our secretary although she's very young. (b)

8. The coach gets the football team to learn the plays. (c)

Lesson 62 PartⅡ

Lesson  62

Ex.

Directions: Answer the questions you hear on the tape with your own words.

1. When is Christmas Day?

2. What is the significance of this holiday?

3. How do people decorate their houses and public buildings?

4. What do little children believe?

5. How do people celebrate Christmas Day?

6. When is Easter?

7. What kind of holiday is it?

8. How do churches and people celebrate this holiday?

9. What do little children believe?

10. What do people customarily wear on Easter Sunday?

Why?

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

Christmas And Easter  (1′28″)

December 25th is Christmas Day. Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ almost two thousand years ago. People exchange gifts with friends and relatives. Green wreaths are hung on the front doors of houses and stores and public buildings are decorated with red and green. Americans hang little colored lights, colored balls and other ornaments on the branches of evergreen trees, which they place in their houses as Christmas trees. Little children believe that Santa Claus comes down from the North Pole to leave presents for them. Christmas is a time for friends and families to see each other again, or to send Christmas cards to those too far away to visit.

Easter Sunday is in spring, usually in April. It is a joyful church holiday, and many churches have an outdoor service at sunrise on this day. Children and their parents color hard-boiled eggs before Easter. Late Saturday night or early Sunday morning the eggs are hidden, and the children have an Easter egg hunt Sunday. Usually little candies and perhaps a large chocolate egg are hidden along with real eggs. Little children believe the Easter rabbit comes and leaves the eggs for them. By this time of the year, winter is over and the weather is getting warmer. Many people buy new spring clothes and wear them for the first time on Easter Sunday.

Lesson 62 Part Ⅲ

Lesson  62

Ex.Ⅰ

Directions: Decide whether the statements are true or false.

Key:  1. F                          2. T

3. T                         4. T

5. T                         6. F

7. T                        8. F

9. T                         10. F

Ex.Ⅱ

Directions: Tell why you have decided that some of the statements in Ex.Ⅰare true and some are false. Find words and phrases to support your answers.

Key: (see tapescript)

Tapescript:

Bedtime Story  (1′37″)

Are you ready, David ? Right: The Lost Coin.

‘One afternoon just before Christmas an old gentleman was wandering through the city centre. The gaily-illuminated shops were packed with good things and crowded withcheerful shoppers. The children were gazing in wonder atall the toys on display in the windows, and the old man was surveying the happy scene indulgently. Suddenly in the middle of the throng he spotted a dirty little boy sitting on the pavement, weeping bitterly. When the kind old man asked him why he was crying, the little boy told him that he had losta tenpenny piece that his uncle had given him. Thrusting his hand into his pocket, the old man pulled out a handful of coins. He picked out a shiny, new ten penny piece and handed it to the child. “Thank you very much,” said the little boy, and, drying his eyes, he cheered up at once.

‘An hour or so later the old man was making his way back home by the same route. To his astonishment he saw the same dirty little boy in precisely the same spot, crying just as bitterly as before. He went up to the boy and asked him if he had lost the ten pence he had given him as well. The little boy told him that actually he had not lost the second coin, but he still could not find his first ten pence. “If I could find my own ten pence,” he said tearfully, “I'd have twenty pence now.”’

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