初中英语人教版03九年级08

[06:26.32]The first was in early February.
[06:30.40]It celebrated the harvest of a juice from special trees.
[06:36.04]The second took place in the early spring.
[06:40.30]It celebrated the planting of seeds in the ground.
[06:45.37]The third Thanksgiving was celebrated in the late spring
[06:51.01]for the first fruit of the season.
[06:55.09]The next was in the summer to give thanks for the corn.
[07:00.05]The fifth festival came in late autumn to celebrate the harvest.
[07:06.81]The last took place during the winter so give thanks for another safe year.
[07:16.48]Lesson 32  2.Dictation
[07:22.44]1 This is an Indian prayer of thanks.
[07:28.21]Listen to the tape as you read the text and write in the missing words.
[07:34.66]2.Form a small group and read the text aloud.
[07:40.33]Then choose one person to read it to the rest of your class.
[07:46.68]Gwa!Gwa!Gwa! Now the time has come!
[07:53.84]Hear us,Great Father of the Sky!
[07:58.98]We are here to () the truth,for you want only truth.
[08:06.53]We are your children,Great Father of the Sky.
[08:12.09]Now begins our ().
[08:16.35]With this fire and smoke we () our prayers to you.
[08:23.33]Now in teh beginning you () us with all we need on earth.
[08:30.38]You  said:I shall make the earth for the people to live on.
[08:37.15]They shall look to the earth as their mother and they shall say,
[08:43.81]"It is she who gives us much."
[08:48.07]We are ( ) for the earth and each other.
[08:53.32]So this is why we have come her today to give you thanks.
[08:59.48]Now see the smoke from the ().
[09:04.21]It rises high into the sky.
[09:08.86]We will eat food from our hard work.
[09:14.03]You have given us a world to grow many things.
[09:19.59]You give us the () corn.  It keeps us ().
[09:26.26]Now it grows colder.
[09:30.33]But it will be warm again in the spring and life will return to us.
[09:37.59]We ( ) you and we are thankful.
[09:42.32]The () from the fire rises again.See the () and hear our words.
[09:51.15]4.Read
[09:54.81]Many,many years ago,Sister Corn wanted to bring more pleasure to her people.
[10:01.47]She had already made the shoes they wore.
[10:05.73]Now she wanted to make something different.
[10:09.99]So she asked the Great Spirit if she could make little people of corn husk.
[10:15.94]The Great Spirit agreed.
[10:19.42]Then Sister Corn began the hard work and made a very beautiful young corn woman.
[10:26.78]One day this woman went into the forest and looked at herself in a clear lake.
[10:33.03]She saw how beautiful she was and become very proud and naughty.
[10:39.29]Soon people became unhappy,
[10:44.26]so the Great Spirit told the woman not to be so proud,but she didn't listen.
[10:50.81]The Great Spirit decided to teach her a lesson:
[10:55.46]she would have no face,nor could she talk to the people,
[11:01.50]the birds,or the animals of the forest.
[11:06.64]She must walk around the earth forever looking for something to do
[11:12.29]to get her lovely face back again.
[11:16.65]To this day,the Indian people do not put any face on their corn husk dolls.