Unit 1II. 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 sbtake 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聚集 ,集合 (vi) 收集 (vt) 1) A lot of people gathered to see what had happened. 2) The student gathered a lot of information about the hero. 11. award 奖励reward 回报 ,报酬He received an award of 1,000 dollars. He w...
