A Letter to My Parents
在我們成長的過程中，有許多值得感謝的人和事、情和景，如養(yǎng)育我們的父母，諄諄教誨的老師，團結(jié)友愛的同學(xué)，以及曾經(jīng)幫助過我們的所有人……本期師生用英文寫了一封信向他們最感激的人傾訴心聲，傳遞著感恩的溫暖。
【作品秀】
A Letter to My Parents
My dearest parents,
It is difficult to express my gratitude and love to you. I want to say so much, but I can hardly find the proper words. It’s you who brought me up. It’s you who gave me too much. It’s you who spent too much time looking after me.
Every morning, who I am still in the bed, Mom, you wake me up. Then you cook breakfast for me. Every night, when I am busy studying, Dad, you stay with me no matter how late it is.
Thank you! Thank you for being with me all the time. Your support and understanding gave me the strength to continue fighting. Without you I would give up.You are all my world. Your encouragement is like the sunshine, which brings me out of the dark.
Love and gratitude —this is what I feel standing now in front of you. I am happy to love you. I know that you love me , too. I would like to assure you that I will wonderfully achieve my goal. Some day, you will be proud of me. Thank you for support. Thank you for being with me all the time.
Yours sincerely,
Wang Kai
（寶應(yīng)中學(xué)08級29班 王 愷）
A Letter to Mother
Dear Mother,
I love you!
When I am with you face to face, I am not brave enough to speak it out. So I can only tell you about the feeling of my deepest heart in this letter.
I know that you have given me too much in the part few years. You have a lot of work to do every day. Which is just for me to live better. You don’t want beautiful skirts, which is just for me to wear better. All of there touch me, I really don’t know how to express my thanks to you.
I know that I am all your hope. I am you're the only one son. All of your love have given to me so that I can just grow up happily. In the same way, you are my everything, my support in sorrow, my hope in misery, and my strength in weakness. You are the source of my love. I have learned a lot from you.
I know that you love me. You always say to me “mum will love you forever”, “mum will stand by you forever no matter what happens”. What moving words! I feel happy, at the same time I feel my heart ache. Because I still have no courage to tell you about my love while you love me so much.
But I know that you could understand my love.
Mum, I love you like you love me.
There’s a spot in my heart which no other girl may own;
There’s a depth in my soul never sounded or known;
There’s a place in my memory
My life that you fill;
No other can take it
No one ever will.
Yours,
Son
（監(jiān)利總校高中部09級2班 熊子康）
A Letter to Mum
Dear Mum,
I realized that I have rarely expressed my gratitude to you. Heart of thanksgiving, thanks to you, my mother.
You give us the lives. You make us know the world. You make us endure the sufferings and hardships of human life. You make us enjoy the happiness of human life. You make us experience a series of physical and moral tests.
Only leaving four children, my Dad passed away when you were young. You have too much to do for bringing us up. You try your best to take good care of us and get us to receive the education without any complain. This is what we can’t pay off.
You are warm-hearted. If you get the help from the others’, you usually express your sincere gratitude to him or her. When you see someone in trouble, you always give her a hand as possible as you can. That’s what we learn from you.
You say the world is wonderful. Failure is the mother of success. What pieces of advice they are! We keep them in our mind.
Now you look older than you really are. Your hair is white. You still work hard. Our hearts are deeply moved.
Thank you once again for your offer. Best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Cindy
（寶應(yīng)實驗小學(xué) 董 菁）
A Letter to Teacher
Dear teacher,
How is everything going! Hope you are all well. Thank you very much for helping us at the beginning of my study. You always smiled at anyone of us and told us what the true life is. You said to us that honest and good faith are the highest level noble in human, and keeping diligent and industrious can make us get own everything success which you want. We could read and write from your substantial taught. We’ve got weapons on life from you. The words you told us have always being struck me in my past time. I can’t imagine my life without you on the nearly thirty years’ way and you are my second heart. There have always being warm memories in my mind as soon as I remember you.
I met you on the road yesterday occasionally. How wide your shoulders still are! How profound your eyes still are! How warm your smiling still is! How vigorous your steps still are!
My best wishes will be for you forever, wish my first teacher to be healthier and healthier, to be happier and happier forever.
Yours Sincerely,
Carol
（寶應(yīng)實驗小學(xué) 彭春霞）
【背景】
The Orign of Thanksgiving Day
Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national Holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with（聯(lián)系，有關(guān)） the earliest history of the country.
In 1620, the settlers（朝圣者）, or Pilgrims（清教徒）, they sailed to America on the May flower, seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship（崇拜）. After a tempestuous（有狂風暴雨的） two-month voyage they landed at in icy November, what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.
During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of（死于）starvation（饑餓） or epidemics（傳染�。�. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring. All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed .Years later, President of the United States proclaimed（宣布）the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day every year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been observed（慶祝） on that date until today.
The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, chestnuts（栗子）, walnuts（胡桃）and grapes（葡萄）. There will be plum pudding（干布丁）, mince pie（碎肉餡餅）, other varieties of food and cranberry juice（紅莓苔汁）and squash（果汁）. The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie（番瓜餡餅）. They have been the most traditional and favorite food on Thanksgiving Day throughout the years.
Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey （烤火雞）(stuffed with a bread dressing (調(diào)味品、填料)to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts（烘烤）. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions（地區(qū)） where one lives, it is not easy to get a consensus on（就……達成一致） the precise kind of stuffing for the royal bird.
感恩節(jié)的由來
感恩節(jié)是美國國定假日中最地道、最美國式的節(jié)日，而且它和早期美國歷史最為密切相關(guān)。
1620年，一些朝圣者（或稱為清教徒）乘坐“五月花”號船去美國尋求宗教自由。他們在海上顛簸折騰了兩個月之后，終于在酷寒的十一月里，在現(xiàn)在的馬薩諸塞州的普里茅斯登陸。
在第一個冬天，半數(shù)以上的移民都死于饑餓和傳染病，活下來的人們在第一個春季開始播種。整個夏天他們都熱切地盼望著豐收的到來，他們深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在與否都將取決于即將到來的收成。后來，莊稼獲得了意外的豐收，所以大家決定要選一個日子來感謝上帝的恩典。多年以后，美國總統(tǒng)宣布每年十一月的第四個星期四為感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)慶祝活動便定在這一天，直到如今。
感恩節(jié)慶祝模式許多年來從未改變。豐盛的家宴早在幾個月之前就開始著手準備。人們在餐桌上可以吃到蘋果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄，還有葡萄干布丁、碎肉餡餅、各種其它食物以及紅莓苔汁和鮮果汁，其中最妙和最吸引人的大菜是烤火雞和番瓜餡餅，這些菜一直是感恩節(jié)中最富于傳統(tǒng)意義和最受人喜愛的食品。
人人都贊成感恩節(jié)大餐必需以烤火雞為主菜�；痣u在烘烤時要以面包作填料以吸收從中流出來的美味汁液，但烹飪技藝常因家庭和地區(qū)的不同而各異，應(yīng)用什么填料也就很難求得一致。
【百事可樂】
The New Teacher
George comes from school on the first of September.
“George, how did you like your new teacher?” asked his mother.
“I didn't like her, Mother, because she said that three and three were six and then she said that two and four were six too . ”
新老師
9月1日，喬治放學(xué)回到家里。“喬治，你喜歡你們的新老師嗎？”媽媽問。“媽媽，我不喜歡，因為她說3加3得6, 可后來又說2加4也得6。”
Where Am I ？
An Englishman lost his way while he was driving in the countryside. He saw a farmer working in the field nearby, so he went nearer in his car and asked the farmer, “Excuse me, can you tell me where I am？”“Yes, ”the farmer looked at him strangely and said, “you are in your car, sir. ”
我在哪兒？
一個英國人在鄉(xiāng)下開車時迷了路，他看見一個農(nóng)民正在附近的地里干活。于是他就把車開過去問那位農(nóng)民：“勞駕，您能告訴我現(xiàn)在這是在哪兒嗎？”“可以！”農(nóng)夫奇怪地看了看他，然后說道：“你現(xiàn)在在你的車子里，先生。”
I can go home
One day after school the teacher said to his students, “Tomorrow morning, if any one of you can answer my first question, I will permit him or her to go home earlier.”
The next day, when the teacher came into the classroom, he found the blackboard daubed. He was very angry and asked, “Who did it? Please stand up! ” “It's me, said Bob, Now, I can go home. Good-bye, Sir. ”
我可以回家了
一天，放學(xué)以后，老師對他的學(xué)生們說：“明天上午，如果你們當中的任何一個同學(xué)能首先回答我的問題，我就準許他或她最先回家。”
第二天，老師走進教室時發(fā)現(xiàn)黑板被涂得亂七八糟，他非常生氣的問：“誰涂的？請站起來！”鮑勃說：“先生，是我，現(xiàn)在我可以回家了，再見！”
【文化】
“老”字犯忌
在中國，我們習(xí)慣稱別人為“老師傅”、“老大爺”、“老兄”、“老同志”、“老大姐”等，其實聽話人未必真有那么大年紀。然而，在絕大多數(shù)西方國家里，“老”字則意味著一個人體弱多病，成為社會的包袱。因此，人們是非常忌諱“老”字的。
誰先伸手？
握手雙方如果是男女之間，女的應(yīng)先伸手；賓主之間，主人應(yīng)先伸手；老幼之間，年長的應(yīng)先伸手；上下級之間，若有賓主關(guān)系，做主人者應(yīng)先伸手。
握手時應(yīng)用右手，并要注視對方，否則是不尊重對方的表現(xiàn)。有時為了表示更多的敬意，握手是還要微微點頭鞠躬。握手要上下微擺，不要一握就不動。如果男子戴有手套，應(yīng)先摘下手套再握手。若確有某種原因摘手套有困難，須先說一聲Excuse my gloves，女的則不必摘手套。
【熱詞快遞】
cook one's goose
毀掉某人前途、計劃、希望等
I cooked his goose by letting out the secret that he had resorted to bribery.
（我泄露了他曾經(jīng)行賄的秘密，這就把他毀了）。
【天下最蠢的動物是什么？中國人一般都說是豬。不過，在英國，豬可不是特別蠢的動物，所以，要罵人蠢，不可以說You are a pig（你是一只豬），但可以說You are a goose（你是一只鵝）。據(jù)說，十六世紀中葉，瑞典國王埃里克十四（Eric XIV）曾經(jīng)率軍攻打一個城鎮(zhèn)，鎮(zhèn)中居民就在城墻上掛起一只鵝，意思當然是：“你這呆鳥！”埃里克大怒，發(fā)誓要“煮了他們的鵝””（cook their goose），縱火把那城鎮(zhèn)燒了。于是，cook one's goose現(xiàn)在就解作毀掉某人前途、計劃、希望�！�
afraid of his own shadow
膽小到極點
We can't leave her all by herself. She's afraid of her own shadow.
（我們不能把她獨自留下來，她是十分膽小的。）
【《莊子·漁父篇》說，從前有一個人害怕自己的影子，于是不斷奔跑想把影子擺脫，最后跑到支持不住，“絕力而死”。英國也有這樣膽小的人，1513年，政治家兼作家托馬斯.摩爾爵士 (Sir Thomas More)在《 理查三世 （Richard III）》里說：Who maye lette her to feare her owne shadowe？（古英語）是誰使她害怕自己影子的呢？中西方都有“怕影”的說法，這大概是因為人們總是潛意識的怕鬼，有時四周無人，看見自己的影子也會害怕起來。不過，我們現(xiàn)在說人家afraid of his own shadow，只是說這個人膽小到極點�！�
【英語新聞】
National Day of Mourning（全國哀悼日）
[ 2010-04-21 15:39 ]
The State Council, China's cabinet, announced national day of mourning would be held on Wednesday for the quake victims.
National flags will fly at half-mast in Qinghai and local people will pay a three-minute silent tribute starting at about 10 a.m. Wednesday to those killed in the disaster.
國務(wù)院宣布，為紀念地震遇難者，本周三將定為全國哀悼日。青海省內(nèi)將降半旗致哀，當?shù)氐娜藗儗⒃诒局苋衔?0點開始默哀三分鐘，寄托對遇難者的哀思。
Old Age Allowance(高齡津貼)
[ 2010-04-15 10:44 ]
Residents older than 80 will get a unified old age allowance across China, a move indicating the government aims to end different allowance policies toward the elderly in different regions, the China Economic Weekly reported Tuesday.
《中國經(jīng)濟周刊》周二報道說，全國80歲以上的居民將享受統(tǒng)一的高齡津貼。政府此舉旨在結(jié)束各地區(qū)高齡津貼政策不一致的狀況。
【英文歌曲】
Heal the world（拯救世界）
演唱：michael Jackson （邁克爾·杰克遜）
There’s a place in your heart （在你心中有一片凈土）
And I know that it is love (我知道那里充滿了愛)
And this place could be Much brighter than tomorrow (這個地方會比明天更燦爛)
And if you really try (如果你真的努力過)
You’ll find there’s no need to cry (你會發(fā)覺不必哭泣)
In this place you’ll feel (在這個地方)
There’s no hurt or sorrow (你感覺不到傷痛或煩憂)
There are ways to get there (到那個地方的方法很多)
If you care enough for the living (如果你真心關(guān)懷生者)
Make a little space （營造一些空間）
Make a better place…… (創(chuàng)造一個更美好的地方…)
Heal the world (拯救這世界)
Make it a better place (讓它變得更好)
For you and for me and the entire human race (為你、為我，為了全人類)
There are people dying (不斷有人死去)
If you care enough for the living (如果你真心關(guān)懷生者)
Make a better place for you and for me (為你，為我，創(chuàng)造一個更美好的世界。)
If you want to know why (如果你想知道緣由)
There’s a love that cannot lie (因為愛不會說謊)
Love is strong (愛是堅強的)
It only cares for joyful giving (愛就是心甘情愿的奉獻)
If we try (若我們用心去嘗試)
We shall see (我們就會明白)
In this bliss (只要心里有愛)
We cannot feel fear or dread (我們就感受不到恐懼與憂慮)
We stop existing (我們不再只是活著)
And start living (而是真正開始生活)
Then it feels that always (那愛的感覺將持續(xù)下去)
Love’s enough for us growing (愛讓我們不斷成長)
Make a better world (去創(chuàng)造一個更美好的世界)
Make a better world…… (去創(chuàng)造一個更美好的世界……)
Heal the world (拯救這世界)
Make it a better place (讓它變得更好 )
For you and for me and the entire human race (為你、為我，為了全人類)
If you care enough for the living (如果你真心關(guān)懷生者)
Make a better place for you and for me (為你，為我，創(chuàng)造一個更美好的世界)
Can you guess？
1、哪個字母可以喝？
2、哪個字母是藍色的？
3、哪個字母最勤勞？
4、哪個字母可以看得見？
5、哪個字母最驚訝？