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Unit 6 Commemoration and Celebration
By Weiwei Li
Beatlemania
Any information about Beatles?
Background
约翰· 列农 John Lennon (John Winston Lennon) 吉它手、歌手 生于： 1940 年 10 月 9 日, 利物浦, 英格兰 死于： 1980 年 12 月 8 日, 纽约, 美国 宝罗· 麦卡特尼 Paul McCartney (James Paul McCartney) 贝司手、歌 手 生于：1942 年 6 月 18 日, 利物浦, 英格兰 乔治· 哈里森 George Harrison 吉它手、歌手 生于：1943 年 2 月 25 日, 利物浦, 英格兰 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) 鼓手 生于：1940 年 7 月 7 日, 利物浦, 英格兰
Marching bands and dancing groups paraded down one of the main venues of the U.S. capital as part of the annual cherry-blossom festival that commemorates Tokyo’s gift of thousands of cherry trees which bloom once each year around many of the significant monuments around the United States’ capital.
Item 3 Thousands of people gathered in Washington Saturday to mark a 1912 gift by Tokyo’s mayor promoting friendship between the United States and Japan..
8 Churches throughout Lancaster County, Pennsylvania are being asked to ____ at 10:45 Eastern Time day in ___ of the Amish schoolhouse shooting one week ago. The bells will ___ at the exact time the siege began.
10 A___ will be held tonight in Chicago to honor Christian activist Tome Fox, whose body has been found in Baghdad.
Aceh (亚齐-印尼） Oliterate –使消失，彻底毁灭 Sweep- 横扫 Ashore- 上岸 torrent-急流，洪流
Beatlemania Swept Through America 40 Years Ago
/ Glossary Beatlemania (mania-狂燥) Four brash young Englishmen with moptop haircuts 四位血气方刚，头发蓬乱的英 国人 First set foot on American soil 第一次踏足 美国 Contagious 富有感染力的
9 Here in Washington flags are ___ following the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist after a year-long battle with thyroid cancer.
The life of Katherine Hepburn
/GB/yule/1082/1 944832.html Oscars for Best Actress 奥斯卡最佳女主角 Nominated –nomination 提名 She changed perceptions about what women could do and be 她改变了人们女性 能力和人格的理解 Her unconventional behavior raised eyebrows 她不寻常的行为引起了异议
5 Up to a million people are expected to attend the busiest day of the Nortting Hill ____ in London today. The ____ was started by Britain’s immigrant West India community more than 40 years ago and retains a strong Caribbean influence with music, costumes and dance.
Chicago Holy Iand Notting Hill Rwanda
1 India ___ its Independence Day Monday.
2 Palestinians are ____ the first anniversary of the death of their leader Yasser Arafat.
More than 200,000 people were killed when an earthquake beneath the ocean’s floor sent torrents of water sweeping ashore in places as far apart as Thailand, Sri Lanka and Somalia.
The area worst affected was the Indonesian province of Aceh where entire communities along the coast were obliterated. In Thailand, meanwhile, where more than 5,000 people died, a ceremony is being held at Khao Lak.
Section A Warming Up
Anniversary Carnival Commemorate Honor Mark Remembrance
Anniversary 周年纪念 Carnival 嘉年华； 狂欢节 Commemorate 纪念 Honor 对。。。表示尊敬 Mark 纪念 Remembrance 回忆往事
Section C
Item 2 Acts of commemoration are taking place in Aisa to mark the devastating tsunami that struck countries aroud the Indian Ocean one year ago.
6 U.S First Lady Laura Bush has ____ at a mass grave in Rwanda commemorating the victims of the country’s 1994 genocide.
7 Residents of Hiroshima, Japan spent Saturday___ the impact of the atomic bomb that destroyed the city 60 years ago.
You are nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys 你们只是一群英国的“猫王” Strep throat 扁桃体炎 During rehearsal 彩排的过程 Drown out the music 压倒了音乐声 I am breathing the same air as the Beatles rights now 我和披头士呼吸着同样的空气 It was the Big Bang of contemporary popular culture. 那是当代流行文化的大爆炸 It was a rocket that went into the stratosphere 它是 冲上云霄的火箭
Genocide Siege Staff Toll Vigil Wreath Mass grave
Genocide 种族屠杀 Siege 围攻 Staff 旗杆 Toll 鸣钟 Vigil 守夜 Wreath 花圈 Mass grave 万人坑
Proper names
3 Christian leaders have ___ the start of Christmas with calls for an end to conflict in the Holy Land and Iraq.
4 President Bush is in the Netherlands to ___ allied troops who fought Nazi Germany in World War II.