Master useful words , expressions and sentence patterns such as harvest, starve, trick, gain, gather, award, admire, take place, in memory of, dress up, play a trick on, look forward to, day and night, as though, have fun with and so on

　　1.Make them know how to use the language points in this part correctly and get them understand the reading passage better.

　　2.Get the students to master the usages of the patterns

Language points

1. starve (v.) starvation (n.)

1) to cause a person or an animal to suffer severely or die from hunger挨饿,饿死

Eg. Millions of people starved to death during the war. 战争中数以百万计的人挨饿至死.

2) to feel very hungry 感觉很饿. (仅用于进行时态)

Eg. When will the dinner be ready? I'm starving. 晚饭什么时候做好?我快饿死了.

** Starve for sth; starve sb of sth: (cause sb to )suffer or long for sth greatly needed or wanted (使某人) 得不到某事物而受苦或渴望获得某事物; 缺乏.通常用被动语态.

Eg. The homeless children were starving for love. 这些无家可归的孩子渴望得到爱.

2. Festivals and celebrations of all kinds are held everywhere.

这里festivals and celebrations of all kinds = all kinds of festivals and celebrations。