新目标八年下《Unit8》5

Group work: * Self check Gifts Giving Five suggestions  about keeping healthy.  Four suggestions about  having a beautiful school. Three suggestions about  building a better world. 1  Fill in the blanks with the words given. expensive   boring   cheap   special   interesting 1. Sweden  USA Canada  Japan   Gift  Country  Questions : True or False 1 Some little kids like gifts, but the old people don’t like. 2 In Canada, people sometimes give special gifts. 3 In Japan, gifts are not opened. Sometimes the same gift may go to others. 4 In the USA, making a meal is enough. 5 In the USA, some people give money to  the   charities. F F F T T 2  Read the passages and then write about the most popular gifts among your friends and family. Everyone likes gifts. Some little kids think they don’t get enough gifts. Some old people think they get too many gifts. Different people like different kinds of gifts. Some presents are never too small. A little child may give his mother a leaf from a tree. It is enough to make her very happy. present  n. 礼物 make sb. / sth. + 形容词      使某人/某事… What he says makes me rather angry.      他所说的话让我非常生气。The flowers made the house beautiful.     鲜花让房子美丽。 Gift giving is different in different countries. In Japan, people sometimes give special gifts. But they are not opened. Later, the same gift may be given away to someone else. Many people have enough things and don’t want too many gifts themselves. In Canada, many people will not give big gifts to someone else. They will pay for a park bench or a tree to help remember a person. In the USA, some people ask their families and friends to give money to charity rather than buy them gifts. In Sweden, doing something for someone is the best gift. People don’t need to spend too much money. Instead, making a meal is enough. open  v. 开；打开 give away  赠送   give—gave—given  bench n.  长凳；长椅 rather than  胜于 Sweden  瑞典 instead  adv. 代替；而不是  If you don’t want to go, I will go instead. 1. Helping her do some homework is the best gift for my mother. The best gift for my father is my good mark. My sister likes the dolls best, and my friend likes the interesting books best.   Self check 2. Write about the most popular     gifts among your friends and family. 2. In China, families or friends often give each other gifts. When a boy or a girl has a birthday party, his or her friends may give him or her a book , a toy and so on. So  does his or her parents. On the traditional festivals, people  give each other different presents. For example, on Teachers’ Day , students give teachers flowers. On the Spring Festival, children can get money from their parents or relatives.  Self check 2. Write about the most popular     gifts among your friends and family. *