北师大初中英语八年级上册 Unit6 24-2（MP3+LRC）

[00:03.85]Exercise 1.4

[00:07.69]Work it out

[00:09.82]We'll invite our friends and neighbors.

[00:13.01]We won't tell him about the party.

[00:16.68]You will help me.

[00:19.12]You won't make a cake.

[00:22.07]I won't make a mess.

[00:28.79]Exercise 2.1

[00:31.28]Celebrations Around the World

[00:33.55]In many countries,

[00:35.33]when people blow out the candles

[00:37.68]on their birthday cake,

[00:39.45]they make a wish.

[00:41.69]They say that

[00:43.16]if you blow out all the candles in one go,

[00:46.78]your wish will come true.

[00:50.05]In France, when they light the candles

[00:53.47]on the birthday cake,

[00:55.49]people take off a ring from their finger and

[00:59.21]they drop it around a candle.

[01:02.47]This, so people believe,

[01:05.79]will give them good luck.

[01:08.84]In Mexico,people celebrate Epiphany

[01:14.00](January 6th) with a special cake.

[01:17.52]Hidden inside each cake there is a small,

[01:21.06]plastic doll figure.

[01:23.77]By tradition,

[01:25.61]the person who finds the little doll in his

[01:28.92]or her piece of cake

[01:30.52]will invite everybody to eat on February 2.

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