六年级上册 Fun Facts

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（一）课本P13

Do you usually have lunch in school ?

Children in New Zealand bring their own lunch to school. They have small lunch boxes. Ben is in a primary school in New Zealand. Let’s look inside his lunch box. It is quite interesting. There is no hot food.

Children in China have their lunch in school or at home. They usually have rice, vegetables, some pork or chicken in their school lunch.

Children in England also have lunch in school. But some English children bring their own lunch bring their own lunch boxes, too. Children in Australia usually bring lunch boxes to school. They often eat their lunch outside the classroom.

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（ ）1.What do children in New Zealand often have lunch? A. a sandwich and yogurt B.some rice and vegetable.

( ) 2.What do children in China usually have for their school lunch? A.a sandwich and yogurt B.some rice and vegetable

( )3.Where do children in Australia usually have for their lunch? A. inside their classroom B. outside their classroom

( ) 4.Where do children in China usually have for their lunch? A. inside their classroom B.outside their classroom

(二)课本P25选作模拟二的听力

Mr Kent is a science teacher. His hobby is bird-watching. Mr Kent wants people to care more about birds.

In a science lesson, Mr Kent takes his class to a big field. Birds are looking for food. He asks his students,”What will birds eat in winter? Can birds find food to eat ?”

May birds fly to another place in winter, Chinese cranes will fly from Heilongjiang to Jiangsu every winter. They fly together in small groups. They often fly at night. Mr Kent’s students are very interested in birds. In winter, his students give birds seeds to eat. They like bird-watching.

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（ ）1.What is Mr Kent’s hobby?

A. bird -watching B. collecting stamps ( ) 2.What does Mr kent want to do?

A. He wants people to care more about birds. B. He wants people to eat the birds. ( ) 3.What will birds eat in winter? A. They

(三)课本P37 已经选作听力排序题模拟3的听力短文填空 David is celebrating his birthday today. His mother brings a birthday cake to his class. David is going to share the cake with his friends.

First, the teacher helps David to light the candles. Why do we put candles on a birthday cake? Candles make our day bright and happy. The candles also show our age. David’s cake has eleven small candles, because he is eleven years old. For old people, one big candle shows ten years. Eight big candles will show that a person is eighty years old.

The children play games. Then, everyone sings the birthday song. David makes a wish. He blows out the candles.

Everyone claps. He cuts the cake and gives each of friends a piece of cake. Everyone is happy.

(四)课本P55

Children’s Day in China is on June 1st. On this day all children have a holiday. There are many interesting activities for them. Children put on beautiful clothes. They sing and dance in shows. Their parents and teachers enjoy the shows. Some parents take their children to the cinema. Some go to the park. Children’s Day is a happy holiday for all

children.

Do you know there was no Children’s Day in American?

One day, a little boy wrote a letter to the president of the USA. The boy was only six years old. He asked the president to give a special holiday to all the children of America. The president was very happy to read this letter. He decided that Children’s Day in America would be on October 8th for that year. Many Americans still say Children’s Day is every day of the year, not just one special day.

(五)书包P67选做听力里面“听短文，选出正确答案”

People eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day in America. Do you know why? Thanksgiving is a day to remember some American people in history. They sailed from Britain to reach America. They called it the New World. It was a long time ago.

Americans worked hard to make a new life in the New World. But it was difficult. Many of them died in the winter. But they were successful. In the next next autumn, they had a celebration on Thanksgiving Day to celebrate the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

They went to the forest to hunt and they got some turkeys. Then they roasted the turkeys for dinner.

Today, people in America still enjoy turkeys during Thanksgiving.

(六)课本P79 （选作阅读二）

Do you know what children do at Easter?

Easter is a festival in Western countries. Children often play a game called the Easter egg-hunt. It is an old English game. The children take little baskets to a field. They look for Easter eggs in the grass. They try to fill their baskets with eggs. Most English and American children like to play this game. They all love to eat eggs and the chocolate eggs.

Easter is in spring. It celebrates the start of new life. An egg is the best way to show this.

Paul is a little boy in England. Paul’s mother makes Easter eggs for an egg-hunt. It is the day before Easter. She cooks some eggs. Then she colours them. There are red, green, yellow and blue eggs. Paul’s mother also buys some chocolate eggs in the supermarket. They are colourful. Paul loves the chocolate eggs.